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Paper_jam

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  1. My garage has about 75% of the floor area open for parking. (The rest is taken up with mowers, gardening shit, etc.) The builder called it a two-car garage but I call bullshit, it's only 18' wide so you could only get two cars in there if you have nothing else taking up floor space. There ought to be some kind of building code that requires something represented as a "two car garage" to be at least 20' wide.
  2. Are there even statutory or regulatory codes that give TABC the authority to consider or review a private businesses' internal rule about vaccines as a factor in whether or not an establishment can hold a liquor license? Most state agencies are terrified of taking any action that isn't explicitly authorized by statute--not just in terms of the general subject area for which they are authorized to regulate, but even in the scope of authority they have to request or consider additional information not directly related to the issuance or enforcement of permits, etc. It would be like the Railroad Commission denying a drilling permit because RRC found out the operator was catching redfish that didn't pass the size limit. Edit holy shit, from that article I should have read before posting: "To ensure Texas businesses follow that rule, “each appropriate state agency” — in Launderette and Fresa’s case, the TABC — “will ensure businesses in this state comply,” according to the bill. These agencies can “require compliance [...] as a condition for a license, permit, or other state authorization necessary for conducting business in this state.” " Looking forward to the state asking Exxon, Chevron, etc. about their vaccination policies for every permit and registration they apply for. After all, if you're checking up on the little mom and pop restaurants, it's only fair to ask the big guys, right?
  3. The whole metro area (Austin/Round Rock etc.) has a severe light dome. The farther away you can get, the better, but I'd say to even get anything close to dark-ish (relatively) skies you'd need to go east of Manor or north of Georgetown, west of Cedar Park, etc. Basically outside all the suburban areas. (If you are closer to the city, you'll probably still be able to see some brighter meteors directly overhead, but obviously darker is better.) On a light pollution map, the Granger Lake area doesn't look bad, you might be able to use one of the parks there (check the hours). I've never been there at night though. Edit: Lago Vista and points west might also be decent, especially if you are looking to the northern or western sky.
  4. Kinda reminds me of that fatal F2 crash that killed Hubert a couple of years ago, at about the same spot.
  5. I swear my fucking house has a backup forcefield that kicks in whenever Austin's primary goes down.
  6. I just can't really get my head around a Texas-based aquarium. I like to fish the coast but it's not not really a blue-water-coral-reef-tropical-fish kind of habitat that I associate with aquariums. Also, we don't have seals, sea lions, killer whales, etc. You could put some hardhead catfish and maybe a redfish or spotted trout in a bucket of oily brown water and it would be pretty representative.
  7. Article from TMZ about a "heart-related incident." Says he is awake now. https://www.tmz.com/2021/07/28/bob-odenkirk-heart-related-unconscious-medical-emergency-better-call-saul/
  8. Maybe we should make an aerosolized, inhalable form of the vaccine(s) and just crop dust the shit out of certain states with it.
  9. Paxton filed that bogus suit with the Supreme Court trying to nullify the election results in four states.
  10. I had the red Countach/Alpine picture over my bed. Maybe that's why I do better with cars than women.
  11. I heard this is an excellent program: http://free_computer_security_diploma.redirect@17883safesite.ru The site won't load right unless you turn off your firewall & AV first.
  12. I've got a peacock for them in my pants
  13. Both of those Sony models in the original post are IPS panels, which are going to have relatively poor contrast (poor black levels). They might be OK for a room where you watch TV with the lights on, as that will sort of mask the issue. But in a dark room they are not going to be good.
  14. I'm starting to think that adults who are willfully unvaccinated are basically not much different from drunk drivers, but for some reason only being one of those things gets you in a shitload of trouble.
  15. Streaming devices (like Roku) that have a terrible interface when it comes to precise forward/back control of the video. The Roku app for Youtube won't let me do anything but jump forward or back in 10-second chunks. Even on a good 1980s VCR, or a late-90s DVD player, you'd be able to rewind or advance to exactly the position you want, go frame-by-frame in slow motion, etc. Can't do anything like that on this Roku. Also: fuck you DirecTV for this "feature" on my DVR that auto-rewinds ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE BEGINNING if I touch the back arrow when I start playing back a recording. Usually, when I start playing back something that I stopped in the middle of, especially a sporting event, I instinctively want to rewind a few seconds to orient myself with the context of things. But, if I do that the DVR jumps back like 3 hours to the beginning of the recording and it takes FOREVER to advance back to where I was. Which reminds me: why the fuck don't they have a way to let you make large jumps FORWARD in time on a recording or streaming video? Like some combination where if you press "FFWD" and "3" it jumps right to 3 hours? Just as an example.
  16. I'm no lawyer but I'm pretty sure that alternate language ballots are federally required in areas with a significant number of citizens that speak a non-English language as their first language.
  17. A few days ago the Comptroller raised the revenue estimate by $7.4 billion. I'm not sure if that's just for the next year, or the full biennium, but either way it's a tidy sum that could be used for any number of good and necessary causes. In any case, is the Lege going to do anything in the special session(s) to put that money to use for the betterment of all Texans (hah) or are they just going to use it as a pretext for tax cuts for fat cats and favored industries in the next session?
  18. I wonder if my homebuilder ever worked in Florida. When I complained about cracks in my newly-poured slab, "Concrete cracks, it's just what happens."
  19. A six pack of Cokes (if I could find it) would last me at least a week, and a roll of paper towels probably two. I don't need big quantities of stuff.
  20. I'm starting to get pissed off at these showers that rain hard for 20 seconds and then stop. In this whole thing I haven't had enough rain to even fully wet down the driveway, much less the yard. And now it looks like the system is petering out.
  21. For most of my life, the "standard" form factor for buying soft drinks was the six-pack of 12 oz. aluminum cans. When I go to the store, any store, to buy Cokes or whatever, that is what I want. But in recent years it has become fucking impossible to find six-packs of 12 oz. cans and it's making me crazy. I don't want a fucking 12 pack, it;s heavy and takes up extra space. I don't want an 8 pack. See also: toilet paper (I like the 4 pack, now very rarely stocked), paper towels (one roll at a time, please). Why do these companies force us to buy ever-increasing bulk quantities of shit? Who has enough storage space?
  22. With many people still working from home, why is traffic still an unholy shitshow? (Austin).
  23. At my NE ATX hovel, last night was all show and no go. Didn't even fully wet the sidewalk. I am disappoint.
  24. If so many companies are constantly watching me and listening to me, why are they still doing such a shitty job of actually producing and stocking products that I want, or supporting features that I want? I swear HEB has some floor manager dedicated to fucking with me personally, discontinuing all my favorite grocery items. (Why did you quit stocking Marie Callender fish filet dinners, and the Chicken Fried Steak dinners?!) And most products/appliances/cars etc. on the market have a bunch of useless annoying techy shit that is just going to break, while not supporting/providing the important stuff like basic build quality or basic design necessary to make the product actually usable for its intended purpose. If any corporations want to know what I'm thinking, I'm happy to tell them. Here's a few things I'll toss out for free: Put fucking analog L/R RCA output connectors back on all TVs and AV devices. Stop with the bullshit "upgrades" like 8K that nobody needs and won't be supported with content for ages anyway. What we do need is TVs with good build quality and long-lasting internal components, preferably made somewhere that is not China, which are carefully tested before release so you don't need a software update for a fucking TV once a month. Oh, washers and dryers? Rip out all the electronic shit and let me manually turn a knob so I can choose my own water level, temperature and shit. And Ford Motor Company: stop putting mommy-minivan-grade tires as standard equipment on the base Mustang GT. Car and Driver got 0.83 lateral g on those tires, a fucking Kia Sedona can probably corner better than that. Jesus christ what's the point of all this spying on us if everything they sell is going to be shit anyway...
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