https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/thought-for-the-day.44743/post-1729287

 

I had a boss (Our QA manager) who often referred in furlongs per fortnight, just to keep things light.

The FFF system. Once used in computer science but long replaced by the metric standard of Jiffies.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/microfortnight.html

microfortnight: n.
1/1000000 of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 9 imperial gallons; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realizes that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights!

Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.

 

Criminals, you reap what you sow.

"could you just leave"

Spoiler

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local...p-owner-stabs-would-be-robber-multiple-times/
Las Vegas shop owner stabs would-be thief multiple times

 

​

 

Nobody want's to stay in IKEA.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DyWInNFC-Rg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...hanghai-locks-down-store-on-remote-covid-risk

 

A very interesting graphic that I found on LinkedIn:

​

 

A very interesting graphic that I found on LinkedIn:

View attachment 274220​

That sounds about right unfortunately.

 

https://news.sky.com/story/finnish-...sanna-marin-after-leaked-party-clips-12678407

Finnish women post videos of themselves dancing to support PM Sanna Marin after leaked party clips
The Finnish prime minister, 36, has come under fire since two videos emerged of her singing and dancing at a party with friends and enjoying herself in a private VIP room of a nightclub in Helsinki.

We should all support dancing.

 

https://news.sky.com/story/finnish-...sanna-marin-after-leaked-party-clips-12678407


We should all support dancing.

I hate dancing ... and I'm bad at it ... and my wife loves it and likes to say that I had to have at least one defect, so she loves me as I am, bless her soul ... but I am a singer, and have been playing the guitar since I was six.

Yeah, I see absolutely nothing wrong with people dancing to fine music and having a good time.

 

A store location so bad the 7-11 closed before a Mom/Pop store took a (so far bad) chance at the location.

 

They should be able to have a decent burglar alarm installed for a few hundred U.S. dollars. I used to install alarm systems that would automatically call the police, and I would think that a simple one that protected against a few entry methods would be well worth the money.

 

They should be able to have a decent burglar alarm installed for a few hundred U.S. dollars. I used to install alarm systems that would automatically call the police, and I would think that a simple one that protected against a few entry methods would be well worth the money.

That assumes the police will even bother to show up unless a person was murdered. Even that's a big maybe in Portland today.

 

The dialers that I sold can be programmed to call telephone several different phone numbers. In one example, not only were the police called but also the owners of the business and the guy who ran the burglar alarm company (my partner).

You're right - results may not be consistent from city to city.

 

Who let the dog out?

 

Who let the dog out?

Why aren't there more cool car chases on my local station? L.A. residents are so lucky.

 

 

Portland gets exactly what they voted for, good and hard. No sympathy.

 

In cases such as this, I usually extend my sympathy to those poor souls who can't leave the place.

 

In cases such as this, I usually extend my sympathy to those poor souls who can't leave the place.

Those poor souls are the voters who brought this down on their own heads.