Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Yep, on a hot spring day, you can almost see the spears grow.

To maintain a healthy asparagus crown, cut the spears just below ground level (that fools the crown into thinking it hasn't produced it and will produce more).

In the late summer, let the spears grow and "go to fern", that way the plant can replenish the crowns energy supply.

A healthy crown will only be commercially viable for 5-7 years.

There ya go .......

humfrz - agronomist (retired)

Yep. I planted 2 year roots and just let them fern for the first 2 years. For a few springs I had it coming out of my ears. My bed died I think from a couple errors. 1. I was way over my water allotment and paying a fortune for water and it got too dry. 2. My wife cut down the ferns too early in the fall. 3. I think I got a major grub attack.

It was real nice for a while.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Short answer is because asparagus contains mercaptan.

I immediately flashed to Good Will Hunting.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by JD001

I recently posted a 'tongue in check' message about snow in the UK.. I think it was a wee bit premature! The country has been hit by the mother of all snow storms, affectionately called 'Beast from the East'.


The BBC leading on the chaos caused by the snow. One snow footage showing the obligatory cars in hedges with a shot of a Honda S2000 in a hedge!! How rare are these cars and then find one stuck in a hedge because of the snow!

So what's the accumulation totals?

[JD001]

Originally Posted by Spuds

So what's the accumulation totals?

I think the lowest temperature recorded today was -11c and as for snow coverage, anything from a thin coating (few mill) to circa 40cm. Nothing like what you guys see but again enough to bring the country to a standstill and one poor S2000 owner!

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by JD001

I think the lowest temperature recorded today was -11c and as for snow coverage, anything from a thin coating (few mill) to circa 40cm. Nothing like what you guys see but again enough to bring the country to a standstill and one poor S2000 owner!

Lol that's 15 inches. That's enough to shut a lot of places down. We got 36 inches once in PA. It was called snowpocalypse or snowmageddon depending on who you asked.

[bcj]

On PistonHeads there's a huge thread about playing drift champions in all the carparks.

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by JD001

I think the lowest temperature recorded today was -11c and as for snow coverage, anything from a thin coating (few mill) to circa 40cm. Nothing like what you guys see but again enough to bring the country to a standstill and one poor S2000 owner!

40cm can be a real problem anywhere, if it comes over a short period of time!

We're feeling the Beast here in Norway, too. I've got -14°C right now and it's going to get colder over the next few days. Fortunately only light snow on top of the 1 meter we've already got so far this winter.
People here are complaining about sidewalks and bike lanes not being sufficiently cleared; other than that, it's life as usual. Just a little colder than normal.

[echo419]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Sounds like you should be promoted to "manager of new business development" .....


humfrz

don't get me started. I'm 100% confident I could make this place more efficient, profitable and a better place to work for everyone left after I fired half of them.

[BigFatFlip]

A little late to the party, just had to chime in. Just got out of an interview for a manager position. Don't think it's for me. The questions were all open ended and sounded like parenting questions: How would you deal with a difficult team member? How would you motivate somebody to get their tasks done? How do you handle two team members that are at odds with each other? Ugghhh...

I'm have an engineering background and I realize now that I'd rather be in the lab or in front of the computer on CAD lol

[finch1750]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Someone stole my cc info & used it to buy some movie tickets in NY & CA... hopefully movies were good.

Movie was good. Popcorn was a little stale. Asked for a refund for you at least

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by finch1750

Movie was good. Popcorn was a little stale. Asked for a refund for you at least

I gonna hunt you down...

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by BigFatFlip

A little late to the party, just had to chime in. Just got out of an interview for a manager position. Don't think it's for me. The questions were all open ended and sounded like parenting questions: How would you deal with a difficult team member? How would you motivate somebody to get their tasks done? How do you handle two team members that are at odds with each other?

That pretty much describes 80% of manager's job.

[JD001]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

I gonna hunt you down...

Has the making of a good 'B' movie.. 'Finch gets his fresh popcorn'.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Reminds me of the time that my three fellow agricultural research station "head personnel" were having a meeting at our research center in Mt View, CA.

One of the companies I worked for back in the Internet bubble decided to try and be "hip" to retain staff that was drifting off to startups so they did a job title revamp. At the time I managed some people but my primary job was technical, so rather than being a pure manager they decided my title should be "Fellow".

The HR team seemed a little put off when I asked what it took to get up to the next levels as I assumed the career progression was:

Fellow
Good Fellow
Jolly Good Fellow.

Really wanted that on my business card.