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[Nicholas Carey]

Half the subways in NYC were flooded and closed today. Waist-deep water in Williamsburg and Crown Point, Brooklyn.

[Nicholas Carey]

They do want brick and mortar stores. The problem with eCommerce, especially with clothing sales, is the return rate. Nordstrom has a low, by eCommerce...

[Nicholas Carey]

Working at Nordstrom, we had several events over the last couple years that were clearly organized crime, in LA and San Francisco. 20-30 people would...

[Nicholas Carey]

🤣🤣🤣...

[Nicholas Carey]

Wow! Practicing low-level ops out of McChord?

Did it have the RAF rondels on it?

[Nicholas Carey]

Singapore and other countries in SE Asia have laws with stiff fines prohibiting Durian on public transit and in hotels....

[Nicholas Carey]

Our problem is that the sump is really too narrow (and probably not deep enough). The 1/2 horse motor has got enough starting torque to move things around...

[Nicholas Carey]

That's great! Now I kind of want to do that trip.

[Nicholas Carey]

There's a privately-owned, public-use seaplane base on Priest Lake, Tanglefoot.

https://www.airnav.com/airport/D28

https://...

[Nicholas Carey]

International mail can be . . . odd.

We've mailed stuff — 1st class letters! — to relatives in Argentina and had it take more than 2...

[Nicholas Carey]

Yes. And always check the float before or right after rainy season starts. We don't likes surprises.

[Nicholas Carey]

There are services that will rebuild the Fein batteries. It's just standard C-cells inside usually. I believe the Fein batteries are soldered together,...

[Nicholas Carey]

Going to be interesting to see how the M1 Abrams performs against the army and tactics it was designed to fight, in the terrain in which it was designed...

[Nicholas Carey]

General Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff retired today. His retirement speech was blunt and on point.




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[Nicholas Carey]

Yes, that. Of course. I thought you were talking about the Hunter Biden fern flower hunt.

[Ferns are sporophytes and don't flower 😉]...

[Nicholas Carey]

I had a trainspotter/train chaser friend. I'd drive his car 60 m/h chasing trains while he stood up through the sunroof shooting photos.

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[Nicholas Carey]

True that. Ken Kesey of the Merry Pranksters didn't do so well with Furthur, the bus they drove across the country in.

https://www.orego...

[Nicholas Carey]

Did it ever have any substance?...

[Nicholas Carey]

It amazes me that they — Putin, Kremlin mouthpieces, and propagandists — have been telling us for years what they intend. And yet, people here don't...

[Nicholas Carey]

Target says that they're closing stores because of theft and crime, but it's not true. The two stores that are being closed in Seattle, one is in my neighborhood,...