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by rcurry 4y ago
My all time favorite was when I took the SAT (long time ago) and the proctor confiscated my calculator. At the end of the test there was a final question: “Which of the following approved calculators did you use on this test?” My calculator
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by rcurry 4y ago
I went and cried in a corner.
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by rcurry 4y ago
I used to love REI because of their return policy. But I guess they had to stop doing it because you’d get these jerks that would buy a pair of climbing shoes, use them for a season and then come back and demand a new pair. It kind of pisse
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by rcurry 4y ago
There’s a really fun movie out there called Special. It’s about an everyday Joe who participates in a clinical drug trial and starts to think he has super powers. He crafts a super hero outfit but he puts the drug company’s logo on his back
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by rcurry 4y ago
What was so impressive about all that was the level of technical ingenuity that went into it. I thought this one was pretty cool as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) If my memory is sti
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by rcurry 4y ago
There’s some weird stuff out there with beans and nuts. One time my wife and I were moving from WI to NY and we stopped in a Denny’s to get some food. We order a couple of breakfast skillets and when she takes a bite of one she instantly sp
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by rcurry 4y ago
Your comment reminds me of Jeff Goldblum’s character in the movie The Fly, when the reporter asks him how he could have built the teleportation system by himself and he says: “I don’t work alone. There’s a lot of stuff in here that I don’t
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by rcurry 4y ago
I was one of those whiny kids, lol. Always the high point of our cross country trips in the old ‘72 Impala when my dad would get tired of driving and say “What do you kids think about hitting a HoJo’s?”
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Court rules that bumblebees are 'fish' [pdf](courts.ca.gov)
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by rcurry 4y ago
I came up with a fun game that’s along the line of your snarky movie game. I call it Mixed Up Movies, where you have to create a movie title and description that combines two separate movies into one. You write the description and provide t
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by rcurry 4y ago
Exactly. The firm I work for does a lot of 3D printing using the HP Multijet Fusion systems and we do not require custom support structures for anything. As you point out, the powder bed is the support.
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by rcurry 4y ago
The only thing I really miss about the Navy was the night sky when you’re in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. You don’t see stars, you see galaxies, it’s truly breathtaking when there is no light pollution from anywhere.
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by rcurry 4y ago
I just got tired of them putting the same movies in every damned category: Horror? How about The Truman Show! Sci-Fi? How about The Truman Show! Action? How about The Truman Show! Adventure? How about The Truman Show! Finally I just unsubsc
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by rcurry 4y ago
I got exposed to TCL/TK while working for a National Lab a long time ago. At the time I was a hardcore C++ developer and after a week or two with TCL/Tk I was almost dying laughing about how easy it was to build really cool applic
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by rcurry 4y ago
Yeah, it was JC.
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by rcurry 4y ago
Wisconsin.
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by rcurry 4y ago
I was just being glib, but we all figured it was from exposure to one or more pesticides: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6480006/ But who knows, could just be coincidence.
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by rcurry 4y ago
There are so many terrifying stories about stuff like this. I don’t remember the site, but there’s a website where you can research superfund allocations and it’s really frightening to learn that the parking lot two hundred meters from wher
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by rcurry 4y ago
This hits home for me. For years a few buddies of mine and I would go out coyote hunting in farm fields. In the mornings, there would be a lot of dew and our pant legs would be soaked through from walking through freshly treated corn fields
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by rcurry 4y ago
Reminds me of the time a group I worked for at a National Lab decided to call the root folder for their project “core”. I bet you can’t guess what filename the backup scripts were configured to ignore…
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by rcurry 5y ago
I used to be an avid skydiver, this article reminds me of the time my buddy Todd and his friend Jason jumped out of a jet, naked, at the World Freefall Convention in Illinois. They underestimated how bad the spot was going to be and ended u
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by rcurry 5y ago
They were actually quite nice about it, unblocked my card and down the road I went. Good for them, but they should have terminated that guy because he really did get so obnoxious that I actually thought I was taking to a scammer.
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by rcurry 5y ago
It gets even weirder when your bank acts like a scammer. A few weeks ago I was trying to help my wife add her USBank credit card to Apple Pay and Apple Pay said I needed to call this number to finish setting up the card. So I call the numbe
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by rcurry 5y ago
Honestly, the answer is no here. Putin can make as many threats as he likes, but he is surrounded by fabulously wealthy insiders who have absolutely no interest in being fried to a crisp. They’re more worried about losing their reservations
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by rcurry 5y ago
They probably can’t even find the keys to their missiles in the first place. “Damn it, they’re supposed to be on the hook next to the fridge - I told you never to move those!” “Did you check the junk drawer honey? What about in the garage w
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by rcurry 5y ago
And I’m right there with you.
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by rcurry 5y ago
What I mean is that it will be a thousand times worse.
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by rcurry 5y ago
I’m sure the US and allies will make that happen. This isn’t Afghanistan - even if the Russians occupy the Ukraine we will be supplying the insurgent forces with technology that will make the Russians feel like they’re fighting the Martian
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by rcurry 5y ago
A rifle behind every blade of grass, as the saying goes.
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by rcurry 5y ago
It’s tough to claw your way up when your dreams have been scuttled and you’re just a shell of your former self. If trading barbs with an urchin wasn’t beneath my morays, I’d gladly sink to your level. But it takes more than reading the Dred

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