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What's the oldest PC peripheral you own? - budice Jan 30, 11:57 11
- Back in my photography days I have a shelf full Of printers 2 never taken out of the Box Yeah great investment there -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 30, 13:47
- Since I purged with the move, of things that are actively in use, possibly my desktop PC. I believe I built it in 2016. - oblique Jan 30, 12:17
- My Logitech webcam is at least 10 years old. And still use it, almost daily. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 30, 12:16
- From my desk, I can see the Mac I used in college sitting in my closet. Purchased 1992. -- nm - Mony Baroney Jan 30, 12:11
- A new-in-plastic Microsoft mouse taken from work during the pandemic, at least 15 years old. - Max Jan 30, 12:09
- own or use (still have some of my Mac/Zip drives from 2000ish) currently in use, my Time Capsule router -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 12:02
- I mean ... I have a desktop tower from the mid-2000s, but I don't use it. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 30, 11:58 4
  - My home computer has Windows 7! -- nm - Spawn Jan 30, 12:07 2
    - that tracks -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 12:14 1
      - heh. Thanks to my tablet, it is rarely used. -- nm - Spawn Jan 30, 12:17
  - I also have my keyboard from that tower, and it does get used occasionally -- nm - Beryllium Jan 30, 11:59
the conspiracy du jour from my Q-Anon ex-boss (who also grew up near Cincy) is that the fix was in for Mahomes b/c he does ads for State Farm and the - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 11:44 6
- He also **coincidentally** won the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Charity Challenge - decline Jan 30, 11:52 3
  - well her other explanation is the Woke NFL just wanted two black QBs in the Super Bowl for the first time -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 11:55 2
    - this is my 23 year old nephews thinking as well. - Jovian Jan 30, 12:02 1
      - The right teams won today. -- nm - Refs Jan 30, 12:14
- Tangent: Go watch the SNL State Farm bit. -- nm - Spawn Jan 30, 11:49 1
  - ... bundle home & auto ... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 30, 11:50
If Wrexham wins their replay in the FA Cup, they will host Tottenham in the 5th round (sweet sixteen). -- nm - Volnelk Jan 30, 11:25 2
- Dave's relative is *not* happy -- nm - decline Jan 30, 11:32 1
  - ha! ftr i don't think they are anti-Wrexham! -- nm - Andie Jan 30, 11:33
Tesla is back up to 170. Not coincidentally, Musk hasn't made headlines with Twitter in three weeks. - David Jan 30, 11:15 10
- he did state that he works 25 hours per day. -- nm - Spawn Jan 30, 11:25 3
  - Slacker! I work 37! -- nm - George Santos Jan 30, 11:37
  - No, that was Michael J. Fox in The Secret of My Success. -- nm - David Jan 30, 11:35
  - big, if true. -- nm - mud Jan 30, 11:30
- Also had that trial to deal with. -- nm - budice Jan 30, 11:17 5
  - Which you'd think would have generated headlines (or at least bigger ones than it did) -- nm - Roger More Jan 30, 11:42 4
    - no verdict yet but his testimony was covered in the business press -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 11:43 2
      - Exactly my point - the business press. I don't think I saw it transfer over to other conversations (at least the ones I read) -- nm - Roger More Jan 30, 11:48 1
        
        until there's a verdict, the only story is "Texas Man Thinks Jury Was Born Yesterday With His Almost-Certainly Perjurious Testimony" -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 11:52
    - #fakenews -- nm - Spawn Jan 30, 11:42
Heh, one of Dave's Welsh relatives just posted "Damn you Ryan Reynolds! We can't leave the country without a million people asking us how far we live - Andie Jan 30, 10:57 1
- heh -- nm - mud Jan 30, 11:29
Hey, I just remembered the best thing that I didn't see this weekend: Everton had the weekend off! - JD Jan 30, 10:54 1
- Congratulations on the non-loss! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 30, 10:57
She named her cafe Woke, because that’s what you are after a cup of coffee. what could possibly go wrong? -- (link*) - znufrii Jan 30, 10:40 5
- 50/50 she's feigning ignorance and happy for the press. -- nm - Mony Baroney Jan 30, 10:59 2
  - And, fwiw I was half expecting her to also be getting grief for appropriating Black vernacular. -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 11:22
  - And they just happened to get their local story picked up by the Guardian…. -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 30, 11:07
- At first I was like 😒 And then I was like 😒 -- nm - Qale Jan 30, 10:50
- The Woke Cafe sounds like a great podcast title -- nm - Beryllium Jan 30, 10:46
LIR: sycor. I wonder also how much I may be encountering 2.4ghz interference between zigbee and my wifi network now that I'm adding more devices - oblique Jan 30, 10:31 3
- I hadn't thought of that. Do you have a mesh network? - sycor Jan 30, 10:55 2
  - Capable but not using. I only have 4 APs in the house now (UniFi). All are wired uplinks. 3 are the older UAP-PRO 802.11ac (WiFi 5). The one in - oblique Jan 30, 10:58 1
    - Cool I'll look in to that. I have no idea what channels my stuff are using currently. -- nm - sycor Jan 30, 11:04
The Smile (proto-punk band comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood) announce small venue tour - MDH Jan 30, 10:29
Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper Tour Dates - MDH Jan 30, 10:28
Paul Schafer & the world's most dangerous band return to NBC after 30 years on Tonight Show to fill in for The Roots -- (link) - Remlik Jan 30, 10:24 4
- It's been *30* years since Letterman left? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 30, 10:58 3
  - yeah started CBS in 1993 -- nm - Remlik Jan 30, 11:12 2
    - Oh yeah, I totally forgot about the network jump... and all the issues of intellectual property -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 30, 11:34 1
      - Wow. Seems hard to forget that! - Spawn Jan 30, 11:42
A Bengals & Chiefs Fan Reaction to the AFC Championship Game -- (link) - Beaker Jan 30, 10:24 [youtube] 1
- That ending 🤣 -- nm - JD Jan 30, 10:49
Chargers hiring Kellen Moore as new OC -- nm - Beaker Jan 30, 10:23 6
- Jerry Jones is so dumb. -- nm - Inigo Jan 30, 11:07 4
  - do you think if you'd told him in 1996 that's the last one he'd ever win (probably for life) he would have believed you? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 11:12 1
    - Hell no. Guys like him never think they’re the reason for failure. - Will Hunting Jan 30, 11:15
  - Mike McCarthy will be gone next year. - Will Hunting Jan 30, 11:10 1
    - He really shouldn't be. At least he won a playoff game. - Inigo Jan 30, 11:20
- It's a masterstroke for them. Go with God, Dallas. -- nm - David Jan 30, 11:04
Jerome Powell can stay crazy longer than you can stay employed -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 10:21 1
- JPow just owns -- (link) - budice Jan 30, 10:24
Man, if he was 10-15 years younger, I’d love this casting: Dave Bautista as Bane. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 30, 10:19 5
- Keep the mask on him and let the Rock do it. He has the body for it. -- nm - Spawn Jan 30, 11:13 1
  - "you merely smelt what Bane was cooking, i've been basting in it, soaking in the smells my whole life" -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 11:15
- even he is saying he's to old, but that he could, right now play Bane at the end of his career. -- nm - Remlik Jan 30, 10:20 2
  - Old Man Wayne (age up Joker, Harley, Bane, etc) -- nm - Beaker Jan 30, 10:21 1
    - if Batman Beyond with Keaton gets greenlit again he'd be perfect for that. -- nm - Remlik Jan 30, 10:29
Behati Prinsloo, 34, and Maroon 5 singer husband Adam Levine welcome third child -- (link*) - budice Jan 30, 10:11 6
- what does his Instagram gf think? -- nm - Remlik Jan 30, 10:26
- Congrats to them. I had the realization over the weekend that Maroon 5 has become Nickelback -- nm - ty97 Jan 30, 10:15 4
  - Maroon 5 had 2 solid albums to start, and "Moves Like Jagger" saved their third. Everything after that sounds the exact same, and is bland. -- nm - MDH Jan 30, 10:19 1
    - So, slightly better than Nickelback, then. -- nm - Spawn Jan 30, 11:26
  - *astronaut murder meme* always were -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 10:16 1
    - They had a song or two that was legit early. -- nm - ty97 Jan 30, 10:18
demi poll: how attuned are you to seeing dates after say March 13, 2020 and knowing “oh yeah, pandemic time” -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 10:09 39
- February 19 I got the email that the library and bookstore were closing immediately. I was about 3 weeks back from a cruise at the time. - Meg Jan 30, 11:52
- I notice it all the time. -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 11:42
- My FB memories are like movie where the people keep dancing unaware of the bomb..or iceberg..Jan 20th was first recognized death here. 3/11 shutdown -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 30, 11:05 3
  - Jan 20 was the first positive test. -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 12:10
  - Actually I think Feb 29 was the first known North American death (at the time), at a nursing home in Kirkland IIRC -- nm* - Beryllium Jan 30, 11:46
  - Seattle was definitely where the media focused as "ground zero" for first case spread (tho in hindsight it was probably everywhere in smaller numbers) - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 11:11
- I keep thinking it started in 2019 -- nm - Krusty Jan 30, 10:51 2
  - technically it did in China -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 10:52 1
    - Hence the 19 in Covid-19. -- nm - Andie Jan 30, 10:54
- I don't even understand the premise of the question - are there people who forget spring/summer 2020 already? -- nm - rollo Jan 30, 10:51 8
  - on Last of Us, Joel tells Ellie about the weekend the apocalypse started 20 years ago and he still remembers the day and date. feels more amorphous - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 10:54 7
    - Well, since by Monday everything was gone, it makes sense. -- nm - Spawn Jan 30, 11:28
    - I would think it was more February. I remember it hit NC the week of my birthday which is March 6. It had been in NY and PNW/CA longer. - sycor Jan 30, 10:57 5
      - i was vaguely anxious about it when first back to the office after the holidays in Jan 20, only b/c we have AA employees who had been traveling to - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 11:03 4
        
        I was anxious when we traveled in January 2020 - thought of bringing masks, but didn't. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jan 30, 11:25 3
        
        i ordered a whole bunch of hand sanitizer for the office in Jan 2020. Not long after, it became impossible to find. -- nm - Andie Jan 30, 11:28 2
        
        oh, and my mom left for a 15 day cruise in early-mid-March, and i was shocked she was going. When she came back the world had shut down. -- nm* - Andie Jan 30, 11:29 1
        
        An old theater acquaintance of mine was performing on a cruise ship and was stuck off the coast of Chile for three weeks, iirc. -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 12:11
- Yes. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 30, 10:48
- Of course. -- nm - Qale Jan 30, 10:28
- the last 2 years have been a blur -- nm - Beaker Jan 30, 10:22 1
  - remember when it started and that fuckhead was still president for almost a whole more year? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 10:25
- When I think of it, Spring 2020-Summer/Fall 2021 is "pandemic time", the rest of 2021 is just sort of lost? 2022 is "normal" in my mind. -- nm - MDH Jan 30, 10:22 5
  - 2022 didn't really start out 'normal' but my spring/summer it was acting normal again. - ty97 Jan 30, 10:24 2
    - Wait that's 2021 I'm remember. - ty97 Jan 30, 10:24 1
      - I hear you. Your way of describing it is better. 2021 is a blur to me, 2022 I remember fully. -- nm - MDH Jan 30, 10:25
  - I’ve been back in our offices since May 2021, still nothing normal about it -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 10:23 1
    - It's just my opinion. And there's a "new normal" which I personally feel like started in 2022. -- nm - MDH Jan 30, 10:24
- Lost my job, so yanno -- nm - con_carne Jan 30, 10:20
- Pretty much. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 30, 10:16
- Very much so. I was out and about eating lunch when Gov Murphy on tv announced he was shutting down NJ. -- nm - Jovian Jan 30, 10:12 1
  - and that previous weekend we had what would be last gigantic Family Party for quite awhile. -- nm - Jovian Jan 30, 10:13
- 10 out of 10 because of work -- nm - The Allfather Jan 30, 10:11 3
  - Rudy Gobert? -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 30, 10:17 2
    - Sadly, I've probably mentioned him the most of any non-NBA writer. - David Jan 30, 11:04 1
      - And we were at Token Tavern the night Gobert happened and Hanks was revealed to have COVID-19. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jan 30, 11:21
- It wouldn’t occur to me unless it was somehow relevant by context of what I was doing/reading at that moment. -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 10:10 2
  - like the first chyron in Glass Onion is something like “May 25, 2020” which was obviously intentional but to me not like if he put Sept 10, 2001 -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 30, 10:14 1
    - Which only made sense to me in the context of the beginning of the movie. -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 30, 10:54
an international 'incident'! American drives a Fiat onto the Ponte Vecchio -- (link) - Peglegpete Jan 30, 10:07 2
- To be fair, it looks like a street. My nephews didn't even realize they were on it. -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 11:50
- Chi ti credi di essere? Sei pazzo? Sei scemo? Hai fatto casino! Che palle! -- nm - rollo Jan 30, 10:34
I made this joke in a professional conversation today... - Mop Jan 30, 10:05
Weekend note: I added a feature to the profile page that lets you turn off twitter link expansions. - Beryllium Jan 30, 10:04
it's snowing here -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 30, 10:02 2
- F' great. ugh. Please stay safe and warm -- nm - Epiphany aka sneaky link Jan 30, 10:05
- It's absurdly cold here. I'll trade you. -- nm - Mop Jan 30, 10:03
I am wearing a long fuzzy cardigan today. With it on i am melting-hot, without it i am shivering. Note to self: never wear this sweater to work again. -- nm - Andie Jan 30, 09:55 2
- Have you tried wrapping it around your shoulders in a jaunty fashion? -- nm - Mony Baroney Jan 30, 10:08
- I have the reverse. Some Polyester blend jacket that breathes well. Works in 70 degree or 40 degree weather -- nm - budice Jan 30, 10:00
Dug Days: Carl's Date will see Dug help Carl as he prepares for his first date since the death of Ellie. -- (link) - Remlik Jan 30, 09:51 4
- MichaelScottNO.gif -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 10:08
- Carl’s dead, Dug -- nm - Colin Kaepernick Jan 30, 10:05
- **tears** -- nm - First 4 and half minutes Jan 30, 09:52
- RAGE! -- nm - Beaker Jan 30, 09:52
SB: 14th time #1 seeds Advanced for both Confs -- nm - budice Jan 30, 09:50
Just in case anyone was curious. Here is the house. Still have a lot to figure out though, but this is the only one that I've found that works so far - sycor doing a poor Mr. Burns impression Jan 30, 09:48 6
- Love it! -- nm - Epiphany aka sneaky link Jan 30, 10:03
- Lovely! On Halloween, you can turn that garage and windows into a scary pumpkin face! And, really, it’s all about decorating for Halloween, right? -- nm - Mop Jan 30, 09:50 4
  - Absolutely. Though I would need to find a use for the "flex" room. Seems like a weird room to me that isn't needed. -- nm - sycor Jan 30, 09:51 3
    - Back when I used to be domestic, I had a flex room. I found plenty of use for it. Home office/storage. -- nm - Mop Jan 30, 10:03
    - Yup, and both entry doors lead into it. Maybe partition it off and create a formal entry and a library/office? -- nm - Meg Jan 30, 10:01 1
      - Yes if it wasn't right at the front door I'd like it a lot better. As it is, it's the first thing people see when walking in. - sycor Jan 30, 10:11
Deep Rising is 25 years old so The Ringer did an article on it!!!! -- (link) - Beaker Jan 30, 09:38 2
- This is glorious B movie fare. -- nm - Jovian Jan 30, 10:05
- That King Kong tidbit is killer. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 30, 09:53
B2: I don't get having trouble folding fitted sheets. You just have to realize it won't be perfect and have at it - Beaker Jan 30, 09:36 7
- Look at you replacement-Marie Kondo -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 30, 10:26
- Life is too short to worry about perfectly folded fitted sheets -- nm - Andie Jan 30, 09:53
- Seriously though, the corners aren’t that hard to find. - znufrii Jan 30, 09:46
- or - decline Jan 30, 09:45
- Weirdo. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 30, 09:40
- you're never going to go pro with that attitude -- nm - oblique Jan 30, 09:38
- *ding* -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Jan 30, 09:38
You think? -- nm - Spawn Jan 30, 09:34 3
- I mean .. -- nm - mud Jan 30, 09:37 2
  - Really? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 30, 09:40 1
    - as If -- nm - mud Jan 30, 10:01

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