In the real world news today Thurs, November 29 2018

[greybeard]

The majority of tenants (clients) will be non-smokers. They'll keep it enforced.

In keeping with strange/interesting/trivial things in the news, The latest 'make-me-feel-good about myself' thing is getting rid of plastic straws and replacing them with paper straws. I think the last time I used or saw a paper straw, it was stuck in a little 1/2 pint paper container of milk in the school room cafeteria.

I'll just leave this right here tho....

 

[Bruce]

Wanted to make sure you got an early heads up...

Ah, thank you, you are a considerate man!

 

[mystang89]

I saw somewhere online that the servers were going to be fined or face prison time for it. Ridiculous. Edit.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-jail-time-for-defying-plastic-straw-ban.html

 

[Latestarter]

@mystang89 Lost me with your previous... I am getting

 

[greybeard]

Psst, hey buddy, you cool...right? wanna buy a plastic straw? It's the real deal, not any of that flimsy paper stuff. $1 each. yeah, here ya go..thanks.Tell your friends. I'm here on this corner every day this time.

Just conceal carry.

I saw somewhere online that the servers were going to be fined or face prison time for it. Ridiculous. Edit.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-jail-time-for-defying-plastic-straw-ban.html

The idiosyncrasies I spoke about in another thread.......

 

[Bruce]

I seriously doubt any server would be fined or jailed for giving out plastic straws. They wouldn't even be in the restaurant to give out. You really think they are going to conceal carry plastic straws ala Greybeards picture that they purchased themselves?

 

[greybeard]

In the real world news today, comes an advance notice of cosmic proportions.
Yes, it's that time of year again, the Perseid meteor shower is fast approaching and it should be a good one since the moon won't be a factor.
Friday night (August 10th-11th) and Saturday night (August 11th-12th) should give the best shows, with late Saturday night marking the expected maximum. By late, they mean any time after midnight, tho a spray of meteors can come at any time.
Where to look...
Well up of course, and you FB addicts/twits, leave your dang phones in the house...the light from them ruins your night vision.

You will be looking for the constellation Perseus, as that is the region the meteors appear to be radiating from, hence the name Perseid meteor shower. Problem is, Perseus isn't real easy to see or find, but a nearby constellation called Cassiopeia is. That time of night, Cassiopeia is in the shape of a W, tho since it is circumpolar to our eyes in this hemisphere, it never really sets below the horizon, but just sits 'up' there and rotates around, sometimes looking like a W, and E, then an M and eventually back to a W. At that time of night, tho it rotates as well, Perseus is just to the left and a little below Cassiopeia, but doesn't matter. Once you find Cassiopeia, you're so close you probably won't miss any but the most maverick of meteors. (the center star in Cassiopeia is kind of dim, and the W is a little crooked) Remember, more than one of these constellations are circumpolar, so their positions won't be exactly as seen in the below photo, but you get the idea.

 

[greybeard]

I seriously doubt any server would be fined or jailed for giving out plastic straws. They wouldn't even be in the restaurant to give out. You really think they are going to conceal carry plastic straws ala Greybeards picture that they purchased themselves?

My wife would carry her own, probably in her purse. She never drinks from a glass and pretty sure she isn't going to forego her plastic bendy straws for anyone.

Obscure laws are used all the time for a reason to hold someone if the authorities think they may have committed another/different crime but don't yet have the evidence to arrest them on that suspicion.

 

[Bruce]

I have an EE named Cassiopeia, I pretty much always know where to find her year round
But yep, the constellation by the same name is one of the easiest to find in the summer sky, at least in the northern hemisphere. I doubt I could find Perseus so thanks for the picture and description. So away from the "lazy" leg of the W.

 

[Bayleaf Meadows]

I wish I could see the Milky Way. Haven't been able to in years because of the light pollution.