The post race was sliding down the page a bit. Need to move it higher up. I wonder what would happen if some of the other large volume threads got merged into this one. Nothing good, I figure. Post Race should be bizarre, not heated.
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The post race was sliding down the page a bit. Need to move it higher up. I wonder what would happen if some of the other large volume threads got merged into this one. Nothing good, I figure. Post Race should be bizarre, not heated.
The weather for the next few days is looking promising. Promising lots of snow. Therefore, I got some shopping done so that I don't have any great need to leave the house for the next three days.
Do you suppose that whoever shot up the transformers in North Carolina was just trying to keep them from turning into some kind of killer robot?
I'm convinced it was Bonker.
Well, he's certainly notable in his silence on the topic.
For you skiers,
Predictive technology.
I've went skiing twice and both times someone I went with got injured. Maybe I'm just a jinx.
No, that sounds about average.
Actually, I haven't gone downhill skiing in many years. Not since I was down around 10-12, I believe. For much of that time, it was a lack of opportunity and a minimum of interest. Since then, it's been about saving my knees for other things.
Salsa dancing????Quote:
Since then, it's been about saving my knees for other things.
Salsa eating.
You need strong knees for that.
If you didn't know, you haven't had the right kind of salsa.
The last time I danced salsa (really suck at it), some girl came out of nowhere and grabbed my partners hair, pulling her away! I barely knew both of them, but when I tried to break it up, the girl I was dancing with mistakenly clawed me in the face, missing my right eye! I then left it up to their friends to pull them apart (I was a stranger there), and got some wet papertowels for the scratches on my face, and sat at the bar eating chips with salsa, which burned me a little near my mouth where one of the scratches was.
Never went to that neighborhood again!
Well, at least you got an adventure out of it.
One of my son's friends who comes over to the house died last night in a car accident.
She was laying down drunk in the middle of the road when a truck pulling a trailer hit her.
The little boy always had a rough home life but it is such a shock nonetheless.
I've heard of that happening before. I've never really understood it. I don't think I've ever laid down in the middle of a road.
Still, I'm unable to fully parse that story. "She" laid down in the middle of the road, but "the little boy had..." And who was the friend of your son, the boy, the woman? It sounds like a tragedy either way, but I'm not quite clear on the cast of characters.
Sorry about that. I wrote it soon after I found out and my grammar not good.
I did not know the woman very well, but I do know the womana (who died)'s son very well, he is at our house 3 or 4 times a day. From what I gathered just from him coming over to visit, he lived with his grandmother because his father isn't around and his mother wasn't capable of taking care of him because she had addiction issues.
I don't have very strong feelings towards the mother because I think I might have met her only once or twice, but I am incredibly upset for her son. He is very well mannered and genuinely a sweet kid, although you can tell that a lack of home discipline creeped in every once in a while when he would be at our house. I can only imagine how traumatic this must be for him.
It may not be too bad, for him. It sounds like his immediate family life might have been so unsettled/traumatic in the past that this would just be taken in stride. Consider that you might be a better role model for him than his parents ever were. It sounds like he has the disposition to thrive, if given the chance. To some extent, it's all about the support structure. He doesn't sound like he was getting much from his parents, but his grandparents and friends might be able to provide that which was missing.
Not to say that it was a good thing, but he might land on his feet, with a little help from his friends.
Wasn't there a movie that portrayed some teenagers laying in the middle of a busy road in order to prove bravery or stupidity or something like that?
In my high school days (early-'80s) a classmate got blotto on Halloween, laid down on a busy set of train tracks and was ground into hamburger by a passing freight. Nobody knows to this day whether he did it on purpose or not. And yes, there were some serious substance abuse issues involved.
On a lighter note there have only been two snow events here in NEOH so far and nothing shovelable. Unlike in Idaho this is a good thing.
I now own two 3-D printers. The resin-type printer has been going non-stop making details for my HO scale model train layout. Fire hydrants, mail boxes, trash cans, park benches & picnic tables, beer kegs, 10-gallon milk cans (I model the early-to-mid-1930s), crates/barrels/drums, signal heads, etc. Lots of fun...
I found out that she and her boyfriend were arguing (while high on meth) and she laid in the middle of the road because she thought he didn’t love her anymore.
Being in a town of 2,100 people, gossip travels fast.
Yeah, I can understand that. So far, I've only shoveled the sidewalk twice, and one time it really didn't need it. I knew it was going to warm up later on. I just wasn't sure whether the snow would all melt by afternoon or not, without help. As it turns out, it would all have been gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by homer13j
Fortunately, the mountains are getting slammed, which is just what we want.
I seem to remember some kid dying that way when I was young. It might have been the plot to a movie, or it might have actually happened. That part I don't remember.
Have you printed a dog to glue to the hydrant? It could be one of those heart-warming winter scenes.Quote:
Originally Posted by homer13j
It's amazing what you can do with 3D printing now.
I remember when I owned my '78 Mustang II and many people searched for the dome light cover because they don't make that piece anymore or the pegs that go behind the dashboard that tended to break. Now you could literally just print one out.
No, but that's a great idea! I downloaded a bunch of animal models from Thingiverse including dogs. I'll have to modify one so he's lifting his leg. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
You'd think that would already exist. It's a terribly iconic pose.
Anyone buy the new Trump digital cards? Him dressed like a super hero is awesome. lol
Trump is late to this game, but I'm sure some of his supporters will buy one in hope they'll win a golf game with him, but I highly doubt he will golf with a stranger for $99.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I'm not going to look up what a digital card is, or why it would cost $99, but I'm happy to make fun of it anyways. Is it a non-fungible asset of a different type?
Holy crap, I just looked it up. That is hilarious!
He raised the cow, now he's milking it. Still, there's lots of fun to be had, there. If you buy 45 of the cards, you get a ticket to a gala. That would be about $4,500 for a ticket. I would expect that if you gave him that kind of cash, he'd probably let you in even without the ticket....or the cards.
On a somewhat more serious note, I thought the point behind NFTs were that they were unique. If you can buy 45 of these cards, does it mean that there are 45 (or more) of these things? Or is he just selling copies. If he's selling copies, is that really an NFT? It certainly isn't in the spirit of NFTs, as those were supposed to have value because of their uniqueness.
Let's face it. Nobody really understands NFTs
They say that buyers will be entered into a sweepstake to win one of thousands of prizes. Presumably, that would mean that they expect more than a thousand buyers, which would mean that they'd need more than a thousand cards, as each would get one.
Those don't sound like NFTs, to me.
I also thought NFTs were dead, but you're right, nobody understands them. I could never figure out the point behind them. Conspicuous consumption, I suppose.
My basic understanding is that you purchase the exclusive right to electronic art.
The issue is that I don't believe in intellectual property "rights" to begin with.
Money is a fiction that we all believe in. A dollar has no particular intrinsic value. A similar case could be made for gold, which is mostly useful because it's so inert. For that reason, an NFT could be cash just as much as a lump of metal or a piece of paper, but only if it is, as you say, "exclusive right" to that NFT.
These don't sound like anything exclusive. They sound as exclusive as any other electronic file.
This is one of the odder, though Trump cards top it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises is an excellent book, especially on the creation of money as we know it.
He's been milking that cow pretty hard for a long time. He is relentless in asking for donations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I seem to remember another scheme where the winner got a dinner in La. with Trump, the dinner never happened.
I heard that, at least some of the pictures, are Google stock photos. His face was just photoshopped onto them.
If he makes money with this, it seems like somebody else should be able to. If the picture is a stock photo, and photoshop is just a program, and the picture of an ex president is not exactly a copyrighted thing, then shouldn't others be able to make the same cards and sell them at a steep discount?
If I were to sell the same thing for $49.99, it would be half the price, and your odds of winning anything of value would be exactly the same.
that's funnyQuote:
If I were to sell the same thing for $49.99, it would be half the price, and your odds of winning anything of value would be exactly the same.
Just saw an article that says Trump's cards have sold out.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/...143902988.html
Amazing!!!
The law of large numbers is in effect. Once you have a few hundred million people, or a few billion, then a probability of 0.01% is still a very large number.
That picture looks more like a younger Biden than it does of a slimmer Trump.
Is Trump just Biden in a fat suit?
I mean their policies are hardly distinguishable, but their rhetoric is too far apart.
You guys are ruining Post Race - sad...
Is that even possible? Post Race has survived some pretty strange stuff. It even went fairly dead for a few years.
You’ve done ruint it.
Well, it had a good run. If it was a dog it would be 154yrs old.
I went skiing this week. Now I am back and bored. What do people do when they aren't on vacation?
Work I guess.
I like to organize my socks.
What's a 'vacation'?
I have yet to go skiing. There's too much to do for another week.