@LuFins-Dad said in Pencil Sharpener: @brenda said in Pencil Sharpener: @jon-nyc said in Pencil Sharpener: Brenda has a lot to answer for. No kidding. What is going on in Minnesoooooota? We have professional pencil sharpeners? ️ Imagine seeing that on someone's resume. No, the artisanal pencil sharpener mentioned in the story is from NY. He just traveled to Minnesota to see the unveiling of the giant pencil…. Now that doesn’t mean you don’t have professional pencil sharpeners, but the one from the story is a tourist. What Minnesota DOES have is a growing list of oddball tourist Meccas Yes, we encourage oddball tourists. It helps to make the rest of us feel more normal.

3 bucks per American citizen. I guess we were all complicit. Reminds me of slavery.

An auto correct was immortalized in that tweet.

@Axtremus said in Apple's announcements yesterday: don’t want to lose a basic instrument like the speedometer My favorite feature in my car is the HUD. It projects speed, speed limit, and if I engage the cars GPS, it'll project turn-by-turn directions as well.

@bachophile and the boy on the left is thinking, "I think it'll be OK, don't you? "Don't you???"

@Copper said in This looks like fun.: Some tried to kill us on takeoff, but they were usually pretty willing to let me prevent the crash.

Jesus. If I can stomach seeing it again I will post this screed my niece posted about women’s ‘body autonomy’. It is the most tortured, twisted, belligerent defense of abortion I’ve ever seen.

Can someone 'splain this to me? I'm an old geezer, so please type really slow. I understand that one can create a 'bot to do things. How, exactly, does that work on social media, like Twitter. After all, you have to create an account, then a password, then verify. Then, you have to have the bot find specific stuff...etc. I really don't get it. Please type slowly.

@George-K said in Armed female bystander kills man firing at party in West Virginia: @Copper said in Armed female bystander kills man firing at party in West Virginia: And for some reason the bbc wasn't able to get a picture of the perp. The Sun did. I'm sorry, time to end this shit.

@LuFins-Dad popcorn, right? That's OK.

@Mik said in A new high: And the dems are essentially bragging about it. This one anyway. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/democratic-sen-stabenow-brags-it-doesn-t-matter-how-high-gas-prices-are-because-she-drives-an-ev/ar-AAYbXH3?bk=1&bk=1&ocid=msedgntp&cvid=20f7537332af41939c6f0a5b26dfec87 Let them eat drive Teslas...

@Axtremus said in Thinking about a new Mac...: So … it was like you spent all that money, time, and effort for no difference? Anyway, please post pics of your new setup, just because. Er, no. My settings are exactly like my old (2014) iMac. Speed is noticeably greater, and with the I/O that the studio affords, it's very nice. My desk with all peripherals attached. I went with an LG 32" 4K monitor. Seems pretty nice, but I have to play with settings to get the contrast up a bit. I am struggling a bit getting my wireless keyboard to connect, so it's a hard-wired USB Apple keyboard connected to a hub. Behind the display, on the right, is my HP printer. [image: 1654637593855-screen-shot-2022-06-07-at-4.29.48-pm-copy.jpg] On the shelving unit adjacent to my desk is where the Mac Studio sits. On top of it is a nice USB hub that can house 2 SSDs - on 2.5 inch SATA and another NVME. I have one of my backup drives installed in that. You can see USB dongles for mouse, etc. On the shelf below that is my Thunderbay IV enclosure. Behind it is a UPC. The Thunderbay houses 4 HDDs. One is a Time Machine drive. One is a backup that I use via Carbon Copy Cloner. One is a "Music" drive which houses all the CDs I've ripped over the years, and the 4th houses movies and home videos. All of those media files are backed up to my backup drive that I mentioned earlier. I need to do some serious cable management to get things tidy, but that's a project for another day. [image: 1654637911115-screen-shot-2022-06-07-at-4.23.54-pm-copy.jpg]

Those willing to self-mutilate in service of their perception of reality which differs from the tangible reality everybody else shares, might not be reliable political allies when it comes to literally anything with literally any underlying general principle.

@Mik said in Just pop in a tape...: Wonder what our Disney tapes are worth. I looked one time and it was underwhelming. What would it take to be overwhelming? https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=beauty+and+the+beast+vhs&_sop=16 [image: 1654630025314-4bc2deee-e3e0-41f2-a2be-20b839ef4db7-image.png]

@Axtremus said in Rules to live by: Hmm … I’ve had ostrich steak, but never elephant meat. Pro tip: Don’t order the full rack of ribs.

@89th said in Multigenerational Housing: @Horace said in Multigenerational Housing: Maybe now is the time to lock in a fat 30 year mortgage. Those dollars are going to be confetti in a couple decades. We were lucky to lock in at 2.75% in March 2021, or unlucky in that it was probably like 2.15% a month prior. Anyway... my strategy is to buy a million dollars of stamps, then resell them in 10 years. Awesome. Interest rates can be refinanced down the road when they come down. The principal is forever.