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Bat Guano

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  1. OK, that's twice now. Starting to think you're serious. How many Best Buy coupons? Is there a money back guarantee?
  2. This is a good tip. Tried it over the weekend with some ribs. It seemed to help keep the temperature down, which has always been my biggest problem. Blocks more of the heat from the coals, so the cooking area doesn't get as hot, and I was maintaining a good 225 - 250 for several hours, which was exactly what I wanted. Ribs turned out fantastic. Sorry, didn't bother to take pics.
  3. Hey, I want a private jet too! How can I get stupid gullible people to give me money?
  4. Deviated preverts everywhere these days.
  5. "Pretend." That's the ticket!
  6. Saw a story on the news about an 8-year-old almost abducted on the same corner, except it was a guy in a black Honda CRV with a three-to-five inch dent on the front passenger door and a black and orange sticker in the right lower corner on the back window. Seems like a dangerous neighborhood.
  7. Yeah. I used to throw them in the pond for the goldfish to eat, but after a few they stopped eating the smelly little bastards.
  8. Ah. Is that what those are. I'm not as forgiving as you are. I've killed probably about a hundred of those that were eating my dill and parsley this year. Just for fun, pull one off the plant. You don't have to kill it if you don't want to. Report back.
  9. I'm jealous. My cucumbers are off to a really slow start. Maybe the cool nights early in the season? I've got about 10 plants, but they're nowhere near as big as those (that's what she said). Tomatoes are doing great, though. I've never figured out what combination of factors make some years 'good' for specific crops and not others. I would have thought that if cool nights early in the season set back cucumbers, it would do the same for tomatoes, but that seems not to be the case this year.
  10. Are you anti-death penalty?
  11. Every time you walk into a bathroom and get a good whiff of someone's shit-stink, you're literally inhaling thousands of molecules that came out of that person's ass just moments before.
  12. I remember thinking at the time that Columbine was different - there had been school shootings before, well publicized, but Columbine got to me in a way they didn't. In retrospect I think it's because it was the first of the type of shooting Brisket is talking about. It embodied the nihilism and cruelty of society coming out in our kids. Since then there have been any number of similar shootings - maybe some of them are copycats, maybe they're just manifestations of the same pathology and would have happened anyway. But it felt like an inflection point at the time, and still does.
  13. He's white. He'll be fine.
  14. Yeah, I'm sure that less-than-1-percent of the admin is the real problem.
  15. College May Not Be Worth It Anymore Some info in here related to this thread, both the OP and the hijack. 1. College may not be worth it for folks starting off poor. They don’t get as much of a salary bump as those starting off middle or upper class, even with the same degree, and with costs going up they may never make back the expense. It’s a class thing. 2. It’s also a race thing. Minorities make less than whites even with a comparable college degree. 3. A college degree is a barrier to entry to many high paying jobs - many jobs whose duties don’t require a college degree nevertheless require one to be hired. 4. Minorities and poors are less likely to be admitted to elite universities, which bestow a greater salary bump than non-elites. And they're less likely to graduate if they do get in. Some takeaways: if you want to close the income gap between poors, which overlaps heavily with the category of minorities, and middle-to-upper classes, then a diversity program that recruits minorities into elite universities and helps them succeed there would seem to be a natural step. You can quibble about how much to spend on such a program, but if one of your goals is to reduce class- and race-based inequality, then if you want to cut it down to essentially nothing, as Tahoe seems to want to do, then you’ll have to figure out another way to get there.
  16. Wait a minute. Are those numbers right - nearly four times as many admin staff as faculty? If so, that seems to be the problem, in a nutshell.
  17. Only two?
  18. That was the speculation on Chris Hayes last night, that Mueller wanted to keep them out of public view. But that's all it was; no apparent facts to back it up.
  19. I'd be careful with the tobacco, at least if you're going to spray it on tomatoes, because it might contain tobacco mosaic virus. I've always heard you should keep tobacco as far away from tomatoes as possible.
  20. Trump Discloses Payment to Cohen in Financial Report Musta just slipped his mind that other time, you know, when he said he didn't know anything about it. Bless his heart, got a lot on his mind these days....
  21. UFCU branch downtown is 'paper-free,' as the teller or whatever sitting at a desk to help people who don't want to use a machine proudly informed me. No deposit slips, no nothin'. I went in to make a deposit and pay off a loan, with the loan amount written on a piece of paper. I'd gotten the amount online, but of course there was a difference between that amount and the actual payoff amount, because of interest that hadn't appeared yet. So she asked if she could write on my slip of paper the amount off her computer, so she could enter it on the other screen. Being the asshole that I am, I had to point out, well, that paper-free thing doesn't always work, does it? She started muttering something about how someone had stolen her Post-It notes or something. I stuck her pen in my shirt pocket and walked out with it, to teach her a lesson.
  22. Austin Gingerman is closing - lease was bought out, according to the bartender. Stopped in over the weekend and they only had about half their usual selection, because they're letting the taps run out prior to closing in a couple of weeks. Hadn't been going as much as I used to to the old location - seemed like when they moved 8 or 9 years ago they didn't have as great a selection. It was still a solid beer bar, though, and I'll miss it. Bartender says they're looking for a new location on the East side, and may reopen in several months to a year.
  23. Fixed. If you want the second sentence to be true, that is.
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