Recent content by Dr_Zaius

Hopped on the Kraken bandwagon today. :oldunsure:

I'm potentially interested. At the risk of overthinking it, any guidance for what kind of spend and what type of stuff is typical? I'd hate to see the schmuck that gets paired with me end up disappointed.

I liked Steakumm as a kid but I just can't get over the smell and the specific grease taste it has as an adult. Elios, on the other hand, I've had multiple times as an adult and enjoyed. Somehow the cardboard-style taste still largely works, even though you'd never confuse it with good pizza.

Earlier this year in a bin of stuff I found a t-shirt from a 1990 math competition. Still fits so I rock it around the house every now and then.

1 pair of dress shoes 1 pair of business casual shoes 1 pair of everyday sneakers 1 pair hiking shoes 1 pair of winter boots 1 pair of water shoes 1 pair of crocs for the beach ~12 pairs of running shoes, most of which are shot but I'm really slow to throw them out

That's the first "popular" thing that I thought of as well. I could maybe be talked into it in the right situation (like Alaska maybe), but the wife is a hard no on the matter, and we've always had plenty of fun setting our own vacation itinerary.

Careful, you're giving folks like jshare carte blanche to talk about it being a bit chilly while you're stuck putting three socks over your dong in January.

I was hoping to catch at least one of the Philly games. What do people think is the play for the group stage games if I don't much care for which teams I see play? I would think game 1 would be in higher demand just due to human nature, and game 3 I'd worry about getting a dead rubber, so...

Timely post, as Garmin just docked me a VO2Max point, dropping me to my lowest since 2023, and the "race predictor" has been slowly getting slower every week since the weather heated up. I wish it gave me the proper "suck index" credit. I've been experimenting with an "ice bandana" around my...

Huh, I view "Yep" as strong agreement with what has been written, kind of like a thumbs up on steroids. Maybe King of the Hill is to blame, as I appear to be on an island.

From my POV the Millennials have a bit of this as well, but it is really amped up in the average Gen Zer. The amount of scrutiny that can be applied to a throwaway line during a random social interaction by the younger set really threw me for a loop the first time I witnessed it. I'm sure...

Just reread Lord of the Flies. Now rereading To Kill a Mockingbird and reading The Shining for the first time. Next up will be A Confederacy of Dunces for the first time.

I’ve been to one off of I-10 in TX and one off of I-40 in TN. The one in Texas was getting replaced with a bigger store and while we went inside for the bathrooms and some food the line for fuel was so long that I went to a different gas station for that. The one in Tennessee I had no issues...

That's probably my main concern with AI and is much more plausible than the AI hostile overlord or AI removing all of the jobs scenarios people talk about more. You saw it with internet search and google where people went from treating it with some skepticism to where people regurgitate the...

Back in the day I played a ton of Omni Play Basketball on my Commodore 64. They had a weird statistical mechanic mentioned in the manual called a "hot percentage" that affected the chances of a shot going in, and it would go down with shots that player took. Conversely, open shots by guys who...