@klaus said in My Honorary Hipster Membership Card Comes in the Mail Tomorrow.:

@mark said in My Honorary Hipster Membership Card Comes in the Mail Tomorrow.:

I had a darkroom in our house since I was about 14 years old.

Does your wife mother know about that?

FIFY.

@xenon said in Social Security Growth:

@jolly said in Social Security Growth:

The procedure for a good number was to use the number of a deceased person who had never collected benefits and who had died.

Very interesting. Do these people somehow have to not be reported as dead?

I'm guess social security has some sort of pretty defined mechanism to know when to stop paying payments to someone.

If there is a loophole (unreported dead people) - seems like there's some sort of criminal intermediary that makes a market for these.

Do you necessarily have to be an illegal alien to buy on that market?

Not asking you questions directly, Jolly. Just an interesting situation.

Criminal?

Nah. The cartels would never do anything criminal...

@aqua-letifer said in Snowflakes!:

HEY-OH!

LOL - I said that in my mind before I read this line.

@jon-nyc said in Big Pfizer news:

They should immediately reschedule those second shots and get more people vaccinated.

I say that as someone with a second Pfizer shot scheduled in 13 days.

Pfizer is currently manufacturing 10,000,000 vaccines per week for the US. 70,000,000 doses by May 1st. Johnson & Johnson is slated for 20,000,000 in March and I believe 30,000,000 in April. Novavax is supposed to have 50,000,000 on hand... How fast can Moderna produce?

😆

It's progress. I just made an appointment for my first trip to the barber in a year.

If there is an underlying problem with the AZ vaccine effecting enough people, then you wind up undermining all of the vaccines and the whole process.

Let's keep it real, folks. We don't need any shampoo.

@mik said in The whole fam damily:

Just got a text - The Princess has her vaccine appointment!

EXCELLENT!

@mark said in A progression:

Excellent work, Brenda! Love the before and after of the rocker.

Thanks, Mark! I find the before and after so amusing. The chair started out so darn ugly, like a face only a mother could love, or an ugly duckling. It really begged the question of why I had hung on to this ugly thing for almost 35 years, dragging it all around the country with every move we made. It was just ridiculous that I had done that, so I guess I felt I had to justify all that nonsense. 😆

It was meant to just be a learning experience, because I have a LOT to learn, but then I got bold. I decided to really try to make it look decent. Lo and behold ... now I really like it! Hubby was shocked as well. LOLOL

It was a good thing he liked it, because I spent too much on this thing. For example, I used horsehair stuffing! That stuff is not cheap, and people pay extra to have that used in a furniture restoration project, but it's supposed to be really good quality, and it's historically appropriate for the age of the chair. Although it takes a bit of extra work, it's absolutely true that it makes a comfy seat, as hubby attests.

I even got leather for the final seat cover. What was I thinking?! That was a total risk for a n00b to do! But I had this image in my head of how it should look based on a photo from t3h interwebs. It even showed the funky nailhead trim design with the two-nail upward return at each corner of the seat base. I fell in love with that, and I knew I had to try. Thank goodness for YouTube. I found a video of how to do the leather seat, and watched it about 8 times. Voila! Done!

It looks like a darn miracle to me, not perfect at all, but still a miracle that it turned out at all. I'm just so surprised by the whole thing. It makes me smile every day. I put it across the room from where I work, so I can look at those adorable trim nails that are completely responsible for this whole ridiculous thing. The bottom edge of the seat frame is curved upward on each side, so those nails look like they're smiling right back at me. 😂

My sole excursion as an undergrad into the world of the School of Music, was a year long music history course (grad level, and I have no idea how I wrangled my way into it, other than I needed the credits, but not the coursework).

Louise Dixon was in that class with me (she just retired last year).

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And Sue has aged very little in 30 years, just like the rest of us, amirite?

I still think the J&J (and maybe Novavax) should be available through PCP.

There’s no need for special storage for either.

There are a lot of seniors still unvaccinated because they don’t have internet or understand it well. Telling them to call their doctor? That they will understand...My dad got his because he walked into the pharmacy next door to pick up his daily paper and they said “Dave, did you get your vaccination yet? No? Come back at 3:00 and bring Adrienne.”

These mega centers can only process a certain number of people a day. Even Javits is only capable of 12,000 if everything is perfect. If you had 1000 PCPs pick up and administer 40 vaccines per day, you have almost quadrupled the output.

@lufins-dad said in Haven’t done that in a while...:

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You can plug that.

I'd love to see Bob Menery do something with that.

@klaus said in SD Cards:

Why bother with backups? We all die soon anyway.

Are you kidding me?? All my family and friends will be fighting over access and biographers will be screaming over access and Hollywood screenwriters will want all that content.

Proof of my existence is how I have been spending my whole life! Others may not be so interested now but just wait until I die. Boy will they be sorry, the least I can do is forgive them by having my stuff available.

"Tastes a bit nutty."

Ugh that is a nightmare. So sad.

@lufins-dad said in There needs to be a "speech bubble" above the dog.:

The dog is too busy digesting the last goat that wanted to play.

I hadn't even considered that. That's great.

I’ve tried a number of free online courses from the best institutions in America. Never got through any of them, it was too easy to fall behind.

Takes more initiative than I have.

Everyone should start with a free one, and there are multitudes. You get a better sense of what it is like. May the odds be in your favor.