What’s on your mind?

[Scepticalscribe]

A buddy sent this. Crappie were biting today. Apparently they’ve been biting the last two weeks.

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Delicious.

Sauté in butter, serve with roast potatoes, and a green salad, or a tomato and cucumber salad.

On mu mind, today, are oxtails, that have been happily bathing in marinade for the past 18 or so hours.

In around two hours time, I shall brown them, sauté some onions, and add stock (and the marinade) to the oxtails, letting them simmer for the next five to six to seven hours, whereupon diced tomatoes, and parsley, and - perhaps - butter beans, or cannellini beans - shall be added.

Rice, rather than potatoes, shall accompany the oxtails when they are ready.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Dinner and emails, in that order.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Mine too.



Good luck with house sale and purchase.

Need to do another clean install. Thanks for the reminder.

This hard drive always slows down if there’s less than 650gb of storage left (It’s a spinner, so I understand it can get slow). Perhaps today, as sinus pain and other stuff kept me up all night and is keeping me home from work. That’ll look great as I took Friday off, but I make up the time so...


@Gutwrench enjoy those fish!

Thank you. Couldn’t you boot from an external SSD? Might improve things.

 

[kazmac]

Thank you. Couldn’t you boot from an external SSD? Might improve things.

When funds permit, I’ll buy an SSD to do that. Finally, created a bootable usb drive last week. Thanks.

 

[Apple fanboy]

When funds permit, I’ll buy an SSD to do that. Finally, created a bootable usb drive last week. Thanks.

Should help quite a bit I’d think.

 

[AngerDanger]

My new favorite thread.

It's all about how the OP can't create a new thread. Also at some point, they call it abuse.

 

[Matz]

Tough crowd.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

My new favorite thread.

It's all about how the OP can't create a new thread. Also at some point, they call it abuse.

I think he confused starting a thread with sending private messages; and I suspect that he may have confused "abuse" with "harassment", but, quite candidly, I very much doubt that either applies in this case.

 

[LizKat]

Tough crowd.

The reaction to the thread vs convo thing with the newbie?

I think the whole planet is lately tending to displace some feelings about other things --some pending elections all around the world?-- to wherever some opportunity looks to have popped up. Poor newbie was in a right place at the wrong time, like the proverbial dog snoozing on the rug when we come home from a bad day at the job.

Maybe we should reboot the whole experience tomorrow, just disappear or forget that thread and start over with a welcome mat... although that moniker he picked, I dunno.

 

[0388631]

That's got to be mortifying for them. On the other hand, a brilliant thread to refer back to in the future and have a laugh.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Tough crowd.

The reaction to the thread vs convo thing with the newbie?

I think the whole planet is lately tending to displace some feelings about other things --some pending elections all around the world?-- to wherever some opportunity looks to have popped up. Poor newbie was in a right place at the wrong time, like the proverbial dog snoozing on the rug when we come home from a bad day at the job.

Maybe we should reboot the whole experience tomorrow, just disappear or forget that thread and start over with a welcome mat... although that moniker he picked, I dunno.

My new favorite thread.

It's all about how the OP can't create a new thread. Also at some point, they call it abuse.

That's got to be mortifying for them. On the other hand, a brilliant thread to refer back to in the future and have a laugh.

To be candid, I thought that it was an honest mistake, (confusing making posts, creating threads, and sending PMs), - everyone has to learn about these things, this is not knowledge you are born with, even if you are a digital native, and there was a time when I first joined this forum when all of that was totally new to me and I was certainly completely clueless about such matters.

For me, that was not the issue, and is not what prompted the pile on and the responses.

Rather, it was the enraged entitled, and outraged tone taken by the OP, a tone born of frustration, no doubt, and I daresay that he (I am assuming that it is a "he") may be rather young, that prompted my decision to respond.

Apart from learning the difference (important on this site and others) between a PM/DM and a post, I think it is also important and a valuable lesson to learn that not every minor set-back merits an explosion of pent up rage.

 

[yaxomoxay]

Light breakfast: Cappuccino, strawberry oatmeal.
I am still sickish... damn’d cold!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Light breakfast: Cappuccino, strawberry oatmeal.
I am still sickish... damn’d cold!

Good luck with your recovery, and, remember, rest and hydration both help with the condition.

Oddly enough (for a coffee lover, that is), whenever I have a cold, I find tea wonderfully restorative and soothing.

 

[LizKat]

On my mind: considering how many books are not yet available in digital format, imagine being able to order a library book and have it delivered to the subway stop of your choice. It's a can-do feature of the train stations in Seoul. Drop the book off at the machine in any station when you're done with it.

Oh yeah! I wonder if any big US cities have this option now. Picking up reserved books and returning them on time was such a hassle in NYC when I worked days and was taking classes at night. I could really have gone for something like this.

 

[Apple fanboy]

On my mind is how you suddenly realise how much you rely on MR when it’s suddenly not there!
What a long evening that seamed.

Spent the night reading about mortgages as sadly I’ll be getting another one today.
But the loan to value rate is pretty low and I’ll get as short a term as I can.

It will be worth it though when I get to move.

 

[Ulenspiegel]

Life. As it is.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

On my mind is how you suddenly realise how much you rely on MR when it’s suddenly not there!
What a long evening that seamed.

Yes, must admit, that this was on my mind, last night, as well.

Spent the night reading about mortgages as sadly I’ll be getting another one today.
But the loan to value rate is pretty low and I’ll get as short a term as I can.

It will be worth it though when I get to move.

Sounds like a good night's work, and well worth it - personally and psychologically - once you have completed your move.

 

[Matz]

On my mind: considering how many books are not yet available in digital format, imagine being able to order a library book and have it delivered to the subway stop of your choice. It's a can-do feature of the train stations in Seoul. Drop the book off at the machine in any station when you're done with it.

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Oh yeah! I wonder if any big US cities have this option now. Picking up reserved books and returning them on time was such a hassle in NYC when I worked days and was taking classes at night. I could really have gone for something like this.

What a great idea! A simple but elegant innovation that combines some of the convenience of digital downloads with the look, feel, and fragrance of actual books.

If I lived in a city that had it, I would be all over this.

 

[yaxomoxay]

On my mind is how you suddenly realise how much you rely on MR when it’s suddenly not there!
What a long evening that seamed.

I didn't have much time to be on MR this week, but yesterday I was like "come on guys!!"
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On my mind: considering how many books are not yet available in digital format, imagine being able to order a library book and have it delivered to the subway stop of your choice. It's a can-do feature of the train stations in Seoul. Drop the book off at the machine in any station when you're done with it.

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Oh yeah! I wonder if any big US cities have this option now. Picking up reserved books and returning them on time was such a hassle in NYC when I worked days and was taking classes at night. I could really have gone for something like this.

When I worked at a library these machines were discussed. If memory doesn't fail me, they often get vandalized in American cities which ends up being more pricey than hiring a librarian.

 

[0388631]

Light breakfast: Cappuccino, strawberry oatmeal.

I made strawberry oatmeal weeks ago using lightly macerate berries and a dollop of sour cream. It was delicious. I was thinking about it last night whilst we were watching Undone.

 

[LizKat]

What a great idea! A simple but elegant innovation that combines some of the convenience of digital downloads with the look, feel, and fragrance of actual books.

If I lived in a city that had it, I would be all over this.

Yes, when I saw the tweet from that blogger (who lives in Seoul), I flashed back to all those times I'd just missed a train in NYC and so had maybe fifteen minutes or more to wait for another... plenty time to pick up or return a library book if those library machines had been available on our station platforms.

Spoiler: But we do have a rural equivalent

I do now really enjoy ordering up hardcopy of books from our four-county library system and having them made available via our county's mobile library. That is a recently replaced $250K wonderbus... some bipartisan wrangling for state funds helped cover the cost. It's accessible to the disabled, has wireless internet capability, a refreshed collection for browsing and stacks of books prepared in advance for patrons who had previously ordered them online or by phone.

Our mobile setup serves all the no-library hamlets and villages in my county's sprawling collection of 19 rural townships. The towns do all have public libraries but can be quite some distance from where more rural patrons live. When the mobile library plan was implemented, the existing logistics for book deliveries and returns among town libraries within the four-county system were just extended to treat that library bus as if it were just another "town library". The system's online book catalog and reservation options are a huge help, since we can get books from big libraries in the more populated counties delivered closer to patrons in tiny villages.

All one needs is transportation to parking lot of local firehall, post office, general store or church hall etc., wherever the announced parking spot is per village as the bus makes its monthly rounds, and neighbors or church volunteers are happy to carpool for those occasions. It's great for seniors, those without time or transportation to town libraries, and parents needing a fresh supply of bedtime stories for toddlers.

 

[LizKat]

When I worked at a library these machines were discussed. If memory doesn't fail me, they often get vandalized in American cities which ends up being more pricey than hiring a librarian.

"Why we can't have nice things"... ? Ugh!

 

[D.T.]

Supporting doo-dads for a new Mac Mini (i7/32GB/512GB).

Running both my U2518 displays to mDP on my MBP from DP (monitor), guess I need a USB-C-to-mDP adapter or a USB-C-to-mDP cable, and will run the other display on HDMI.

 

[Gutwrench]

Do I take the 2, 3 or the 7?

👉

🏃........

 

[Apple fanboy]

Do I take the 2, 3 or the 7?

👉

🏃........

Combine them all and take the 12?