wileydragonfly

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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
Yeah, I carefully followed the rules on that competition and made a cage that had the egg suspended with rubber bands. Worked pretty well in home testing. Lost to the kids that shoved wadded up paper towels into Tupperware containers. Nev
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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
Electronic Parts Outlet in Houston, TX
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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
Mock up some convincing letterhead, throw this on decent paper, and frame it. No one will ever know better and “Waffle House threatened to sue me” is a story you can tell until the grave.
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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
I enjoy everything Nicole puts out. Her blog has gotten me through some very boring hours on the clock.
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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
For several years in my city, you could buy a bootleg arcade board with multiple Nintendo games on it and Amazon would deliver it within 2 hours. For fun, every now and then, I’d report these to the Nintendo legal email address. Absolutel
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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
Meh, went through one of those services, (Buyee?) had to give them direct access to my PayPal to set up the account. Won my auctions and that shipping magically went from $40 to $300. Drawn instantly. I filed a fraud complaint with my ba
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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
If only Mark Twain knew the noble Germans would instigate a world war that killed the likes of 70 million people. So charming.
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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
They’re currently facing budget cuts and always push tons of stories about how amazing they are in response.
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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
This is hacker news. Fix it.
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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
Very minor nitpick, but “Hispanic serving institution” does have a specific meaning in higher education. He derides it as a pointless statement but it is objectively true with University of Houston. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
Ah yes, I, too, remember the strategy meetings where we had to pivot everything to defense and terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11. One project was pretty routine fertilizer research that we repackaged as “defending against terrorism a
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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
Should have gone with the “martians shot it down” explanation which was far cooler and less embarrassing
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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
My elevator has double doors, but some of them were installed with too large of a gap between doors that a child can get trapped. The solution is to bolt plastic bumpers to the back of the outer door. Which, hey. Works.
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by wileydragonfly 1y ago
Foreign subcontracts were already a huge pain in the ass on NIH grants. I was managing one that had an overseas collaborator that wasn’t even being paid and we constantly had to provide written justifications for it.
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
Styles haven’t changed that much since jeans and a tshirt
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
Never once smelled or tasted something funny when driving and realize you’d better pull over… like… right now? I have.
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
Being a touch typist was seen as kind of blue collar until everyone could afford personal computers at home..
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
Cockeyed
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
How much? I need someone to tend my looms.
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
Back in that brief window when Amazon was bribing USPS to deliver on Sundays and I could get 50-75lbs of bird seed for $12 shipped I had lots of fascinating Sunday mornings watching postal service workers swear at me and heave bags at my fr
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
For a few years, your money was better spent investing in Forever stamps vs the stock market..
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
I miss both Incredible Universe and Fry’s a great deal. Incredible Universe was the only store I ever saw that let me play a NeoGeo and CDi.
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
We had that contemporary commercial in one office building, but it was slightly elongated. The splash back was horrific and unavoidable. Angle, distance, approach, absolutely nothing prevented it. It was so bad we finally had open conver
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
Sweet, thanks for letting me know!
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
I like it.
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
They’ve been thrown in my face for decades as “oh my god, look at this.” I think every single article about Sierra mentions it. Oh well.
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
I always found those photos deeply unsettling. None of the women look particularly happy about being there. “If I don’t do this, Timmy doesn’t get that operation” vibes. The photo in the advertisement was bad enough, the outtakes are wor
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
This has been 2 years away for 40 years. It’s never happening.
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
I was stuck on that puzzle for years, let a friend borrow it, and he confidently announces the solution a couple days later. He swore he had uncovered it through trial and error, but I didn’t believe him. Still don’t. You weren’t running
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by wileydragonfly 2y ago
Let me gather some pitch forks..

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