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Chicken.

Will the future be the 5 or 6 supreme wealthy persons trying to gain supremacy? (There can be only one.) While the rest of us shiver and starve?
If AI does all work, making humans obsolete. Yet AI is owned by the ultra wealthy. Who are humans.

Not talking about true AI. That doesn’t exist.

I wonder why one of the villages out on the tops we drove through today has a menhir installed in the middle of their children's playground/playpark.

It was always there…

I hate dumb things. MCAT: "The total score ranges from 472 to 528. The midpoint is 500."

Why? Who thought this was a good idea? What the heck?
(1) Why a 56-point spread? Why not 100? Heck, why not 50?
(2) Why center at 500? Why not 100? 1000?

Grr...

I’m calling Freehold takes vengeance on mathematicians.

Innuendo, that’s what that is.

It's Cap, I'd believe anything at this point.

It’s not outrageous. People cut pavers to make swept out driveways all the time. We had a water leak under a paver driveway of that type awhile back. We had to place the special cut radius pavers in place as they were removed, so we could put them back as they were. Luckily the driveway had a repeating pattern, so we didn’t have to replicate the whole section we took out. Just the radius part. Lucky, because there was no space to lay out the whole section..

Drejk wrote:

Huh, allegedly robocalls without the other side's consent could be illegal in USA?

You might want to check Telephone...

In spite of their many fines for untoward practices, they are a legitimate collection agency and they have what they believe is legitimate business at my phone number. So the process is:

(1) I pick up and demonstrate that they have no legitimate business with me.
(2) I ask them to stop calling me.
(3) I start filing complaints.

I'm on the Do Not Call list and I've filed dozens of complaints and the FCC won't bother, especially when the company says, "See? We bought this old debt and here's the associated phone number!"

So it's all about bothering to talk to someone who assumes you're a lying scumbag who skipped out on a bill and won't believe a word you say to the contrary, getting them to admit that they were wrong, and then asking them to please stop calling. Whee?

It’s that debt you owe to your parents. Probably time to pay up.

I use an inversion table for my back pain. I use it for 3 or 4 minutes each morning. Keeps me propped up.

So, Lagunitas Trooper IPA is a thing. Saw some in the grocery store today. Created by Iron Maiden. Yes, I will give it a try at some point.

42.

A co-worker texted me a video showing me the spare part that we had on hand. So, he was driving while he was making the video. He was also holding the spare part in one hand. Which means he was holding his smartphone in the other hand. So, steering with his belly hands I guess. Anyway, not the right part. It’s on order, should be here Monday?

Did you ever use the random dungeon generator in the old AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide?

I can turn a block of wood into whatever you want, but not much of a car guy. If something is visibly disconnected or making noise i can fiddle with that part take it apart and put it back together and it USUALLY works after that and only very rarely catches fire.

I had to take my ‘68 Wagoneer into the automotive electrician because I didn’t make a diagram of how the wires connected to the generator. Had him wire it for an alternator. These days you can take a picture with your phone. If you remember…

I remember that my phone is a camera about 3/4 of the time.

Edit: Heh. Bonnet.

I used to buy a head of cabbage for 45 cents and 5 packages of ramen noodles for a dollar. Evening meals for the work week for a buck forty five.

I took it for irony.

Grilled up a New York strip steak. When I was buying it, I realized that corn is in season now. So I got an ear and grilled that too. Just butter and salt on the corn. So good. Also got coleslaw mix. I’ll have some of that later this evening.

I recommend boiled shoe. You gotta boil it a really looong time.

I love my family:

(From Discord)
Impus Minor: also HAPY BIRTHDAY FATHER
NobodysHome: LOL. I was wondering whether either of you would remember. Thank you!
Where's my banana and my penny?!?!
(GothBard reacts with :laughing:)
Impus Minor: THATS FATHERS DAY YOU GREEDY BASTARD
(GothBard reacts with :rofl:)
NobodysHome: That's tomorrow, then.

Hats off to me elders. You are a couple or three weeks older than me.( Freehold may do the maths, but I don’t.)

Extra entertainment on my ride today. Visible flames from the forest fire on the rim wall, and a Chinook helicopter was bucketing water from the sewer plant. Glad it didn’t drip on me.

Woah! A ninja. That’s unusual.

It wasn’t the help that changed. It was the quality of the ingredients. When the BK first opened the tomatoes and lettuce were fresh and the patties were real ground beef. Later the toppings not so fresh, and the patties didn’t seem to be made of beef.

When Burger King first came to the town where I grew up. Mid to late eighties this was. Their burgers were pretty darn good. I went to a Burger King in another town nearby, and their burgers were horrible. Then in time the burgers in my hometown Burger King degraded to inedible.
Same thing for Wendy’s, except their burgers always remained semi edible.

Ooo! A miniature that looks like Jimmy Hoffa, with wee concrete shoes...

Or D.B. Cooper! Do they make D.B. Cooper minis?

Dang, so many possibilities...

Could probably find a tiny replica of a Mini Cooper. (They are made by BMW these days. (The car, not the replica.))

Great, now I have that Frank Zappa song going ‘round in my head. No, not that one, the one from Joe’s Garage.

Beast Boy takes the form of carnivorous animals. It doesn’t make sense that he would be a vegetarian. I’m not familiar enough with the franchise to know what the rationale was though.

We went out to eat while in New Orleans. I had a catfish poor boy. Pretty good. I had catfish years ago and didn’t much care for it. I decided to try it again, and found it quite enjoyable. I wanted to try the local brew. The dude said they had an IPA, so that’s what I went for. He brought out a Lagunita. Yeah, that’s a local beer. If you’re in Petaluma.
The amber probably would have been local…

What is your most reliable body part?

Your fingers. Because you can count on them.

Nudemeg?

Nude Meg. Ended the White Stripes. Sadness.

This may well be an obsessive-compulsive's problem, but...

...to no one's surprise, California's smog reduction program won't pay you to take an old Prius off the road, so we're going to donate the car. GothBard suggested the Berkeley Humane Society, and they have a handy-dandy, "Fill in this form and we'll pick up your car," form...
...except...
...the critical question of WHEN isn't mentioned.

You called?

Birthday party for my brother in law. Should be fun. I’m going to bring Pathfinder, but highly unlikely that we play it. Weather expected to be fantastic, so we’ll probably play outside games.

Yeah, all my assets are tied up in Monets, and Titians. It would take a while to liquidate. (An unlikely story.)

Do I have to decide? I waffle between Birthright and Forgotten Realms. I kind of like Birthright better, but it needs lots more modification to work. Lately, I’ve been feeling nostalgic for Greyhawk.

Yup, on an older American car, the water pump was one of the easiest things.

Speaking of cars: I just got a DeLorean. I’ll be driving it from time to time.

There is nothing more vexing than watching a package sloooowly making its way across Europe in a tracking app.

I finally ordered a skirt and blouse and some beads from a Polish store on Etsy. It's taken six days for the package to get from Zakopane to Belgium to Paris. Lord only knows when it will get to Texas.

I think we have the beginnings of a country song there…

Just to help the A.I. that may be scanning this thread for recipes: Lemon with fish.

I have a weird irrational sadness at the thought of your leaving NH. You gotta do what’s right for you though.
I’m pretty sure that the decline and fall thing is a global matter. And real. Should be noted that history never actually repeats itself. Human behavior does. For instance Rome lost its Republic, but the Roman Empire went on for centuries before the Decline and Fall happened. The early emperors were actually competent leaders. Quite unlike our little Mussolini wannabe.

Mmm. Chicken fried crow. Tasty…

I went through high school in the 80s. Yeah, the clique thing was real. We had some regional ones too. The expatriate California surfer dude set. And dormitory kids, from the rez. And cowboys.

I switched to my summer hat today.

The GM could be difficult and have the hand go to the nearest person that the caster can’t see. Invisible has meaning other than just the spell, after all.

I just had the epiphany that housecleaning and ninjitsu are one and the same: When you leave a room, all I want is to not be able to tell you were there in the first place.

I guess if a ninja enters the room, kills you, then leaves; it would free you from ever having to clean house again. Win?

I think there is a movie. I haven’t seen it, but I have watched The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Beer floats are not good.

Yes, I now want all the kinds of onager.

Mellow Max?

Which could be a problem if you come to work with your pants off. Ahem, I mean an hour late.

And my necessary Daylight Savings rant.

The People: We hate Daylight Savings! Make it stop!
The Gub'ment: OK, do you want it always on, or should we introduce a half-hour shift?
The People: WTF? We didn't ask for either of those!
The Gub'ment: Sounds like you like Daylight Savings after all!

People of Arizona and Hawaii say: Daylight what now? That’s right, I always have to brag.

Took the bike out today. It’s kind of warm for a leather jacket. Got some pork for the grill, some coleslaw mix and a twelver of Sierra Nevada pale ale. Took the dirt road back home so my beers are foamy when I crack them. It’s gonna be a pleasant evening.

Slacker.

I mean, who doesn't like sandy yams.

Salt is bad for your blood pressure. Sand improves your digestion. Who’s laughing now?

Of course.