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- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 2 days ago:
Interesting. These say they’re from Mexico. It would be pretty underwhelming if there’s a blander variety.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 2 days ago:
But the tart ones are the good ones.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 2 days ago:
Raspberry for me, though I’m not sure if it’s fully artificial or “just” ultra-processed. It’s also partly because I like that flavor but I’m mildly allergic and about 25% of the time I eat it, my lip swells a bit, so I try to minimize how often I have it.
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- Comment on The boiled peanut is superior to the baked bean. 1 week ago:
…boiled peanuts are best purchased from the elderly or a fat kid at a minivan in a parking lot.
and if any word is spelled correctly on the sign, that’s a sign that they won’t be quite as good.
- Comment on Interesting 1 week ago:
I always liked them better when they were Corvettes.
- Comment on Noooooo 2 weeks ago:
For it’s not so much that it’s going to be an unnecessary call than that the person just doesn’t want to collect their thoughts or (worse) doesn’t want to say what they want in writing. It’s usually going to be some ask that’s completely apart from anything I’ve been thinking about in the past 5-10 days, might be sketchy, and they apparently seem to think it’s urgent and/or nuanced, yet they’re just going to completely hold out on providing context and time that would let me be prepared for whatever pile of shit they’re about to dump on me.
If you can’t communicate it to me in a slack message or two, there’s a very real possibility that either you don’t know what you want, or that I can’t help you with it on a cold call.
- Comment on Noooooo 2 weeks ago:
I can literally feel myself deflating when I get these, like it’s a huge involuntary sigh accompanied by the classic heart-sinking…
…followed by a deep breath and a “Sure! 👍”
- Comment on R.B. Hoadley 2 weeks ago:
It drives me nuts that I can’t quite tell if that piece of tongue-in-groove (LOL) flooring is white oak, possibly varnished, or some sort of tight-grained pine.
Also, apparently Professor Hoadley was a really nice guy and very well respected.
- Comment on This hotel has a map for roof access in case of a fire. Most men have issues figuring it out 2 weeks ago:
“Hotel,” nothin’. That’s clearly the Selina Meyer Presidential Library.
- Comment on AI Overview 1 month ago:
“I’m telling you Molotov cocktails work. Any time I had a problem I threw a Molotov cocktail and Boom! Right away, I had a different problem.”
- Comment on when fiber isn't enough 1 month ago:
Ain’t no torque on a Dremel. Gotta find the hammer drill.
- Comment on About 10 years ago i remember seeing this picture with a title something like "This is a meme from the future" The prophecy is true apparently. 1 month ago:
Thank you. That looks plausible and should keep the mental wolves at bay, LOL.
- Comment on About 10 years ago i remember seeing this picture with a title something like "This is a meme from the future" The prophecy is true apparently. 1 month ago:
Okay, somebody here has to know of have better image searching skills than I do. What is the Visor prop? It’s clearly not a spray-painted hair clip like (the inspiration for) Geordi’s, but it doesn’t look bespoke, more like some sort of removable support rib from… something. Grrr.
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 2 months ago:
I think there’s something about the parasitic nature of it, taking over an otherwise healthy ear of corn. We tend to think of our edible fungi as growing out of the dirt like a plant, or a fallen tree, or at worst sort of calmy sitting on top of whatever it is using for its own food. THe fact that this has invaded kernels makes them very bad corn kernels and triggers something instinctive. Corn smut is one of those “the first person to try this was in a bad spot” kind of foods.
- Comment on A secret cord 2 months ago:
Legitimate? Basically none. Illegitimate? First, lazily fixing a fuckup on putting up strings of Christmas lights where you can’t daisy chain them properly, with bonus points for the likeliehood of needing to break off the grounding pin. Second, injecting power from a generator into a single circuit of your house if the power is out.
In one sense, you could argue conductors are conductors and if you think through every eventuality you can mitigate risk, but on the other, if you find you’re in a situation where one of these seems useful, you are not the type of person thinks through every eventuality.
- Comment on Too bad we can't all write notes and letters with such class 2 months ago:
Cue the James Joyce letters in 3… 2… 1… 0.
- Comment on Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein 2 months ago:
I have it on good authority that the Starbucks protein coffee gives you the double-shits.
- Comment on Allah fard moment 2 months ago:
If it’s possible to feel sympathy for a process running a text-to-speech algorithm, then it would have to be for the one tasked with transcribing Donald Duck.
- Comment on Stick 2 months ago:
Got a lot of sticktuitiveness.
- Comment on Parenting advice 2 months ago:
I don’t think I should go against the grain here.
- Comment on Fact 2 months ago:
I doubt I’m saying anything novel here, but good lord Kilmer stole that movie for himself, and he’s therefore a big part of the reason nobody gives a shit about the Costner one, the rest being that anything “epic” that Costner did after Dances with Wolves was a self-indulgent and overlong toboggan-ride over the top-most surface of whatever theme he claimed to be exploring.
Not that the rest of the Tombstone cast didn’t have their moments, but they were all dancing to Doc’s tune. Without him, it’s a B-movie that punches slightly above its weight and gets filed away with the likes of Young Guns 2.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 2 months ago:
Yeah, not the best angle. The PS/2 port is that little silver box. The USB-C port is on the PCB. This was assembled to go inside a vintage keyboard to semi-permanently convert it, but I’ve been using it to test other boards. If a board is fully intact, I’ll just use an external converter, but there used to be a practice of snipping the cables on hardware that businesses retired for accounting purposes if they were written off, which can be a good, if risky, way to get an eBay buy for cheap.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 2 months ago:
You’ve been warned.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 2 months ago:
Well, I feel pretty deep into that rabbit hole, where I’ve even designed a couple of primitive circuit boards and hand-wired a bunch of keyboards. I also mess stains worth vintage stuff a bit.
This particular converter is programmable and meant to be used with a not mechanical 122-key terminal keyboard made by the company that took over IBM’s US keyboard factory, but it’s been hanging out with several DuPont wires shoved into it to connect it to a molex connector to test a different old board.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 2 months ago:
I would really appreciate it if nobody looked at the PS/2 to USB adapter currently on my workbench, kplzandthx.
- Comment on Michael 3 months ago:
LOL, are you trying to keep me from derailing a shitpost thread by rehashing boring the online debate that inspired it! How dare you!!! What are you? Some kind of Michael?
- Comment on Michael 3 months ago:
Huh. Not much a part of my identity these days, but in a yes/no sense, yeah I guess so, LOL. Of course, these days most gym bros are doing some gaming too.
- Comment on Michael 3 months ago:
You provide physical inputs, which are sensitive to timing and agility, to a rule-based competition. It’s at least as much a sport as golf or curling or bowling. And I say that as someone who doesn’t find eSports particularly compelling. It requires a sophisticated technal infrastructure and doesn’t require superhuman levels of strength or endurance (though the latter in particular could be helpful), but those are merely “sliders on the configuration screen” for whether a certain sport is to your interest.
- Comment on Why was Newgrounds like this in the 2000s? 3 months ago:
I haven’t, but it looks interesting and even more bonkers than the movie.
