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  1. Borzak

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

    To make it softer duh, then walk off like she is dumb for asking.
  2. Borzak

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

    No it's just like it sounds. You rarely see them in drag vehicles. Instead of a torque convertor that allows you to stop and it idle while in drive you have a cluth. You need to step on the clutch when you stop or the engine dies. But once you start moving you don't need to clutch when the auto...
  3. Borzak

    The Official Guitar Thread

    Is there a name for that color or finish?
  4. Borzak

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

    I didn't either, there was no place that required it nearby. The only place that had it growing up was a few streets downtown around the capital. Out where people lived, not so much. Had a manual transmission drivers ed car at 14. Nowdays it's the best theft deterent your car can have.
  5. Borzak

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

    I'm so old the age to drive was 15 and drink 18. Driving test was pull the car onto the road, drive a mile down the road, pull into a giant wharehouse and turn around in the parking lot and go back. 10 minutes or less. Only so many places to go. My car was a hand me down drag car. Cluthed...
  6. Borzak

    Home Improvement

    I'm a boring person. My truck is similar in color to died mud. It has metalflake in it that looks a lot like pine pollen when it falls on the vehicles. Actually lazy in that I don't want to wash my truck all the time. I had a red truck and a red car long time ago, when I didn't livd mong all the...
  7. Borzak

    Autonomous Systems

    Necro. But is Boston Dynamis AI or just programmed to do some thing? I mean AI is the mega buzzword, get on board.
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    YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

    No matter how many times you click the deal for fewer shorts they never go away and you don't get fewer of them. It may have changed but some time back if you accidentily clicked on one it was added to your history and you couldn't get rid of it. I've heard a youtuber with a large channel that...
  9. Borzak

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

    Ride through suburb of where you grew up. Stop at 5 way stop with lights, lanes everywhere. I wasn't driving. Say shit like "In high shool on my 15th birthday I took my drivers license test right here when it was a blinking yellow and blinking red. Came here because it was so quiet. 40 years...
  10. Borzak

    Health Problems

    I had an appointment Tuesday with a doctor I had never been to. When I made th eappointment a month ago the nurse said they would call. Monday at noon I hadn't heard anything so I called. No answer. Called again a little later, no answer. So I check the number and their website says the same. So...
  11. Borzak

    Home Improvement

    That was my girlfriends department and like said I had veto power since I owned the house. Only thing I wanted was really light colored walls in my detached office since I work at home. I have a 4' tall by 6' tinted glass set in a wall like a window. Someone gave me the glass and I just fit it...
  12. Borzak

    Home Improvement

    If I remember right the guy had a rock gareden and painted the walkway to the front door and the rocks pink as well. I did notice the guys parents didn't live on the same street as him. I'm not a HOA person but I can't believe in Austin or around Austin they got away with it, HOAs are...
  13. Borzak

    Investing General Discussion

    US Mint released they will stoppages from time to time of selling silver coinage due to the price going up so fast they need time to keep up. Kind of makes you wonder what they were doing before? Nah they were ahead of the increase in cost to begin with. I think collapse I think people jumping...
  14. Borzak

    Home Improvement

    There is a guy on ar15.com that lives in Austin or nearby and one of his neighbors had a mentally challanged son that moved into a house a block away from his parents and near him. Pink house. I mean 100% pink. He used ot post pics of it not sure if they finally moved or what. Driving down...
  15. Borzak

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Was a fan till they did the helm of the tracker.
  16. Borzak

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    I know he had problems going way back. I listened to his pod cast once and he was talking about when he first started doing Dilbert or maybe before he couldn't talk for a year or two. He finally found a Dr. that knew what was causeing the issue. I know cancer is different but from his podcast...
  17. Borzak

    YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

    Large percentage of the shit I get recommended on youtube now is AI pure crap. I clicked on one and forget how accurate or inaccurage it was totally was mispronouncing the words. It was on Chevrolet and they have CH like chew at the front. Not youtube making that crap but they should find a way...
  18. Borzak

    Investing General Discussion

    Moving at such a high seems like an uber risky move. Kind of buy high and sell low but make it up in bulk kind of a deal. I don't own any silver but have kind of been watching for a while just to see what was going to happen. I used to buy silver rounds pretty often but stopped almost 15 years...
  19. Borzak

    Investing General Discussion

    Silver futures $83. About what silver was when CME upped the margin requirements.
  20. Borzak

    The Official Guitar Thread

    My guitar came in a few days ago and had to go back to sweetwater. I'm sure they will make it okay.
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    Investing General Discussion

    There were rumors the reason CME upperd the margin requirements twice was to protect a large bank that had shorted silver. Of course it was nothing more than a rumor. Seemed like an odd time to short when several things were going on in the favor of silver. Usage in a variety of tech that was...
  22. Borzak

    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    I have a 5070ti. It does all I want at 1440. Of course I don't play many cutting edge games. Games will have to come out with something new and near revolutionary for me to want to upgrade.
  23. Borzak

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Been self employed most of my adult life. Few times took a year long contract and worked on site for a company. I should unionize lol. Early in my career one shop unionized I worked at. They put a large sign X job paid Y. That didn't last long at all. Some guys realized they were better than...
  24. Borzak

    Weather

    The geese know what it is going on. Friday morning about 1am I heard a lot of geese flying overhead leaving the nearby lake. At first I thought maybe someone was night fishing but seemed odd for this time of year for someone to be out night fishing at 1 a.m. Then 4 a.m.giant downpour and hail...
  25. Borzak

    Home buying thread

    They didn't pop out the first time I looked. Now when I look it's super obvious, is it just for light behing that close to the celing?
  26. Borzak

    Home buying thread

    I wouldn' mind an off center door. One, nobody comes to my house. The second reason if they did I give them an intricate reason on how I had to move it to make way for the supports to withstand a 1000 year seismic event or some other long bullshit thing and see what they did.
  27. Borzak

    Investing General Discussion

    I peek in on the silver bugs from time to time. A couple of places were "out" of rounds and bars a while back. It cleared up. I think shops got spooked and didn't want to get caught holding silver if the bottom really fell out, took a cut but the bottom didn't fall out. But buying bars and...
  28. Borzak

    Weather

    Southwest MS today high of near 80. Guessing near the same for Baton Rouge and New Orleans and possibly near that around Houston.
  29. Borzak

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    NM
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    Investing General Discussion

    I wonder how long companies like Chevron can turn it around since it's been almost 20 years. A quick search showed 800k barrels of oil exported per day in 2024. The Motiva refinery in TX refines 600k plus barrels a day (the largest refinery but still only one refinery). A lot of upgrading needs...
  31. Borzak

    Terrible & appealing invention ideas

    Not really an invention but a marketing idea. I was told by the salesman it was a terrible idea, I think I was right. When shopping for a new bass boat you go to a dealer and they have you get in the boat to show you how large the front deck is, called a flipping deck. Normally the owner fishes...
  32. Borzak

    Health Problems

    Yes and no. I know what I have now. Other than the diabetes which I have never had much issue with keeping my A1C in the 5s which is borderline non diabetic/pre diabetic. The other stuff is normally treated with corticosteroids, which raises my blood sugar. The doctor that referred me to the...
  33. Borzak

    On becoming an electrician

    Guys that work in the maintenance shop at Exxon are all blue collar workers. Welding, fitting, burning, etc...It's air conditioned and you have a job for life if you don't fail a drug test or punch out a coworker. My friend in school his dad was a boiler maker there and he sent his kid to...
  34. Borzak

    On becoming an electrician

    A "welder" that is making $48k a year is known as a "tacker", not a welder. I know a pipeline welder that paid off his house in 5 years then got married and had kids. Note, married after he paid off the house lol. I know the placed I worked a decade ago their welders that could do high nickel...
  35. Borzak

    Health Problems

    Don't think I ever said what my final diagnosis was. MAC. Multiple Autoimmune Condition. They have a chart, type 1,2, or 3. I have several from 2 and 3. Diabetes near all my life but the others all at once. Doctors at the mayo says it just happens. They have an auto immune clinic there. Type 1...
  36. Borzak

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I think states take control of certain assets that have been abondened or idle for a certain period. But at least in the states I have lived in once a year they publish the names of all the people that need to claim whatever. A few years ago I was on the list and got a final check that I think I...
  37. Borzak

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Tell me this isn't sad. D4 made such an impression I had to download battle.net to see if I had ever bought it. I did lol.
  38. Borzak

    2026 Official Stonks Contest

    8125
  39. Borzak

    Depression

    I give it another day or I'm going to have to get off the amitriptyline. It is working I guess. I j ust sit here not thinking of anything. Of course that's when I am awake. 5 days and still in the sleep all night and all day mode. I don't get stuck thinking about the future with MAS as it is...