What Are You Doing Right Now
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37 minutes now. Better than usual, at least.
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Down to 32 minutes. They are making up time.
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42 minutes late. They are losing ground.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Train is already 35 minutes late expected for the Utica station
It's sad that American trains are so unpredictable compared to Moroccan trains.
This is why I will be taking MegaBus for my commuting from Chicago to St. Louis. I would much prefer a train, but the only choice here would be Amtrak and I cannot put up with their delays.
Also, for comparison, I compare all train service to Japan's. Which is about the best on the planet for on-time statistics.
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In America, public transportation is not necessary, or the "cool" way to travel. For the most part (other than inside very large cities) just a "oh, we should probably have some of that here" sort of thing. America is large and spread out, and we like cars and personal liberty. All of that together pretty much says that the US will never have a great public transportation option.
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Trying to make myself generate a list of things that I either needs to get, get rid of, do or ignore. Starting to make some BBQ for dinner, finishing up the Laundry and anything else I deem fit for the afternoon.
Also trying to figure out my Ubiqiti Issue and network lag issue. Though the kids seem to not have issue with all the YouTube videos they watch, I can't seem to play World of Tanks due to 300-700 ms ping rates.
@art_of_shred said:
In America, public transportation is not necessary, or the "cool" way to travel. For the most part (other than inside very large cities) just a "oh, we should probably have some of that here" sort of thing. America is large and spread out, and we like cars and personal liberty. All of that together pretty much says that the US will never have a great public transportation option.
No, can't have any nice Public Transportation here in the US. Would take to much money to create, and would not make some lazy executive rich from it. Not to mention....well I just won't go there.
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@art_of_shred said:
In America, public transportation is not necessary, or the "cool" way to travel. For the most part (other than inside very large cities) just a "oh, we should probably have some of that here" sort of thing. America is large and spread out, and we like cars and personal liberty. All of that together pretty much says that the US will never have a great public transportation option.
I get that outside of large metropolitan areas the economics do not work. I have no problem with the limited availability of public transit in the United States.
I detest the fact that the service cannot even remotely run on a decent schedule.
I will be commuting from Chicago to St. Louis twice a month. My first choice was to take Amtrak. But investigation revealed that trains between St. Louis. And Chicago are often hours behind schedule. The is completely not feasible.
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@JaredBusch said:
@art_of_shred said:
In America, public transportation is not necessary, or the "cool" way to travel. For the most part (other than inside very large cities) just a "oh, we should probably have some of that here" sort of thing. America is large and spread out, and we like cars and personal liberty. All of that together pretty much says that the US will never have a great public transportation option.
I get that outside of large metropolitan areas the economics do not work. I have no problem with the limited availability of public transit in the United States.
I detest the fact that the service cannot even remotely run on a decent schedule.
I will be commuting from Chicago to St. Louis twice a month. My first choice was to take Amtrak. But investigation revealed that trains between St. Louis. And Chicago are often hours behind schedule. The is completely not feasible.
Exactly my point. The only places that have even made a feeble attempt are large metro areas, and those aren't even really treated very seriously. I think there probably just isn't the consistent user base to create the funds to keep things running smoothly, and the lack of revenue requires subsidies, and nobody is handing out free money to keep these unprofitable lines up to snuff. Ergo, stuff is always broken or at least generally sub-standard.
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Happy Monday (determined it will be). Trying to catch up after being gone Friday and this weekend.
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Happy Monday! Yes, it will be a happy Monday! (in voice of Lion from Wizard of Oz:) I do believe! I do! I do! I do!
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(mumbling semi coherently)
Morning - May the winnings of a thousand lotto tickets bury your problems....
(goes back to mumbling INcoherently)
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Wow... got mighty quiet around here... Where'd everybody go?
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@dafyre said:
Wow... got mighty quiet around here... Where'd everybody go?
Well If I had my choice... there is a hammock in the other room that needs to be worked out. It's new and needs to be stretched.
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It's Monday and no one is awake enough to chat yet
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It's 10:30 AM! Not awake enough to chat? (looks in empty glass). Yepp. I think you may be right . I don't ever run out of sweet tea before lunch!
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@dafyre said:
It's 10:30 AM! Not awake enough to chat? (looks in empty glass). Yepp. I think you may be right . I don't ever run out of sweet tea before lunch!
Define Chat...If you mean grumblings and dark cloud formations,.. yup.. that's about right.
Nearly out of tea myself... I'll have to skip out early for lunch to make more. Be back about dinner time...
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@g.jacobse Wake me up when you get back.
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Had some pretty serious power issues over the weekend. Seems our primary site was down for a good 2-4 hours on Saturday night/Sunday morning. The UPS's made a valiant effort keeping the infrastructure running for over an hour.. but they failed fairly early in the morning and brought down the two hosts attached to them. Thankfully everything shutdown and rebooted gracefully when the power was restored (except for a small issue with a Linux box that was quickly remedied).
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@coliver That sounds like a good way to start a Monday. People running around "It's broken! It's broken!"
You step onto a nearby podium: "It's not broken! Get to work!"
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@coliver said:
Had some pretty serious power issues over the weekend. Seems our primary site was down for a good 2-4 hours on Saturday night/Sunday morning. The UPS's made a valiant effort keeping the infrastructure running for over an hour.. but they failed fairly early in the morning and brought down the two hosts attached to them. Thankfully everything shutdown and rebooted gracefully when the power was restored (except for a small issue with a Linux box that was quickly remedied).
yikes - fun way to start the week.... not. Upside like you said was that they shutdown gracefully;...
