workingcinderellaman

I don't venture out of SOCN very much, mostly because of time but I went to a great concert last night and thought I would comment on it. It was The Offspring and it was a makeup concert that was rained out about a month ago. I've never seen them live but I've liked them ever since the early nineties. Anyway, I was thoroughly impressed. They sounded amazing and the show was very energetic. 

 

I didn't realize how talented Dexter Holland is. He doesn't sing all that wonderful, but he writes great music. On top of that, he has a PhD in molecular biology, started a hot sauce company and flies a military trainer jet. 

 

Anyway, it was a great concert. 

On 3/4/2023 at 8:50 AM, JohnRogers said:

It's Saturday hopefully the weather is nice and the road is open with you out enjoying fresh air.

Hell's backbone? 

I feel bad for the people in California right now. 

 

But I had to share this because I've never seen this happen. The web camera that shows the snow stake at Snow Basin in the mountains just above me was buried last night.

 

Scroll to the bottom to see the Snow Stake Timelapse and hit the play arrow at the bottom. It will show you the last 24 hours. 

 

https://www.snowbasin.com/the-mountain/web-cams/?gclid=CjwKCAiA2fmdBhBpEiwA4CcHzR-Pu3AFzarYsHs1we2D90qwcLWevYxTS0cRjn-DNTOzKoZrgvj2XBoCPzAQAvD_BwE

 

 

These California storms that have been coming in are warmer so we've been getting a rain/snow mix in the valley but a TON of snow in the mountains. 

If giving is a chore then you aren't doing it right. It should be something you want to do. The point is to think of others and their needs. It also shouldn't be confined to Christmas time, but Christmas is a great time to reflect on how you can better serve others. 

2 hours ago, Fridge said:

I hate Christmas with a passion but force myself to go along with the nonsense so as to appease family.....I have as little to do with the present malarkey as I possibly can though.

15 hours ago, Principled Man said:

Very nice scenery, but two inches of the wettest snow/slush ever were not fun to shovel.  Even our snow blowers went on strike.....

 

 

That's nice. I looks like the scene in A Christmas Carol when they go back to Ebenezer's youth. 

19 hours ago, goose said:

43 inches in the past seven days, with a 59 inch base!  I haven't been up yet, but a buddy went Monday and said it was epic.  

 

https://www.skiheavenly.com/the-mountain/mountain-conditions/snow-and-weather-report.aspx

Basin is reporting a 63 inch base. I got new skis this year but I've been using my old skis up until now. I'm trying them out for the first time today!

23 hours ago, Nova Carmina said:

 

 

Relationship question: my wife and I agreed not to buy each other presents; am I an idiot for falling for that? Should I go ahead and get the thing I was planning on getting, just in case?

For the last ten years or so, my wife has made me agree not to buy her presents. So, what I do instead is to help others buy her presents. Last year Nancy Sinatra got her a pair of boots and Carol Baskin got her a nice tiger print Minky blanket.  

We just finished 4 days of consecutive snow storms. I hope this keeps up, we really need the snow. 

On 12/13/2022 at 10:55 AM, goose said:

Clear, sunny and cold.  The low temps will keep the snow on the foothills, which makes for gorgeous views.  Crossed paths with a beautiful 4x4 buck on the morning hike, which is always a fun surprise

How much base is Heavenly posting right now? 

On 5/31/2022 at 8:36 AM, goose said:

Top Gun Mav is rocking the box office.  My 16yo son wants to see it, and in preparation watched the original yesterday. He's also been walking around the house humming Take My Breath Away, lol.

Interesting story about that song. The fame of it broke up Berlin and they didn’t even write it.

 

 

Just saw this movie last night and I wasn't disappointed. It's one of those rare instances where the sequel is better than the original. I highly recommend it, especially if you're an airplane geek like I am. They made it using real F-18 footage rather than CGI and it made a huge difference in the quality. 

 

Also, try to see it in IMAX with Dolby Atmos if at all possible. 

This thread seems to be getting too political for RS. I'm curious why this stuff isn't in SOCN. 

As with most economic issues, I tend look first to the simple issue of supply vs. demand. If prices are going up, it's because there isn't enough of something to meet how much people want. Regardless of how much a seller wants to get for a product, it can't get more than people will voluntarily pay for it (simple, I know). The seller is only in control of that if the seller controls the supply. If I'm the only Dunkin' Donuts within 500 miles, you're paying my prices if you want Dunkin' Donuts or you're going without. But if there are 40 Dunkin' Donuts within 5 miles, then I have to come up with some way to earn your business, most easily by dropping my prices. When the government enacts policies that contribute to limits on supply of something, it helps sellers control supply unnaturally. So, yes, an increase in demand attributable to coming out of COVID lockdowns makes sense. But the government also exacerbated that by restricting fracking, refusing to grant drilling leases on federal land, etc.

 

The government has a duty to make sure that the only 2 cable companies in an area don't conspire to drive up prices. But if, as here, it decided, before the war in Ukraine, that it wanted to pursue a more robust environmentalist agenda, which is within its power, it should be honest enough to admit that some of its policies are making the situation worse.

Another thing to consider is the ability of the market to adapt under different conditions. For example, if companies have equipment, permits, employees, etc., in place working a fracking well but they're only producing at 50% then if a spike occurs, they can easily increase production. If they don't have those things in place then it may take years to do it. If Canada can increase their oil drilling production in remote areas, but have no way to move it, then their production increase is limited until they have a pipeline or road built to move the oil which could take years.

Paying $4.22 for regular gas today. One has to question the wisdom of rejecting energy independence in favor of depending on the globe's bad actor nations for our energy needs. :blink:

 

Lots of people think Old Joe did that but lots of people don't understand how the economy works too.

 

 

Or gas prices for that matter. No president, left or right, controls them. Dubya, Obama, Trump, Biden...doesn't matter.

We're not pretending that energy policy doesn't have a massive impact on supply, are we?

 

It probably does to some extent but has that changed in the last 36 hours to cause gasoline prices to literally go up 45 cents or more in some places?

No, what's happened is that the cumulation of bad energy policies coupled with world events have precipitated a historic spike in crude oil. Better energy policies would have made the spike less severe.

^^^ Great pic.

 

Contrasting that is the Lyndsey Jacobelli story. Famously, at the Torino Olympics, with a huge lead for the gold in snowboard cross, a very young Lyndsey did a celebratory grab on the last jump and caught an edge, fell, and got passed. She won silver instead. She redeemed herself in Beijing this week and won Team USA's first gold. :cheerleader:

Finally! She could have won multiple golds.

 

I'm really happy for her.

In the Olympics giant slalom Mikaela missed an early gate and so is out of competition on her first run.

 

Funny how things go

 

She did the same thing today in what was supposed to be her premier event.

This says it all.

 

:(

We're talkin' alpine/downhill skiing here, obviously. After all, who wears a helmet for the superior form of skiing--cross country?

:LMAO:

I have a nice speaker system in my ski helmet and so in preparing for the upcoming ski season, I'm putting together a skiing playlist and I was wondering if anyone here had any suggestions. It needs to be up-beat and stuff that gets the adrenalin flowing. Stuff like Xanadu, Enter Sandman, Scorpions - Can't live without you, etc.

Thanks in advance for any input. :)

 

I went to this the other night and it really made me miss seeing Rush live.

They're pulling the J+J vaccine due to 6 blood clot cases out of 6.8 million doses. What does science tell us we should do here? Good move to pull it or not?

 

The science is that so far it has affected one in a million people that have gotten the J and J dose. I don't think it's so hard in the US; we have 2 other alternatives available. Given that we don't yet know how completely the people will recover from the blood clots, it makes sense to pull it here. However, it's going to be hard worldwide to lose a one shot, effective vaccine that some countries were counting on to use in rural and underserved areas. It sets back the vaccine effort a lot, unfortunately.

 

I'm getting pretty tired of this stupid pandemic, it sucks.

What is the chance of contracting COVID and dying from it? If it's more than one in a million then on the surface the vaccine would be more beneficial than harmful.

 

I heard someone from the CDC on the news this am and they said that is the purpose of this "pause" in use. They said that during the time the J and J vaccine has been in use, there have been aprox 1 case per million of these blood clots, and aprox 1800 deaths per million from Covid. So, yeah, it seems to come down on the side of the vaccine. Plus the one dose makes it easier for rural and homeless populations to use. I hope that during this time they can figure out a way to still use it- maybe limited to certain ages, or males only or something, because it still seems to have some benefit.

So the risk of dying without the vaccine is 1800 times greater than getting it.

 

A lot of stupidity during the pandemic in the name of "abundance of caution".

They're pulling the J+J vaccine due to 6 blood clot cases out of 6.8 million doses. What does science tell us we should do here? Good move to pull it or not?

 

The science is that so far it has affected one in a million people that have gotten the J and J dose. I don't think it's so hard in the US; we have 2 other alternatives available. Given that we don't yet know how completely the people will recover from the blood clots, it makes sense to pull it here. However, it's going to be hard worldwide to lose a one shot, effective vaccine that some countries were counting on to use in rural and underserved areas. It sets back the vaccine effort a lot, unfortunately.

 

I'm getting pretty tired of this stupid pandemic, it sucks.

What is the chance of contracting COVID and dying from it? If it's more than one in a million then on the surface the vaccine would be more beneficial than harmful.

SASKING

Sammy Hagar?

Extreme?