Ask Yerac

Does manual steering even really exist anymore? I remember what it felt like to turn the wheels of my parents' old Datsun when it was parked and it was.. tactile

I also had a smurf bike growing up.

I don't know? It was a 1978 flxible I remember. It sucked so bad when it was hot out and you had to turn from a stop. I sometimes had to stand on the brake to get enough leverage to push-pull the wheel.

Sports cars still use manual transmission

And of course most motorcycles

Yerac's talking about manual steering (i.e. not "power steering")

Oh read that as manual transmission not steering

This meeting is taking a toll on me

😴

hey yerac, how are you today

Blech. I had a very boring spinach, broccoli salad I brought for lunch today but I make it a point to bring boring salads to work so I will be forced to eat a lot of greens because I am too lazy to go look for lunch.

+ all the listless rage everyone feels nowadays.

Y,

Would you like a subbed version of TH:Closing Door (2005 film, post-BGND)?

Al

*2015

OF COURSE. I got stuck somewhere in the episode 20s range on the first season. I still need to make my way through. Maybe I should skip ahead a bit.

Check your email!

Woo hoo thx! Maybe I should save this to watch on the plane ride home (11 hours, blech).

Yeah it's like 130 mins... I should spoil that it dovetails seamlessly with the final episode of BGND (semi-spoiler I guess?)

yerac is so cool, warms my heart

I am pretty square (I will go off about random etiquette that people don't follow; so if you ever are a houseguest you must not arrive empty handed).

like drinks or what

If one is staying at someone's house, especially if it's in an expensive city, you must bring something. Fruit, plant, cookies, something from the town you are traveling from, omiyage.

Yerac, are you a punctual person?

Yeah, I get angsty if I am late. But it's probably from being a busdriver for 4 years and for my mom being late to everything.

Yerac, what do you think will happen in the US stock market during the rest of October?

What I want and what actually happens is different. I never would have thought the market would be this high right now. This won't be popular but I am dying for it to tank at least by 30% and for the rest of the year. Like, it keeps bouncing back regardless of what happens. The last time there was any semblance of maybe a real correction, it was right after brexit and before that Q1 2016 when all of the asian market circuit breakers kept tripping.

Thoughts on this:
https://www.eater.com/2018/10/11/17963784/master-sommelier-examination-scandal-explained

I mean, I kind of like the drama. There is a lot of popcorn eating and floundering right now. The people who have to retake the exam, are understandably upset. I haven't ever devoted my life to something that intensely so I can't really relate, but there are annoying logistics that I get. Like people don't know whether to amend their title for gigs they have already accepted and are being paid Master Somm salaries for. And a lot of people seem to have shot their (and friends') wine wad celebrating

I don't know the guy that supposedly gave an assist on what the blind flight was going to be, thank goodness, but he is in the Somm movies.

Yerac where are some places you have been where you have been unable to get ice (for your coffee or otherwise)?

In my lifetime, it has been a lot.

Even in London it was hard to get ice for coffee at one point. I sometimes just carry the hot coffee around until it cools off and then if someone has a beverage that comes with ice, I do a little bit of business to get their ice.

or if it's cold in a place I will put the coffee outside on the window sill of a hotel room (that does not have ice) and drink it in the morning.

A hotel without ice is an awful prospect, what are you supposed to do when you get the hotel if not go get ice?

What's your favorite Honor Role song/album?

aw <3 RVAHC

I don't really like the Honor Role and I was just trying to figure out if I definitively like any Richmond bands! Maybe the Rah Bras and maybe only in passing. There are some bands that it would seem like I should like but I just really don't. I like Randy Newman so I would suspect I would like the Hold Steady. Nope.

I don't know why in movies people check into a hotel and go and get ice. I don't know what they are icing at night!?! I stay in mostly basic to middling hotels if not an apartment somewhere. As long as I don't get bed bugs I am happy.

Maaaaybe ice in hotels is a hold over from when ppl carried their food in coolers w them?? Which my family did for a hundred years to save money. And I guess before hotel rooms had mini-fridges although you can't fit a whole cooler worth of food in there anyway.

holy shit. i am about to go in a googling rabbit hole.

Oh, this wasn't as complex as I thought it might be. It's an American hotel>>>Holiday Inn franchising thing. Which makes sense why hotels outside of the US don't have ice machines and Clark Griswolds on every floor getting ice.

lol

Honor Role is a musical blindspot for me (despite friends of 25+ years saying they're the greatest!?!?!) so I was asking to dig deeper but I guess I will pass.

yeah, people were always talking about them but nothing ever struck me. I am like that with almost all of Drag City, except maybe Smog and a couple of Palace songs. I tried hard but nothing ever really appealed to me.

I go get ice when I get to the hotel so I can put ice in my water basically

I thought the ice was to cool the booze they bought to prepare for their seedy hotel tryst.

Ice for cocktails

as I'm scottish and i often stay in hotels that are too shitty to have a fridge in the room i enjoy chilling some beverages in an ice filled bathroom sink

oh sorry to be clear the scottishness both accounts for the shittiness of the hotel room (cheapness) and the need to have alcohol at all times while on a trip (cultural alcoholism)

My luck with ice filled bathroom sinks is not good. They always drain down.

I realize i have only had one seedy h(m)otel tryste in my life. I like hotels in general so I am pro those things. xpost

I just got my winekey taken away rom the madrid airport and then promptly broke a super shitty plastic winekey in the apt I am staying so I get the need to BYOB(opener) to accommodations.

Ugggggh I have broken several shitty plastic corkscrews purchased in wine stores while traveling. It's an eternal dilemma. In Lisbon this spring our Air bnb didn't HAVE a corkscrew so I had to take a bottle of wine downstairs to a restaurant where we had eaten before and ask them. They were lovely, natch. But still.

wow, normally a big plus of AirBnBs is that they have corkscrews, hotel rooms never seem to

Yerac why is the stock market going up again

Donald J Trump's stewardship of the nation ofc