I work in cybersecurity and I got a recruiting message from a BNYM recruiter on LinkedIn. I responded by sending her the link on BNYM layoffs with a quote of the "early-in-career-talent" thing.

TBNT, bitch

Awesome. My favorite part of the summer is Anthrocon. I love to walk the streets downtown and take pictures of as many of the attendees as possible.

I try to just be friendly "Hey, you look really great! Would you mind if I take a picture?" The folks I ask always say yes. So fun!

These are some of my favorite pics:

https://imgur.com/a/pbKNeOT

I love the thought process behind this sign.

If someone is in a headspace or life circumstance where they are considering finding a place to poo outside, does the sign poster think they're going to see this and think "Well, damn! I guess this isn't the place. I'll just move along to a place without a sign."

When I worked with Bill, his personal goal on busy nights was to make servers cry. He awarded bonus points to House Asshole if the server was a male.

I have never been much of a person who yells at work. With Bill Fuller, I motherfucked that guy at the top of my lungs more times than I could count. He would scream at the servers, and then I would motherfuck him to stop. You can't whip people on the kitchen and then expect them to delight guests 2 seconds later in the dining room.

That was a crime. Line cooks made 12 an hour plus in downtown hotels in the late 90s.

Source: me, managed downtown hotel restaurants in the late 90s

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At BB: I had a guy as a host who was pretty great at juggling tables and handling reservations.

Tom/Juno had a meeting with me one day about him. "We don't like how that guy looks on the door. Fire that guy and get a really hot chick!"

I didn't fire him, I sold him on another job.

I hired a woman who was super hot, who also had a part time job as a stripper. I'm not shaming her for stripping, that was just another job she had. She thought I didn't know she also stripped. I knew. She made one part of my job much easier because she was hot.

I liked her as a person and a co-worker. However her spoken values and taste in men did not match. I knew them both before they were married.

I was the second GM of Casbah after BB. That should narrow it down

That has been a continuing story with BB forever.

Tom just adjusts lights turns lights down, complains about food and music choices, and makes decor decisions these days

FTFY

At one place, there were 2 music choices he didn't hate: Gypsy Kings and Al Green. He would complain about any other music being played

Can confirm. Source: me, person who worked closely with him

Also a tool: his social justice warrior wife who watches him act like a dick and then pretends to give a shit about people

Tom Baron is still there, wtf are you talking about?

The software that runs the machines and the mechanism for writing stuff to the parking cards and the Connect cards are all different

Because the switchblade distinction was arbitrary and ridiculous. There are a ton of folding knives made today that one can open with just a flick of a thumb or finger. Those knives open every bit as quickly as any automatic knife, and yet were not illegal.

The old law also made no distinction for knives that were clearly used for legitimate purposes. My mother was a career HS teacher who travelled to Italy a few times. On one of her trips she brought home a switchblade; the blade was an inch and a half long. Mom kept it in her purse and used it to cut the fruit she brought for her lunch. Should she have been charged? That's ridiculous

My mother was not going to throw down a la the Sharks and the Jets with other teachers in the parking lot.

There are a couple of nice gravity knives, but I'd want to be sure. I wouldn't want some random shit to happen and then I catch a felony, you know?

Soooo are gravity knives legal now too?

Gravity knives being illegal is every bit as dumb as automatic knives being so

The only testing for rabies requires brain matter, and wouldn't be good for your kitty. Might be worth having the bat tested, but I'd leave that up to your vet. If you haven't tossed the bat carcass, might want to save it.

I'll echo another response about not being too worried if cat's shots are up to date.

IMO (and I'm a softy for animals) I don't think this is worth the big money that a trip to one of the emergency vets would cost you. They'll definitely order tests, but it's going to cost you a fair chunk of change, and you probably won't get same day results anyway.

Clemmons talks about both the gay bar thing, and about realizing what "I love you just the way you are" meant in the documentary "Won't You Be My Neighbor". The whole movie is worth watching, but man, someone was cutting onions in the theater during the segment Clemmons was talking.

> it stands to reason the speeds of vehicles on that stretch is faster than the 30mph average observed for Braddock Avenue.

No, it doesn't. If you're inbound on Fern Hollow you're either coming from South Braddock, having made a turn or you've passed through, you know, a traffic control device that slows cars as part of its function due to merging traffic patterns. If you're outbound, you're again passing through a traffic light from a wider road to a single-lane road that has cars parked along its length nearly all of its length most of the time.

South Braddock is long and straight with relatively few traffic devices along its length. Fern Hollow either starts or ends with a traffic light, depending on direction. Not the same, your assumptions are shit.

>free to go through PennDOT’s GIS

You did, and what you got is a bullshit comparison of two non-comparable stretches of road.

Monkey-see, monkey-do is not part of my schtick.

> Well given the fact that traffic has successfully diverted around the bridge for a year with really no huge increases in traffic, it would suggest that the lanes aren’t necessarily necessary.

Kindly link to the statistically valid survey of residents of that area that leads you to that conclusion

> And a traffic bottleneck isn’t necessarily being caused by the lanes of the bridge, it is the intersection just past it on the Point Breeze side that limits flow, and causes traffic to cue on the bridge.

It's "Queue", not "cue". Cues are read from cards, people wait in queues.

Having lived in this area, added lanes definitely help as you're not forcing all vehicles into a single lane to wait their turn to either access S Braddock going either direction or go straight through. Your proposal would back traffic into Squirrel Hill.

As for that stretch of roadway being treated like a highway: you're either ignorant, obtuse, or you've never lived in that area. It's not Fernhollow Bridge that's taken at high speed, it's the long straight bit of road between South Dallas and South Braddock. Restricting the bridge lane traffic would do jack shit to help with that.

The traffic lights at South Braddock restrict the practically non-existent speeding on the bridge. If you weren't completely full of shit and actually cared about speeding and safety on that stretch of road you'd be talking about traffic control between South Dallas and South Braddock.

The bridge is not the issue, it's the long stretch of read with no traffic enforcement and no traffic control.

Again, why make it so easy? You're taking positions that anyone who has lived in that area will know to be bullshit. Bike lanes are good for cities overall. The Fernhollow/South Braddock intersection is a place where a bike lane would only fuck things up more.

No, they very much won't. During non-peak times, restricting car traffic on Fern Hollow to single lanes for bikes would be no big deal. During peak times, that would make an already very well-trafficked intersection more of a clusterfuck than necessary.

It's been a minute since I lived less than 2 blocks from that bridge (well okay, 10 years). I lived in that neighborhood for 15+ years.

Only someone who doesn't live in the vicinity of that bridge would ask "do we really need four lanes" for that bridge. That bridge has been a gigantic bottleneck for that area as long as I've been familiar with it. Bikes can easily share lanes with cars there, as traffic is slow. Further, even if Fern Hollow Bridge had dedicated bike lanes in and out bound, no one is going to mass demolish houses along single lane each way South Braddock Ave to fulfill your bike dreams.

I get the anti-bike lane, anti-bicycle sentiment that often manifests in this subreddit. I'm not part of that. I'm pro-bike, pro-bike lane where bike lanes make sense. Removing car lanes for bike lanes for Fern Hollow would have made things worse for everyone who actually lives there.

You're not doing bike culture any favors with dumb posts like this.

I'm a former East end guy now living in the South Hills. North and East of the city are no go zones, as the roads are so annoying

While we're on the subject: fuck Texas access roads

Because many (certainly not all) people in this city view zipper merging at a 2 lane end as an affront to their family's honor. Driving as quickly as traffic will allow and then taking turnsies at the merge end is scientifically proven to be faster/safer for everyone.