Modern Vespa

Nope. After reading some of Nimoy's poetry, I couldn't leave it behind.
I'm getting my banjo out this weekend and putting some of them to music.

As it happens, Leonard Nimoy earned his MA from the college where I grew up as a campus brat. I don't believe I've ever met him, though.

I can't lay claim to seeing this in person but below is from a British Motorway/Highway recently.

My brother set up racks to carry bikes on a few of his motorcycles over the years. The first was a Honda 450 Nighthawk. The second was a Kawasaki KZ550. He'd show up at bike races and crashes would happen from people riding by and watching him instead of where they were going. I'll have to see if he has any pics of his setups.

Cruising along in our car in the right lane at 70 mph or so, saw a chartreuse bagger come up in the left lane in my peripheral vision. Probably a HD, doesn't matter.

Tennis shoes caught my eye next...
No helmet
No gloves
T shirt
And what put him in the Darwin contender category was riding the a** of the car in front with 10 feet of distance for the few miles we were near him.

At least he had visibility covered...

Some people gotta learn the hard way

It's a great trick, but they can only do it once.

As I left my house yesterday I saw an elderly neighbour brandishing what looked like a wand at her hedge.

On closer inspection she was trying to relocate a spider that had formed a web across her entrance and didn't want to touch it.

After a brief interaction I took the stick from her and gently moved the spider out of the way.

She was very embarrassed but very relieved.

I'm going to Heaven.

You missed an opportunity to kill a spider? You're going straight to hell.

They are just misunderstood.

Joking apart. we've been plagued with them this year.

Generally speaking, spiders are to be encouraged, as they eat other insects.

I can't speak for whatever monstrosities might exist in New Zealand, though.

Only takes one encounter with a Brown Recluse to change the "encouraged" thing.

OFG

So DOING evil is not to be tolerated, but ENABLING evil is?

SPIDER SNACKS
A study conducted by Lund University in Sweden estimates that spiders eat 400 to 800 million metric tons of insects each year.

So spiders pretty much eat the equivalent weight of the human population every year. What's going to happen when they run out of insects because of overwebbing? Thats right, we're the main course.

Overwebbing.. Feels like that around here. I'm always running into (figuratively) webs in my garage and sheds. Most unpleasant

Shades of the movie IT

I for one welcome our eight-legged overlords.

Can't do any worse than our two-faced ones....

Saw this guy crossing the road and waited for him to get to the other side, where he kindly posed for a picture.

Your spider matches the sandal and pairs well with the purple polish. The ones I see have more of a brown color. I like the black ones better.

Gbaby has nice toes, a good sense of color, and an understanding of arachnids.

I can't be the only guy turned on by that, right?

Around here it is surfboards....

Maybe this is normal, but it's a first for me.

Sitting on the tarmac at San Diego Airport watching plans take off in both directions on the same runway. A few will take off south down the runway, then a few will takeoff north down the runway

Does seem to increase the risk of something going wrong.... OTOH, could be with minimal winds and separating air traffic it might have an advantage.

By taking off in opposite directions, I suspect that they are avoiding the turbulent wakes of planes taking off, so they can "launch" more planes per hour safely.

All the above and more convenient and cheaper for the aircarrier based on direction of final destination.

Thought of that too, but my brain can't sort out turbulence that well. I know you don't want to be following the previous departure too closely, but being invisible it's kind of a mysterious phenomenon.

I just hope I never do whatever it is that gets you stuffed in there.

Paid a brief visit to the hobby store this afternoon and found this interesting item, only $20 (USD)...

This.

I think it's only fair you fill us in on how you actually wound up there. The how is very telling.

I was testing the demos of various full-text search engines, with an eye toward finding a better search system. As a test, I was using the term "Vespa" to see what came up.

I went to the Bank today and I got served by an employee dressed as a Teletubby.

How do you know it wasn't a Teletubby pretending to be a banker? Having just recently left the employ of a London bank, I can tell you that scenario wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

She had a badge with her name on it and not the other 4.

Which one? Please tell me it was Laa-Laa. Also, tell me which bank so I can book a flight to the UK (it's only a couple of hours from Porto).

BRB, need to go shop for an engagement ring.

Wait. What? You guys have physical banks you can walk in to still? And you do?

What for? To get a new checkbook?

I went into a bank a few months ago to cash a cheque (note proper spelling ) due to an old person paying me money they owed me and the teller soon told me I could deposit the cheque via my phone app.

Now I have absolutely no need to step into one ever again.

My bank talked me into using their app for deposits. I found out that the app was sending various data to 5 different companies.
I used 3 different banks, so I checked the others also. One had no tracking or data sent to various sources. It was actually a Credit Union instead of bank. So, back to walk in for one and closed the one with the most trackers.
Just discovered and did this in past 3 months.
My only problem now is that the money from my closed account that I buried in the back yard hasn't germinated yet, so I'm not accruing any interest.

The last few years I was working, cashing my paycheck became even more bothersome. That is until a bank employee showed me how to load an app to deposit my check with my phone. After that, I did not go into a bank for until just recently for tax reasons. It was kind of weird at first taking the picture of the check, front and back, getting a confirmation and then just standing there holding this piece of paper which just moments before was worth something.

Got a chequebook and I'm in the Bank Monthly.

When I was dealing with Probate I was given a contact who deals with that kind of stuff and they made the process incredibly easy.

If people don't go to the branches anymore other people lose their jobs.