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  1. Haus

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    For your NFL and everything over the air I can highly recommend the HDhomerun devices. Plug in an OTA antenna and it streams everything to all the devices on your network. Plug in an external USB and you have a DVR as well (which you will always own the recordings on). For NFL and any local...
  2. Haus

    Health Problems

    That would explain it, as all my other procedures weren't abdominal in nature.
  3. Haus

    Health Problems

    I have no idea. It just started this year, this year was the first time I've been intubated while being put under but it seems to happen every time now. I think they're lazy and don't want to monitor O2/breathing properly and it's easier to violate my throat with plastic.
  4. Haus

    Home Improvement

    So, our fall project here at Chez Haus is interior painting. We both hate painting so we're OK with paying a good painter to come handle up on it. We budgeted $10-15k. We want to minimize the labor expenses so we start boxing everything we can and packing things into areas which won't be...
  5. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I'm seeing a growing storm of disagreement over EggNog.. But remember.....
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    Health Problems

    I had to have a septum reconstruction done around 15 years ago (a lifetime of scar tissue from sinus infections). I remember it because I had to wear what looked like a tampon under my nose for a week due to the bleeding. But it did wonders for my breathing, and apparently made my snoring MUCH...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Health Problems

    Just find someone with a choking fetish and the self control to know what part of the throat to hold for it. ;) Thanks to having the tumors I've had ablated this year I've been put under general anesthesia more this year than the rest of my life combined. For me it's that I'd have a painfully...
  9. Haus

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    One of the "Fat Kid High Holy Days" Day after Valentine's day Day after Easter Day after Halloween Day after Xmas
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    Post Your Pet

  11. Haus

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I don't think anything "has to give". It's the fact that there are several places making good money right now so smart investors aren't going to pile into something which doesn't have any reason to pile into it right now. Stocks are, as he says, tapping ATH levels. Gold is surging. There is...
  12. Haus

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, I started at 3/6 months which was what my grandfathers yardstick for such things was. Right now my cash equivalents is hovering around 15 months. If I also consider my "play fund" of crypto that bolsters it up to around 22-24 months. Which I could squeeze further by tightening spending...
  13. Haus

    Investing General Discussion

    Thing I've been pondering.... My grandfather raised me always believing in having a cash pool accessible. In his world, being post-depression era, that meant literally stashed cash. In my world that has been some cash on hand, but mostly cash in easily accessible places like interest earning...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  15. Haus

    Investing General Discussion

    They announced these layoffs, while simultaneously announcing that they're going to be hiring 250k in temp workers over the holidays. So I would bet these 30k are in perm corporate positions not the ephemeral and flexible world of their actual distribution employees. But it's another 30k in...
  16. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Seen in my driving today... And next door?
  17. Haus

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm starting to look more and more at that. My current gig is one where I get enough time during the "work week" to do other things, while it still being a full time gig. But more than just "stop working" I think retirement for me is going to look like "Doing something I want to do without...
  18. Haus

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    BREAKING NEWS! Funny to me since I know folks who work at Gamestop corporate.
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    Investing General Discussion

    When I'm explaining it to people (who are usually younger, so "cost of a house" is wholly alien to them). I use cost of a burger combo. Which is a fancy way to get around to the Big Mac Index. https://inflationchart.com/bigmac-in-minwage/?show_divided_by=0
  20. Haus

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    My standing theory is... If I'm parking somewhere that when leaving I will want to load shit into the trunk (Groceries, Home Depot, whatever) then I pull forward in. Otherwise I back in. At home both cars are backed into the garage (detached 2 car) because the way our driveway winds around the...
  21. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The new Druid tier set looks like crap, did someone slash the polygon budget again?
  22. Haus

    Peacemaker

    Yeah, but they could take him off the overarching helm of the whole cinematic thing and instead just have him work specific projects. In my perfect world he would be in charge of a Justice League movie and could mold the whole thing in his style off the late 80's/90's era JL and I bet it would...
  23. Haus

    Household Major Appliances

    Seriously? F all that. I can put a better filter inline before the fridge anyways. About to redo the under sink filter anyways.... AND..... one google search later : https://www.groovypost.com/howto/hack-rwpfe-water-filters-ge-fridge/ Only drawback is that you can then use generic filters...
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    Household Major Appliances

    A surprising number of the side by side options I'm seeing now are opting for a lower capacity ice maker, but it's built into the door so it doesn't "take up" a shelf in the freezer... Which is kinda nice. I don't know if I can put it off a month. But we'll see. Some local places are having...
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    Household Major Appliances

    I love that guys videos and have literally already been watching that one since yesterday afternoon. Went to the Best Buy Outlet near my house today to do some look and see, found a few which line up to his lists. Originally I was thinking we'd go from split sides to French Door, but watching...
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    Household Major Appliances

    So yeah... Apparently I am fated to become the fridge person around here. Today I notice that my usual morning beverage in the morning (Coke Zero over ice) wasn't producing as much foam/fizz as usual. I check the ice dispenser and the ice is coming out slightly wet. Apparently during the...
  27. Haus

    Investing General Discussion

    Could be irrational exuberance, could be the world realizing Trump isn't going to pull the trigger on 155% tariffs on China because of.. .well... Advanced TACO theory. Stranger thing I'm trying to find the explanation for is how stocks are banging up against all time highs and gold is still...
  28. Haus

    Peacemaker

    I think they need to treat the "multiverse" the way comics have always treated other comics in the past (and when I say past I mean pre-Crisis in the comics. It's other stuff going on. And then very rarely you'd have a cameo "team up" between two characters. Somewhere around Crisis on...
  29. Haus

    Twitch.tv

    I still find this talk about this e-girl entertaining, as the only thing I watch Twitch for is a twice weekly nighttime "just chatting" stream from three guys, all over 50 I believe. And the closest to "gaming content" they ever get is that they wrap each show with a Marbles On Stream game.
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    Twitch.tv

    Any time you're having sex, you're paying for it. The only question is how explicitly you're paying for it.
  31. Haus

    Metalworking Thread (aka Haus indulging his inner mountain dwarf)

    Overindulgent Hobby Update! I tweaked a couple things. Added a retired handheld massager (previously used for calf cramping, but the massage head kinda broke) to the side of the Vac chamber. Now that vibrates things as they're being vacuumed which seemed to cause a LOT of of frothy bubbles...
  32. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    OK. Now on current rebirth... I have thought about it, the "end game" here is diamond accumulation. But it is put behind the same exponential curve of "credits cost you more the more credits/diamonds you have" which means it has a soft cap which end up feeling pretty hard. Essentially when I...
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    Investing General Discussion

    No worries, I let autocorrect and speech to text do a lot of lifting and that shit happen. I consider my typing and posting to be a "performance art". ;)
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    Investing General Discussion

    I did that a few times, then just started the "put things in the cart barcode up" and the one scanning stop went a lot faster. That system breaks down though if you have a lot of things in the cart to the point you have to stack stuff up. But also I got the Sam's plus thing and get free...
  35. Haus

    Investing General Discussion

    The thing at Sam's is good, but not perfect yet. It scans your basket, then correlates that to either a recent register or recent scan and go purchase for accuracy. It will still ping you for a check from a person if it sees things in your cart it can't identify, or aren't on your receipt...
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    Investing General Discussion

    This also ties into the fact that recently Walmart announced that they planned on meeting their growth goals for the next 5 years without a net increase in employee count due to leveraging AI, automation, etc....
  37. Haus

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    I will say that depending on what you're looking for there's some very passable AI music out there. I have been listening to a thing called "NuvoLuxe" as my "background/wallpaper" music for a while since they do a lot of AI style stuff in genres I enjoy. (They have a multi volume set that's...
  38. Haus

    You know you're getting old when.....

    .,.. when you start thinking about stuff you really want to happen after you die. Or as I think I might have previously mentioned have some dark dressed mysterious woman show up at the viewing throw salt all over your corpse and coffin and scream "AND THIS TIME YOU'LL STAY DEAD" then leave...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Well I found the "Put a small bet on this and forget about it" stock on my list which is actually benefitting from this latest game of brinksmanship by China and the US. This is in my "fun and games gambling" side portfolio. I put around a car payment on it back when it was around $.60...