Post Race!

[dday9]

I'm not a big basketball fan, but I am familiar with whats-his-name and his famous receding hair line.

[FunkyDexter]

I'm not a big basketball fan

I know, it's so damned hard to get 'em through the hoops.

[dday9]

Oh no, don't get me wrong. I love playing basketball, I just can't bear to watch it.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm pretty much the same way. Highlights from basketball are probably the worst highlights of any professional sport. Curling highlights are better. In a basketball highlight you see...a bunch of people making shots that look pretty much like any other shot in the game. One team goes on a run, the other team goes on a run, none of it really matters because baskets are so very easy to come by that the whole first half barely matters to the outcome of the game.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I know, it's so damned hard to get 'em through the hoops.

The fans? Try using fans with smaller blades, it makes it easier.

[wes4dbt]

The fans? Try using fans with smaller blades, it makes it easier.

Maybe he meant people. In that case I'd suggest using younger, thinner fans. It's easier and safer.

[dclamp]

Extractor fan?

[dday9]

dclamp!

How you doing? I remember a thread back in 2015ish when you were talking about setting up a bitcoin miner, did you ever get involved? Please tell me you did!

[dclamp]

dclamp!

How you doing? I remember a thread back in 2015ish when you were talking about setting up a bitcoin miner, did you ever get involved? Please tell me you did!

I am glad that someone remembers that I was planning to do that. No one ever believes those stories. "I was going to do it..."

I didn't do it. Still poor.

[dday9]

Noooo! I was hoping I could brag about knowing a guy who actually did it!

But yeah, I remember you talking about setting one up. I remember looking at bitcoin because of your thread and thinking "I want to get in on this", then spent about 5 minutes realizing I had no idea what I was doing and then just gave up. I really wish I didn't now lol

[dclamp]

The reason I didn't go through with buying a miner was the fact that these people were selling the miners for profit vs keeping the miners for themselves to mine bitcoin. With that logic I kind of assumed there would be no money to make in mining bitcoin.

[dclamp]

Also just got my first job as a software engineer

Only took (looks at when I joined vbf) 16 years.

[dday9]

Nice! What type of work will you be doing?

[dclamp]

Nice! What type of work will you be doing?

Web development. Sticking to the good ol PHP! And getting to work entirely from home. Will be a 10/10 experience.

I am putting in my 2 week notice in a little bit.

[dday9]

Congratulations!

I really like PHP work. I mostly do MVC.NET (C#) during my day job, but I do PHP for my contract jobs.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The reason I didn't go through with buying a miner was the fact that these people were selling the miners for profit vs keeping the miners for themselves to mine bitcoin. With that logic I kind of assumed there would be no money to make in mining bitcoin.

That's the way it always goes with goldrush mining: The miners don't make as much as the storekeepers that sell to the miners.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Bitcoin has been sinking pretty well, so it is either time to buy...or time to avoid....just like it always is.

[dday9]

Bitcoin's been rebounding. Right now it's up at ~$40,600 but still down from it's all time high.

[dclamp]

Congratulations!

I really like PHP work. I mostly do MVC.NET (C#) during my day job, but I do PHP for my contract jobs.

Yeah I am pretty stoked. I have been doing PHP since about the time I joined here. I think I may have gotten the PHP subforum created. Its 2x my current salary and I will get to work remote. So its great.

[dclamp]

That's the way it always goes with goldrush mining: The miners don't make as much as the storekeepers that sell to the miners.

Yep, that's exactly it. I probably could have made some money if I went through with it. But it wasn't worth the effort for me at the time.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I never read that language right. It always sounds like you are saying it like this:

I have been doing PCP since about the time I joined here.

It just sounds wrong.

[dday9]

What's wrong with a little PCP every now and then.

Freebase some PCP, chill out on the couch, stomp on the spider that's been bothering you, and then you come to only to realize that you've filled your drywall with a bunch of holes from a hammer convinced that you were killing a spider.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's pretty much what programming in PHP is like, too.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Actually, I have only written one thing in PHP, and it was trivial.

[Delaney]

"trivial" is a PHP function ?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Seems reasonable.

[homer13j]

[dday9]

Must be chocolate.

[dday9]

What's bad is that the black and gold icing suggests it was done in NOLA when the Saints played the Colts in '09.

[Shaggy Hiker]

They should have ended it with a colon.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I sure hope the cake didn't have a layer of fudge in the middle. That would have been a bit hard to take.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I was trying to make out the label. It says it's only 1/8th sheet, but I'd say it's full sheet. What I can't make out is that word right before cake. For that matter, I'm only really clear on the first and last words. Short something something cake. The second word looks like it should say 'seasonal', but the third letter sure looks like an R to me.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The cake is a lie!

[Elroy]

I favor the Oilers in the Superbowl, but I've been burned so many times before, I just don't know.

[dday9]

Yeah, oil does tend to burn.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Houston, Elroy has a problem.

[Elroy]

Houston, Elroy has a problem.

I lived there for 50+ years, and darned if I didn't move to Tennessee, and Bud Adams picked up his team and followed me here. (Actually, he got here a couple of years before I did. And then, when he got too old to "meddle", the team started winning ... long after I'd given up on them.)

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, he followed you. That's what happened.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That team should move to LA like every other team does.

[wes4dbt]

Good news. Just saw that there is a luxury 24 person suite at the Super Bowl available for only $907,000. I got $10, you guys come up with the rest and I'll book it.