mrexroad

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by mrexroad 4mo ago
> I remember figuring all this out as a self-taught teenager (pre-internet) with some books, a whole lot of time […] but man did it make me feel like I accomplished something magical. As a parent with kids in college, high school, and mi
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by mrexroad 4mo ago
Heh. I’m not in the trades, but ~15 years ago I decided to rock/tape/mud ~800sqft of my house myself… to top it off, my lighting design included wall grazing lights and a satin sheen finish and another wall that gets hit lengthwis
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by mrexroad 5mo ago
Due South… now there’s a name I have not heard in many years. Youth in the 90’s had all sorts of quirky content available and we had enough free time to consume it all while doing a lot of nothing along the way (in a good way).
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by mrexroad 5mo ago
Revenge is a typeface best served with Serifs Keeeeerrrrrrrrrrrnnn!!
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by mrexroad 5mo ago
FWIW, ST:TNG only used the faux 3D effect for the season that aired on the year of Star Trek’s 25th anniversary. Subsequent seasons reverted to the 2d text.
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by mrexroad 5mo ago
I was going to make a joke that they should have just taken a page from the military and said “Rapid Unscheduled Maintenance”, but I guess that’s actually the phrase for it.
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by mrexroad 5mo ago
Says the one day old account. Hmm…
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by mrexroad 5mo ago
> scam … that continues no matter what. I gave my kid my 89 from the late 90s—I was happy to avoid the TI student tax. Then a year or two back, the college board banned the 89 from certain tests/classes and so I had to cough up for
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
I still often think of my old Saab 900’s Black Panel button—physical dark mode.
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
While I love wrenching on cars, I imagine a tractor like this would scratch a different itch—something more latent, leftover from childhood. Do you still have the Massy?
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
Ah, the unofficial sequel to The Last Question.
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
sigh. this exact type of post spoiled this plot development for my kid when they were getting into reading and were only a few books in. not everyone has been around as long as you and I.
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
can you please cite some sources for your claims?
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
trigger warnings are not there to prevent people from being "offended" or to avoid emotions they may "get to them." trigger warnings are so folks who have experienced traumatic events can avoid having a panic response tr
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
Came here to say this. Glad to see it already posted. I remember going to CES every year in the mid/late 00’s, and always badgering vendors about their roll up oled advances, bend radius, tensile strength, impact resistance, failure be
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
I’m sorry, I cannot roll back that commit, Dave.
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
Huge slump at moment. Folks over-purchased chasing hype/scarcity during and following COVID. Production increased but demand has softened sharply, for several reasons. For a lot of folks I know, it’s as simple as they simply don’t have
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
…and why did the United States feel the need to do so?
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
Fair question—I probably overly delineated the two as I currently only know people on the civil servant side at NASA. Decades ago (!) I worked in the DC, hung out some folks, and often the ones who had strong opinions related to policy were
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
You are not garbage, and I’m glad you’re in this thread. I’m sorry for your struggles.
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
Well, when you zoom out a bit, it’s not a stretch to say that both Apollo and Vietnam shared the same goal of countering the USSR.
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
Have you talked to any actual NASA employees (not just contractors) that work in science? For what it’s worth, I watched today’s Artemis II launch with them. While proud of the mission, they’re likely in your “Doomer” category after a year
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
As a huge fan of Ron D. Moore’s shows, and especially For All Mankind, I don’t see how it could possibly have (or have had) any meaningful impact on NASA or NASA-adjacent efforts. Especially Artemis.
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
I also run at night an I find it safer after 10pm than during early evening or daytime. Other than my running shirt and shorts, which are an obnoxious high viz color scheme, I wear a headlamp as well. Oh, and an Apple Watch as I’m tracking
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
I’ve got a whole box of inks, many colors I adore using, but for any functional usage I find I’m always reverting back to Platinum Carbon Black.
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
This. FP usage changed my aversion to writing and helped me stay the course on re-training myself to write cursive and move past RSI/cramping. Pilot VP is my goto FP for meeting notes since it’s retractable.
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by mrexroad 6mo ago
I had pretty terrible RSI (and even more terrible handwriting) and could write much without cramping up or pain. What helped for me was teaching myself proper cursive and fountain pens. Rather than clutching a ballpoint and marking with jer
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by mrexroad 7mo ago
Or a warp core!
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by mrexroad 7mo ago
Try reversing the polarity
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by mrexroad 7mo ago
Amaze! Amaze!

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