Cool in Houston, getting warmer later. It was very nice at the BOL. It was reasonably nice in Houston. It’s getting to be that time of year, like Spring, when it is very nice to live here. Pity that the good weather is so short lived.
Mostly spent yesterday on nothing much. Spent a couple hours chatting with my neighbor. That was a lot of fun. I’m learning alot about the history of the area and the lake. Then I spent the afternoon locking up and driving home.
So not a productive day in the traditional sense.
Today I’m hoping to do some tax stuff, some ebay stuff, and some auction stuff. First I have to get the kids out the door. And I have to take a load of trash to my secondary location and dispose of it. Lots of neglected things around the house here, and things to get together to take up to the BOL.
I’ll get to some of it.
And maybe I’ll get some stuff added to the stacks. You should too.
nick
73F and saturated in Houston this morning.
Seems that either the re-located possum has returned, or there is yet another messing up my garage…
Don’t know how this one got in. Since we’ve been away, the door has been closed.
I guess I’d better get the trap cleaned and reset.
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@Lynn
Prediction of existence far predates 1980. The theoretical basis was Dirac’s work in the 1930’s, and there was a false “sighting” in the mid 1970’s. Actual search experiments came later.
One of the weird things about the online auctions is that it’s easier to notice strange coincidences.
Items tend to run in waves, for want of a better word.
I can go months or even years without seeing a particular thing, across hundreds of estates, and then 3 estates will have that thing in the same week.
Right now, I’m seeing a ton of vintage tobacco smoking pipes. Most don’t have huge value, $30-40 but some are $100s. I hadn’t seen any pipes in a year, now they are in almost every estate.
One particular style of pottery is in three estates this week.
There was a run of straight razors for several weeks but none this week.
It used to happen in the ‘in person’ estate sales too. I’d go years without seeing a single Zero Halliburton case, then I’d see three different estates with them in the same week. Hartmann luggage does the same thing.
It’s just odd.
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Lots of WWII-era people are passing right now, whether they were Greatest Generation or teens during that time period. When I worked in the drug store, that’s who bought the tobacco smoking pipe materials.
The Physics building classrooms at my undergrad alma matter had permanently stained ceilings (probably still does) from grad students and undergrads in the 60s sitting in class smoking various forms of tobacco. According to one person I talked to who attended lectures there during that time period, pipes were the nicotine delivery system of choice among the Physics students.
Tough sell since almost no one uses a pipe except for weed these days. Maybe Old Bean when he’s going around with the chaps at the faculty lounge of the English Department, but’s going to strictly be for affectation … like the knockoff Harris tweed from S&K.
My wife came home from thrifting yesterday and told me that they’ve started selling some Amazon returns at one of our local stores. They expect one to two pallets a week on Thursdays. She came home with two pairs of new kids Vans sneakers for her grandson. $5 a pair. Guessing a size/fit return. Will have to stop by tomorrow.
@Greg, S&K?
Tyler Durden protecting too truthful reporting on the latest musings from Sister Isaac.
Or Frau Greta (insert horse whinny), depending on which film reference you prefer.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nuclear-power-goes-woke-greta-thunberg-admits-keeping-plants-online-better-option-coal
I’m guessing the byline is protecting someone toiling under the thumb of Bezos or the Sulzberg brood who is fed up with the child sending whole industries into the cornfield.
Frau Turdberg, in it’s PJs, being interviewed on Climate Ejaculation, is peak wokeism. I’m still laughing at the “interviewer” getting the opinion of a kid in pajamas on Climate Ejaculation.
Almost as funny as plugs going stompy-foot on the Saudis cutting oil production. The guy single handedly destroyed our energy independence in a year, now wants every other country to drill and sell us oil.
Or the Pfizer CEO admitting the clot-shot was never tested for stopping transmission of COVID, one of plugs’ main selling points. GET YOUR FIFTH BOOSTER DIRT PEOPLE!
I recently had a two week long return processing experience at Amazon on an unopened graphics card.
What finally got my card credited was the threat to take the receipt from dropping the item at UPS and challenge the charge with Amex. Their tracking on the return at the web site showed that I never dropped it off at UPS.
Sooner or later, Amazon will have to become The Company Store brutal on the return policy or the losses from retail will no longer be a rounding error compared to the AWS Hot Skillz profits.
Americans return things, especially online impulse buys made from their phones while bored and sitting in a line/waiting room/etc. Unfortunately for Amazon, competition still exists, even in their original core market of books and music.
Trying to get some work done at Panera. It’s a thing I do since I get unlimited coffee here for a small subscription price and it’s good to get out of the house sometimes.
Normally, I only have to put up with excessive air conditioning (I bring a jacket) and whiny millennial music (Get off my lawn!).
Today it’s an African standing 2 booths away on speakerphone for over a half hour. And he’s speaking loudly into the phone. Annoying as all get out.
And although he is black and rude, African is not a slur or euphemism; the conversation is in one of those unknown to me but definitely African languages.
Most likely using free international calling on Skype on the free Wifi.
If it is any consolation, I think we’ve probably reached peak “Free as in Beer” services on the Internet and in bricks-n-mortar stores desperate to get people in the doors. Customers aren’t spending.
Looked at a new F250 Lariat edition. Gas, 10 speed transmission, crew cab, towing package, 2WD. Suggested retail $64K. Dealer added $4K market adjustment. I told the dealer to remove that charge then we will talk. Dealer refused so I used my most powerful negotiating tool. I turned around and walked away. I think I will stay with my 2014 F150 for a couple more years.
You’re not giving the Joetato the credit he deserves. He managed that in less than five months.
The new car market is silly. The used car market is absolutely ridiculous. I’m no tin the market for anything for a couple of years, barring a wreck. If that happens, I’ll probably get get the oldest Accord or Camry I can find that isn’t complete crap and wait for the market to adjust.
If it has the new monster gas engine, the price is for the Blue Oval enthusiast market who will make it a garage queen.
Give it a month. After the election, the SPR withdrawals will stop and gas prices will resume moving upwards. Even enthusiasts will have to think twice, and the dealers will get hungry sitting on the loans for the inventory on the lot.
Looking past the election into next year, if Mayor Pete gets 55 MPH as the Federal speed limit mandated by executive order, the cost, complexity, and maintenance headaches … along with potential class action lawsuit hits … of that 10 speed transmission will all be for naught down at the EPA when the vehicle goes on the rollers for testing.
I bought a 2008 Highlander last year for $9,800 plus 6.25% tax and promptly had to put an air conditioning dash heat exchanger and a water pump in it at a dealer for $4,500. Now I wish that I had bought a new one on payments. The used vehicle market sucks !
When I sold my 2003 Highlander there were a couple of major problems. Which I failed to mention to the dealer. There is a phantom electrical draw which happened when I had a new radio installed. Leave the vehicle for more than 3 days and the battery will be dead. The other problem is there was a leak in the A/C condenser. Every six months the system loses a significant amount of charge. Will take almost a complete can that is purchased at Walmart.
The used Highlander I purchased in 2016, a 2013 limited AWD, I have had real good luck. The alternator did short killing the battery. $700 later all is good. I have put almost 100K miles on the vehicle. My wife likes it and has no plans to get a new Highlander.
The truck I looked at had 1,800 miles and was being sold as new. It was a special order that could not be delivered and was loaned to a member of the UT coaching staff as a courtesy. Based on how it shifted, and the fact that the computer adapts shift behavior based on driving habits, I suspect the coach drove it like he stole it. The shifting felt odd with the transmission sometimes skipping an entire gear.
Dealer called me back with an offer of $52K with trade out the door. Bragged about the tax “credit” which is basically not paying tax on the trade-in amount. Sort of an insult. I told the dealer to call me back tomorrow. Will see how it goes. Regardless, the wife and I decided we do not want the new truck. Seats are not as comfortable, no retractable running boards, high step into the cab, black interior, road much harder than the F150 (expected), black interior, dark color (dark blue). Tomorrow I will tell the dealer no deal.
Lynn, that easement would have been filed and recorded in the county’s deed records. Your County Clerk has these still in paper form if they have not been scanned into the electronic data base. It’s likely that the title company did not bother doing an actual paper records search. Your county clerk’s office doesn’t list 1948 among the historical records they’ve put into the database, so a book search would be necessary.
A good thing would be to simply go up to the courthouse and speak to the clerk or one of her deputies and ask them if they can let you look through the book for 1948 for that piece of property.
Um, I was using 1948 as a place holder. The document could have been created anytime in the 1940s, 1950s, or 1960s. We don’t know. The only person who would know is in her 70s and has dementia.
And, the document may or may not have been filed at the county clerk. If they filed it, it was a public easement. If they did not file it, it was a private easement.
My question is, the person with dementia sold a two year public easement in 1997 to a company. Why did she not make the easement permanent in 2004 when she sold the 17 acres of unimproved land with road on it to Longhorn Excavators ? That makes no sense whatsoever since she was living on the back 37 acres that is for sale now. Of course, she probably had a handshake agreement with Longhorn that she could probably cross their land at any time, a private easement.
Looked at a new F250 Lariat edition. Gas, 10 speed transmission, crew cab, towing package, 2WD. Suggested retail $64K. Dealer added $4K market adjustment. I told the dealer to remove that charge then we will talk. Dealer refused so I used my most powerful negotiating tool. I turned around and walked away. I think I will stay with my 2014 F150 for a couple more years.
I would get 4WD in your neck of the woods for ice and snow. Shoot, I got 4WD in my F-150 down here where it rarely ices and snows. Except, I had to use 4WD in Feb 2021 to go the four miles to the office since the entire road was covered with ice and snow and I did not want to end up in the ditch.
Interesting interactive tool for looking at potential and known contaminated sites in the US.
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/12412ab41b3141598e0bb48523a7c940/page/Page-1/?views=Key-Abbreviations%2CPresumptive-Contamination
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Looking past the election into next year, if Mayor Pete gets 55 MPH as the Federal speed limit mandated by executive order, the cost, complexity, and maintenance headaches … along with potential class action lawsuit hits … of that 10 speed transmission will all be for naught down at the EPA when the vehicle goes on the rollers for testing.
Any attempt to roll the speed limits back to 55 mph in the USA without a seriously good reason will be met with widespread disobedience. And, any cop trying to enforce that 55 mph speed limit will run into a redneck with a gun and an attitude sooner or later.
The 10 speed is starting to attract legal interest for class action status for various issues. Do some research before making the financial commitment.
From what I understand, GM gave up on the transmission in their commercial vehicles and F250 class trucks. I’ve noticed when we visit Dallas that a few new Allison signs have appeared up on buildings close to the truck plant in Arlington over the last couple of years.
Setting the official Federal limit to 55 MPH isn’t about safety. It is about killing the vehicle manufacturers plans to deal with CAFE going above 50 MPG in 2025.
Mayor Pete knows that lowering the limit would get a lot of pushback from the states, possibly to the point that it couldn’t be enforced anywhere.
Unlike Biden, Mayor Pete has worked in a government executive branch capacity, even if it was as Mayor of a college town.
“Microsoft confirms Windows 11 22H2 breaks Windows Hello”
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-22h2-breaks-windows-hello/
I am beginning to think that there are not any adults in the Windows development hierarchy.
Setting the official Federal limit to 55 MPH isn’t about safety. It is about killing the vehicle manufacturers plans to deal with CAFE going above 50 MPG in 2025.
Mayor Pete knows that lowering the limit would get a lot of pushback from the states, possibly to the point that it couldn’t be enforced anywhere.
Unlike Biden, Mayor Pete has worked in a government executive branch capacity, even if it was as Mayor of a college town.
You really do not want to pass laws that will be met with widespread disobedience. That disobedience will spread to other laws that people should be following.
Yep, knew this from the beginning. (the doesn’t prevent transmission part, not the wasn’t even tested part.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pfizer-exec-admits-under-oath-we-never-tested-covid-vaccine-against-transmission
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Whoa, forecasted night temperatures down in the 40s F next week ! Break out the jackets and sweaters !
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/tx/richmond?cm_ven=localwx_10day
It is 91 F outside right now after we got a half inch of rain.
I am reading Bill Quick’s “Lightning Fall” book right now and am returning it to Amazon. I have had about 10 pages fall out so far. They are sending me a new copy on Friday so I am going to keep it until then. I guess the POD (print on demand) plant had a bad day when they printed it off. The trade paperback has 672 pages and can be used as a weapon since it weighs two pounds. BTW, SteveF was the editor for the book.
https://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Fall-Disaster-Bill-Quick/dp/1497360935?tag=ttgnet-20/
I have lived here for 34 years and have never, ever, needed 4WD to get anywhere I needed to travel. The snow is rare enough that I just stay home until the roads are in better condition. I drove in snow a lot when I was younger and do just fine with front wheel drive and some prudent driving. No one has ever crashed from not being able to go. Stopping is the real need and 4WD has the same stopping power as 2WD. Adding 4WD takes about 1K pounds off the towing capacity. Ice doesn’t generally allow any vehicle to move unless the traction system is augmented.
The other idiots on the road are the real issue. If I hunted and used back roads 4WD would be prudent. But not for my driving needs.
“Scientists grow human brain cells in rats to study diseases”
https://apnews.com/article/science-health-14edb6a6d19893c3dd15a879f3cd2a56
What could go wrong ? Wait, I read a book series about this. “Oryx and Crake (The MaddAddam Trilogy)” by Margaret Atwood. It did not go well for us humans in the long run.
https://www.amazon.com/Crake-MaddAddam-Trilogy-Margaret-Atwood/dp/0385721676?tag=ttgnet-20/
I am beginning to think that there are not any adults in the Windows development hierarchy.
Actually there is no one… Microsoft cut their QA staff to the bone in the early teens, as I recall.
Researching around, I’ve learned that I’m not the only one with problems starting Edge since the last update to the browser.
It isn’t about adults being in charge as much as what working maintenance on an established product like Windows or, God forbid, Office will do to your career in a big software development company such as Microsoft with lots of products in the mix. Again, I think a Microsoft 2.0, HQed on the Issaquah Plateau, with a focus on compilers and OS, separate from the rest remaining in Redmond, would have been much more dangerous to competitors than the company which emerged from antitrust unscathed.
Plus, I think most Windows development happens overseas now. The Subcontinent holiday period starts next week with Diwali and runs through the end of the year since the Christian holidays are also observed in the country. The US workforce will be equally distracted after Thanksgiving.
The new place (well, not so new now) doesn’t even try to do business between Christmas and New Years, with the whole company given the week off separate from vacation time.
QA is the fastest way to end a promising tech career, much worse than maintenance on an established product.
Back in 2013, I was tricked into a QA gig in Seattle with a bait-n-switch. That was the only way the company could get anyone to even walk through the door.
When I lived in Bremerton, same area, we could easily find the 4WD trucks during the first snowstorm each year. They were the trucks that were in the ditch.
4WD does not help a great deal with snow and ice once the roads are plowed. I’m not convinced it helps much before the roads are plowed. It does nothing once the vehicle is going sideways or backwards.
SLOWING down is what really helps.
The whole point of the mRNA vaccines is to shortcut at least a decade of testing off of other potential uses of the technology such as a mega Flu shot (Pfizer) or an AIDS vaccine (Moderna).
The problem for the manufacturers now is that a large unjabbed control group still exists in the US and places where the adenovirus jab was more common.
What to do … what to do …
“Biden Puts Rogue Regimes Ahead of American Families” By Erick Erickson
https://www.creators.com/read/erick-erickson/10/22/biden-puts-rogue-regimes-ahead-of-american-families
“One of the reasons OPEC is going to cut production is because the majority of the Arab nations involved in OPEC are furious with Biden trying to cut a deal with Iran. Biden stopped considering the Houthi terrorists, funded by Iran, to be terrorists, and the Houthi then escalated attacks on the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.”
Biden is a scumbag, a thief, and a liar.
“A now ex-police officer is charged after shooting a teenager eating in a parking lot”
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/12/1128306894/an-ex-police-officer-is-charged-after-shooting-a-teenager-eating-in-a-parking-lo
“SAN ANTONIO — A now-former San Antonio police officer was charged Tuesday with two counts of aggravated assault by a peace officer for shooting and gravely wounding a teen eating a hamburger in his car in a McDonald’s parking lot. The teen had begun driving away when the officer opened fire.”
This does not look good for the former officer.
True, true, can’t say this enough. Maybe his drugged out lying scumbag of a son will bring him down. Didn’t “Beau…Beau…Beau” also hit the coke? The whole family are a bunch of scumbags.
They keep saying officer numb-nuts is a rookie. Does SA allow rookies to drive alone, at night? I wonder what defense he will use? “Feared for my life” is out the door, so some kind of PTSD from the military?
When I lived in Bremerton, same area, we could easily find the 4WD trucks during the first snowstorm each year. They were the trucks that were in the ditch.
4WD does not help a great deal with snow and ice once the roads are plowed. I’m not convinced it helps much before the roads are plowed. It does nothing once the vehicle is going sideways or backwards.
SLOWING down is what really helps.
True that. However, I have always found 4WD to help going up ice or mud covered hills. The locking rear axle on my F-150 is awesome in 18 inches of mud going up a hill, saved my rump last year when I could not go straight up that hill even with 4WD. Backed down a ways, turned on the rear axle lock, and went straight up the hill.
We started watching “Avenue 5” on HBO with Hugh Laurie. A raunchy comedy about a luxury space cruiser that runs into problems and will take a year to get back to Earth. I got a lot of belly laughs so far. Season 2 just started.
LOL, is the Principal the only non-Amish there:
Shocking moment Baltimore high school principal is attacked as he tries to break up mass brawl
Another ridiculous tRump law suit makes the top of the DM:
Trump MUST sit for deposition next week in defamation lawsuit filed by writer E. Jean Carroll who accused him of raping her in Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1990s, judge rules
I guess the deposition is because she says he defamed her after she accused him of rape. WTAF? This is going nowhere.
Again?
The stock is going much lower before DeSantis starts returning Cheapek’s phone calls.
The Florida Legislature is out until March 7, 2023, and only the Governor can call a special session.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/disney-parks-are-raising-prices-again/ar-AA12SRVs
Tom Cruise nuked Disney’s Summer box office and Hurricane Ian literally blew away the EPCOT 40th anniversary celebration weekend. The only bright spot for The Mouse this year is that they did not produce the “Lord of the Rings” series with Hobbits Who Cannot Be Called Hobbits Due To Contractual Obligations.
Still, they made “She Hulk” into “Ally McBeal” except without David E. Kelley.
Imagine what Kelley would have done with that series instead of the who they did hire.
LOL:
Jury orders Infowars host Alex Jones to pay nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS in damages to Sandy Hook families for calling massacre a hoax – the highest defamation payout EVER
Using this reasoning, I should get several million from anybody who claims the moon landings were staged. I am suffering a lot about this, those lying bastards!
Wow. 9/11 truthers better practice bending over.
But that’s just a warm up.
Trump is going to own the Democratic Party and the Clintons.
@Nick
They used to chalk outlines and cut the arbor adjustment wrenches out of steel plate for the early Taiwan table saws, and finish them by hand on the grinder. As tools they were about a million light years ahead of that p.o.s. “tool”, which totally fails to work on my up-to-date Win10 p.o.s.
When the analytical capability is parts per trillion, any aquifer in the U.S. under a village that’s had gas stations for 100 years is a big scary hazmat site. Just a matter of doing the testing.
How do you discover a new hazardous material? Fund a hundred PhD chemists and you’ll find twenty that will whore themselves and half a dozen of those can look convincing reading a script for tv.
There is no research that shows a convincing link between the PF octyl chemistry and any human hazard. The question to always ask in this attorney-driven b.s. is simple: Where are the injured workers, the ones that were around this stuff at a million times the level, day in and day out?
Canadian law enforcement surveilling American gun show in Montana?
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/10/12/canadian-law-enforcement-surveilling-american-gun-show-in-montana-n502654
The lack of ATF supervision and notification of local leo were a purposeful part of the plan.
Recall that the U.S. goobermint runs Echelon on U.S. citizens and sanitizes surveillance by having the Brits do that analysis, then hand the info back over the transom.
The Canukk spy was “incidentally” surveilling U.S. citizens–after all, they ain’t wearing their ID’s on their sleeves, are they? The files go north over the border, then get shipped south to the ATF, which will swear under oath they have no surveillance operations on U.S. citizens.
The sheriff is kept out because he’s probably not going to ignore wholesale video being taken of his voter base.
I visited the feed store today. Sheep and Goat is up a few bucks. $105 for six bags vs $80 not quite six months ago. She’ll die eventurally, she’s almost 30.
Hit the HEB for a few things. I forgot to ask about the blue stripes in the parking lot.
Put the groceries away and unloaded the feed.
I had the random thought to shop for a monitor. I have a 24″ KDS. Seems to work fine. $370 with tax way back in 2008. I was running Win98Se then. Ok, playing with new PC (not today) but it’s connected with HDMI to a 17″ TV. Cool, PC sound through TV speakers. The KDS doesn’t do HDMI.
If I’m replacing it, let’s go with the next size up and shop 27″ monitors. I gave up. It’s all “curved screen gamer” stuff. I just want a flat 27″ with built-in speakers and it’s fed from the PC with one HDMI cable. If a 19″ Vizio I bought used on eBay in 2009 can do this….
Time for dog cookies and another shower for me. I’m crusty / sticky. It was hot today.
I think the difference is that Alex Jones personally attacked the people rather than making general comments. But I am not a lawyer. My non-lawyer mind thinks that the verdict is a major blow for free speech. Calling sponge brain a cretin and I may be open to being sued.
The verdict is unsettling. Butt hurt is now a criminal offense. Who would have thought.
The people, and lawyers, will never see anything but a fraction of the money, if that much. Retirement money in 401Ks cannot be attached in legal settlements. Well, used to be that way. This entire process may set a new precedent. Sue people into abject poverty while enriching the plaintiff and their lawyers.
Could be a gold mine decision for welfare leaches that sacrifice a useless family member (hard to choose, they all qualify) in copicide followed by a lawsuit against the city, county or state.
I don’t recall any monitors in that size category having speakers when I was searching for a monitor. I eventually settled on a Dell hi-res, 27″. Really nice monitor. I think for your needs you may have to settle for an actual TV.
If I’m replacing it, let’s go with the next size up and shop 27″ monitors. I gave up. It’s all “curved screen gamer” stuff. I just want a flat 27″ with built-in speakers and it’s fed from the PC with one HDMI cable. If a 19″ Vizio I bought used on eBay in 2009 can do this….
I have been buying “LG 27GL650F-B 27 Inch Full HD Ultragear G-Sync Compatible Gaming Monitor with 144Hz Refresh Rate and HDR 10 – Black” for the office lately. No speakers, good luck with that.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R7636MH?tag=ttgnet-20/
I visited the feed store today. Sheep and Goat is up a few bucks. $105 for six bags vs $80 not quite six months ago. She’ll die eventurally, she’s almost 30.
When she dies, do you lose your farm exemption at that point or do you get another emu ?
Or do you find something less velociraptory ?
Still, they made “She Hulk” into “Ally McBeal” except without David E. Kelley.
Hey, I like She Hulk. So does the wife.
Look for “gaming monitors” on Newegg. I think you can also search all of the monitors with a “built in speaker” filter.
I bought two 24″ LCD screens for my kids last Christmas, and that model ASUS had built-in-speakers.
Even if you don’t buy at Newegg, you have model numbers.
The monitors at the warehouse clubs have been junk for a while.
Right, just like hate crimes, champette.
The lead reminds me too much of the wife of the best man at my wedding, who recently filed for divorce after confessing to having a long affair with another guy.
She went to a 50th birthday party in Vegas a few years ago, returned with a bag of edibles, and started living the Wine Mom lifestyle.
>> I am beginning to think that there are not any adults in the Windows development hierarchy.
Touching the Windows code base without breaking anything is more difficult than changing a flat tire on a NASCAR race car going around the Daytona superspeedway at 195mph in a pack of 20 other cars that are touching bumpers and not crashing.
>> She went to a 50th birthday party in Vegas a few years ago, returned with a bag of edibles, and started living the Wine Mom lifestyle.
Does that include a GGG?
Plus Austin. Jones made a mistake setting up shop here instead of Dallas.
The wife fronted as uptight about everything but especially sex the whole time we knew her.
>> She went to a 50th birthday party in Vegas a few years ago, returned with a bag of edibles, and started living the Wine Mom lifestyle.
Does that include a GGG?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=GGG ? ? ?
I thought it was: girl, girl, girl; guy, girl, girl; guy, guy, girl; or guy, guy, guy.
Most of the Windows work is done overseas anymore, and the undergrads in that part of the world generally don’t learn C/C++.
We had to teach the foreign students remedial C in my grad program. To cover, the university called the class “Advanced Programming Practicum”, and the course number was 5xxx, grad students only, with very restricted access at the registrar.
The irony is that they were often hired as teaching assistants for the undergrads’ C/C++ intro course while they took the remedial instruction on the language, and any Junior in the program was generally a better programmer than most of the Masters graduates.
Mister Ed is backkkkkkkkkkkkkkk …………………….
GGG = German Grocery Getter, aka a BMW SUV. And the only time it goes “off-road” is when it pulls into the driveway. (h/t to @Greg)
>> The monitors at the warehouse clubs have been junk for a while.
I’ve been happy with the monitors from the SMB section of the De11 website.
Oh, that’s what you meant.
Nope. Acura SUV … MDX (?). Really nice. She abuses cars so Toyota or Honda is mandatory.
Plus, Tampa. Carrollwood. GGG are more a South Tampa/JB MacDill thing.
I’ve seen BMW X5s off road around here — when the engine blows up and the owner coasts to a stop onto the shoulder of the highway into the tall grass.
However, the last one I saw was hood up in the left turn lane heading into my Home Depot. There are other entrances to the parking lot, but that one is the most convenient coming from the direction of our house. People were p*ssed.
I am under no obligation to admit anything to you or other sub-human life forms.
You guys had to go and invoke hmer…
Ed/NaN you earned a lifetime ban.
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We have three ASUS monitors, a 4:3 Viewsonic LED that goes back a dozen years, and … sigh … an AOC.
No relation, I trust. That is the monitor on a KVM between my primary desktop and my server so I get to look at those initials every day.
Work sent me one of the company monitors along with my laptop and a dock, but I turned it back in a few months later since I had nowhere to put it. Strangely, the $120 monitor had an asset tag which is closely tracked, but the $300 dock doesn’t.
I’m using dual Dell 24s for my primary, a Viewsonic 24 for my security NVR and an HP LP2475w for my win10 box that used to be my dad’s. I like the dells just fine.
If you go to the ‘business solutions’ part of their website, they have a few choices of monitor, and there is a check box for integrated speakers. E2722HS is a 27 at $240. Anything bigger than that looks like it’s curved. There are a couple other flat ones. And if you have the $$$ look at their ultrasharp line. There are flat choices there as well, and a check box for integrated speakers.
I always start with Dell on the business side. Lots less cruft involved, and a lot less ‘whiz bang’ in the feature set.
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Stopped at HEB on the way home today. They had pork loin in the big vac sealed tube for $2, baby back ribs for $2, and choice sirloin steaks for $5 – per pound. I bought the limit on all. I’ll break down the tenderloins and vac seal everything tomorrow.
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Maybe we have reached ‘peak woke’.
n
We passed that a while ago, I’d put it at opening weekend of “Spiderman: No Way Home”, when anything going out this year was ordered into reshoots if at all possible.
Plus, the Discovery Media management is taking a meat axe to Time-Warner.
Occasional commentator here… I’ve been around for a LONG time, mostly lurking. I disappeared for a while, after MrAtoz left and peak-not-a-neuron. The site just became too argumentative and I lost interest for a while. I know we (mostly all of you, not me) discuss things from a partisan pov, a pov that I like usually, so I may be biased. Yes, we get facts wrong, but I believe the general direction of thought here is usually basically correct. And more correct than most discussion forums.
I note that the people who come here to argue pick on specific facts to score points with and not the general tone, and descend into personal attacks very quickly.
In short, I’m happy with permabanning people like that.
I find the prepper/ham/engineering/practical variety of discussion very useful and want it to continue.
Well then, here is some prepper content!
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/disease/diarrheaguidelines.html
Print and put with your other offline med reference, maybe also with your recipe for ORS…
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Seriously wikipedia?
“This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. ”
Primary sources are the BEST sources.
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Back in 2013, I was tricked into a QA gig in Seattle with a bait-n-switch. That was the only way the company could get anyone to even walk through the door.
Decades ago, I did a round in QA. There is not a more thankless task on the planet. You cost money, produce nothing, and irritate everyone. Especially if you actually do identify problems…
“Biden Energy Policies Cost $100 BILLION a year, Reports Just the New”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/11/biden-energy-policies-cost-100-billion-a-year-reports-just-the-new/
“The news website Just the News, published a story written by Aaron Kleigman, which discusses the high costs imposed on the U.S. economy by policies imposed by President Joe Biden to limit the production, delivery, and use of fossil fuels. In an article titled “Biden’s energy policies costing U.S. economy $100 billion a year: study,” Kleigman discusses recent study by economists Stephen Moore and Casey Mulligan at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity which found that the Biden administration’s oil and gas policies have cost the U.S economy $100 billion a year. Kleigman and Just the News are to be applauded for bringing attention to this important research.”
“According to the study, the United States has produced far less oil and gas than it would have, given current market conditions, absent the Biden administration’s policies limiting oil and gas production and making such production more expensive. The economy is suffering as a result.”
Biden is a scumbag, liar, and thief.