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pantone159

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  1. The Parkway is built where an old native road was, back when 'road' meant only footpath. I thought it was cool to be traveling on a very old path there.
  2. That is a good plan to start with. Note that some parts of the Rim are closed sometimes due to falcons nesting, I do not know if that is the case right now though. Water is heavy.
  3. All I can tell from that tiny photo is that it is an Oklahoma license plate, so I suppose you have proved your case.
  4. Undefeated?
  5. My understanding (hopefully I will be corrected if wrong): Do *NOT* pay anything on this account, whether or not the collection people are especially scammy or not. I think that, if you do pay anything, then that account is considered active again, and instead of having this 11 year old collections account (which should have dropped off your credit report), you will then have a 1 day old active but delinquent account, and THEN your credit will be negatively affected by this. EDIT: On actually reading your message, I see that this is not actually your account, so doubly-extra you should ignore it. But if it WAS your account somehow, still do not pay anything.
  6. He saw that sign saying 'pack rat', figured you had a shipping container full of tasty rodents, and stopped by for a feast. Or so thought snek.
  7. I can't think of a specific favorite painting, but I have been impressed a few times how incredibly different the physical painting can be from a print that otherwise looks much the same. My parents had a print by some Dutch painter, of a young woman in a kitchen or something like that. The print was so boring, I could not imagine why anyone would put up such a boring picture. Then I saw it in person in the Rijksmuseum, and it glowed, the daylight was luminescent yellow. It was amazing! But only in person. I've had similar experiences with some Frida Kahlo works, things I had seen a million times as a print, then in person I see the eyes in the portraits for real, and it is a shock.
  8. This sums it up. And knowing that they are dishonest, be skeptical of their reasons.
  9. What happened on Feb 10? I was not sure what that one was. I suppose you might be referring to when the Wampanoag Indians under King Philip killed all the men in Lancaster Mass in 1676, maybe you barely escaped from that in time or something.
  10. As for silver, my conclusion is to keep any pieces that I want to hold long-term, because I just like their shiny looks or whatever, and sell the rest as convenient, but I have given up on investing in it. I did take some profits on a 100 oz bar that I bought just over 20 years ago, at about $5.30/oz, which seems like a nice profit, but it probably came up short of an S&P 500 fund, and was a lot more complicated to sell, so I will not try that anymore. Gold is for keeping indefinitely, unless there comes some emergency situation, like when I need to flee the country with only the clothes on my back (and the gold in my pockets), or having to barter with dragons. But I have not actually had much success accumulating gold, I always think it is too expensive. About 2 years ago, I was excited because the price of a US Saint Gaudens $20 in nice condition was little more than metal price, and I was patiently waiting for a drop in the spot price so I could snag a nice buy of a cool coin that I have always wanted one of. But then a bunch of strange stuff happened, and I still have not had my chance...
  11. 2*5.5 + (3.5-2)*(5.5 + 4.5)/2
  12. I'm not sure I agree with you 100% on your special relativity work there, Lou...
  13. The mineral exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science is fantastic. I always loved checking that out. There is also a seashell collection just outside the mineral wing that is really cool as well. The best mineral collection I ever saw though, was the E. A. Seaman museum, which was (formerly) on the Michigan Tech campus in the UP. It has moved somewhere else now, and was only partially on display when I visited, but they had some really cool stuff. First there were great specimens from the Upper Peninsula (copper, silver, iron minerals), plus lots of other really cool specimens from around the world, and with a great fluorescent mineral display.
  14. That is cool. I assume you were expecting to get one of the rooster 20 francs? I don't know my French gold, but my quick research says this is a circulation coin, not a restrike. I like it!
  15. I am happy to see wage inflation at the low end, honestly, whatever the reason. For decades, the economic bargain that the low end got has got shittier and shittier. It is time to be able to live on a basic job. Of course it means I will pay a little more for some things, but I don't mind. It is worth it as a society. I'd actually bet that child care issues is the biggest thing that is depressing the labor pool right now, but I dunno. The economic lot of the masses actually got a lot better after the Black Plague. Suddenly there were not enough serfs, and the landowners had to actually attract labor, and the peasants got a better bargain. Maybe this will be a little bit similar. And for that matter, can have interest ratez plz??? I am tired of earning 0% on money.
  16. Good luck! Maybe if you get nervous during the interview, imagine that they are all snek.
  17. The original photographer owns the rights to the image. The NFT buyer owns no rights to the image. The NFT owner is the one who can sell the token, but the sale transfers no rights to the image, since the NFT owner did not own any rights to begin with.
  18. badmofo8 or such was the guy on the old site who talks/posts to himself.
  19. σκατά και μάθετε
  20. Hmm, sovereigns do have a dragon on them (unfortunately losing the battle), so they do seem pretty appropriate for dragon hoards. As far as taking over Chapultepec, would there be another round of the ninos heroes hurling themselves off the cliff to try and stave off the Chinese?
  21. pantone159

    Getting old sucks

    That sounds like a good idea, I may try that. I did switch to a trackball for a while when my wrist had it really bad, and the change in motion helped, but really trackballs are more annoying to use than a mouse plus harder to point. But I am 100% that long term mouse use can wreck your whole arm.
  22. pantone159

    Getting old sucks

    Is your elbow pain on your mouse arm? My whole right arm (wrist, elbow, shoulder) is a bit tender from using the computer mouse with that arm for all these years. An elbow brace may help. Sleeping with them on can be especially helpful. Stretching helps with a lot of things. Part of it, I think, is that your tendons start to be able to not quite take it anymore, even though your muscles still can, and so the tendons get sore and they take forever to heal.
  23. Rip out the hard drives (the part with any personal data), and toss the rest of the PC into the trash. The technology for components changes so quickly, that it is not likely that any of the parts are useful anymore. I like to remove the fasteners from the hard drives (usually this requires the star-shaped screwdriver heads), and open them up. Then I check out the pretty drive platters inside (warning, sharp!), removing the platters if this is easy. This makes the data basically unreadable, though somebody who REALLY cared could still read something. Then I toss those in the trash as well. CRT monitors have lead lining (which is why they are so heavy), so ideally they should be disposed of properly. I forget what I did with my last one, maybe I gave it to Goodwill or something. Flat screen LCD monitors might still be useful.
  24. Unfortunately there is still no good answer. In many ways, the best waste disposal is to leave it on site in water pools for a century, and let the hottest stuff decay, leaving just the very long lived isotopes (the ones that make the waste hazardous for millenia, and also the ones you can make bombs from). Then the waste would be much simpler to deal with and move somewhere permanently, is NIMBY ever made that possible. But this is really very vulnerable to a terrorist attack, blowing up a spent waste pool to scatter the stuff into the environment. That could make areas uninhabitable for generations. This is a real problem, and not just with any future plants.
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