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  1. Borzak

    Home Improvement

    I keep gas in my generator and other power equipment. Of course we don't really have a winter to winterize stuff for when stuff won't be used for months. I've mowed my grass the week of Christmas and some years in freaking shorts. Anyway I mix the gas with stabil and stuff like a portable...
  2. Borzak

    Job Hunting

    Normally I will know at least some of the recent hitory of a company. But if I don't I ask when their last lay off was and what for. From what I've been told a loty of people never ask. Some companies get caught up in other stuff like 2008 or whatever. There are some companies that will man up...
  3. Borzak

    2025-2026 College Football, Now the Minor Leagues of the NFL.

    I don't follow LSU football much anymore or any college football. But it's days like this that make me very glad the Mad Hatter is gone gone gone.
  4. Borzak

    Path of Exile 2

    I'm not playing but I did watch the reveal/annoucement video. Jonathon may be the best dev or manager in the world. But they really should get someone else to be the "face" of those type of things.
  5. Borzak

    Health Problems

    Wish I knew what triggers this shit. Even after a long list of specialist and the Mayo twice it still is not a direct "fit" so to speak. I have had very little strength forever and the last few days with help I can get to my chair which I can touch the end of my bed with my left arm while...
  6. Borzak

    Job applicants

    This happens a lot in the shop. "A pre employment drug test is required, field work, shop work and our partners which are where the money comes from require it" "Not a problem" Then later in the interview "So if you guys offer a drug program if someone flunks how long before I can qualify...
  7. Borzak

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

    It's like when someone says "trust me" usually means don't.
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Issue is a number of paths, items, and companion stuff is behind your Tav being nice or somewhat nice. Also part of the reason a number of people don't recommend doing a Durge run first run through.
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    Health Problems

    I think my prep was one day or maybe a little more and the only eat/don't eat I got was don't drink anything other than clear stuff and don't eat anything after a certain time. It wasn't all that bad. It was obviously they were used to doing and it was maybe 15 minutes after I got to the...
  10. Borzak

    Elderly Parents and Looking Out for Them

    Parents told me today they are looking to move. Mom is 80 and dad is 83. They expect my brother in law to go down hill rapidly and my sister would probably move near her kids which would likely be Tennesee. They asked me, no idea why. They want to move near more stuff. They have a hospital less...
  11. Borzak

    Health Problems

    My sister had a lump or whatever on her breast in a mammogram. They scheduled a biopsy and it was a month out. She called several other places, same thing. It's like they all wen ton summer vacation at once. My niece works in imaging at two different hospitals because she fills in for one...
  12. Borzak

    The Astronomy Thread

    Won't get nervos till they play it back slowed down and rotate it and it's Hitler opening the olympics.
  13. Borzak

    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    3 earthqauakes yesterday near me in east, TX. Thed higgest was a 3.or something around there. Earthquakes are very rare here. I didn't notice anything and the map showed the biggest about 20 miles away. Around 175 miles away from Houston if driving and the highway is pretty straight to there.
  14. Borzak

    Investing General Discussion

    Closing in on $40/troy ounce for silver. Heard all kind of things but supply hasn't been keeping up with worldwide demand. Who knows heard everything from use in electric cars, missles, and handheld games. Surprised they haven't thrown in aliens or one of the dead Hunt brothers.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Just glanced almost all green, except natural gas.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Look how few homeless.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Someone posted the other day airlines have a William Shatner seat. One an employee can sit at and see the whole wing while in fight and they call it the Shatner seat lol. No idea if true but sounds reasonable...
  18. Borzak

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    I haven't really followed it, but kind of thought one day someone would sue for something. Of course it wouldn't do any good if they could find a lawyer that would sign on but that much money sometimes people get sue happy.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Never heard of the judge but some of the things on the internet talk about him like he was Judge Whopner or something lol. I guess he was super popular somewhere or some media I didn't use.
  20. Borzak

    Investing General Discussion

    The thing with Dot Com sometimes I wonder about people who were registering a .com for anything and everything in an effort to try and sell them to a business at some point. I know some made out well but seemed like all the time someone was " I bought a ton of .com names and will make my money...
  21. Borzak

    Job Hunting

    Nobody (well most people) don't put down a bad reference. It's super common to call the places they have listed as their past employment and ask someone about them. Non corporate, and the person you call and ask about them is normally the owner. I hear all kind of stuff from "wich he still...
  22. Borzak

    Investing General Discussion

    That was my first thought. That's back when I watched some TV and seemed like every other commercial was DOT COM even on stuff you would never order. I could never figure out how they hoped to monetize some of it, guess they couldn't.
  23. Borzak

    Woodworking

    Society of American Foresters had a very large conference table that was around 5" thick made out of Sugar Pine that took up the majority of the room. One day years after it was made and installed in the middle of a conference everyone was sitting around and a wood borer came out the top...
  24. Borzak

    Desktop Computers

    I know I know I know. The US governemnt will buy 10% of Intel, at least that's what Trump floated. As an investment, no thanks.
  25. Borzak

    Investing General Discussion

    Not a commodity trader, but read a while back the exchange upped what you needed to trade futures on margin for platinum when it was up 40% for the year. I could see some getting really underwater fast after a long string of gains then when a margin call came oops.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Had a flight from Chicago to Anchorage before entertainment systems in a plane would show where you are. I asked the stewardess if she could tell me where we were with the ice fields and mountains below. She asked the pilot who announced it over the PA. When we deplaned she introduced me to the...
  27. Borzak

    Investing General Discussion

    Till the day she died my grandmother would often say she wish CD's would go back around 20%. Of courwse when you grow most of your food and work at home in a house you owned for 25 years by then. She did not keep buying and holding CD's for long, but for a short while she loved them. I...
  28. Borzak

    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I was not a big investor. It was like you would think it was. Had to have an account and had to call and pay someone to do anything and everything. Then at some later time you would get a call (maybe) that your order went through and for how much, or wait for a snail mail. Everything had a fee...
  29. Borzak

    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    It's not uncommon in my line of work for someone to pick up a little work from time to time while retired. It's a lot different than going to work for someone every day. My dad is 83 and still picks up a small job from time to time. Might work a week a year in total across multiple jobs. Kept...
  30. Borzak

    Weather

    Someone should make a site or app that tracks how accurate the weather forecast turns out to be. I looked the other day and for the next 3 weeks the future cast which is never right showed 90s every day which seemed about right for this time of year. Then one day it had 105 out of the blue and...
  31. Borzak

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I'll look through the bag mod posted. I tried a few and the ones I got earlier were just bags of crap you get for new players. It's not a weigh issue. I carry all stuff I might actually use all the time on my two players. Anything that gets sent to camp is just for sale later. Some places you...
  32. Borzak

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I need an inventory management mod. Playing with only two players most of your stuff doesn't go onto someone else. I looked at mods and most of the inventory stuff was like more bags or bags that came with stuff in them. Be nice if you could just rename bags but you can't.
  33. Borzak

    EVE Online

    Another Python down. Only 1.25 trillion this time, minus the officer mods this time. https://zkillboard.com/kill/129129383/
  34. Borzak

    Dating

    My last girlfriend was an OR nurse. She had very little patient interaction being head of some "team" they call it. She did actual OR stuff, not out patient stuff. She was normal to me. She did talk about other nurses getting fat eating all the stuff and looking for a doctor to marry. My GF...
  35. Borzak

    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    My whole adult life was like semi retirement in some ways and in others I was planning for it. I can walk outisde and be on the natiional forest in minutes after I cross my property line. I live minutes away from the largest lake in TX and have always fished a lot. I have a shooting range on the...
  36. Borzak

    Health Problems

    Headed to the ER again shorly, waiting on my ride.
  37. Borzak

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

    Of course the price will drop , bought a pre built with a 5070ti in it which was a large part of the cost. It really doesn't matter I needed a card and I'll probably stick with it for a while. The games I play don't need that much already. Some game that I want to play and requires more will...
  38. Borzak

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Never was a console player. I eventually got rid of all my old PC games that were DOS based. You could make them run but I had already done them at least once, somer more.