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I was reading a web page about assessing the viability of trees in your backyard for stuff like swings, climbing on, or tree houses and stuff... Ran across this amusing statement:

Your tree should have leaves, suggesting a healthy live branch — perhaps even with littler branchlets coming off of it. If it has hair growing off it, you're not looking at a tree. It's probably just a tall person.

Copy Editors and Other Mythical Beasts

Three Injured in Prom Shooting
 

The Daily Beast wrote: Three people were injured after a gunman opened fire outside of prom at Antigo High School in northern Wisconsin on Saturday night. The shooter has reportedly died after a gunshot from a police officer. Antigo's police chief, Eric Roller, said that the shooter showed up outside the venue with a rifle, critically injuring one person and leaving two others with minor injuries. The suspect is in custody and it's unclear if the suspect is a student at this time.

{original story}

Huh... Even with the bold text, it took me a moment (but only the one, thankfully) to figure out what was going on in the post. It seems that everyone else will survive.

Is this Schrödinger's Gunman? He's both killed by and captured alive by the police?

(at least Schrödinger's can opener wasn't involved...)

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Copy Editors and Other Mythical Beasts

Three Injured in Prom Shooting
 

The Daily Beast wrote: Three people were injured after a gunman opened fire outside of prom at Antigo High School in northern Wisconsin on Saturday night. The shooter has reportedly died after a gunshot from a police officer. Antigo's police chief, Eric Roller, said that the shooter showed up outside the venue with a rifle, critically injuring one person and leaving two others with minor injuries. The suspect is in custody and it's unclear if the suspect is a student at this time.

{original story}

Yeah. That happened one county over. Kid was bullied all through school, decided to take a like for guns - and was shot and killed by Antigo police in this incident (he died @ the hospital).

lake_wrangler wrote:I was reading a web page about assessing the viability of trees in your backyard for stuff like swings, climbing on, or tree houses and stuff... Ran across this amusing statement:

Your tree should have leaves, suggesting a healthy live branch — perhaps even with littler branchlets coming off of it. If it has hair growing off it, you're not looking at a tree. It's probably just a tall person.

Being on the low end of tall (6'2") I can attest to being 'climbed' too many times to count by small children. So the advice is relevant in some cases.

I heard that the low end of tall was 5'9", though that could also be based on old averages. I may have heard (damn memory; can't recall clearly) that people are getting taller.

Alkarii wrote:I heard that the low end of tall was 5'9", though that could also be based on old averages. I may have heard (damn memory; can't recall clearly) that people are getting taller.

They are.

I'm just about six foot even. I used to be tall. Now i'm tallish.

Ah...

Tomorrow, after work, I'm gonna check out the welding school my brother attends. They teach both structural and pipe, and have a high graduation rate, and a high recruitment rate as well. But since they don't have a night course, I will have to get an evening job, and then when I save up the money, I can sign up and quit my day job.

Alkarii wrote:Tomorrow, after work, I'm gonna check out the welding school my brother attends.

This sounds good. Learning a skilled trade has real benefits.

If you can check out their graduation and recruitment rates independently (i.e. don't just take their word for it), do so. There have been cases in which schools have lied about those sorts of things, in order to boost enrollment.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

Alkarii wrote:I heard that the low end of tall was 5'9", though that could also be based on old averages. I may have heard (damn memory; can't recall clearly) that people are getting taller.

They are.

I'm just about six foot even. I used to be tall. Now i'm tallish.

Last I checked, 6 foot was indeed the start of being tall. I am six foot even, and when I was younger, I had always hoped to grow to 6'2", to actually be considered tall...

That became a minor joke, in the old CRFH!!! forums, as I had mentioned that, and it was suggested we start a club... I suggested the I Wish I Was Two Inches Taller Club, but was overridden by others, calling it the Two Inches Taller club...
(Yes, there was definitely a "Let's embarrass LW" factor in that decision...)

Here's an interesting chart/map/data

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Here's an interesting chart/map/data

Hmm...I didn't feel like there were a statistically noticeable amount of taller people at the Frankfort airport. Which I visited many times working overseas. (And, yes, there is a Royale with cheese available at the airport McDonald's.)

I'm hanging out with my brother at the welding school. It's pretty cool, though it smells a little weird.

It's almost five in the morning. My alarm is set to go off in an hour and a half. I'm hungry as hell, probably dehydrated, and haven't slept at all.

I don't know, maybe I should probably call in today. I'm usually so bored driving for six hours a day that I have to scream like a looney to wake myself up, and that's WITH a full night of sleep (though it isn't continuous sleep; I keep waking up).

I'm sure they'll understand if I don't want to drive for six hours in heavy traffic right now.

And then my dad brought home another application for me to fill out to work at the dealership, because apparently the last one I filled out got lost. This is the third one they want me to fill out, and dad says he needs it today.

Well, too bad, because I'm tired of people pulling last minute crap like this. I'll fill it out when I've had some sleep. I don't know why he's so damned determined to get me to work there.

Net10 "tech support" all same same organ cluster up ventral orifice

Just finished re-doing the hatch cover for the space between the mobile home roof and the second roof- damnable woodpecker knocked a hole into it looking for shelter I imagine.
Here is the sign I'll be painting on the thing

That's a marvelously retro woodpecker, Sarge!

...and it makes it clear that Woody's original design was based on the pileated, rather than the red-headed.

Dave wrote:That's a marvelously retro woodpecker, Sarge!

That's actually not my work- I lifted it off the internet and added the circle/slash

Sgt. Howard wrote:

Dave wrote:That's a marvelously retro woodpecker, Sarge!

That's actually not my work- I lifted it off the internet and added the circle/slash

That is the original design of Woody Woodpecker, as i (sort of) mentioned.