This is the comment thread!

Jobs around here have been hard to come by lately.

I'm self-employed in Construction so it's time to go do some Commercial work again.

I'll be heading to Baton Rouge Monday for about a weeks work.
If the contracts pickup the way they were a few years ago I'll need another NoteBook for the road.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Good luck

[Sailor Steve]

Headin' down to Red Stick, eh?

Yep.

Waiting to hear about Denver and Myrtle Beach jobs also.
Last time I was traveling for a living was during GWX Development.

I always had plenty of time to work on stuff in the Motel Rooms as I didn't like hitting Bars and such all the time.

[Oberon]

I'm going to put this here because I don't want to start a new thread on it, but I know a lot of people were concerned when Peter Jackson said he was going to remake 'The Dambusters', and whilst I am annoyed that ****** is instead going to be Digger, I am partly reassured by stumbling across this:



I think that he didn't do that bad a job there, in fact probably better than Red Baron and sure as hell better than Flyboys!

We'll see how it pans out.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by privateer

Yep.

Waiting to hear about Denver and Myrtle Beach jobs also.
Last time I was traveling for a living was during GWX Development.

I always had plenty of time to work on stuff in the Motel Rooms as I didn't like hitting Bars and such all the time.

Good luck on the job front Jeff

Originally Posted by Oberon

I'm going to put this here because I don't want to start a new thread on it, but I know a lot of people were concerned when Peter Jackson said he was going to remake 'The Dambusters', and whilst I am annoyed that ****** is instead going to be Digger, I am partly reassured by stumbling across this:



I think that he didn't do that bad a job there, in fact probably better than Red Baron and sure as hell better than Flyboys!

We'll see how it pans out.

That film footage looked very cool.

[Hottentot]

Book hint of the day: Machiavelli's "Discourses on Livy" is incredibly boring rubbish. The idea of a renaissance writer taking an antique Roman historian and applying Livy's writings to his own era's Florence is a fairly interesting concept and a good showcase of some aspects of renaissance mentality (the idea of history, the reverence of antiquity etc.), but it's completely ruined by the writing style, namely nonsense stream of consciousness.

Fascinating if you have read "The Prince" and wish to know more about Machiavelli's views towards politics, warfare and republics, but otherwise I can't recommend this.

[Sailor Steve]

Interesting. I was going to make a comment about the "What are you reading" thread, but I realized where I was, and that mini-review is certainly a comment!

Then I thought I would just back out and not say anything, but I felt the need to comment on your comment and on my comment regarding your comment.

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Good luck on the job front Jeff

Kinda looking forward to the travelling again.
I just checked and the Fletcher Class Destroyer, USS Kidd, is in Baton Rouge.
I'll have to make a side trip to visit.

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Then I thought I would just back out and not say anything, but I felt the need to comment on your comment and on my comment regarding your comment.

I have a feeling we have been down this road before and it ended in a car crash?

My post was actually more a comment on my own frustration, caused by having to read Machiavelli's mushroom dreams, and not only that, but to write a paper about them too. I thought the only good thing I can achieve in this assignment is to at least warn everyone else not to repeat my mistake.

Sigh. Just 150 pages left and I can get back to reading books for my master's thesis. I'm actually looking forward to it now.

[Sailor Steve]

What road? I thought I was making a funny. Well, I've been wrong before.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

What road? I thought I was making a funny. Well, I've been wrong before.

You should have made that left turn at Alburquerque.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Oberon

You should have made that left turn at Alburquerque.

What's all the hubbub, bub?

[Hottentot]

Since I know there are other dog people here, I'm asking for your help. Can someone please explain to me the big idea behind the "Dog pointer dog" phenomenon that seems to be so common at least in my city?

The usual situation: me and my dog are walking. On a narrow path we meet another dog with its owner and we have no choice except go past each other. A very common situation and one that every dog should be able to handle with no problem, right?

But instead of going past us, the other dog stops and sits down like a good service dog pointing out something it has been taught to search. And the owner does not even try to get it moving, but instead also stops and starts staring me. It dawns to me that he/she is expecting me to go past them, which is much more inconvenient and slow than us both going past each other. Especially when the other dog is usually sitting in the middle of the narrow path and the owner seems to have no idea what to do.

No really, I'm serious here. It seems so common that I have started doubting myself. I have so far thought that it's just yet another case of clueless owner and a lazily trained dog, but surely they can't all be total dimwits? Is this being widely taught somewhere by the experts? Is there some other point that I'm missing? Is there a hidden benefit in just one dog going past the other that I'm failing to see? What happens if two such trained dogs meet on a narrow path?



Edit: spilling my stakes.

[Jimbuna]

I've noticed that on occasion as well when out walking my dog but I've absolutely no idea what it's all about.