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Fortunately, we have the Urban Dictionary to help fill in the blanks! Honestly, I don’t know what I’d do without it. I use a lot more than I used to 😛

And folks also call long sleeve shirts just, “sleeves,” which is weird. Are they being worn as a scarf, then? 😛

Mentioned this before but we should cover all of the roads, sidewalks, and bus…[Read more]

Here’s a bit of a mix for today:

Got a new surge protector ordered to replace one that’s ten years old. It still works as a power strip but, after the years, its MOVs are probably suspicious so I may disassemble it to see how its wired. Haven’t decided yet if I want to keep it as a strip or simply dissect it, though. Leaning towards the latter as I really want to know how it…[Read more]

Yep! Got it bookmarked for future perusal! I know I’m getting a few films for my birthday so I’ll see what I get first. I’m in the process of upgrading things so I’m doing my research now to save me time later. 🙂

Lots of goodies on Amazon, too!

Ugh. Hopefully they get them fixed soon! I know people in my area also have trouble with their cable…[Read more]

Oh, cool. Shout Factory has a good assortment of B-movies and other cult films in 4k: https://shoutfactory.com/collections/4k-uhd

The English language is quickly becoming incomprehensible with how quickly slang and definitions are evolving. For instance, someone was talking about their girlfriend’s partner the other day and added no context. Without context, this could mean business partner just as much as it could mean romantic partner. This is why I prefer the term…[Read more]

There is that. I just wish they would add a qualification that they’re just taking statements so that they can keep a closer eye on things or something to that effect. As it is, it sounds like they’re just entertaining the notion that the speculation itself has merit even though there’s no evidence. If there were actual evidence in government…[Read more]

Finally started exploring tech upgrades in NMS in the expedition. Going to need to explore them in my main game but they’re pretty handy! Just hard to find good ones since you need to check the merchant at each space station.

Granted, most of the stuff I watch has terrible scores on both IMDB and RT…. 😛

Bad movies are fun!

Haven’t gotten much chance to watch anything really noticeable lately as they were roofing next door. May switch over to holiday mode soon, though. In which case, I absolutely have to watch classics like The Star Wars Holiday Special and Santa…[Read more]

Going well so far. Still waiting on the third book to become available but I’m really enjoying it 🙂

I used Thunderbird! The interface for the news reader was pretty basic as I recall but that’s okay! Looks like there are some BBSs still around. As for the state of the content, couldn’t say. Just did a brief search and saw a few online but didn’t…[Read more]

Looks like City Car Driving is getting an updated version in May so I may start with Beam.NG drive when it goes on sale and go from there. Or Euro Truck Simulator. Need to look into the latter more but it I think I read that it has good hardware support. Would also be nice to have something to mess around with outside of learning so I’ll take that…[Read more]

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/nx-s1-5189426/ufo-uap-hearing-congress-2024

Sigh. These publicity stunts are only damaging the legitimate search. This is Roswell all over again. The difference is, in this case we don’t even have photos. Just some people making extraordinary claims. It’s all based on hearsay. I could say I’m from the Andromeda…[Read more]

So I recently came across a couple of places that do restorations of vintage turntables:

• https://www.vinylog.com/
• https://vinylnirvana.com/
• https://www.artisanfidelity.com/

No complaints here but I still may reach out to them at some point to see what they offer. No harm in that, at least!

Console input is pretty straightforward, you just need to include the input/output library. Here’s an example:
#include <iostream>
int main() {
int x;
std::cout << "Enter a number: ";
std::cin >> x;
std::cout << std::endl << "You entered: " << x;
return 0;
}

Command-line arguments would also be handy but the language only has rudimentary…[Read more]

After several years, my mom finally decided on a Subaru Outback. She refuses to own a station wagon for whatever reason so, even though it’s classed as one, just don’t call it a station wagon or she gets mad. 😛

That aside, she’s quickly falling in love with it 🙂

And No Man’s Sky got cross-save support last week, which is nice. 🙂

New cookbook! Going to need to break out the recipes! 🙂

So the new deck I built that relies on more passive gameplay is okay. A bit early to tell how it’ll hold up in serious play as I just finished it on Friday but it did hold up well in yesterday’s tournament before everyone figured out what I was doing and got ganged up on. So I came in fourth place out of five players 😛

It did well before,…[Read more]

What I do is long press and then drag the two cursors around the text I want to copy. Doing select all usually selects everything, including stuff outside the articles. Do you get the cursors to drag around?

Not sure how many do but it’s possible using digital circuitry elements. Would be careful, though. I do know my old phone heats up a lot when using the charger it came with and it does support fast charging. Granted, it’s ancient at this point so that may have something to do with it. 🙂

Weird. Have no issues over here. Which browser are you…[Read more]

Was digging through the horror section on PlutoTV the other day and this one near the bottom caught my eye. No idea how they sort the categories but it was pretty good! Interestingly, the RT score is 90% but the IMDB score is close to 50-60%. Granted, they use different metrics but still interesting 🙂