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Most interesting part of being someone who lives in Dallas during this is watching the rotation of people from foreign countries coming to town for the World Cup and having their every loving minds blown by food in Texas. Then Twitter of course pumps me feed full of it since I have a lot of...

I thought a few in here might get a reasonable chuckle from this.. as I did.

I've been a big fan of the poop in a box method which my Dr is OK with so far. But considering my kidney tumor adventure last year I fully expect that will change with this next go around. I saw this one and was curious, but since I'm not 3+ years clear from the kidney thing I can leverage it...

Yeah, and remember, that more major surgery he went in for was back last year. He's apparently said they won't know if he's clear and good until towards the end of this year. But Amazon has already approved a season 6. He's definitely had one of those "so bad it gives you some perspective"...

So decided to spend the weekend unwinding and getting some repetition in on copper casting to try to get a little better at it... Notes from the weekend.... Always use some copper phosphorous to degas and avoid the little pits and bubbles on the surfaces Best polishing is around 48 hours in...

One of our dogs still has her "favorite blankee". She will pull it around the patio, and if she does something she gets chastised for she'll go grab it, bunch it up between her front paws, and suck on it like a pacifier... I'll see about grabbing pics next time she does.

This is kinda where I'm at on this at this point in time. Same way people are "rediscovering" old games on actual physical media because the current game industry is such hot garbage. Many are rediscovering old shows that hold up. SG-1 , IMHO, holds up well. Embrace and love it for what it...

I've been pondering those options as well. Just strange that in the past it was always "When the wife or I need a better gaming rig, the old system becomes the hand me down to my home lab" and if I build s rig for this that direction will now reverse.... Possibly the AMD, or an Nvidia Spark box.

The wife and I finished this tonight, we've been trying to stretch out series so we have something to watch. We also did the B&W run on it and I thought it looked great. During it I did wonder how they "pulled off color" since I remember learning a long time ago about the "everything is...

Only around 3-4% of the US workforce is actually paid minimum wage. Where is REALLY matters is in all those union contracts which are negotiated with wages being a given multiplier of the minimum wage. So a bump in minimum wage equates to a huge pay off to labor unions for the most part.

I'm about to assemble the most powerful (and subsequently most expensive) computer I have ever assembled for home use. And I won't be installing a single game on it. (AI workstation/server system)

You've just described an absolute nightmare scenario I think about. I started having some hand tremors a while back. There's no history of PD in my family, but a history of something called "familial tremors". But in the back of my head I keep worrying about exactly what you're getting hit...

Yes, because only losers own/run hardware in the glorious age of..... THE CLOUD!

This was literally the scenario where I worked. They were posting up leaderboards of who was using AI for the most. So people started using it for everything... email... product descriptions... competitive intel.... things we literally already had internal sites and resources for half the...

How about we just mash T'ealc up with Amos, and add in Jayne's hat from Firefly?

As explained by a Dr I had once, over time your body's histamine system (which regulates what you are and aren't allergic to) can partially rotate. Which means you can gain and lose allergies over your lifetime, and most people lose them over time. When I was a wee Haus I was allergic to a...

I handle all my mom's finances and my sister coordinates all her medical stuff... Recently I get a text from one of her Dr's (Cardiologist) about her owning over $400 for some scan. I look into it. The Dr's website says the insurance paid $5, the insurance website says it's paid $150 and the...

Even with SG-1 being off the air for around 20 years now, it's still considered a very formidable mid-tier series on the platforms that stream it (although it doesn't feel impressive as it's around #250 all time on most lists of streamed series/content/movies). With that said Netflix's most...

Interesting tidbit on the SpaceX thing today. It will trade on two exchanges. NASDAQ, and.... NASDAQ-Texas Maybe I just haven't run into it before, but today is literally the day I realized there is such a thing as a NASDAQ exchange that was Texas based.

As has been mentioned, things aren't always linear. Not even day/week/month is a win, sometimes not even every year. If you know what helps you get through the crap until you can start to make progress again there's no shame in doing what you know should help. The fact that you still seem to...

Was reading the replies and hit this thought nugget.... Although Campbell has mostly retired from acting and almost completely from the con circuit as he's dealing with some medical issues IIRC.

This guy was telling us how his son learned the basics from a guy in his 30's doing it... And I agree, it will be a bubble, it will pop. So long as the kid is pocketing profits along the way he won't get hit too hard. It's the people who believe in continual doubling down thinking they're...

This topic came up in general chatter before I started a training session today. One guy talked about his son, who was 16, who had discovered flipping pokemon cards for cash. Who never played the game, never watched the cartoon, doesn't know Pokemon from shit. But told him "Dad, I heard about...

Just gonna jump in behind this idea. I'm also a huge fan of shitting in a box, for many different occasions!

Yeah, it's a benefit where I work (Premium partially subsidized by the company, like adding Dental or Vision in my benefits) But also my company is California based, so there's a lot of "Crazy Liberal California Sensibilities" in our benefits package. heh

I'm debating it since the version through my company can be leveraged along with a weird "flex benefit" we get to essentially cover all of the Heartworm preventatives for two beasts, plus most of the yearly checkups, for far less than just paying.... at least it SEEMS that way.

Yeah.. Pet Insurance is a real thing now it seems.... I'm really not sure what that says about society.

So did a hypothetical exercise with Grok today.... Turned out better than I thought it would. Might use this strategy for next years stock picker contest. heh I present to you : "Texas Top 25 ETF" Limited to the 25 largest (by current market cap) publicly traded Fortune 1000 companies...

If you do the "high to low".... 2017-2019 - 83% drop 2021-2023 - 77% drop So if you take that to mean each cycle is dropping 6% less than the previous off the top... Then we're looking at about a 70% off high drop. So 2025-2026 - Estimated 70% - Puts the bottom at around $36k That would be...

I'm conflicted here because there's a lingering question about when the IPO hits Friday how much are other people with pre-IPO equity going to get? How much of that will they sell? How big will the "Sell the news" swing be..... Overall, if you bought every stock that IPOd and kept them 3...

Yeah, I was looking at this the other day : 2019 bottom trough.... ~4100 2023 bottom Trough..... ~16600 (almost exactly 4x 2019) 2026 has already hit and slightly dipped under ~67500 (4x 2023 bottom) Would shock me if we drifted a little further down... also wouldn't shock me if we fluttered...

This is what concerns me as Israel also openly said they have not finished their military objectives in Lebanon. Sounds like they're just setting up for a couple day breather and then back to the dance.

For once Google really comes up with a good new feature...

Hearing Bloomberg talk about it, this is partially follow through from Friday, and also because Israel and Iran are lobbing bombs again. The various Crude oil prices are also crawling up.