danielmcdonald

@phwolfe940 Mighty rivers change course. Mountain ranges rise and settle. Deserts swell and icebergs shrink. Over the course of not decades or centuries. Over millennia. Human life will likely pass. If we keep treating the Earth like this it will happen sooner. Not a bang, just a whimper.

@Notalwayswrite Par for the course. Is she running? Seriously.

So creepy. Your new president.

@MbarkCherguia Eddie Money

Who is this? Wrong answers only.

@rageinggranny @RossKneeDeep A regular feature on the Rocky and Bullwinkle series. Bring back the “Wayback Machine”.

@RossKneeDeep Mr,Peabody & Sherman.

This for our cartoon mavens and afficionados. Who is this dynamic duo?

@rageinggranny @theliamnissan Was working with computers and was interested but didn’t sign on much till I retired and moved to the EU. Really started using it when I returned to US and had too much time on my hands.

@theliamnissan Was tired of the bullshit on FB and other social media,plus the lack of interaction,so came here been here for years and still no one interacts with me much ,unless trying to sell me crypto or call me stupid

Why did you start your Twitter account?

@AlbertBrooks Progress not perfection.

Defending Your Life was released 35 years ago today!! I think I've conquered at least half of my fears.

@GenTXer2 Correct. Saw them as an opening act, for the Doobie Brothers, then Loggins & Messina. Didn’t know very much about them except a couple of singles that were getting airplay

Put on your thinking cap 🧢 Which band or artist has the most INTELLIGENT lyrics? 🧠🤔 I'll start...

@MbarkCherguia Ridiculous

What do you call this? 😏

@honeymoon250 Runaway vehicle safe exit. Stop without brakes or engine power. Bet it is bear to get out of, but better off than wrecked and likely dead.

What is this for? Correct answer deserves $600

@oelma__ Waste of time

Three words..

@TracesofTexas Buy around 27 ounces of gold, that $1000 would be worth more than $150,000.

Y'all, a personal aside. There was a death a couple of weeks ago and --- for the first time in my life --- last Saturday I was a pallbearer at a funeral. The deceased, Pansy, was related to me by marriage. Friday, the day before Pansy's funeral, I noticed that a wisteria that Pansy planted many years ago was really budding out and looked like it was about to bloom. The next morning, the day of her funeral, I went out and checked it again and it had bloomed --- spectacularly. And while normally I'm not one to engage in metaphysical speculation, I wondered if Pansy might have had something to do with that --- the wisteria she planted blooming on the day of her funeral. Wisterias seem to make good bird habitat and there were little wrens flitting about in the branches and chittering at one another. It was really lovely. Just now I went out and took this video. As you can see the blossoms are still there and they are covered with bees and a few butterflies and I can't help but think that, somewhere, Pansy is smiling.

@TracesofTexas Sorry for your loss. May his memory be a blessing.

@Mr_Husky1 Great story thanks. NASA hates those stories, they want to minimize the enormous risks that they face, so none thinks it’s a risky bet. But they still have The Right Stuff. Those in the air and on the ground.

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour. He had been up there for over a day. Then the warnings started. First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home. Without it, reentry was nearly impossible. Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead. Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing. Cooper didn't panic. He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch. Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer. At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program. The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had. We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does. But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next. The final backup was never the software. It was him.

@rumpfshaker I had one that would print In that state but you had three or four prompts informing, offering to sell you ink, are you sure? And that got annoying so I got a new one sooner than needed. Gave the old one away.

may whoever is responsible for printers refusing to print in B&W when one of the color cartridges is out never get a good night's rest ever again this printer was a free hand me down but next time I buy one it's going to be B&W only laser printer, as low tech as possible. 🤬

@simongerman600 Effingham VT. Only exists in the punchline of a joke.

This map displays the most lewd-sounding town name in each US State. Essentially a mini #badgeographyjoke for each state.

@miles_commodore It changed product packaging since. Drugs and food first, but now most things consumable have tamper resistant packaging.

In 1982 Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide killed 7 people in Chicago. Do you remember that?

@Amelia558rs Nuts

what is the first word that comes to your mind?

@greenfield64 Agreed. Every year. So much better than Spring Training games.

A great gift to baseball fans...could we do it every year? (robot ball and strike umps would have made the even perfect

@Notalwayswrite Hopes it is 'one to watch'. It's time for him to go.

What he’s been doing is grifting and helping Israel, not South Carolina.

@MJMcKean The fences and enclosures are their to protect the animals.

A tale as old as time.

@dog_rates And he promises that you won't regret it. "you'll see" just get my leash"

This is Goose. He wants to know where you're going. If it's not too late, he'd like to suggest the park. 12/10