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    Is it OK to tell everybody that my dog had puppies?

    It's a political post. The puppies are obviously all right-leaning (left-leaning, to the observer).
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    A barbecue adventure, the saga unfolds.

    I am a KCBS judge, though my judging experience is a whopping two days. I think we had 6 judging tables; hard to imagine a contest so large it required 72 tables. We did have some great entries; we were told the previous year's Team of the Year was there, plus two more that were also at the...
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    french fries (N/A, for potato's sake)

    I'd also pick onion rings first, as long as they are actual rings, not the chopped processed onion bits that some vendors form into ring shapes. Among the fries, I'd put shoestrings first, as they hold more fry sauce per volume of potato. Steak fries last, too mealy for a fry. Just give me...
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    A barbecue adventure, the saga unfolds.

    Keep us updated! I'll be following this closely. I've got an entry in on another virtual BBQ contest, this one's theme was simply 'poultry', with no further guidelines. It didn't do well in the popular vote, waiting now for the announcement of a secondary prize awarded by a 3-judge...
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    The self-flagellation of the frugal and mechanically minded(a rant)

    I've seen a few racing fuel cans, like this one, that should be just the ticket. Of course, until the regulators decided they could design a better gas can for the rest of us, you could get cheap functional cans anywhere. I did laugh at this bit of text from the description in the link you...
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    The self-flagellation of the frugal and mechanically minded(a rant)

    I've never encountered either issue with vertical tub washers.
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    Done . . .

    Congratulations, Sir! Quite a lifetime of accomplishment!
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    Lilium Runs Out of Money

    Without doing the math, replacing the energy used in a 25 mile flight in a loaded eVTOL in just 10 minutes sounds like it would require a ferocious charge rate.
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    Woman Backs Into Propeller, Kansas, fatal, 10/27

    O I was taught to do it twice. "Clear Prop!" just before priming, look around, prime, one more 'Clear Prop!", look around, then crank.
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    The self-flagellation of the frugal and mechanically minded(a rant)

    They're getting harder to find, but that was always the way to find functional gas cans that never leaked and had a vent cap you could open for easy pouring. They are so vastly superior to the newer government-mandated ones with a 12-piece nozzles that leaks in 8 places, and no vent cap. The...
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    scream

    When store clerks ask, I always just say it's unlisted, and they accept that. Doesn't mean it's unlisted in the global sense, only that it is unlisted with them. And will remain so.
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    Drone strikes bystanders at Boston Celtics event 22 Oct 2024

    I predict they will take swift, decisive action to make sure a CNN drone never again injures bystanders. I'll bet they are already looking for independent contractors to operate all future drone flights.
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    Lilium Runs Out of Money

    Edited to align with my prediction. Which is not to say there won't be successful air taxis in the future, it's just that I can't imagine any of the first-wave companies having enough funding to get past the current technical hurdles needed to make it to production and commercial success.
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    scream

    Well, they don’t reassign them for awhile. Though new numbers I’ve received in the past still came with a certain amount of spam meant for a previous owner
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    scream

    Our old home phone line eventually became our spam catcher. We were protective of our cell numbers, the home number was always the one we gave out to people or businesses that we didn’t necessarily want to hear from. For awhile we’d look at caller ID when a call came in. Later on we’d just let...
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    Hey old people, tell us what you can't do!

    Guess what you are getting when you turn 58:
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    Totally random trivia…

    That is correct
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    Totally random trivia…

    Not currently a correct answer, but until 1980 or so, I-80 split in Salt Lake City, with I-80 going to San Francisco, and I-80N going to Portland. I remember this bit of trivia because one summer when making my annual cross-country drive home from college, I got really lost in Salt Lake City...
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    Totally random trivia…

    21% Follow-up questions: In the 'Death Zone' at the top of Mount Everest, what percentage of the air is oxygen? When flying at FL600, what percentage of the outside air is oxygen?
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    Hey young people, tell us what you can do!

    Before we fled NJ earlier this year, our property taxes were $22,000. Bought almost twice as much house in Idaho and the taxes fell to $5k, 1/4 of which is a special assessment set to expire this year Gas, electric, water, TV, internet dropped by half, on average.
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