Those are good points, but the OP stated the report card and everything about it was basically a joke, which unfortunately it isn’t and that stuff needs to be fixed. It would be great to fill in the spaces between, but lets face it, there are a shit ton of homes and store fronts being built that can’t be filled…

First off, what you propose makes a ton of sense financially so I’m not against your ideas. My thinking is that it’d be tough for grandma Slagman to walk an extra 2 blocks if her stop is removed when she’s already using a walker and has her groceries. Financial sense and what’s good for the community are a lot of…

That’s funny. I get the same feeling when I’ve been stuck on the Verizano and traffic is moving in the opposite direction... entire deck vibrates. Which I know it’s designed to do, but it still freaks me out.

That’s my company. The CEO and a few others at the top get new iphones and surface pros almost every year, while the rest of us have to struggle to get by on 5-8 year old Dell’s. It’s ridiculous trying to run AutoCAD on machines that are that old. Hell some of our admins were still running XP as of a month ago.

So I read the article and while I agree that we are not using the infrastructure efficiently, you tell anyone who commutes to work in a major city that there is too much infrastructure and they’ll have hours of time to talk to you as they sit in traffic, or are stuck on overcrowded trains. Also, if you tear down a…

Its funny, the last President wanted to do that as well, but Congress wouldn’t pass those bills. Politicians are all talk when it comes these bills because of the tax hikes that accompany them.

Totally understand that. It was in my head even as I posted the link. I will say though that there is a code of conduct for civil engineers that states that what we do is for the good of the community and therefore everything that we do under our license should be strictly honest. Again you need your salt, but for…

As a civil engineer, this day reckoning when all the infrastructure begins to enter failure mode that the MTA lifer speaks of, is no joke. IT WILL HAPPEN. And soon. Check of the grades from the American Society of Civil Engineers Annual Infrastructure Report Card: https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/. It’s a…

Uuugggg. I though about adding the fact that we have a herd of 20 or so deer in the neighborhood and the mice probably are bringing deer ticks in with them in my OP. Damn though. Good luck!

I’m not really a little dog guy.

The original sentence said dumb lab, so i added lovable and then removed dumb. I didn’t want it to sound like i can’t stand him. He’s a good dog. Always with the kids when they’re sick.

I would in a heart-beat. I grew up with cats, but my wife isn’t so fond of them. Plus at this point, the dog is 12 years old and I don’t want to do that to him. When he kicks it, we’ll probably get a dog and a cat at the same time.

This whole house goes on lockdown if my wife spots a single mouse turd.

Either that, or wanna be dictator father and son are emulating an actual dictator father and son.

And my dad shot 18 holes in one in a round of golf so he’s better than your orange old man at his own game.

Yep. The owners always have the BATNA - Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement. The BATNA for the owners is that they will still be ridiculously rich if the league shuts down for 1, 2, 5, 10 years, or even permanently. The player’s BATNA is they have the money they’ve already made, plus the opportunity to go to…

Or how when you hit a baseball so pure that you don’t even feel it hit the bat.

Thats what I used to do. Superfund, oil and gas, big pharma, military, etc. It was always an adventure.

You sound like the geologists I used to work with. I’m and Environmental Engineer by trade, Civil by education, and we used to have to dig test pits all the time prior to excavating all sorts of contamination. Good times digging in the dirt.

I loved my Zoysia. It stopped growing in the 90+ days of summer and while it turned brown in the winter never died and never got tore up. It also, never spread beyond my and my neighbor’s yards where it was originally planted 30+ years ago.