It’s a seamless transition between soccer and men taking their shirts off and frolicking with each other.

@jon-nyc said in Spring de-cluttering: @xenon said in Spring de-cluttering: On the topic. Anyone know of a good way to digitize old family albums? They're in my parents' closet - like 10 of them. I'm very loathe to ship them somewhere. I bought a Canon scanner for this exact purpose 10 years ago and used its built in software. It was good in that you could put multiple pictures on the glass at once and it would automatically recognize them as separate photos and save them accordingly. You would start a scanning session with a name, say "Europe trip 1974" and it would title each picture file as that with a number appended - 001, 002, etc. And it would continue that naming convention for multiple scans, until you stopped it. I found I could do an entire photo album in 30-45m, with most of the time spent taking the photos out of the album and putting them back in. Do not use a service as they won't preserve the ordering of the photos, in fact they re-order them by size. And many old photos only make sense in context of other photos around it. Example, a picture of a random house that you don't remember is worthless, but if it's between several photos of your great uncle and aunt, you figure out it's theirs. That contextual info gets lost if they are reordered. I have a Epson V600 Photo scanner. It takes time to do the pictures or negatives, but does do a pretty good job of scanning. It came with something called SilverFast, which helps to "optimize" the mistakes in the photo or negative.

@George-K LOL! Mom is like, "Fine, drown yourself then, you aggravating little shit."

Kids will live up..or down…to what is expected of them.

Volatile enough that we called off the kitchen remodel. I’m going to paint the cabinets again and replace the hardware. The project was running from $25k now upwards of $40k. We can afford it, I just don’t think it is a good investment right now, with the possibility of real estate prices coming back down.

It's not really got much to do with national security, however there's absolutely nothing wrong with looking after American jobs.

@Jolly said in Madison Cawthorn photos: Put the crack pipe down, dude. Biden is sending you a new one in your mail kit. LOL It’s like a failed woody, but made of iron

Same thing that inspired you to be a dick? Woke up one morning and thought that would be a good thing to do...

Jon would do her.

And still works out.

@kluurs said in Canadian attacks US Soldiers: One of the NPR commentators referred to geese as "flying sacks of shit." lol as if liberals can fly.

To improve posture when riding a horse, one of my instructors used to yell "tits up!" at me.

I heard it’s only the good-looking, witty ones.

I use cash for for things that don't have to be bought every month - clothing and just-for-fun things. (I only started doing this a few months ago. I was cashless for over a decade) All the essentials are on a card or autopay (utilities, groceries, etc.). Cash really does help reign in discretionary spending, and much of it is unnecessary.

A leader in the bank's responsible investing team? It's literally his job to make this judgment call about whether the doomsayers are rational. I guess he missed the fine print about what his conclusions were expected to be.

weirdos

@89th said in Hay, Cats! Your AOC post of the day.: I'm surprised she's dating a white male, and a ginger at that...which is like the whiter shade of white. Also surprised she's dating a male. All that love for weirdo genders is just for show

I bonked during the Elephant Rock Century ride in Denver, CO. It was mostly due to muscle fatigue and altitude. We were nutrition and hydration obsessed back then. I don't think it's quite the same thing that you experienced, @Klaus but it was real and it was intense. It was the 10+ mile climb right before the ~75 mile rest area. About 2/3 of the way up the hill, doing switchbacks just to keep the bike moving, I pulled over to the side of the road and fell over. I didn't even have the strength to twist my ankles enough to release my feet from the pedals. I just laid there and laughed and told my BIL Matt, I need to rest a bit. Altitude was messing me as well. Laid there for a couple of minutes to catch my breath and started back up the hill. It was rather interesting getting started on that hill. I actually had to go down a little ways then turn back up continuing to switchback to the top. Coasted down a small hill to the rest area and collapsed in the grass next to a lake. It was all I could do to walk to the porta-potty. Then it was all I could do to remove myself from the porta-potty . I collapsed on the ground with my hamstrings just screaming in pain. A person saw me writhing in pain and approached me. He said, you need to squeeze the lactic acid out of your muscles. Start squeezing your legs like this! And he showed my how to do it. After doing this for about twenty minutes or more, alternating leg to leg, I started to feel like I could get back on the bike. I was told, you have a couple more miles of climbing but then it's a 14+ mile descent, then pretty flat to the finish line. And remember to spin your pedals on the downhill. Don't coast. You want the muscles to keep moving but not strained to help rid them of the residual lactic acid. It seemed to work. So I motored on and finished. At the end of the ride, I was incoherent. I could speak but I could not assemble a proper sentence and everything I said was just absolutely hysterical. I remember nothing I said at the time.