Totally random thread

[Overlander]

Dumb or maybe not so dumb question time.
I buy tickets for a lot of events through brokers and "secondary" markets. Meaning StubHub, Ticketmaster "re-sell", Seat Geek, etc.
Sporting events, concerts, etc.
Often I purchase a ticket not knowing if I will receive it within a few minutes, a few days, a few weeks, or the day of the event.

1. What possible benefit/s is there for the seller (person who is selling the ticket) and the intermediary (ticket "broker") to not transfer the ticket in a quick manner?
2. Let's say I pay $500 for a ticket. The "broker" gets a "commission". The higher the price of the ticket, the more money the "broker" receives. If the market goes up and I want to resell a ticket I have paid for but have not yet received, I can't sell the ticket, and therefore, the "broker" receives no "commission" from my reselling the ticket. Seems like a bad thing for them.
Am I wrong to feel that it's bullshit (wrong? stupid?) that the broker won't allow me to sell the ticket (THAT I PAID FOR AND THAT THEY OWE ME "DELIVERY" FOR) on their website?
3. I have very mixed feelings but I primarily feel that people shouldn't be allowed to resell tickets for a profit. Do you agree or disagree?

I am of the opinion that if someone makes the initial investment, and has an opportunity to mark up and resell, then they most definitely should.

If another party is involved in the transaction, they too should get their bit as well.

[BiggDick]

so there's this random car parked right in front of my house that's been there for like 2 weeks now. It's in a spot no one else ever really parks, and I honestly wouldn't care, except it's kinda blocking my driveway too.

I've been devising theories:

- some neighbor who legit just needed somewhere to park (even tho it's otherwise not near their house)
- someone who got pulled over and taken to jail and their car just got left there
- surveillance - fed/state/local law enforcement peeping on me?
- aliens

[BiggDick]

just in case it is surveillance BRB gonna go moon it

[DeletedUser]

so there's this random car parked right in front of my house that's been there for like 2 weeks now. It's in a spot no one else ever really parks, and I honestly wouldn't care, except it's kinda blocking my driveway too.

I've been devising theories:

- some neighbor who legit just needed somewhere to park (even tho it's otherwise not near their house)
- someone who got pulled over and taken to jail and their car just got left there
- surveillance - fed/state/local law enforcement peeping on me?
- aliens

If it's blocking your driveway call and have it towed.

[KUTradition]

#adultingishard

[BiggDick]

update!

As soon as I posted this, a second car appeared parked right behind the first one for the last couple days.

We got some fresh snow overnight. Just noticed the second car is gone, but rather than stick to the sidewalks and streets like a normal non-trespassing citizen, there's also a fresh pair of footsteps in the snow that cuts diagonally across my property to the car.

I think we know what the most adulting solution to this issue shall be...


...me sitting on my porch drinking peebers and until I get to scream GET OFF MY LAWN!

[BiggDick]

oh, but the first car is still there, now with a low/almost flat tire, cuz it's been sitting and maybe cuz it got cold too.

It's covered in snow, and plowed in now too.

I'd call to have it towed, but it's not quite blocking my driveway enough to justify it, I feel like getting a totally random car towed is kind of a doosh move anyway, plus wouldn't it be more fun to just see how this plays out on its own?!

Again, to go for the most adulting response possible, I think it's only appropriate to draw a BiggDick in the snow on the windshield.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Went to visit this exhibit. After checking out the solstice thread it made me think maybe I should post about it (the exhibit) on here.

[japhy]

Went to visit this exhibit. After checking out the solstice thread it made me think maybe I should post about it (the exhibit) on here.

Aaaand, what were your thoughts while immersed in it?

I am not that educated with regards to Eliasson's work. The impact/perception when inside these things is much different than watching a video.

I immediately think of the difference between the video on my phone inside Nick Cave's "Hy-Dyve" when installed here in KC and the emotional wave that hit when I first walked into that piece. I have seen images of Doug Aitken's big reflective balloons and was uninspired. But then I got to see it up close and in person in Bentonville and it was fuckin mesmerizing. You could see the rays of light from a half mile away and we walked through an Ozark holler to where it was sitting. It was a giant alien object that was dropped in the woods with no context.

Did you visit the Broad as well? I love that place. My first up close up view of a large Mark Bradford painting was at the Broad.

I'm planning on heading to LA when my friend has his installation open up at the LACMA. The last I heard it would be in the 4th Q of 2025.

[japhy]

Jazz Kissas or Jazz Kissaten, anyone been to one? What did you think?

They are bigger on the West Coast than the midwest it seems.

They opened one in KC last summer. I have been waiting for my daughter to visit so I can go with her. The place in KC is called XO and is on 17th Street just west of I-35. The concept is simple. XO is based upon a place in Denver that the same group operates. My daughter consulted with them briefly on acoustics in Denver but never got to see the project through to completion.

Long term my thought is to expand the offerings at The Spud Lounge in the Empire to included a once monthly Jazz Kissas event. I will do a couple of test of concept events this Spring/Summer. One will be in conjunction with Solstice tentatively.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Went to visit this exhibit. After checking out the solstice thread it made me think maybe I should post about it (the exhibit) on here.

Aaaand, what were your thoughts while immersed in it?

I am not that educated with regards to Eliasson's work. The impact/perception when inside these things is much different than watching a video.

I immediately think of the difference between the video on my phone inside Nick Cave's "Hy-Dyve" when installed here in KC and the emotional wave that hit when I first walked into that piece. I have seen images of Doug Aitken's big reflective balloons and was uninspired. But then I got to see it up close and in person in Bentonville and it was fuckin mesmerizing. You could see the rays of light from a half mile away and we walked through an Ozark holler to where it was sitting. It was a giant alien object that was dropped in the woods with no context.

Did you visit the Broad as well? I love that place. My first up close up view of a large Mark Bradford painting was at the Broad.

I'm planning on heading to LA when my friend has his installation open up at the LACMA. The last I heard it would be in the 4th Q of 2025.

Without giving it too much philosophical thought, I felt it was more than interesting. I wish I had watched the video before I went. I would have looked and thought of it differently. I did like "interacting" with and feeling I was a part of the installation and exhibit.

Yes, like your experece with Nick Cave's work, it was/is vastly different between what I can share from the photos and videos I took and what I actually experienced.

I am a fan of Doug Aitken. We had a couple of his works in our office.

I did not go to The Broad this time.
I think I told you I helped host an event in my office for Mark Bradford. Super nice and interesting guy.

Let me know when your friend's exhibit is on display at LACMA. Perhaps I will have an opportunity to see it.

[TDub]

there are no foxes or beavers in Florida?? why? doesnt make sense to me.

[KUTradition]

there used to be beaver in florida, but…people

apparently they’re making a comeback

https://www.news-press.com/story/entert ... nd%20lakes.

i’m also seeing both gray and red foxes in the state

am i missing something, or were you teeing up for a joke?

[TDub]

there used to be beaver in florida, but…people

apparently they’re making a comeback

https://www.news-press.com/story/entert ... nd%20lakes.

i’m also seeing both gray and red foxes in the state

am i missing something, or were you teeing up for a joke?

no jokes...I just read it yesterday when I was reading a book about tracks and tracking and i found it odd. Wasn't sure if I should believe it or not....

[japhy]

no jokes...I just read it yesterday when I was reading a book about tracks and tracking and i found it odd. Wasn't sure if I should believe it or not....

As I recall, in the 1920's there were only about 400 white tailed deer in the entire State of Missouri. Most of them were in relatively uninhabitable by modern humans areas in southern MO. Deforestation, commercial hunting, a number of things and the net result is deer were on the verge of extinction here. Seems hard to believe now when I have a regular family of 6 living in my backyard within earshot of I-29 and a view of downtown KCMO. Like a lot of things, we take for granted progress that has been made in the last 100 years. "Progress" is not a dirty word.

[BiggDick]

"Progress" is not a dirty word.

[BiggDick]

also, I just gave "Florida beaver" a quick google...sounds like they do well in the panhandle and northern areas of the state, where there's more trees, since that's their thing.

Lack of beaver in the southern parts may be not enough trees or not the right trees, to support their diet and/or dam building. There also may be some pathogen they're vulnerable to in the warmer parts of the state where temperate becomes more tropical, or possibly being infected from parasites from invasive capybara or something.

There's also the gator issue, as an opportunistic aquatic predator could prob put a dent in a large slow aquatic rodent population pretty quick.

Plus, if there were beavers in the southernmost parts of the state, they'd prob be vulnerable to other invasive predators such as pythons too.

It's prob mostly human-related either way.

I also googled "Florida fox," and this wildlife commission website says they're not native but are naturalized to most of the state...at least the red fox.

TIL red foxes are said to stick to upland meadows and weedy pastures, and apparently they avoid heavily wooded areas, even tho I've seen them all over the woods, and apparently unlike a gray fox, which is all about the woods, and is one of the few members of the dog family that is capable of climbing trees.

https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/prof ... /gray-fox/

[Shirley]

japhy taught me this trick:

(And, it's a pretty accurate likeness of you.)

[Shirley]

there used to be beaver in florida, but…people

apparently they’re making a comeback

https://www.news-press.com/story/entert ... nd%20lakes.

i’m also seeing both gray and red foxes in the state

am i missing something, or were you teeing up for a joke?

^^^

I had the same reaction, even scrolled back to see if I could gather a context.

But then, as I started to Google it to answer, I wondered to myself, who does he think he is, DC?

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Perfect example of how something might be/can be (and is?) horrendous and fantastic at the same time.....
I had bacon, onion, and garlic, pizza last night. I ate the leftovers this morning. I just farted.
I can't decide if the odor is vile or exquisite.