Everything posted by hookem2010
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Woodworking, DIY, and home repair thread
Vanity light installation question. I'm replacing a super dated fixture and was going to use the same light I had placed in another bathroom, as seen below. However, it mounts onto just the little metal strip that fits in the outlet box, or whatever it is called. Unfortunately, as you can see, it is not aligned with the bathroom counter and this sort of mount does not allow me to shift it the couple inches to the side I need to in order to center. For other vanity lighting with longer bases/covers for the wiring portion, do they typically come with a mounting system that would allow me make that 2-3" shift? The previous light was definitely centered, and I believe it came with some sort of mounting plate that I guess allowed the light to not be centered directly over the outlet box.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Thanks @Js1 for collecting all the polling info and dropping it here. Also, what's the drinking strategy for 11/5? I'm thinking nurse low abv beers all night, shots for swing states, then champagne if it's a Kamala win and pure ethanol if it's Trump. I won't know what to do if it drags on for days.
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Blastfurnace 2024
It was surprisingly nice out this morning. And now that it's 930, I will not be venturing out again.
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The Climate thread
My kids are 2 and nearly born, so perhaps they won't remember when things weren't entirely fucked. Silver lining!
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Week 4, 2024; ULM at Texas
In answer to the new site motto, I don't know what the fuck a warhawk is, but I would suggest ULM to give their name a little tweak to firehawk. Imagine, you're on your ranch in the Australian outback, watching a wildfire make its way to your property. Then, by a stroke of luck, it starts to burn out. You're safe! But what's that, a fucking black kite picking up a burning stick and carrying it past the extinguishing fire line, to start a new fire in order to flush up prey? God damn it...
- 2024 LB Tyanthony Smith
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Week 4, 2024; ULM at Texas
After Michigan, IrishWristWatch came out guns ablazing about how the Mannings weren't going to be happy. Leading up to Saturday's game, brojangles didn't know if he could get up for the game, after happily doing so for a decade-plus of mediocrity. Now we're #1 and Arch just put up 5 TDs. Looking forward to see who has got the hottest take this week!
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Hopefully on 1/20/25, right after he watches President Kamala Harris get sworn in.
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The situation in Springfield, Ohio- Haitians, Cats, and High Minded Rhetoric
Toward the end of grad school, when I was basically just waiting to graduate and wanted to get out of my parent's house, I worked a few months at a dine-in theater near Greenspoint. It was the first time at a job, school or residence that I was in the minority. It was great and I wish I had that experience sooner/more frequently. The people who find themselves around other folks who don't look like them and find it unsettling are... weird.
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9/10 ABC Presidential Debate Game thread
No response emoji available encapsulates my feelings as I started reading this while bringing a spoonful of yogurt and granola to my mouth. Maybe the rage emoji flipping a middle finger while projectile vomiting?
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The Climate thread
Would be nice if this could be a campaign topic at all. But in order to appease as many potential swing state voters as possible and save our democracy, climate is taking even more of a backseat than usual.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
STOP THE COUNT!!!
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Honestly, if Haitians really were eating outdoor cats, they would be doing the environment a great service.
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9/10 ABC Presidential Debate Game thread
I know about the bear and the whale. Somehow missed whatever the RFK dog story is
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
- Texas vs. Michigan - 11am on Fox
- 2024 Hurricane Season thread of DOOM
Formation of that system crossing the Yucatan just jumped to 60%.- 2024 US Open tennis
Is Sabalenka eastern European Serena (skill set, obviously not with hardware)? She appears so much more powerful than everyone she faces and seems like she should have more trophies, honestly. Also, Team Taifoe!- Week 2, 2024: Texas at Michigan
Taking the 2 year-old to Reimers Sunday for a cool, leisurely, celebratory hike.- Birding
Had one of my rarest finds ever yesterday, a pomarine jaeger, flying over a smallish lake in Round Rock. They're basically mean, large gulls that are rare even along the coast in Texas, much less 250 miles inland. I really need to get a camera to at least document these surprises. The next couple months is my favorite times of year. The first cold snap (hopefully), fall migration with weird shit showing up, and the meat of football season. Fuck yes.- Surly Dad Thread
My 2nd is due to arrive a week before OU. The first OU game after my first son was born was 49-0, so I'm expecting big things. Will I be coherent enough from lack of sleep to follow the game? That remains to be seen.- 2024 US Open tennis
Fritz up 2-1 after finally converting his 4th or 5th break of the game.- 2024 US Open tennis
Best chance in quite some time for an American man to win a slam? I haven't seen much, but it seems like Tiafoe always shows up ready to play at the US.- Surly Dad Thread
We're about a month away from the due date for #2. The wife has already had some legit contractions here and there, so not sure we're making it to 40 weeks. The 2 year-old is getting much more fun, but the toddler obstinance is really shining through at times. Some of his favorite phrases currently are... "No, Dada. Get back!" "Let go!" "Go away, Dada!" ...and "Mine!"- Week 2, 2024: Texas at Michigan
So we're playing Iowa next weekend?
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