Random Thought Thread

sgt1372 said:
I don't get there often but I had a date at a restaurant there. So, here's a distant view from the beach at the south end of Alameda.

I'm biased and say what you will about it but IMO there isn't a more photogenic city anywhere else in the world than San Francisco .

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Where they keep the nuclear wessels?

 
I lived there, SF, for six months in 1976 to early 1977. Long time ago...but it was my favorite city in the U.S. of A for a long time. Sad, what's become of it.

Funny story...I took my wife there on a vacation in 1991 after her father passed away, and took her to see the building I lived in on Hyde St. between Bush and Sutter (now burned down, apparently).

One of the local denizens saw her take my hand while we were walking and shouted out "You'd better hold his hand, honey!" and we just laughed our asses off.

One of those moments in time you never forget. (Like the time an attractive woman was walking down the street in Brooklyn and her kid yelled "Daddy!" to me and I looked at him, then at her, said..."Sorry...no. I'd have remembered.")

I haven't thought of either of those in a while. 🤣
 
sgt1372 said:
I don't get there often but I had a date at a restaurant there.

So, here's a distant view from the beach at the south end of Alameda island taken w/my sh*tty phone cam at max 8x.

I'm biased and say what you will about it but IMO there isn't a more photogenic city anywhere else in the world than San Francisco .

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Isn't current day SF less photogenic? Last time I went a few years ago wasn't something I wanted to photo.
 
I live in SF. It has gone downhill, no doubt.

But the stories people tell about crime here are frequently ridiculous, and I think mostly about the very visible homeless problem. Actual crime rates here are similar to Houston - they have a bit more violent crime, we have a bit more property crime.
 
Blues said:
She was probably using it to hammer out a dent in the edge of a frying pan. ☺️
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My wife and I were gifted a kitchen knife set on our wedding day. It wasn't long before the set was incomplete, knives had either bent tips or were missing them altogether, and a few of them had melted handles.

We have a much better understanding now, especially since our current set is custom.
 
Pàdruig said:
My wife and I were gifted a kitchen knife set on our wedding day. It wasn't long before the set was incomplete, knives had either bent tips or were missing them altogether, and a few of them had melted handles.

We have a much better understanding now, especially since our current set is custom.
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I have a set from Murray Carter which my wife won't use. (These were made for me while he was still living and working in Japan.) She prefers to use her Bokers, Victorinox and Tramontinas. Oh well.

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Blues said:
I don't know for sure what an MBR is...but I can conjure up some whoppers.
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I wasn't sure like dafuque and then I realized that I had posted that gobbledygook about MBR! My apologies as I often text when I walk my dog, I have fat fingers, I have waning eyesight plus being a major scatterbrain. Now what day is it and what did I have for lunch?

I had meant to say that a move may be imminent for me hence in no rush with the Mothership during their very busy season ;)
 
Blues said:
You guys got me thinking about concerts from back in the day...

Here's some of the acts I caught:

Rolling Stones...twice...1969 and 1972. Ike & Tina Turner. Janis Joplin. B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Procol Harum. Sabbath, Springtsteen (twice), Boz Scaggs, J. Geils, Allman Brothers, Delaney & Bonnie, Poco, Leon Russell, Beach Boys, Zappa, Pink Floyd, Hot Tuna, Steve Miller Band, Canned Heat...


...and a lot of jazz greats that a lot of you guys probably aren't all that familiar with like Charles Mingus, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Kenny Dorham, etc etc.

A lot of its pretty hazy...not necessarily based on how long ago it was...LOL.
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That's a helluva lineup. I have: Stones, Floyd, McCarthy, The Who, David Bowie, Chicago, The Eagles (three times), Aerosmith, Beach Boys, Green Day, The Clash, The Police, The Cars, KISS, Jefferson Starship (twice), Blue Oyster Cult, Zappa, The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Molly Hatchet (nearly deafened me), Atlanta Rhythm Section, B52s, Joan Jett, James William Buffett several times (can you believe that fugger is literally a billionaire?), Supertramp . . . and a bunch of less well known acts like The Fixx, The Dixie Dregs, Flock of Seagulls, and Mother's Finest (they were tiiiiiiiiiight!) . I'm sure I missed some. With my daughter, some more recent acts like Fall Out Boy (twice), Weezer, Paramore and Twenty One Pilots. Not many jazz performers that anyone would have ever heard of, except maybe Yellowjackets, and Jaco Pastorius (RIP) an s-ton of times. Fun times!


PS - I KNOW I saw someone at the Hollywood Bowl once, with my future wife, but damned if I can remember who. I'm thinking there are a few others like that. LOL.

PPS - Aaaaahh! It was Tom Petty. Who I saw another time a few years earlier in St. Petersburg, FL., which I **also** forgot about. Which just reminded me that I also saw in Florida The Moody Blues, Journey (with Randy Jackson on bass) and . . . Van Halen - how the hell did I forget Van Halen??? They say that memory is the second thing to go . . . and I can't remember the first.
 
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