I tackled a loafer at work today!

It was better before they were part of Amazon, but they do have good deals sometimes.

FYI, if you’re in the US, Woot.com has similar sets pretty regularly. Here are some they have now.

I’m looking at a new camera. The new ones are on sale for $2100. The used ones listed on Facebook are usually $2200+. The used places that sell cameras are also at or above the new price.

I recognize the sale won’t go on forever, but it ended over Christmas, then a new one started a few days later, so I’m sure it’ll be back on sale again before long.

Read the room, sellers. I know you paid more for it, but that doesn’t mean it’s worth that now. The lower new price reduces the value of the used ones.

I think the risk here is that people who vape will be even more interested.

Bonus picture. Sulley resting his head on Nibbler.

The cat he succeeded was named Snowball, so I had to stick with the Groening theme.

Missed the chance to name our dog Laddie though. But my wife probably wouldn’t have gone for it.

I have one in my sump pit and it seems to measure the level of water just fine.

Yeah but how many people would line up to defend their god the billionaires to the death?

Quite a few, if, say, Musk supporters are any example.

Twitter was useful for getting updates about sports during games - for example, an update on whether a player who was injured might return to the game, or sometimes, more detail on something weird that happened (you’d be shocked at how poorly informed people in the arena are, compared to those watching on TV). A lot of this depends on who is feeding the info, though, and the more recent beat reporters for our favorite hockey team haven’t been as active on Twitter, so I closed my account after Musk bought it. Haven’t really missed it.

But even today, every article about something that happened in a game will embed a Twitter link for video. Like there’s no other possibility - just Twitter.

I’m not defending this, just saying that sports use it extremely heavily.

I worked for a company that did this, thousands of users on Citrix.

Management didn’t believe us when we told them how slow it was, especially for data analysis, which was literally the job for many of us. It turned out management above a certain level were on a separate Citrix server, with relatively few users, and they weren’t doing heavy duty analyses like we were, so they had no issues at all. Middle management and below were on servers with too many users.

After a few years, they went back to “thick” clients. Laptops, finally. The virtual desktop setup was still available when I left, for a few specific things, but in general everyone used a laptop.

Yeah it’s an odd name.

Oh yeah this is right on the spot, and it’s not just Indeed. Some car dealership near me is looking for a stock clerk. Another place is looking for a logistics expert. A third place is looking for a dental hygenist. The last listing in the email is for an arborist. The job I’m looking for: photographer.

It does find a few photographer jobs in my area (often looking for photographers for school pictures, which is not for me), but much more frequently, it sends emails with a subject line like, “We’ve found a great match for your chosen job!”, and when I open it, it’s hundreds of miles away and part time, and extremely low pay. That arborist job was in Maine, almost 700 miles away. It found a product photographer job for me, in Arizona, 2,300 miles away. Rough commute.

They’re not even cops!

I’m so sorry. We had to put one of ours to sleep during the pandemic, walked out of the animal hospital with an empty carrier. They weren’t usually letting people in at that time, but they made an exception for us given the situation. I can only wonder what the people waiting in other cars outside thought.

Can confirm the women’s hormones part. When my wife was trying a new birth control pill one time, she was extremely paranoid about everything. It took a while to figure out the new pill was the source. She normally has some anxiety, but this was well off the charts. Other pills caused different issues, it was a roller coaster there for a while.

It might fall under the same concept that recipes do - you can’t copyright a recipe, but a collection of recipes (such as a book) is copyrightable.

In any case, they have a lot more money to pay lawyers than you or I do, I’ll bet, so even if you are right, that doesn’t mean you’ll have the money to actually win.

Funny that’s how my Slackware upgrades always went, but I’ve had a great experience with Debian every time.

Yeah I definitely have seen it as gas stations in the past, I can’t recall seeing it lately.

If you remember computer shows, the vendors there would often show a cash price and then charge more for cards.

I thought doing that sort of thing was against their merchant agreement though. But maybe not.

It can happen even then. A few years ago, my wife and I had lunch at a burrito place, then walked across the shopping center and did our grocery shopping. Same card was declined the second time, no issue on our end, plenty of credit limit available, just some fraud trigger went off at the bank (I don’t remember details).