I slipped on the icy stairs today leaving the house for work. >:( Stay safe out there, guys! As did I on the total ice on my driveway that I could not really see. I had to crawl across it to get to the snow to walk on it to get my accumulated mail and newspapers. Last February I had a violent fall ...

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 29, 2025 9:57 am I slipped on the icy stairs today leaving the house for work.

Stay safe out there, guys!

Hope you’re okay. Those ice related gymnastics aren’t fun.

Merry Christmas Eve to all the Gyroscopic family! If you happen to party too hard in the next few days, please call Vinny for bail money.

You ‘da man, Xan. . Hope you’re having a great Advent.

Happy Thanksgiving Day to all my favorite "Gobble 'til you Wobble" friends.

I don’t know. I’ve only bought ten-year-old and older computers lately. O0 Boy do I have a deal for you. 2009 MacBook Pro with upgraded memory and SSD and battery. One owner, me. It’s completely functional and in great shape. $5000. I’ll ship to you on my dime after receiving payment. Cash only, sm...

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Wed Oct 22, 2025 9:36 am

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 21, 2025 11:00 pm ChromeOS is probably my favourite Linux distro at this point

Being Canadian, you’re more used to having Big Brother watching over you.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 14, 2025 1:08 pm Was the forum inaccessible for a while for anyone else?

Yes, me as well.

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Mon Oct 13, 2025 6:10 pm I would add Atlas Shrugged. Not exactly a quick read though.

Agreed. And perhaps Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

Mint? But I defer to the Linux gurus.

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Sep 11, 2025 7:56 am What are you, mining bitcoin with that monstrosity?

Monstrosity? That’s only a little better than my mid-2018 i7 MacBook Pro 32gb ram and 2tb ssd.

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Sep 10, 2025 4:08 pm RIP Charlie Kirk

Horrible event. Evil perpetrator. I can only imagine the pain his family must be feeling.

Don’t want to miss The Big Day Vinny Switches Computers, or as ochotona might call it, TBDVSC. That's like waiting for the Great Pumpkin. TBDVSCATIAAB And Turns Into An AI Bot Just a thought prompted by a song my daughter texted me. Ask ChatGPT ‘who is Mason Jar Moonshine and who does he sound like...

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 11:16 am{ deleted }

Geezy peasy Dualstow. I sure hope Big Brother hasn’t deleted you.

It was a terrible, depersonalized, emotionless design, and say that even I have only eaten there once, not a repeat customer. But why was it called "woke"? This leads me to believe that "woke" is just a catch-all bin for anything that some people don't like. It is woke because i...

Don't like it. But there is an argument that "the US govt taking a 10% stake in Intel Corp" is better than just giving the company free money like the CHIPS Act does. Two wrongs don't make a right, but this is more of trying to make the first wrong somewhat less of a wrong. I suppose ther...

Per ChatGPT (in honor of Vinny): “Romans used urine as a cleaning agent. Public urinals collected urine in big jars, and fullers (the people who washed clothes) used it to clean and whiten togas. The ammonia in urine made it surprisingly effective at removing grease and stains. In fact, Emperor Vesp...

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Aug 21, 2025 9:21 am I’d forgotten all about your jars!
Should I rename the thread to Jars & Bars?

Excellent! Much better than Pee on Peas.

Boglerdude, what a shameful dealership story. Sorry you had to go through that mess. Hope it all gets settled soon and to your satisfaction. And that you don’t find out Gavin Newsome owns the place. Time to get out of CA?

It's good to see that some of the forum members are still alive. It had been 6 days of darkness. How about the rest of you? Are you still on the bright side of the grass? ;) 6 days in what ways? Dual posted on the 18th. Previous post was by me on the 12th. If my math skills are working that’s 6 day...

G’day Hal. Nice series of videos of “down under “. I remember when you were the Hal in 2001. Guess I’m old too!
…Your friend, Dave


…Mountaineer

It's good to see that some of the forum members are still alive. It had been 6 days of darkness. How about the rest of you? Are you still on the bright side of the grass?

[quote=dualstow post_id=258538 In case I didn’t already mention it: our pan is a grille pan with ridges so it’s a little more annoying to oil and to clean than a smooth, flat pan. [/quote] I also have a grille pan but don’t use it as much as a flat skillet. I do use the same treatment method as I de...

(Cast iron pans) I'm currently dealing with trying to get a nice finish back on mine. I put oil on it and put it in the stove for a couple hours, but I don't seem to be making meaningful progress. Enlighten me oh wise one. I’m no expert, but I read that you should try a ½ teaspoon of oil and apply ...

yankees60 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 02, 2025 6:16 am

dualstow wrote: ↑Sat Aug 02, 2025 4:55 am Tortoise would know, but I don’t know if he’s around.

Do not remember ever having prior seen that name.

Search the members list. Tortoise joined in 2010 and has over 2700 posts. I don’t remember the last time I saw one of his posts.