Speaking of contractors to beware...

Who the fuck milled up Main St and hasn't been able to get the overlay down or AT LEAST some dust abatement?

That's one of my dog walking routes, and I got SO MUCH DUST IN MY EYES TODAY.

The no parking signs said they expired last week, so whoever that contractor is I hope the city is slapping you with all of the late fees for not being done yet. You kicked sand in my eyes, and you deserve it.

I don't know, maybe DUI checkpoints.

Cary isn't a hard road, yet drivers manage to fuck up. We do our best, but you can't design stupid out. MOST of Cary is as straight as an arrow. There's like what, two bends near the VCU area? How hard is it to just go slow? You could do things like Franklin where you narrow the travel lane and eliminate parking so the road 'feels' narrow which naturally slows drivers, but unless you want a constant 4 inches of water to drive through every time it rains, geometric changes to most of the road isn't going to be feasible - ESPECIALLY given current design standards.

If you look at how many inlets are out into new facilities it's crazy. Every manhole structure is like $6k a pop EASY.

I prefer crossing at the one that doesn't have a signal because

A. I don't trust drivers to actually stop. B. There's less traffic C. There's much more sight distance (which is why it doesn't really need a dedicated signal)

Engineers who design roads professionally seeing lots of downvotes to a comment explaining why retrofitting this existing road isn't a good idea: 🙄😮‍💨

There's an inlet in the picture.

Drainage and snow plow nightmare.

Also, orders of magnitude difference in cost.

>Idk how these transformers suddenly blow but it was so loud and bright it felt like a movie for a sec

So transformers are two large coils of wire tightly wrapped around a loop of iron. One coil on one side of the loop is the input high voltage and on the other side of the loop is the low voltage output coil. That's the "transforming" going on - high voltage to low. The reason they can handle such high voltages in such a small space is because they're filled with an insulating oil separating the input from the output. Over time the oil leaks out in various ways. Once there's not enough insulator in between the input and output you get a short circuit, and the high voltage arcs over creating an arc flash. The temperature of an arc flash event is hotter than the surface of the sun iirc, so things like solids can temporarily turn into liquids, gasses, or maybe even plasma.

Tldr: they suddenly blow because the insulating oil leaked out and the high voltage gets to short circuit over to the low voltage side.

That's rough. People are too proud to admit that they're trash at math.

I'm biased. I'm an engineer and in my experience even many of my peers have a questionable grasp on math. If I'm questioning how good at math the people who are widely accepted as being legitimately dang good at math are, then I really gotta assume that people are normally REALLY bad at math...

Our scores as a country support this rationale. The general population is plainly bad at math. When you see the Karens of Facebook complaining about new methods to teach math - they're probably horrible at math. We're not going to improve our scores by teaching the same way that got our scores so low to begin with...

We're left with people who are bad at math who are too proud to admit that they can't figure out something as simple as 20% in their heads - I don't think they want to use their phones because then they're admitting it. You know? Multiplication and division are grade-school math. You want a 35 year old guy with 2 kids admitting he can't do grade school math in front of his kids? You want some hotshot yuppie taking his tinder date out for drinks to whip out his phone and proudly proclaim that numbers scare him? You want a proud independent woman who's run her own business for the last 10 years to admit she still has anxiety dreams about math-tests in front of clients?

I don't think it's malice or mal-intent. I don't think anyone WANTS to be a bad tipper (unless they're going full Karen). I would think (hope) the reason is more plain-Jane hubris. They want to tip. They don't want to bankrupt themselves. They don't accept numbers, so they go with their gut instead knowing they won't go broke.

Thank you for attending my TED talk. You can get early access to conetent like this by contributing to my patreon. /s

I do my method then round up the total to make a pretty number.

13.57 becomes 2.714 which then goes to 2.93 because $16.50 is prettier than $16.28

I don't know which is easier on the servers/restaurants, though. Easy number tips or easy number totals. I only ever have my cards...

It looks nice on your statements having pretty numbers.

Fun tip to tip

Say your check comes to $abcd.ef

Move the decimal to the left one and multiply by 2, so 2*(abc.de)

That's your 20% tip. Monstrously faster than dividing by 5.

100 out of a 1,900 rent really isn't that bad. My first year in a 1b1ba apartment in Glen Allen they tried to raise me from 1,100ish to over 1,200. I talked to a person in the front office and they changed it to like 3-5% and that was the yearly adjustment percentages they sent me the next 2 years I lived there.

With my case, my rent went towards front office staff, maintenance staff, landscaping staff as well as costs of the property. All of those staff expect annual raises. You should expect an annual rent increase if for nothing else for property taxes. Have you seen some of the posts on here of how much people's property taxes jumped?

OP's interaction with the burglar (dramatized)

That's not good.

I think that's a lift station...

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I haven't been. The pictures looked pretty.

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I fucking love Peter Chang. I want that pork belly injected straight into my veins.

What a resume! Edited, thanks.

It looks like he was at Bistro Bobette, which has been closed for a couple of years now? Where is he?

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No, of their James Beard awards. I don't think either actually won, but they made it far.

Interesting context.

The first two chefs appear to have made it to the finals/semi finals of their contests. I assume that means much more than just the nomination? The third guy looks like he was only nominated or didn't make it far into the contest.

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I was looking for head/executive chefs moreso than owners.

It looks like Bobo Catoe Jr. Is chef de cuisine at alewife. The Google search for the other guy looked to an article that mentioned alewife, so that's where the confusion came from.

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