I agree that cling wrap sucks, but (if you haven't already) please try Glad Press 'n' Seal. It's everything that cling wrap wishes it were. Don't get the grocery-store generic version -- that sucks as bad as cling wrap. *Glad Enterprises LLC has not given me any gratuities in return for this post.*
I figured you guys were the same age. But as Sam mentioned facial hair…plus you were making a goofy face on purpose! And that hat! But hey, you distracted us for a few minutes from the shitshow that is our government. And we thank you. 😊
Gene kinda cheated because the angle of the photo -- plus the length of his chin -- hid his neck, making him look a tad younger than Sting. The neck is always the giveaway.
The test for how you know you look old is to fall down in public. If people point and laugh (or ignore you), you're young. If people rush to help you up and ask if you're okay, you're old.
I barely use cling wrap, ziplocs or paper towels now -- there are substitutes for all of them, like silicon bags. (OK, paper towels definitely are used when the dog pukes in the middle of the night, I'll grant you that.) Aluminum foil, though -- that's a toughie. I can't knit, so what am I gonna make my hats out of if I don't have aluminum foil?
The famous person with whom I share the same birth date (July 21, 1951) is Robin Williams. We have in common an associative, nonlinear sense of humor, but his moved at the speed of light and mine moves like Columbo's Peugeot.
But wait, there's more! Certainly the Veg-O-Matic ("Slice a tomato so thin it only has one side"), Pocket Fisherman and GLH-9 ("Hair-in-a Can") rank well up there among modern day marvels.
I guess it meant the tomato slices were so incredibly thin they appeared to have only one visible side. Not sure why you would want them that thin but then I never attended the Ronco School of Culinary Arts.
Ziplock bags are a must in my life. I need them for various little metal thingies I take to Home Depot and ask the guy where I can get more of these little metal thingies.
I voted for paper towels because they are compostable. Before Compost Crew I felt guilty using so many paper towels rather than cloths; now I use paper towels with semi-abandon. Yes, I regret the trees.
First off, I love your "handle," Bender. Second, yeah, I have yet to see the great scientific reporting on what was actually accomplished aside from joy riding for dollars.
We got lots of valuable information about preening in front of a camera while what might arguably be the most awe inspiring view of your existence is sitting outside the window.
Gene’s still working on his criticism of Charles Furnas who rode in a Wright Flyer III on May 14, 1908, for being “just a passenger.” I’m sure he will have a scathing indictment of the Wright brothers for continuing to go above instead of staying down on Earth to address the problems of their day like child labor and women’s suffrage.
Also, he would sound like a sexist loser mocking adventurer women as “female cargo.”
When I first heard "all female crew" I just thought it of interest. Now i see it an expensive stunt, a nose thumbing at we poor souls who are too stupid to be rich. The same for Jeff's own flight, though i can understand his wanting to play with his own toys. An aside: I am still torqued that I was ignored, nay mocked, by my husband and my broker when I wanted a buy-in at Amazon's IPO.
Jeff is a serious competitor to SpaceX and we need competition with Boeing fading away. Blue Origins is ramping up to large to orbit space craft and must test fly enough times to rate them. These test flights are necessary. Do they send employees? Or share the cost and risk with those who want the exlerience. SpaceX just did a polar orbit test run with guest crew. Who mocked them?
C'mon Gary. The crew on the private polar orbit Fram2 mission at least conducted scientific research. No question but that competition for Space X is a good thing, but 11 minute joy rides like NS-31 do little to advance the cause and tend to raise more eyebrows than interest in space exploration.
The point remains that a test flight with human cargo went up. Bozo got more notice by the selection of this crew. If you're prone to accepting whatever perception the 1% wishes you to to accept at face value, as 33% of our population has proven to be, you will think he trusts his product enough to send people he values on the flight. Lynne inadvertently proves he made a good call. She wouldn't be expecting anyone to discuss this if he had sent the 3 winning bids from a charity auction of the seats, or whatever.
If you accept the purportedly P.T. Barnum proverb that all publicity is good publicity. Since Bezos doesn't care one way or another --- whether an 11 minute "test" flight (the NS had 10 manned flights before) carried female celebs or gerbils is irrelevant. The flight itself wasn't the issue, it was all the misguided hype before and after and the attendant hope that we would somehow suspend disbelief about it. At a minimum, tone deaf --- but then again, as I said, Bezos (and no doubt Sanchez) couldn't care less.
It was a test flight of a new and more powerful rocket to compete with SpaceX. And a bit of financial magic to share the expense with those brave enough to go. Not risk free. Not a stunt. Test flights are a necessary part of the development cycle. Why so much fuss? Shatner never got so many critics.
Normally you wouldn't test a new rocket --- even a self-piloting one --- with a bunch of celebrities and other passengers with claims to fame, rather than space pros. What was tested was Blue Origin messaging and public acceptance of it. Result: not so much. I believe the rocket was Blue Origin's existing New Shepard which has been used many times before. I also understand some on board paid and others got a freebie. So, all in all what was touted as a great leap in female empowerment, turned out (by and large) to be a face plant.
This not normal, but an innovation I welcome. Why send employees when the Boss can ride. And others, too! Share the confidence and risk. But still a valid test flight and some risk.
Which "boss?" You mean Lauren Sánchez? Bezos wasn't on the flight. I must be missing something. What did it "test?" It was the 31st flight of the New Shepard rocket and each woman was encouraged to use her four minutes of weightlessness to practice a different in-flight activity tailored to her interests.
Yes, Jeff Bezos has flown on a Blue Origin rocket. He flew on the maiden flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket in July 2021, along with his brother, Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen.
Further details:
The flight, designated NS-16, lasted about 10 minutes and crossed the Kármán line, which is the generally accepted boundary of space.
Bezos's flight was a significant event, marking the first crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard.
Following Bezos's flight, Blue Origin has continued to operate New Shepard, carrying both passengers and cargo on suborbital flights.
Yes, Jeff Bezos has flown on a Blue Origin rocket. He flew on the maiden flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket in July 2021, along with his brother, Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen.
Further details:
The flight, designated NS-16, lasted about 10 minutes and crossed the Kármán line, which is the generally accepted boundary of space.
Bezos's flight was a significant event, marking the first crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard.
Following Bezos's flight, Blue Origin has continued to operate New Shepard, carrying both passengers and cargo on suborbital flights.
I'm not sure about that. My husband has had a full beard for over 50 years. When he first moved down here to take a new job, he was required to shave it. Unfortunately, his new employer hadn't realized he has no chin. He was soon allowed to regrow it for additional gravitas (as an expert witness). I post a picture of him on his birthday every year, and I might as well just use the same one, as his appearance hasn't changed in decades (though he does, thank goodness, look more mature than the callow youth I married).
Beards cover a multitude of wrinkles. What possibly adds years to men's faces is overgrown eyebrows (and ear hair).
I remember my father once having a full beard and mustache, and looking younger after he shaved the beard. Then years later, he shaved the mustache and he looked younger again. These days he and facial hair have had a reconciliation.
I’m pretty sure I’d look at least a little younger if I shaved mine.
Maybe I’m conflating age and gravitas, though, perhaps like with your husband.
I tried a mustache and a beard because I hate shaving. I soon discovered those almost as much work. Now that I'm retired, I compromise and shave every other day or so. 🤷♂️
I live on paper towels. They are my plates, my handkerchief, my wrapping paper, my silverware, my napkins, my cleaning tool, my towels, and the most common thing I throw at my enemies. You'll have to pry them from my cold, dead hands ... that is if I can get them off that strange hanging rack that's supposed to make them easy to dispense.
I use paper towels as sparingly as possible, but it might still be a toss-up between them and Ziploc bags. I could probably get by without the bags for food (I mostly use--and reuse--Ziploc containers for that), but the plastic bags are so generally useful that I would definitely miss them. But I could definitely use dish towels for most of what I use paper towels for (such as cooling/draining peeled boiled eggs).
I recently realized that the hanging paper towel rack is a pretty stupid thing! I finally got one of those standing ones with the heavy marble-looking base. A nice sharp vertical tug separates the paper towel at the perforation without unrolling a half dozen more sheets. It does take up valuable counter space in my small kitchen but I have no regrets!
Counter space in my kitchen is at such a premium that I would not consider this. My paper towel holder is quite stiff. It requires a pretty strong peeling movement to detach a paper towel.
Thing about tantric sex is it's supposed to raise your spirituality and mindfulness. After several hours they may be the only things able to be raised.
We've known for some time that you're not only as old as you feel (subjective age), you're very often as "old" as others think you are in terms of practical considerations --- like the repeated attempts to take you across streets you had no intention of crossing by overzealous good Samaritans. And while the idea of aging having a double standard still has general currency (older women evaluated more negatively than older men), it's not quite so cut-and-dried and really depends on specific traits or "domains." For example, some studies show that older women are rated more highly on "competence" than older men. And no, older women were not the subjects doing the rating.
Paper towels you say? What's with this "select-a-size" business. The latest wrinkle (although I don't usually keep up with advances in paper product design) now appears to be not one, not two but three size options from each sheet. Exactly how useful is a 5.5" x 5.5" quarter square of paper towel?
I never buy anything but Select-a-Size (actually, I see Viva calls it "Choose-a-Sheet") because it's rare for me to need more than the small sheet. In addition, I have, under another counter, a holder for a flash-in-the-pan narrower size that apparently did not meet success and was quickly phased out, though I found it useful. We rarely use a paper towel just once. After I've cooled my boiled eggs on one small sheet, it stays on the counter for wiping up as needed. My husband is the profligate user, though, using several sheets to microwave bacon.
I haven't seen that new option, but I just found out recently that my 13yo grandkid has never seen "regular" towels that don't have the select-a-size option. I think one of the perforated sections is a half towel, and two sections make an approximately square whole towel. Grandkid thinks I am crazy, obviously one section is one towel, and if you take two sections that is two towels.
I’d pay to never have to use cling wrap again.
I agree that cling wrap sucks, but (if you haven't already) please try Glad Press 'n' Seal. It's everything that cling wrap wishes it were. Don't get the grocery-store generic version -- that sucks as bad as cling wrap. *Glad Enterprises LLC has not given me any gratuities in return for this post.*
I’ve almost mummified myself with cling wrap.
This is the real reason I am glad I live in a free country. There is so much that I would pay to avoid if I had to—and I’m glad I don’t have to.
I figured you guys were the same age. But as Sam mentioned facial hair…plus you were making a goofy face on purpose! And that hat! But hey, you distracted us for a few minutes from the shitshow that is our government. And we thank you. 😊
Gene kinda cheated because the angle of the photo -- plus the length of his chin -- hid his neck, making him look a tad younger than Sting. The neck is always the giveaway.
The test for how you know you look old is to fall down in public. If people point and laugh (or ignore you), you're young. If people rush to help you up and ask if you're okay, you're old.
Another astute observation.
This is not an original observation (although I have experienced it), and circumstances could change the results.
You need to get a picture of Dave Barry for perspective!
I barely use cling wrap, ziplocs or paper towels now -- there are substitutes for all of them, like silicon bags. (OK, paper towels definitely are used when the dog pukes in the middle of the night, I'll grant you that.) Aluminum foil, though -- that's a toughie. I can't knit, so what am I gonna make my hats out of if I don't have aluminum foil?
The famous person with whom I share the same birth date (July 21, 1951) is Robin Williams. We have in common an associative, nonlinear sense of humor, but his moved at the speed of light and mine moves like Columbo's Peugeot.
Zip-lock bags, in all their dizzying range of sizes and uses, certainly rank with fire and toilet paper as among the greatest gifts from the gods.
In the pantheon of miracles, they rank just above duct tape.
But wait, there's more! Certainly the Veg-O-Matic ("Slice a tomato so thin it only has one side"), Pocket Fisherman and GLH-9 ("Hair-in-a Can") rank well up there among modern day marvels.
One word: BASS-O-MATIC.
Is that better than Popiel’s Pocket Fisherman?
Indeed. A regrettable oversight.
"Just turn the dial from slicing to dicing. The Veg-O-Matic makes mounds of diced onions, or everyone's favorite, french fries."
One side? Folded like a Klein bottle?
I guess it meant the tomato slices were so incredibly thin they appeared to have only one visible side. Not sure why you would want them that thin but then I never attended the Ronco School of Culinary Arts.
Growing old is mandatory.
Growing up is optional.
I voted for paper towels for purely sanitary reasons, like cat vomit, and because I’m too embarrassed about using so many ziplock bags.
Ziplock bags are a must in my life. I need them for various little metal thingies I take to Home Depot and ask the guy where I can get more of these little metal thingies.
I voted for paper towels because they are compostable. Before Compost Crew I felt guilty using so many paper towels rather than cloths; now I use paper towels with semi-abandon. Yes, I regret the trees.
No comments yet on the female cargo that spent 2 seconds pretending to be astronauts.
Ballast, you mean?
First off, I love your "handle," Bender. Second, yeah, I have yet to see the great scientific reporting on what was actually accomplished aside from joy riding for dollars.
We got lots of valuable information about preening in front of a camera while what might arguably be the most awe inspiring view of your existence is sitting outside the window.
We need information on the behavior of adipose tissue in microgravity.
It’s just a shame we couldn’t get Alan Sheppard to eat more sandwiches and malted
milkshakes when we had the chance.
I believe the first result will be to answer the question how big a jumpsuit is required for a DD.
Gene’s still working on his criticism of Charles Furnas who rode in a Wright Flyer III on May 14, 1908, for being “just a passenger.” I’m sure he will have a scathing indictment of the Wright brothers for continuing to go above instead of staying down on Earth to address the problems of their day like child labor and women’s suffrage.
Also, he would sound like a sexist loser mocking adventurer women as “female cargo.”
So I sound like a sexist loser?
You sound like an astute observer who, judging by your name, is likely female.
Are you male?
Sexism has been carried forward by females with far greater efficacy than by males.
Remarks can't be judged as "not sexist" just because the speaker is female if the remarks advance a sexist ideology.
*I'm not saying Lynne's remark was sexist, I'm just asking that we examine the underlying assumption.
When I first heard "all female crew" I just thought it of interest. Now i see it an expensive stunt, a nose thumbing at we poor souls who are too stupid to be rich. The same for Jeff's own flight, though i can understand his wanting to play with his own toys. An aside: I am still torqued that I was ignored, nay mocked, by my husband and my broker when I wanted a buy-in at Amazon's IPO.
Jeff is a serious competitor to SpaceX and we need competition with Boeing fading away. Blue Origins is ramping up to large to orbit space craft and must test fly enough times to rate them. These test flights are necessary. Do they send employees? Or share the cost and risk with those who want the exlerience. SpaceX just did a polar orbit test run with guest crew. Who mocked them?
C'mon Gary. The crew on the private polar orbit Fram2 mission at least conducted scientific research. No question but that competition for Space X is a good thing, but 11 minute joy rides like NS-31 do little to advance the cause and tend to raise more eyebrows than interest in space exploration.
The point remains that a test flight with human cargo went up. Bozo got more notice by the selection of this crew. If you're prone to accepting whatever perception the 1% wishes you to to accept at face value, as 33% of our population has proven to be, you will think he trusts his product enough to send people he values on the flight. Lynne inadvertently proves he made a good call. She wouldn't be expecting anyone to discuss this if he had sent the 3 winning bids from a charity auction of the seats, or whatever.
If you accept the purportedly P.T. Barnum proverb that all publicity is good publicity. Since Bezos doesn't care one way or another --- whether an 11 minute "test" flight (the NS had 10 manned flights before) carried female celebs or gerbils is irrelevant. The flight itself wasn't the issue, it was all the misguided hype before and after and the attendant hope that we would somehow suspend disbelief about it. At a minimum, tone deaf --- but then again, as I said, Bezos (and no doubt Sanchez) couldn't care less.
We may need reusable space craft with great capacity to save us from an asteroid. If not that just to manage our near Earth space to Luna.
Two seconds? That long, eh?
It was a test flight of a new and more powerful rocket to compete with SpaceX. And a bit of financial magic to share the expense with those brave enough to go. Not risk free. Not a stunt. Test flights are a necessary part of the development cycle. Why so much fuss? Shatner never got so many critics.
I may be wrong the new rocket was just tested. It is competition with the Super Heavy st SpaceX.
Normally you wouldn't test a new rocket --- even a self-piloting one --- with a bunch of celebrities and other passengers with claims to fame, rather than space pros. What was tested was Blue Origin messaging and public acceptance of it. Result: not so much. I believe the rocket was Blue Origin's existing New Shepard which has been used many times before. I also understand some on board paid and others got a freebie. So, all in all what was touted as a great leap in female empowerment, turned out (by and large) to be a face plant.
This not normal, but an innovation I welcome. Why send employees when the Boss can ride. And others, too! Share the confidence and risk. But still a valid test flight and some risk.
Which "boss?" You mean Lauren Sánchez? Bezos wasn't on the flight. I must be missing something. What did it "test?" It was the 31st flight of the New Shepard rocket and each woman was encouraged to use her four minutes of weightlessness to practice a different in-flight activity tailored to her interests.
Google: “AI Overview
https://support.google.com/websearch?p=ai_overviews&hl=en
Yes, Jeff Bezos has flown on a Blue Origin rocket. He flew on the maiden flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket in July 2021, along with his brother, Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen.
Further details:
The flight, designated NS-16, lasted about 10 minutes and crossed the Kármán line, which is the generally accepted boundary of space.
Bezos's flight was a significant event, marking the first crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard.
Following Bezos's flight, Blue Origin has continued to operate New Shepard, carrying both passengers and cargo on suborbital flights.
(Google): “AI Overview
https://support.google.com/websearch?p=ai_overviews&hl=en
Yes, Jeff Bezos has flown on a Blue Origin rocket. He flew on the maiden flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket in July 2021, along with his brother, Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen.
Further details:
The flight, designated NS-16, lasted about 10 minutes and crossed the Kármán line, which is the generally accepted boundary of space.
Bezos's flight was a significant event, marking the first crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard.
Following Bezos's flight, Blue Origin has continued to operate New Shepard, carrying both passengers and cargo on suborbital flights.
Sorry. I did not see my answer so I thought I needed to do it again. Now I can not erase one.
We do disagree. As I remember Jeff went up on an early flight.
Facial hair adds years to men’s faces.
I'm not sure about that. My husband has had a full beard for over 50 years. When he first moved down here to take a new job, he was required to shave it. Unfortunately, his new employer hadn't realized he has no chin. He was soon allowed to regrow it for additional gravitas (as an expert witness). I post a picture of him on his birthday every year, and I might as well just use the same one, as his appearance hasn't changed in decades (though he does, thank goodness, look more mature than the callow youth I married).
Beards cover a multitude of wrinkles. What possibly adds years to men's faces is overgrown eyebrows (and ear hair).
I remember my father once having a full beard and mustache, and looking younger after he shaved the beard. Then years later, he shaved the mustache and he looked younger again. These days he and facial hair have had a reconciliation.
I’m pretty sure I’d look at least a little younger if I shaved mine.
Maybe I’m conflating age and gravitas, though, perhaps like with your husband.
I tried a mustache and a beard because I hate shaving. I soon discovered those almost as much work. Now that I'm retired, I compromise and shave every other day or so. 🤷♂️
Also, having an existing beard lets you get away with not shaving the other parts for much longer.
Not taken to wearing that Speedo again have you Sam?
Those are other other parts.
Some faces need this.
But black facial hair, kinda goes the other way.
With proper use of aluminum foil, cling wrap, paper towels, and ziploc bags, you too can make tantric sex last for seven hours.
I live on paper towels. They are my plates, my handkerchief, my wrapping paper, my silverware, my napkins, my cleaning tool, my towels, and the most common thing I throw at my enemies. You'll have to pry them from my cold, dead hands ... that is if I can get them off that strange hanging rack that's supposed to make them easy to dispense.
I use paper towels as sparingly as possible, but it might still be a toss-up between them and Ziploc bags. I could probably get by without the bags for food (I mostly use--and reuse--Ziploc containers for that), but the plastic bags are so generally useful that I would definitely miss them. But I could definitely use dish towels for most of what I use paper towels for (such as cooling/draining peeled boiled eggs).
You must not have pets. There are some things that just should NOT be picked up with anything you want to use again.
You could always use paper napkins instead of paper towels.
Hmm. We actually use cloth napkins, avoiding the use of paper napkins as much as possible as well.
I recently realized that the hanging paper towel rack is a pretty stupid thing! I finally got one of those standing ones with the heavy marble-looking base. A nice sharp vertical tug separates the paper towel at the perforation without unrolling a half dozen more sheets. It does take up valuable counter space in my small kitchen but I have no regrets!
Counter space in my kitchen is at such a premium that I would not consider this. My paper towel holder is quite stiff. It requires a pretty strong peeling movement to detach a paper towel.
Thing about tantric sex is it's supposed to raise your spirituality and mindfulness. After several hours they may be the only things able to be raised.
Friction sores.
We've known for some time that you're not only as old as you feel (subjective age), you're very often as "old" as others think you are in terms of practical considerations --- like the repeated attempts to take you across streets you had no intention of crossing by overzealous good Samaritans. And while the idea of aging having a double standard still has general currency (older women evaluated more negatively than older men), it's not quite so cut-and-dried and really depends on specific traits or "domains." For example, some studies show that older women are rated more highly on "competence" than older men. And no, older women were not the subjects doing the rating.
Paper towels you say? What's with this "select-a-size" business. The latest wrinkle (although I don't usually keep up with advances in paper product design) now appears to be not one, not two but three size options from each sheet. Exactly how useful is a 5.5" x 5.5" quarter square of paper towel?
I never buy anything but Select-a-Size (actually, I see Viva calls it "Choose-a-Sheet") because it's rare for me to need more than the small sheet. In addition, I have, under another counter, a holder for a flash-in-the-pan narrower size that apparently did not meet success and was quickly phased out, though I found it useful. We rarely use a paper towel just once. After I've cooled my boiled eggs on one small sheet, it stays on the counter for wiping up as needed. My husband is the profligate user, though, using several sheets to microwave bacon.
I haven't seen that new option, but I just found out recently that my 13yo grandkid has never seen "regular" towels that don't have the select-a-size option. I think one of the perforated sections is a half towel, and two sections make an approximately square whole towel. Grandkid thinks I am crazy, obviously one section is one towel, and if you take two sections that is two towels.
I hate select-a-size. They’re like the old joke about martinis and breasts- one’s not enough and three’s too many.