Originally Posted by indyfabz (Post 22580327)

I’ve never been to the opera in my life. I got the final Jeopardy! question after seeing only the category, which was Opera. Lost count of how many times I’ve done that. At least a half dozen. The answer was:

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 22579739)

Biodefense is now a conspiracy to enrich Tony Fauci and Big Pharma, manipulate people's DNA, inject microchips and enslave the population!

Every company with a countermeasure thinks their thing is gonna happen before Xmas and they can't all be right. In my time downtown I sat through lots commercial presentations and fielded inquiries from congresspeople who had been convinced by their entrepreneurial constituents that this or that was a huge lacuna in the national defense.

Bot is a high consequence, but vanishingly low probability, scenario. No need for a bad guy to invest millions of dollars in a dicey R & D program that would be beyond the capabilities of anyone but a fully industrialized state with a substantial research base. An efficient attack with an off-the-shelf nerve agent on a civilian population could produce thousands of critically ill casualties and occupy every vent in a large city plus the entire capacity of the Strategic National Stockpile if there were even a way to get it there in time. And even that's a very low probability event. I can't share what the high probability stuff is (or rather was), beyond blowing **** up and shooting people, but it's pretty mundane and not what most people think.

Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 22580246)

Hot off the presses, shot this guy yesterday.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...57c61a29d4.jpg

Originally Posted by Bah Humbug (Post 22580334)

Every company in every industry thinks their product will be out by Christmas.

However, you are the first person I have ever seen - including books I have read - using "lacuna" in any manner other than the technical aspect in the examination of ancient documents, even though I of course know the (slightly more) colloquial definition as well.

Originally Posted by Bah Humbug (Post 22580331)

Done it a few times, but not as many as you. Nice.

Originally Posted by indyfabz (Post 22580400)

First time was in the late 90s. The category was Textbooks. In hindsight, that was an easy one. How many notable textbooks are there?

Originally Posted by Bah Humbug (Post 22580425)

Grey's Anatomy?

Originally Posted by seedsbelize2 (Post 22580273)

Zebra? Or tiger?

Originally Posted by big john (Post 22580326)

The president of one of the clubs I ride with raises butterflies. Here is one of her babies.
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...kw&oe=62DCA5FC

Originally Posted by indyfabz (Post 22580327)

I’ve never been to the opera in my life. I got the final Jeopardy! question after seeing only the category, which was Opera. Lost count of how many times I’ve done that. At least a half dozen. The answer was:


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...1d09e2e7f.jpeg

Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 22580470)

Tigers are yellow, zebras are white.

Originally Posted by Bah Humbug (Post 22580334)

Every company in every industry thinks their product will be out by Christmas.

However, you are the first person I have ever seen - including books I have read - using "lacuna" in any manner other than the technical aspect in the examination of ancient documents, even though I of course know the (slightly more) colloquial definition as well.

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 22580735)

Didn’t think it was that exotic. In neurology, we have “lacunar” infarcts and, of course, we use “lagoon,” “lake,” and “lack.”

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 22580765)

Getting ready for the weekly Wednesday ride. It looks to be a hot and humid affair.

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 22579875)

Is that the electric wench talking??

Originally Posted by Mojo31 (Post 22580815)

Oh my.

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Originally Posted by big john (Post 22580244)

I used to always say the climbing rides were easier than the fast rides because when climbing all day I would just settle in to my pace and the faster people would wait anyway. On the faster rides with less climbing I would be at redline the whole time trying to limit losses and not get totally dropped.

Originally Posted by big john (Post 22580236)

I used to feel that way. Not that anything less was too easy, that can be remedied by chasing fast people. But I always enjoyed those long climbing rides. There is a route we did quite often in the summer which was 80 miles and about 8K feet. Traffic was light or non existent when the road was gated and most of the route is above 5000 foot elevation. Those were the days.