curbcrusher

Everytime he tries to do a Texas accent I appreciate him a hell of a lot less.

I think she stayed because she had planned to spend the day with him for orientation. The distance can't be too far. Dr. Sturgis doesn't drive, and he rode his bike regularly to visit MeeMaw. I think we have to assume that he rode his bike from where he lived to work at the school too. So the drive from Sheldon's house to the school can't be too far.

I won't quote the whole thing, but I think there are too many rules. I think an approach to "fix" TAR requires creating a race that is as simple as possible, but discourages all of the things that viewers dislike (helping each other, alliances, etc). First, my ideal would be a straight forward race. Phil sends everyone off in LA, and they head east (or west) following clues like a scavanger hunt, and the first team back to LA with all the pieces wins. Each team gets a a budget and a clue. They would do things in each country that are historically or culturally relevant, and have to stay within budget for airfare, hotels, attraction tickets, etc. So for example a clue might while in the Pacific rim might say "Go attend a concert at the venue that looks like it just sailed into this beautiful natural harbor" and they'd have to figure out they need a ticket to Sydney, and then once there go see something at The Opera House. That's unlikely, so we have a show that needs to move people around the world, doing mundane task like shaking your booty in a shipping container in Berlin, or rappelling down a wall while looking for letters. How do you fix that? I think you have to change the race to a stage race, like the Tour de France (of which Phil is a big fan). Everyone starts as the same time each day, and your "place" is determined by when you finish, and "score" is kept by how far behind you are in minutes. 1) This would probably help production with budget, since they could bulk buy tickets move people between countries. In addition, it might help with setting up tasks, since the groups would be more closely bunched when they arrived to perform. 2) I think a team would be much less likely to share when they know that the even though they are at this task together, they are x minutes behind the other team and likely to fall further behind if they share the answer. 3) Since teams would all start at the same time for each leg, it might get u-turns more evenly distributed. Although I like the idea that some have suggested of rolling dice or spinning roulette wheel with pictures on it to determine who gets u-turned. 4) An adjustment, or issue that will need to be dealt with is who gets eliminated. If we say the team with the slowest overall time to a pit stop is eliminated, then it's possible that the team that wins the leg is also the team that is eliminated. I've thought about this and don't think I have a problem with it, because the leg winners are the winners of the "stage" of the race. There could even be some drama added to the show/race by having additional task that they could execute to catch up. For example Phil could say "Hey blondes, you arrived first and if you choose to check in now you win this Stage of the race and the prize. But, you are four hours behind the leading team, if you choose not to check in now, there is a "very special task" that you can go do and if you complete it and get back before the last team checks in you will gain two hours on the lead team. " If they do the task and complete it, they get the time benefit, if they don't choose the task, then Phil ask them to wait until all teams have checked in to see if they are the eliminated team. 5) Another issue with this is that the last leg , the final 3 could just be a coronation of the winner, much like the last stage of the real Tour. To prevent that everyone knows up front that the first 8/9 stages are to determine the final 3, and the last leg all three teams are running head to head after starting at the same time. Just some thoughts.

If the show is going to spoon feed flights, I wonder if the fix is to change so that Pit Stops include travel. For example, currently the sequence is: Leg ends in country A Pit Stop Occurs in Country A Teams released in time order in Country A Teams all go to airport and get on same flight. That would be replaced with: Leg ends in county A Everyone gets a First Class, lay flat seat trip to Country B Teams clear customs and check into hotel/hostel/campsite. Teams are released in time order in Country B . For legs that don't involve flights, things could stay the way they are. To provide equalizers along the way they could still use HOO bunching.

Agree wholeheartedly with this. If you're racing around the world, part of the skill that you should need to exhibit to win is the ability to manage your travel. But I understand: 1) the cost of everyone booking last minute flights is a budget buster, and 2) the fact that the airline industry has changed drastically since the show first aired, and via airline consolidation and consolidation via code share agreements and such, there is just not the variety of flights that there used to be. So if we are going to have the Amazing Shuttle, then there needs to be some changes to how people are tracked, released from airports or other issues so that there is some competitive element other than who can get in line first.

But this wasn't "stupid amounts of food" it was three friggin beigents each. Unless you're allergic to good food, that's like half a single serving each. 🙂

Today (or last night watching the show) I learned that DeAngelo was right, this race sucked.

In the Canyoneros race report, Part 6 The Ocean Leg ( https://adventure-coder.tumblr.com/post/626803601206034432/eco-challenge-fiji-2019-part-six-the-race) Nate recounts that their boat broke on the way back to the main island in that early leg. They thought the race was over, but the race organizers told them that since the boat was at fault, they could be towed/transported back to the closest land and fix the boat and continue. So there was no rigging of the race, but it seems clear that if the problem is with race provided equipment, the race organizers tried to make things right. Another team Georgia AR has announced an adventure race for March of next year (https://www.argeorgia.com/care) that will have a 4 hour option for people that want to try adventure racing. They will also have a "Worlds Toughest Race Panel" as part of the weekend with the team that you saw on the show.

I found 2 race reports that I found interesting by teams that really weren't featured in the show: Bones Adventure Racing - https://bonesadventure.com/team-blog/2019/9/25/2019-eco-challenge-fiji and Team Canyoneros - https://adventure-coder.tumblr.com/post/626803944905211904/eco-challenge-fiji-2019-part-one-lets-begin-at#notes

Finally found the ticket I can support. 🙂

So Little Curbcrusher and I watched the Eurovision movie on Netflix the the other night. Without talking about the plot or story, there is a "my hometown" type of song presented, and all I could think of is "They ripped off the Andy Griffith Show." 🙂

When I was a kid in the 70s, my dad had a reel-to-reel tape recorder, with these 5 inch reels of audio tape. Most of them were albums that he had taped in the pre-Internet version of content sharing. One of the albums was an Andy Griffith comedy album. It contained most of the stories, Romeo and Juliet, the Shot Heard Round the World, and one of my favorites , "What is Was, Was Football."

They might not show up on the Orange County Property Appraisers page because they live in Lake County. The HOA park they visit in their YouTube videos is for a neighborhood in Cleremont.

I think it was clearer in the book. Each day they were flown from the compound to a different part of southern California. They worked the docs/pharmacies in that area that day and went back to the compound. I think the idea was with the population density and the number of G/A airports, they could work a different area each day, but only hit a particular area once or twice a month. Thus not calling a lot of attention to the fact that a clinic or pharmacy was filling a lot of scripts.

Ok, my pop culture IQ sucks. In the new series episode where they are considering selling the apartment and Ira finds the stinky cheese, who is the "celebrity" or who are they supposed to be? Thanks.

She actually said the guest "insist that I go" when they asked for Brooke and Ice.

Reading this and can't help but reply. 1) Private pilots can NOT accept any compensation for flying. A private pilot certificate in the US is just that. Even those that fly paitients to medical visits with Angel's Flight or some of the pet rescue trips can not accept money for their time, gas or equipment. The FAA is very particular about what constitutes an "airline" and if you take money for moving people or cargo from one place to another, they pretty much will apply airline rules to you. 2) The plane used in the episode had a tail number that showed it was owned by Duggar Aviation according to the FAA Registry lookup. I don't remember the tail number, but I looked it up during the episode. 3) Nathan is a Flight Instructor. This is a step that many pilots do on their way to getting an Airline Transport Pilot rating. Thats because the ATP requires a lot of hours, and hours are expensive (An hour in the plane shown in the episode would cost $60 - $120 depending on where you were in the country and the flight school). Just about everyone that doesn't use the military seems to use the Flight Instructor path to rack up hours. 4) About a decade ago I read a great story about missionary pilots in one of the aviation magazines. The article talked about pilots supporting various missionary groups in Central America and Africa. It sounded like an adventurous job and a lot of fun if you like flying at it's rawest level, not a lot of ATC, improved runways or regulation. The closest in the US is probably an Alaskan bush pilot. 5) Nathan may be a fundie and a pilot, the wings were earned. There's no fundy flight school that can give you a Private Pilots license in the US just because you both use "trespasses" instead of "debtors" in the Lord's Prayer.

Oddly enough I read this yesterday, and today while returning some items at Lowe's what do I see, a magazine on wood burning. The name was something like Pyrotechnia.

This is actually something I miss. These people are actors, and they take on roles. I miss the 60's, 70's shows when you'd would see the actors take on different roles. It seems like we've gotten to the point where once a person plays a roll, their stuck as that character, or they can't be replaced because the audience has merged the actor and the character. Buddy Epsen was a hobo in Mayberry before he found that Texas Tea and moved to Beverly.

I liked it, it was a quick read. In some ways it was a predictable story, but then I for the most part liked the way the author developed the story. After getting done, I'm not real sure I like the way it ended. It presents an interesting world with Russian Illegals being fairly prevalent. I did really like the slippery slope that was presented in how the American was compromised by the Illegal, and kept getting deeper.

The Library finally sent this my way. A fairly quick read, and if nothing else it shows the drip, drip, drip of deceit that turns into a torrent of "not having a choice."

I'm don't like Yale either (In the professional wrestling type fan approach I take to rooting for teams in the Amazing Race) , and I think that ring in her nose is a real poor fashion choice, but I think calling her a water buffalo is a bit much.

This looks almost identical to the statue that is in Mt.Airy

I would think that they (Bates and Duggar fly boys) would have to be working with one of the Volunteer Pilot Organizations that is helping out with Hurricane Maria relief. Just a couple of things about Volunteer Pilot Organizations and PR relief. This is a story about how Angel Flight Southeast is helping out. http://www.aero-news.net/subsite.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=32457270-077c-40c0-ae2b-4a31e16309d2 The Volunteer Pilots with their planes have moved cargo to PR, and brought people back that needed evacuating. In addition, some of the pilots and planes are staying in PR for a period of time and moving medical personnel and supplies around around the island. Also of interest is the GoFundMe to raise money for fuel. There are some really specific FAA regulations that prohibit Volunteer Pilots getting paid for their fuel, except in specific circumstances. This link from the Air Care Alliance http://www.aircarealliance.org/reimbursements-fuel-and-use-groups-aircraft , an industry organization for groups that offer charity flights. The part under the heading "Putting yourself and others at risk" explains why charity's can't just buy a plane and have a volunteer pilot fly it.

Kate's response to someone on Twitter saying pretty much the same thing.