fizgig

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by fizgig 7y ago
Maybe 15 years ago I bought an old Mazda Protege, having downsized from a Dodge Dakota. I still needed to haul stuff occasionally, so I outfitted the Protege with a trailer hitch and bought a cheap 4x8 trailer. Best of both worlds. I&#x27
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by fizgig 7y ago
Heh. Another great performance by the late Fred Gwynne.
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by fizgig 7y ago
Not as small, but my car is a Prius C. I feel dwarfed by most cars on the roads these days. I'm always needing to inch out juuuust a little further for a turn just so I can see if the road is clear for me to proceed.
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by fizgig 7y ago
I rant every time this comes up. I've cancelled solely because of this annoying feature. The Amazon Video app on my Roku may not be as slick, but at least it doesn't force me to mute my TV when I'm browsing through the sele
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by fizgig 7y ago
This has happened in every state I've ever lived. I had always assumed it was the Post Office that was responsible.
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by fizgig 7y ago
Different strokes for different folks, and all that. My sole car is a Prius C, which I think is in the neighborhood of combined gas/electric 100HP. A co-worker of mine has a Charger with a ridiculous amount of HP and a large SUV. H
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by fizgig 7y ago
I have a dev license and I can register 16 systems. Your mileage may vary, but it never hurts to try.
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by fizgig 8y ago
Yeah, I know. I'll probably roll over my 401k into an IRA at Merrill Edge for the free trades and 75% perk on their cash back cards. I was just highlighting the horrible rates that banks currently provide in the customer's favor
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by fizgig 8y ago
I know, right? I'm soooo tempted to hoard $100k with BoA for that 20% extra bonus to their crappy interest rate.
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by fizgig 8y ago
I'm gonna guess Lehi? I lived 17 years in Utah, and spent about 10 of that working remotely for a handful of very small clients (remote unix sysadmin). Spent some time in Delta, then moved to Vernon, then found my way back to SLC. Unf
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by fizgig 8y ago
Wouldn't strategic reserves be a solution to this? Hoard enough to cover ramp-up time for domestic production.
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by fizgig 8y ago
I went the opposite route and started wearing blue blocking glasses 1-hr before I go to sleep. Seemed way easier than trying to address each device and rouge blue LEDs around the house. Along with melatonin and magnesium (also 1 hour befor
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by fizgig 8y ago
It wasn't stated that the blades were necessarily better, but the fact these "science grade" blades were chosen over name brands implies there may be some benefit. This was totally new to me, and it sparked my curiosity.
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by fizgig 8y ago
Got a link, brand, or model number for these "science" grade blades? I've been an on-and-off DE shaver for some years, and I've never heard of this option. I settled on Feather blades myself.
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by fizgig 9y ago
Yeah, if I had that much I'd be much less conservative for sure. You work for a European company or do you just have clout to ask for that much? Compounding this is the fact that I can only carry over 5 days per year, so at most I can
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by fizgig 9y ago
The place (federal government) is great, but my current contract employer has some puzzling policies. I've never had a better work/life balance than this place. In a few years, the contract will be rebid and I'll roll the di
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by fizgig 9y ago
I think this is a big part of it. I currently have 15 PTO days per year, which includes sick leave. If I'm feeling off, I'll ask if I can work from home, which I always get denied (which is odd, since I do after-hours maintenanc
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by fizgig 9y ago
I joined up about a year ago at $30/month. For 3 months, I averaged about 5 flicks per month, which was a net gain over the cost of the individual tickets. Then I got a notice that they were increasing my fee to $40/month and I
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by fizgig 9y ago
Check out Postum and Pero, the former being primarily wheat/barley, the latter mostly chicory.
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by fizgig 9y ago
Yes.
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by fizgig 9y ago
I love the minimal and efficient app mindset. Back in the 90s I used this DOS text editor that fit on a single floppy sector (512B). I forget the name, but it was a part of my standard toolkit for many years. These days, I run "evilwm
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by fizgig 9y ago
Someone from Purdue (I think) did research on being able to identify printers that used stepping motors due to unique characteristics in various models as well as individual printers. I'm not sure if dot matrix was in the study (I want
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by fizgig 9y ago
We're just gonna have to respectfully agree to disagree on some of this. I don't go out of my way to be insensitive, but I'm not going to flush my DVD of The Matrix down the Memory Hole because it has "Wachowski Brothers
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by fizgig 9y ago
I think he meant exactly what he meant. Wasn't Manning still identifying as "he" when the leaks were done? Or was she already transitioned at that point? I hate this whole walking on eggshells around gender/identity pol
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by fizgig 9y ago
Milk is a funny thing, being a rich medium for bacteria. Take a pint of fresh-from-the-cow milk and a pint of your typical store-bought pasteurized milk and leave them open on the counter for 2 or 3 days at room temperature. The former wil
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by fizgig 9y ago
I think the risks are greatly overstated by the dairy lobby. My family drank raw milk from our own cows and goats for the better part of 10 years, and none of us ever got sick as a result. Of course our animal accommodations and milking pr
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by fizgig 10y ago
But Samsung has now become a joke for trying to take down the original jokes. I don't see how anyone at, or working for, Samsung felt this was in the company's best interest.
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by fizgig 10y ago
Not having active cooling in the arid southwest US does not necessarily mean dangerously hot during the day. When night-time temps can hit the 50s and 40s in higher elevations, a house with decent mass can remain comfortably cool throughou
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by fizgig 10y ago
There are stimulating (green, I think) and sedating (red, I think) varieties, so both experiences are likely. I bought a sampler pack from one of the better sellers recommended from /r/kratom a year or so ago. Was enjoyable enou
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by fizgig 10y ago
e-ink Kindles do have (limited) apps. I have a weather app and can play chess, mahjong, and soduku on my 3rd gen e-ink Kindle at home.

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