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Apple fanboy said:
Apart from this site I’m not on any social media. So any potential employers will probably think I’m either a spy or in a witness protection program!
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Oh, I'm sure there exists a file on you somewhere.
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AngerDanger said:
Me neither, but for whatever reason, I have really fond memories of these. Yeah, I think I came across the same candies. If you want to see something freaky, check out how much sour Altoids are currently going for on eBay.
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LOL, yeah, I saw those. I thought I still had the hard candy tin somewhere but I must have thrown it out a few months ago. It had currants as one of the flavors, which is why I picked it up. Hefty small tin, maybe about a pound of hard candy. Naturally flavored not artificial. I've been on the lookout since then for something like it or the same. I must have bought it in 2017, which speaks volumes about my candy consumption.

Anyway, I was partial to the tangerine flavor back then. Nice balance between sweet, sour and bitter. The bitter profile kind of reminded me of these orange flavored Vicks cough drops that were around in the 1990s. They were in that unique guitar pick shape. The cough drops Vicks sells now and has been for maybe 20 years has been the round kind, which tastes worse.

I don't like cough drops when I'm sick, but they're nice here and there. Luden, Ricola and the Halls citrus variety are decent. Low enough in sugar not to nauseate me. Good after a meal.
 
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Shwing!

Found a B2C site that sells quaternary ammonium tablets. A tablet to a gallon. Particular substance happens to be the full name for BZK. Ordered a case, 6 bottles/150 ct. each. These turn a dark blue in warm water but don't leave a residual stain. Going to give a bottle each or divvy them up in tablet form to our immediate family members.
 
Zenithal said:
Oh, I'm sure there exists a file on you somewhere.
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LOL, yeah, I saw those. I thought I still had the hard candy tin somewhere but I must have thrown it out a few months ago. It had currants as one of the flavors, which is why I picked it up. Hefty small tin, maybe about a pound of hard candy. Naturally flavored not artificial. I've been on the lookout since then for something like it or the same. I must have bought it in 2017, which speaks volumes about my candy consumption.

Anyway, I was partial to the tangerine flavor back then. Nice balance between sweet, sour and bitter. The bitter profile kind of reminded me of these orange flavored Vicks cough drops that were around in the 1990s. They were in that unique guitar pick shape. The cough drops Vicks sells now and has been for maybe 20 years has been the round kind, which tastes worse.

I don't like cough drops when I'm sick, but they're nice here and there. Luden, Ricola and the Halls citrus variety are decent. Low enough in sugar not to nauseate me. Good after a meal.
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I’m pretty sure my internet footprint is pretty small.
 
Huntn said:
I am loving this HOUSTON weather! We had gotten up to 90 several days ago then a cool front blew in and 3 days later at 11am, it‘s 60. :D
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It's been nice. I took my car out for a nice little cruise with the windows down yesterday. I'm right outside San Antonio. It's basically perfect weather. Not too hot, not too cold.
 
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Hit the grocery store today, and noticed something.

The grocery store had a limit of 250 people, at the time of day though that wasn't an issue, but it's who was shopping that was noticeable. Literally every 3rd shopper was an Instacart shopper, or employee doing it. It makes me wonder when this is all over, if people aren't going to be more comfortable with just pulling up for the groceries or having them delivered.

Also a week's worth of shopping is almost 1/12th of your stimulus check, dependent on the amount you are buying for. o_O
 
JayMysterio said:
Hit the grocery store today, and noticed something.

The grocery store had a limit of 250 people, at the time of day though that wasn't an issue, but it's who was shopping that was noticeable. Literally every 3rd shopper was an Instacart shopper, or employee doing it. It makes me wonder when this is all over, if people aren't going to be more comfortable with just pulling up for the groceries or having them delivered.

Also a week's worth of shopping is almost 1/12th of your stimulus check, dependent on the amount you are buying for. o_O
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I’ve been noticing that some markets open up early for old folks. I have no problem with that. I do have a problem with youngish people crashing the party without face coverings. And those same markets have no sneeze shields for their checkers.
 
Stephen.R said:
So what you're saying is, you're infected now. :p
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I drive around without a roof :D But I also wear a mask, well, a neck guard pulled up bandit style.

Not really worried about the virus in a moving car, but I think it looks pretty rad :D



JayMysterio said:
Hit the grocery store today, and noticed something.

The grocery store had a limit of 250 people, at the time of day though that wasn't an issue, but it's who was shopping that was noticeable. Literally every 3rd shopper was an Instacart shopper, or employee doing it. It makes me wonder when this is all over, if people aren't going to be more comfortable with just pulling up for the groceries or having them delivered.

Also a week's worth of shopping is almost 1/12th of your stimulus check, dependent on the amount you are buying for. o_O
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I did today too, going only once a week, my standard 8:45a or so time, always pretty vacant, armed with a mask (better than the above mentioned bandana), and wipes.

Our grocery put down big green arrows on one end the aisles, a big X on the other, alternating, the idea is to have people going the same way - I did it, heck, I even went down and around when I missed something to go the right way, but of course, a bunch of ****wits were going the wrong way, and this one couple, sounded like people from OOT, no masks, not following the flow, talking loud - I finally stood at the end, while they came down the wrong way. Looked down at the arrow, up at the dude, he sort of stopped, looked sheepish, I was like, "Ya think??". JFC.

Plenty of everything, except for sani-wipes and TP, but we're good on those.

Also hit up the liquor store, Small Batch 4 Roses still on a killer deal, got a __bunch_, several goodies, mostly the usual suspects :D
 
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Septembersrain said:
It's been nice. I took my car out for a nice little cruise with the windows down yesterday. I'm right outside San Antonio. It's basically perfect weather. Not too hot, not too cold.
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When I was stationed in San Antonio, I especially liked the New Braunfels area, good German food.
 
SandboxGeneral said:
Deleted my Twitter today.

Twitter = bloat
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Yeah it can be that way. I don't like how Twitter sticks "liked" tweets into my timeline from accounts that people I follow follow. Ugh! I didn't delete my setup but I did the next best thing and it took me a couple hours spread over a week. I deleted all the assorted individual follows I had applied... so there's nothing left but a few organizations and main media outlet accounts left. It's now Twitter on a diet again, and at least somewhat less annoying.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
Yeah here in DFW ain't much different. I want a good, steady 90F.
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I'd take that but right now the idea of it with quarantine sounds like a nightmare and expensive electricity bill to boot. I love summertime for swimming but my complex just got sold and they were putting in a new pool to replace the old one. It's nowhere near finished either.

I'm not very excited this year.
 
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LizKat said:
Yeah it can be that way. I don't like how Twitter sticks "liked" tweets into my timeline from accounts that people I follow follow. Ugh! I didn't delete my setup but I did the next best thing and it took me a couple hours spread over a week. I deleted all the assorted individual follows I had applied... so there's nothing left but a few organizations and main media outlet accounts left. It's now Twitter on a diet again, and at least somewhat less annoying.
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I kept my follows list pretty lean already. Then I took a bunch of topical accounts and made lists for them. That was really nice to segregate a bunch of stuff out of the main feed.

Tweetbot for iOS and macOS is amazing and should be how Twitter is used by default. It has no ads inserted and doesn't show all the junk, like other accounts likes, in the feed. If it weren't for Tweetbot, I would have deleted Twitter years ago.

However, since I switched to Android last year, I've found myself using the Twitter website more and more. There is no comparable app on Android to Tweetbot.

So since I've used the website more I've really started to dislike Twitter and found it less and less useful or entertaining.
 
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Random thought I had this afternoon while I was standing in my SysAdmin's office (my old office). He was at his desk (my old desk) and I was out front. There was a box on the floor with some old equipment that was dropped off to us.

Lately, my legs, (quads and hams) have been tight from all the sitting around, so I put my leg up on the box and started stretching briefly. As I was doing that, I was staring down at the pile of old servers on the floor under a table.

My thought was (and I know I'm not the first to think it, or take action on it) that proprietary software is bad for the environment.

I said that out loud and my SysAdmin was confused and just replied "no, it's not!?" He said it as a statement/puzzelment question as if to wonder why I said that.

The reason is that one of the servers, an old NEXSAN, has proprietary software and firmware that locks the use of all the hard drives you put in it to licensing restrictions. When I had that running, there was physically 11 TB's of hard drive storage in it. Yet, because I didn't have enough licensing for it all, I was only allowed to use 9 TB of it. For another $2,000 per year, I could use the other 2 TB.

That really pissed me off for a long time and we eventually converted over to FreeNAS, open-source software with no restrictions.

But the thought of the day is that, we can take the hard drives out of the NEXSAN and use them elsewhere, and we will at some point, but the giant chassis and the electronics inside are totally useless without their licensing.

So how is that bad for the environment? Well, that means that all the metal and silicon will end up in a dump someplace because I can't re-purpose it for anything else. I may see about recycling it and hopefully there is some places locally that will take it.

But we all know, more often than not, this stuff ends up in dumps.

Proprietary software is bad for the environment.
 
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