# Random Musings (and associated non sequiturs) v. 3.0
**URL:** https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478
**Category:** general
**Created:** [October 10, 2013, 12:21am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478 "2013-10-10T00:21:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 63
### Author:  [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1298 "2015-11-12T14:05:57Z")
> [@ClockWorkXon](#):
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> There’s no way you can get a decent enough thrust with a shovel head-on to qualify as piercing.
Not with that attitude, there isn’t.
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### Author:  [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1299 "2015-11-12T17:36:51Z")
> [@CaffeinatedNoms](#):
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> I’d have said a flat-edge shovel is a **bunt** instrument,
Note to self. Do not try to hit home runs with a flat edge shovel.
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### Author:  [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1300 "2015-11-12T19:04:50Z")
Heh, an unusual typo for me, I usually typo with my left hand, L is firmly in right-hand territory!
Although I didn’t know that _bunt_ was a baseball term, I only know it as the farmer word for “all my hay has gone rotten because I didn’t pay any attention to the weather when I made it”. Then again I know a lot more farmers than baseball players so 😛
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### Author:  [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1301 "2015-11-13T00:44:05Z")
This is a very good example of a bunt.
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2015, 10:30am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1302 "2015-11-13T10:30:36Z")
I know we have people in the Buffalo area, so I hope everyone is staying dry.
The flooding is due to a rare phenomenon known as a “seiche”. The writer in this article is just a bit sensationalist, but it’s an interesting phenomenon.
[http://superstation95.com/index.php/world/515](http://superstation95.com/index.php/world/515)
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### Author:  [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1303 "2015-11-13T12:14:17Z")
> [@ClockWorkXon](#):
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> I know we have people in the Buffalo area, so I hope everyone is staying dry.
It’s flooding in Buffalo?
Oh look at that, there’s some small localized flooding. [http://wivb.com/2015/11/12/trees-tumble-roads-close-due-to-high-winds-flooding/](http://wivb.com/2015/11/12/trees-tumble-roads-close-due-to-high-winds-flooding/)
It’s the 60 MPH wind gusts that are a bigger worry. They’re all over this end of the state since Wednesday. Running was fun yesterday.
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### Author:  [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2015, 4:15am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1304 "2015-11-14T04:15:14Z")
I listened to [this song](http://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/1146?u=dakboy) on my run Thursday (it’s on my run playlist(s)) and it finally hit me…Tone Loc was giving those girls roofies!
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### Author:  [@DocDubious](https://cog.discourse.group/u/DocDubious)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1305 "2015-11-15T14:06:10Z")
> [@dakboy](#):
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> It’s the 60 MPH wind gusts that are a bigger worry. They’re all over this end of the state since Wednesday. Running was fun yesterday.
I was up nearer you than my usual, @dakboy: Vacationed in @Boomer 's neighborhood, right off the south end of Erie.
We went to the coast to see a lighthouse exhibit, and the wind d@mned near swept my legs out from under me a couple of times.
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### Author:  [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1306 "2015-11-16T02:25:37Z")
Gur, the wind’s picking up here too. It’s currently blowing a good 60-70mph sustained in the low troposphere, it’s gusting about that fast on ground level too now.
If any of you are interested in such a thing, there’s an interactive worldmap here with all sorts of meteorological datapoints on it: [Earthschool.net](http://earth.nullschool.net/)
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1307 "2015-11-16T15:14:24Z")
I seem to be missing a Sunday…
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### Author:  [@Woodman](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Woodman)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1308 "2015-11-16T16:36:17Z")
Is that it over there behind the Monday?
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### Author:  [@KansasWizard](https://cog.discourse.group/u/KansasWizard)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1309 "2015-11-16T16:38:19Z")
Shh, you’ll scare it off and it won’t come back for a whole week.
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### Author:  [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1310 "2015-11-16T16:51:58Z")
I actually did wake up this morning saying “why the hell is my alarm going off today?”
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### Author:  [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1311 "2015-11-16T17:56:27Z")
I’ve gone too far the other way, I’v been convinced this is Tuesday all day 😛
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1312 "2015-11-17T20:48:19Z")
So the post office is now selling iTunes gift cards. They’re getting a bit desperate to prove that they’re still needed, aren’t they?
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### Author:  [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1313 "2015-11-17T23:36:52Z")
> [@ClockWorkXon](#):
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> So the post office is now selling iTunes gift cards. They’re getting a bit desperate to prove that they’re still needed, aren’t they?
Our local post office recently ceased selling white envelopes and parcel boxes. It now sells only brown paper and brown envelopes. If you’re lucky, they might have “fragile” stickers. I seriously don’t get how privatising it has improved any of the services at all like the Government claims it does… so far as I can tell, it’s just made a couple of people rich.
Oh wait, that’s how capitalism works 😉
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### Author:  [@balance](https://cog.discourse.group/u/balance)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1314 "2015-11-18T00:10:29Z")
> [@ClockWorkXon](#):
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> So the post office is now selling iTunes gift cards. They’re getting a bit desperate to prove that they’re still needed, aren’t they?
If they’re making money on them, it’s a good deal for them. I see people go nuts for gift cards at the holidays, buying stacks of them at stores. Making ti even easy for the guy who’s late to mail Christmas cards and needs to include something for the nieces and nephews they never see anyway? Perfect!
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### Author:  [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1315 "2015-11-18T01:40:51Z")
Why don’t liquor stores have a delivery service?
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### Author:  [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1316 "2015-11-18T01:43:42Z")
> [@balance](#):
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> I see people go nuts for gift cards at the holidays, buying stacks of them at stores
Flip side: I don’t like getting gift cards. They’re basically an obligation to buy something, and usually the few things I _need_ aren’t covered by the card. So I’m left buying something that I then feel guilty about just to use the card (either something I don’t need, or something I do need but had been holding off on so now I’m buying it just for the sake of using the card).
At least if it was cash, I could pay some stuff off. Or maybe if everyone coordinated and got me gift cards to the same place so I could pool it and then feel somewhat better about using it all on something that I _do_ need _and_ didn’t have to pay out of pocket for…
Yes, I’m a grumpy old SOB.
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1317 "2015-11-18T02:15:00Z")
There was one company that was doing this, but now I can’t remember the name. It might have been a San Francisco company though. If you have a grocery chain that has a delivery service, you could order from them.
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