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Paper_jam

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  1. 2 hours ago, Machinator said:

    Skies got dark in a hurry. Sounds like a car wash outside in central Austin.

    I backed my car out of the garage for 10 minutes just for this purpose.

     

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  2. 1 hour ago, Augustus said:

    Had 2nd dose of Moderna a week ago today.

    Still feel like I have the flu, every muscle hurts and I've never been so tired.  I react badly to most medications/vaccines.  But this is hell.

    The things I'll do to go to fucking Europe...

    Maybe you should get tested, you might have the real thing.

     

  3. 11 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

    I get Derna 2 next week. My circle of friends and family are already ostracizing the dipshits refusing to get vaccinated. 

    Especially those with children participating in group activities. 

    Buddy is throwing a party at his new pool and no one is admitted without their V card.

    Ugh, I quoted/replied to the wrong post. ... sorry

     

     

  4. Rant about light pollution: Even on clear nights, I can only see the brightest meteors basically directly overhead. Doesn't help that my neighbors always have outdoor lights blasting (front and back yards) all night. And who made the decision that neighborhoods need streetlights glaring every 100 feet, or that gas stations need to be brighter than a supernova?

    People think it's "safer" to have everything lit up like it's goddamn daytime; shit, that just lets the crooks see better.

     

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  5. It's really enraging (at least to me) that we've lost control of our phone system. I don't understand why we can't implement security protocols and features to prevent spoofing and make Caller ID actually work as it was intended. I have Nomorobo, but I still get tons of calls from "Paul at US Home Solar" or "We have a special offer for AT&T Customers" or whatever that spoof local numbers and get through the system.

     

     

  6. I'm pretty confused--was there/is there qualifying today (Friday) for the sprint race tomorrow? Can find nothing about TV time/channel coverage for the qualifying that happened (?) today.

    I see some Practice stuff for Friday, but are they calling today's qualis part of the "practice" sessions?

     

     

  7. A lot of these killers off themselves anyway before being arrested, so I don't see increased punishment working very well as a deterrent.  Plus we still have that whole eighth amendment thing that we'd have to repeal first.

    I know we aren't 'sposed to talk about these losers much, but apparently this guy was a big brony (My Little Pony fan) and posted something on social media about being with Applejack in the afterlife.

     

  8. Can anybody recommend a live weather radar website that doesn't suck shit? For some time now, the animated radar on KXAN's website, and other local TV channels' websites, all seem to use the same app or codec, which works terribly on my PC.  They try to play back 6-8 hours of radar history, which is pointless--I only want to see the last hour or two.  Starting 6 or 8 hours back means I have to wait forever to get to the current radar image. Trying to skip ahead using the slider bar doesn't do shit. Doesn't matter if I use Chrome or Firefox.

     

     

  9. I'm not sure if this fits as a Larry David thing, but I recall a generally embarrassing event from my youth. When I was a freshman, I was living on the 19th floor of Dobie. One morning my roommate had gone to class or something so I had the room to myself. It's a quiet morning, no one's around, I have a ragged copy of Hustler that someone left in the laundry room.  I figured I would take advantage of this privacy and release some pent-up sexual energy. So I go to work, feeling pretty secure in my privacy. After I'd been at it a little while, I hear a soft thump or squeak from the window (19th floor). Window washer, busted.

    (Actually, he gave no discernible sign that he saw me, and Dobie's windows are tinted, so maybe I got away with it. Still, I was startled and embarrassed.)

     

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  10. I'm terrible at gardening & landscape work, and don't much care for it, so I'm looking for a full-service nursery, garden center, landscaper, whatever, who can dig out some (five) dead Hawthorn shrubs and replant with something similar (probably just boxwood or yaupon holly).  The hardest part of the job would be digging out the old shrubs, which I'm sure have a well-established root system.

    So far I've emailed four places in/near Austin to try to get an estimate, and no one has even replied to my emails or called me back. Probably all busy doing $20,000 jobs for rich techbros or something. Any recommendations for a nursery or landscaper who will take on a small(ish) job?

     

  11. Does the Governor's order against "vaccine passports" (I hate that term) just apply to government entities? So, I would hope, a private business such as a restaurant or retail store could still limit customers to "vaccinated only" if they so choose?  If a restaurant can kick you out for not wearing a tie, I think it's more than reasonable that they can refuse to serve you if you can't show a record of vaccination.  I know I'd be more likely to frequent establishments if I knew that the other customers were vaccinated.

    Of course, I fully expect a world of shit to come down on businesses or companies that try to implement such a policy, plus the general difficulty of figuring out if someone's record of vaccination is authentic.

     

     

     

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