It is with the heaviest of hearts, we here at Glibertarians.com mourn the loss of one of our own. Â Arguably the original; one of the finest individuals of all time to don our customary top hat and monocle. Lets give a moment of silence, for Mr. Peanut.
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Okay now thatâs out of the way, this is my review of Bud Light Seltzer.
The part of Mr. Peanutâs untimely death is the suggestion other beloved cartoon mascots need to die.  I for one think this is ludicrous. Their five suggested mascots are:
- Chester Cheetah
- The Trix Rabbit
- Talking M&Ms
- Honey Smacks Dig’em Frog
- Ronald McDonald
Lets take these one by one.
Chester Cheetah, is the orange cat peddling Cheetos at least since I can remember. These days he’s a creepy looking animatronic puppet(or CGI) but used to be a cartoon. He always spoke in silly rhymes and found himself in precarious situations such as getting hit by an enormous wave while surfing. Which to be honest isn’t a bad message:  go outside and play. Maybe Cheetos aren’t the dumbest idea if you actually are active. Sadly, nobody wants to be active anymore and people eating Cheetos are stereotyped as WOW players eating nothing but Cheetos over the course of a three-day weekend, covered in a crusty, orange buildup. This isn’t Chester’s fault and he doesn’t deserve to die over this. Besides, what are they going to replace him with, some stereotype meth addict eating an entire bag outside a gas station conveniently covering a bottle of Olde English?
The Trix Rabbit. Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids. The kids in these commercials are terrible excuses for human beings. For decades they insisted the fruity cereal was not for this rabbit and ate it in front of him. Seriously, the rabbit just wants some cereal, its not like its asking you for some of your stash, or asking to crash on your couch, or some drifter walking around the desert asking for a ride to Mesa after you made it clear there’s a gun within arm’s reach in the car and you are going to Phoenix–not Mesa. Its cereal. Give the rabbit some damn cereal.
Talking M&M’s. Okay these are a bit weird, and likely the result of an acid trip. I am not going to defend their cannibalism, other than to say they clearly are not M&M’s but some kind of species of super M&M’s or full grown M&M’s. Which means it’s not really their own they are eating, when in fact they are eating their young. Which doesn’t make it better at all.
Honey Smacks Dig’em Frog. Swinging for the fences are we? Next we can kill off the Golden Crisp Sugar Bear.
Ronald McDonald:
Honestly, Ronald, this is a classic âItâs not you, itâs meâ situation. When you were introduced as the fast-food chainâs mascot in 1963, consumers knew a lot less about the damaging health effects of fatty and fried foods â and so they could feed their kids Quarter Pounders and Filet-o-Fish sandwiches guilt-free. Todayâs moms and dads canât claim such ignorance â and your smiling clown face serves as a haunting reminder that every time I give in to my childâs cravings for a Quarter Pounder, Iâm hastening his own death.
Forecast for today’s nightmare is SUNNY.
That’s not disturbing at all. I’m pretty sure they have the same menu as they did in 1963. In fact, their menu has gotten healthier and even included salads at one point, because moral busybodies like this lady blamed her and her children’s girth on the clown. Turns out people eating at McDonalds want a burger–immediately. Its not the clown’s fault you are fat, its yours. So if you want a Quarter Pounder (Hell, I might get a double later today to spite these people) or a Filet-o-fish then have one, and leave the delightful Willard Scott out of this.
To be honest, all of these are just ads that are all easily ignored. Most of these are harmless (Uncle Ben’s, Aunt Jemima, the Tapatio Mariachi guy, etc. excepted) but what really kills me with these are celebrity endorsements. Do they really expect me to believe a guy like Tiger Woods not only drives a Buick, but that particular Buick? Given his taste in women, Tiger clearly drives a Camaro.
Everyone that thought Bud Light Seltzer was some kind of joke, or a marketing gimmick was sadly correct. This drink is a joke. I only got it in strawberry because I found a 12 pack of them at the local Kroger, but did not want to be stuck with 12, so I found this one at a Quick Trip. Its abysmal. If they stuck with a citrus flavor it might have worked out better but strawberry is a bridge too far. Once again, White Claw owns this market niche not only because it does not taste like carbonated piss, it does so without adding more sugar. Which is what a lot of people are going for with the spiked seltzer thing. It is very clearly not beer, therefore I will not give it a rating comparing it to beer.
And sadly lots of breweries are jumping into the hard seltzer market. Off the top of my head: Oskar Blues, Ska Brewing, and Sweetwater have all announced hard seltzer lines.
Locally here in Cville too – haven’t tried any yet.
Locally Platform got into the hard seltzer market (before they sold to AB-InBev). And at least one craft beer bar (that used to own a brewery as well), has “house made hard seltzer” on the menu (if I had to guess, they’re just mixing vodka into flavored water, kegging it, and force carbing it).
Can you still get your favorite beer?
I’d say they haven’t introduced seltzer wine, but isn’t that prosecco?
I’ve got more then enough breweries around to keep me in beer, so I’m not concerned about that. I still think the hard seltzer thing isn’t going to last (look towards shandies, hard soda, hard lemonade, wine coolers, etc.), and some of those companies are expanding to get into the hard seltzer market. Some breweries are expanding into the canned cocktail market (Boulevard – owned by Duvel, and Victory/Southern Tier/Sixpoint). Expanding to chase a market has brought down quite a few breweries in the past (New Belgium, Green Flash, etc.).
High school boys disagree strongly that this is sad. Many first hummers will result from the new soda pop (pissed you ALL of there didn’t I) with a kick.
That was the last trend. Henry’s Hard Soda’s, Not Your Father’s/Mother’s, Best Damned, and Coney Island. Most of those have disappeared off the shelves here (to the disappointment of the girlfriend).
To be fair, you’d be an idiot not to try to get a piece of that cash cow.
Personally, I’m a big fan of White Claw or similar when outdoors on a hot summer day; at the beach, at a pool, backyard etc.
There’s a pool near me in Columbus open in summer, full of sexy young professionals that is in complex with a brewery, so the brewery handles the outdoor bar at the pool. Their offerings range from super hoppy IPAs, stouts/porters, etc. *Exactly* what you want on a blazing hot summer day. NOT. It’s so stupid it actually makes me angry. So, I just fill up my Nalgene water bottle with white claw and take it in. Hey idiots at the brewery, just bring coolers full of white claw at $5 each…. retards.
People are selling selzer beer and the President is being impeached. Didn’t we play this game in the 90’s?
I canât wait to find the Tequiza analoge.
I nominate Burger King’s king for a timely demise. He’s just creepy.
+1 justifiable homicide
Looks like a serial killer.
so they could feed their kids Quarter Pounders and Filet-o-Fish sandwiches guilt-free
Neither one has been in a Happy Meal.
Nor was either on the menu in 1963.
and your smiling clown face serves as a haunting reminder that every time I give in to my childâs cravings for a Quarter Pounder, Iâm hastening his own death.
Christ what an asshole.
I almost bought some of these yesterday but purchased instead my usual bottom shelf tequila to make my own hard seltzers.
You bought tequila instead of a Quarter Pounder?
I’m not going to say that you have a problem, but…
For lunch I had a quarter pound beef/pork patty with mushroom cream sauce. Does that work?
You could do us all a favor and choke on a Quarter Pounder yourself, you know. Or at the very least familiarize yourself with some dietary advice that isn’t stuck in the 1980s.
I don’t understand what the source of the alcohol in these things *is*.
It’ll probably depend on the license of the place making it. For the ones coming out of breweries, I would guess it’s corn sugar added to flavored water and then fermented and carbed. There may be some light malts or DME used (depending on state laws on brewing). For those that have a distillery license somewhere in their corporate chain, I would guess it’s just diluted vodka added to flavored water and carbed.
Just read an article on the Bud Light seltzer that says it’s fermented sugar. Huh.
And it’s brewed in Syracuse.
*cane sugar
Did we learn nothing from the failed Zima experiments of 25 years ago?
the Nutmobile veers off a cliff.
I’m so sick of hearing about the impeachment trial.
I donât understand what the source of the alcohol in these things *is*.
Everclear would be my guess.
Joe Camel was tried, convicted and executed by the fed government. Joe was a good friend for 15 years or so but we had to say our good byes when it was the right time.
I’m going to finish the pack I have and call it good, maybe too late,
Seeing Wendy breathing the way she is right now isn’t very pleasant
Dammit.
Good luck, Wendy and Bob, on all fronts
Appreciated, Her breathing issues have to do with the pain of breathing with broken Breastbone, so her O2 saturation is down,
hence a ventilator,
Ouch. They don’t call it “cracking a chest” for nothing. Open heart surgery has a tough road to recovery. Hang in there, buddy.
I’ll get by, She’s, well, ouch, You know….
Do it. Even if you go to vapes. I’m so happy I did it almost a couple years ago now.
I have my pens ready, and Juul pods are easy to jail break as well,
Right time
Filet o’ fish, mmmmmm
the Geico Gecko! must Die!!!!!
I see Tiger as more of a Range Rover guy. Seems so is STEVE SMITH.
Maybe Cheetos arenât the dumbest idea if you actually are active.
I have it on good authority that Cheetos are an excellent firestarter. Don’t eat them all, if you’re lost in the back country.
Cheetos light my insides on fire, so it checks out I guess.
There’s a pic of six-year-old me somewhere with Mr. Peanut’s hand on my shoulder – sorry, getting sexually assaulted (in the current parlance) – on the Atlantic City boardwalk.
This raises as many questions as it answers.
Cause and effect.
It was just a little innocent fun. At least, that’s what my therapist says.
You should sue your the-rape-ist because they are trying to gaslight you into thinking that wasn’t sexual assault when it clearly was.
*the-rapist
Bring back the Frito Bandito!!
consumers knew a lot less about the damaging health effects of fatty and fried foods
I would say consumers knew a lot more about the health benefits of not cramming their pieholes with sugar and carbohydrates. Anyone who looks at the obesity epidemic and says its due to people eating fatty and fried foods is a moron who should be ignored, if not shunned. The obesity epidemic is due to (a) people eating too much of anything and everything, (b) people being sedentary, and (c) the shift in dietary intake toward sugar and carbohydrates, precisely because people like this idiot anathematized dietary fat.
And don’t tell me “but, muh heart disease”! That’s not due to eating fat, that’s due to being fat, for the reasons listed above.
So, on the subject of beer:
I’m going to be in Phoenix this week – any breweries that I should definitely check out?
Four Peaks
I heard the waitresses there look weird.
I see what you did there.
There are a couple places in town. Four Peaks has locations in Tempe and Scottsdale.
Huss is also a good one. Try their coffee kölsch.
What are you here for?
Reminds me:
When I round in the hospital and talk to patients, I always ask them “What are you in for?” and “How long ’til you get out?” One of the nurses said that makes it sound like we’re in prison. Guess who hasn’t changed what he asks patients.
+1 Bedside manner, I would laugh, and feel more comfortable talking to you,
A visiting prof when I was at GT said we were the only school she had ever been where everyone talked about getting out instead of graduating.
Atmosphere
Working all day but hoping to break out in the evenings to hit some brewpubs and/or tasting rooms.
If you’re in sales and calling on customers, I’ll laugh my ass off if you show up. Recognition signal is, “Do you know STEVE SMITH?”
Ha, no, I’ll be trapped in a meeting room with some Cisco folks all week getting a bunch of network stuff up and running.
We liked OHSO, Helio Basin, Beer Research Institute, and Huss Brewing the best, according to my girlfriend’s notes.
I thought OHSO was a chain restaurant?
I didn’t realize that. It looks like they have 4 locations. We also liked them for being right down the street from her dad’s house.
I donât know if it is. Iâve seen a couple if them around. The beer isnât bad at all.
Anyone who looks at the obesity epidemic and says its due to people eating fatty and fried foods is a moron who should be ignored, if not shunned.
Hamburgers are lethal. Everybody knows that.
My burgers ARe pretty Killer…
Remove the bun, add cheddar, bacon, and jalapenos and it’s health food.
Whole Grain bread, bacon and Colby jack and Cheddar, I don’t like Jalepenos very much,
Onions, carmelized!
And some I’ve heard recently try to retcon that the government “never overemphasized carbs” needs look no farther than some of those cartoon cereal commercials from back then, when they were obligated to say that cereal should be “part of this complete breakfast” — and then showed a bowl of cereal surrounded by a tall glass of orange juice, a glass of skim milk, and a plate of toast and jam. Hmm, that’s zero fat, a teeny bit of protein, and a gargantuan dose of sugar and carbs.
That’s what our government was trying to tell us we should be eating every morning, and please stay away from eggs, meat and cheese! And many good parents likely obliged. Yikes, it’s a wonder anyone from that era survived without being morbidly obese.
Good thing it has nothing to do with growing up playing video games inside and then spending your career sitting in front of a computer.
Has this been posted today?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/the-week-in-pictures-groundhog-day-edition-4.php
“You are probably here.”
*snort*
It has now. Overall that is the best selection of memes I have seen recently*.
*It is the only selection of memes I have seen recently but it’s not bad – a few ALOLs during the first half
The Florida alligator…
Excaligator!
I feel bad for the gator, although clearly other animals are, generally speaking, infinitely tougher than humans. There’s one-eyed cat around these parts who fights off badgers two or three times his size, and wins. There was a deer with the worst broken leg open wound I’ve ever seen skipping about like there was nothing wrong. Bear Grylls would be wailing and crying if he went through some of shit that animals seem to power through. You’ll never see a wild animal feeling sorry for itself. You either get busy living or you get busy dying.
Powerline’s weekly roundup is reliably good.
I like the Siri one:)
‘member when Mr. Peanut STEVE SMITH’d Milburn Pennybags, and gave us Mr. Glib?
Speaking of which does Mr. Glib have an official title or proper name?
For Mojeaux and other ailurophiles – the newest member of the GT family finally came out of his ever-so-clever hidey hole to get some affection. He’d been hidden so well I was getting worried. Turned out he was on a low bookshelf (near a heating vent) on top of a Monopoly game and behind three boxes of Cards Against Humanity decks. So far he is amazingly chill.
He’s a cutie.
I see an Opus plushie in the background ?
Yup – actually two of them, plus Ren & Stimpy (who fart when you squeeze them,) a Sandra Boynton Dog Train dog and a stuffed armadillo named Austin (guess the reference!)
I got nothing on the armadillo reference.
Former Austin City Limits closing theme.
That is a great song. It almost makes me forgive Texas for being Texas.
When I got mine they hid under the stove for days. I started worrying they’d grow and get stuck down there.
That was the weirdest description of birth I’ve ever read until I remembered you are talking about the cat in the tissue box.
What a cutie!!!! <3
We got ours when they were about 12 weeks old so they didn't hide anywhere. They ran around exploring like little Tasmanian devils.
When we got him home and let him out of the carrier, he calmly and methodically walked from room to room, then settled down under our bed. A few moments after I went to bed last night, I heard a single low note resonate from the piano in the “dining” room. I came out to cover the keys and caught him nearby looking at me. I suspect he spent the night exploring, then found yet another hiding place.
…and he just settled down on my lap! <3
Aww. When I first got Oscar, he hid under the bed. I sat on the bed and read, ignoring him. (Look! I’m in the room and nothing bad is happening.) He had a cold, so every now and then I’d hear a tiny kitten sneeze. It was adorable.
Looks like our old cat Shadow.
I wonder if he’s related to my old KC or my uncle’s old Shadow (both were remarkably chill kitties, but Shadow could be skittish since he was a rescue who lost most of his tail to abuse).
This is interesting,
https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/joe-rogan-is-the-walter-cronkite-of-our-era/
Not a bad hazy.
https://untappd.com/b/mad-swede-brewing-company-sunstone-hazy-ipa/3239349
Tiger drives a Mercedes. Thatâs what he was in when he was busted for a dui.
Go home, George. You’re drunk.
And that person, Ladies and Gentleman, gets just as much of a vote as you do.
Facebook basically has only one guiding principle: maximize your profits irrespective of what harm it may do to the world,â Soros said Thursday.
Talk about progjection.
I’m saving the world, I’m recycling. At least there are no icky profits there.
Rachel is so many things. And humble too. She says so.
http://www.rachaelalaia.com/rachael
“Would?” of the day.
“I do not stand for homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, sexism, racism, classism, ableism, ageism, sizeism, imperialism, fascism, or any expression of hatred or oppression, conscious or unconscious, towards someone because of their race, gender expression, sexuality, nationality, income level, ability, age, size, or body type”
Except for Trump, Repubs, Libs and any other people and things I don’t like but that’s the only exceptions.
Lady comes with a lot of baggage, too much for a geezer to contend with. Could not and would not
Somehow, she forgot “narcissism”.
Not self-absorbed at all. I don’t know that I could put up with her long enough to “would”.
^^This^^
Whenever I have heard Elton John sing “Someone save my life tonight, Sugar Bear,” I have always pictured that cartoon cereal-pitching bear in my head, perhaps with his arms wide open, ready to give sad Elton a big bear hug.
I guess Elton John really appreciates being part of a complete breakfast and its supporting cast of animated characters.
Oh, and Ronald McDonald has always been a live person in a clown outfit, not a cartoon, si that author is way out of line.
Family Guy had a bit with Chester Cheetah.
Uh Oh
That’s quite an accusation. I’m sure the Democrats, and Biden in particular, will insist on the immediate release of the transcript and any other notes from this meeting.
It’ll be funny when the Democrats try to trot out someone completely different to take the fall as the “whistleblower”.
White Claw tastes like seltzer water that has had dirty gym socks soaking in it all day. Actually worse than I remember Zima to be.
I mean, it’s okay, but think about how many high school boys have felt up girls because of it.
Maybe we could have Lucky the Leprechaun shot by 007 while trying to plant a bomb for the IRA in UK Trump’s limo.
Rachel is so many things. And humble too. She says so.
She’s a smugwump. Would not.
*I just invented that word.
Read an article in The Guardian (one-sided journalism, I know, but they cover certain topics from a unique perspective). This message greeted me at the end of the piece:
America faces an epic choice…
… in the coming year, and the results will define the country for a generation. These are perilous times. Over the last three years, much of what the Guardian holds dear has been threatened â democracy, civility, truth. This US administration is establishing new norms of behaviour. Anger and cruelty disfigure public discourse and lying is commonplace. Truth is being chased away. But with your help we can continue to put it center stage.
Rampant disinformation, partisan news sources and social media’s tsunami of fake news is no basis on which to inform the American public in 2020. The need for a robust, independent press has never been greater, and with your support we can continue to provide fact-based reporting that offers public scrutiny and oversight. Youâve read more than 21 articles in the last four months. Our journalism is free and open for all, but it’s made possible thanks to the support we receive from readers like you across America in all 50 states.
“America is at a tipping point, finely balanced between truth and lies, hope and hate, civility and nastiness. Many vital aspects of American public life are in play â the Supreme Court, abortion rights, climate policy, wealth inequality, Big Tech and much more. The stakes could hardly be higher. As that choice nears, the Guardian, as it has done for 200 years, and with your continued support, will continue to argue for the values we hold dear â facts, science, diversity, equality and fairness.” â US editor, John Mulholland
The Guardian covers stories of abusive police and other civil rights issues that are commonly ignored by the media in the US.
Mind you they seem to hate the Orange Man with the rest of the media.
They are stone-cold communists. I will not give them the time of day except to laugh at them.
Yep – that load of horse shit is rich coming from The Grauniad, given that they publish so many egregiously un-self aware opinion pieces from TRUE BELIEVER prog othodoxy fanatics, and continue to publish long and poorly constructed word barfs from dyed-in-the-wool communists like Owen Jones, who is one of the slimiest, most dishonest people in “journalism”.
ps – it looks suspiciously like he has SmoleĂ©d himself recently, but I’m not touching that with a big, shitty stick.
Ugh – disclaimer for any progs and tankies that wander in – yes yes they can publish whatever they want – freedom of the press is absolutely sacred, but that doesn’t excuse them from hypocrisy.
Hi, everybody! I feel productive today after a week of malaise and illness.
I committed to hooking up my fantabulous Pioneer A/V receiver to the built-in Bose speaker system embedded in the ceiling of my “new” house in California. House was built in 1975 but then renovated in what i’d guess were the late nineties with updated electrical stuff, including the Bose. Also hilariously sports the wired ethernet ports in the wall that were very quickly rendered obsolete by Wi-Fi.
IT SOUNDS INCREDIBLE!!! Why did I wait so long???? I just played Mozart’s Masonic Funeral music through it, and it brought me to tears.
Then I went outside and pulled a few weeds. In the process, I found buried in the flowerbed a bronze sundial in the shape of a lilypad with a frog on it.
It is engraved “White Swan, 1936” on the bottom. But it lacks the “arm” or whatever you call the shadow casting bit. I am at a loss as to how to replace it, but I really want to. It’s a lovely combo of aged bronze and vertegre.
Any hobbyists out there who can give me pointers? It looks like this one I found on eBay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Sundial-by-White-Swan-Frog-on-a-Lily-Pad-Never-Opened-Made-in-USA-/283596982477
Superglue a pencil to it?
Larf.
I wonder if they were always cast from the same pattern, and if so even the ones cast in 1993 or more recently would have the “1936” on the bottom? There’s got to be someone “too local” to you that does hobby casting of bronze, brass, alumin(i)um, etc that could make a “thing that goes up” for it (unless California prohibits the owning and operation of home foundries because cancer/danger/reasons). It looks like it would need soldering in place, although you could drill a hole and put a straightish twig in there. It would probably work well enough.
Gay.
Yeah, well, I am a cockhound so….
Also, it’s in my legal will to have Mozart’s Masonic Funeral March played at my funeral/memorial. Not that I can be around to complain if they don’t do it.
[Sometime later, at the funeral home]
Part time weekend kid –
“Mr. Undertaker I’ve been going through the DCs and I-”
Undertaker –
“CDs.”
Part time weekend kid –
“Yeah OK, boomer. Well I’ve been going through the SEEEEE DEEEEES and I guess the closest things I found are like “The Imperial March” from some movie, or like, some weird guy with a non-electric guitar called Mason Williams, which sounds pretty masonaic, I guess.”
Undertaker –
“Masonic? Ok whatever, we have Mozart, right?”
Part time weekend kid –
“Mmm. What sort of art?”
Undertaker –
“It doesn’t matter. Just use the Star Wars one.”
[Later at the funeral, the score of Star Trek: The Motion Picture solemnly accompanies the coffin’s slow, dignified, mechanical transposition into the incinerator, as a woman in the pews sniffles tearfully, “this is beautiful, it’s perfect”, before Siri informs her what it is]
Take my carcass out to the woods and feed me to the ravens. It is just meat. Then get drunk and have an orgy. Funerals are morbid.
[sadly hyperlink] đ
I told my wife to take me to the woods (when the big ‘A’ bites me), sit me on a stump and tell me, “Wait here, I’ll be back in a few days”.
Ok, Iâm going to drown myself in the Pacific now to prevent that from happening.
Maybe I should file the CD with the will too.
(But I did larf)
I’d suggest providing multiple formats, just to be sure.
It could be worse: they could play “On Eagle’s Wings”.
“Also hilariously sports the wired ethernet ports in the wall that were very quickly rendered obsolete by Wi-Fi”
That would be a big plus for me. Playing games or streaming 4K content over wi-fi sucks in comparison to a wired connection.
When we built a house about 5 years ago I ran CAT5e and RG6 to every room. I’d do it again tomorrow, but with CAT6.
Ditto, except I don’t games or stream 4k content, but ethernet port > wifi. Wifi is alright but if you’ve got something that doesn’t move around like a PC or a smart TV then git ‘er plugged in.
Yeah, having both is best.
^this…
Yeah, fuck Wi-Fi, it is inferior in every respect, every place I move the first thing I do is run ethernet lines and ports.
I confess to having ârippedâ all my CDs to MP3 for portability, but I refuse to get rid of the CDs. If you do, you are losing data. Permanently.
Keep the damned CDs, even if you donât use them. If you have a good ear and a good sound system, you can tell a CD from an MP3 easily.
Storage is cheap now. RIP them to lossless FLAC or hi bit MP3.
I spent many hours re-ripping all my CDs that I saved and ripped decades ago.
Bonus- old CDs don’t suffer from the “loudness wars” issues that remasters of today do.
You probably think vinyl is best of all and use gold connectors, don’t you?
Gold connectors…. Bwahahahah!
*gestures to orphan to polish monacle
Gold is for peasants. Decent folk use Rhodium.
Obsolete? I made sure they existed in the house I built in 2016. Wired tvs is beyter than wireless.
Less âhackableâ too!!
I’m in the process of installing new wired ports for both my and the spousal unit’s offices.âWhy waste the bandwidth upgrade to fibre optic just to have your damn wiFi throttle the speed back again?âThe temporary wired connection I’ve made to the new tower PC is approximately three times as fast as our WiFi on its best day (and it’s a brand-new WiFi modem supplied by Telus).
Ethernet/RJ45 connectors FTW!
Yeah. The shortcomings of WiFi arenât noticed (or even encountered) by a lot of users.
But, boy, do I feel the pain when Iâm on VPN to work.
I sometimes just say âscrew itâ and plug in directly to the router.
Alright, I know there’s some of you in NYC. Fess up, who registered an emotional support beer?
Needs a cozy with a vest printed on it.
The only legitimate argument that can be made against this is that all beer is emotional support beer.
PBrooks,
Fritos are a much better fire starter than Cheetos. And much better tasting,
You are a strong man MS. Drinking this crap was taking one for the team.
Chafed… this is not a drill. B5 leaves Amazon Prime at the end of January.
Is it moving to another service?
It’s moving to Comet TV. which appears to be a TV channel. Doesn’t appear that it will be streamable after leaving Prime.
/checks his external HD with all five seasons and the movies.
long as they keep “the expanse”
I have the boxed set of DVDs. They can pry It out of my cold dead hands.
âNever start a fight, but always finish it.ââ Captain Sheridan
“Local TV channel 55.2”
Erm… OK.
I hadn’t finished Andromeda, flawed though it is, and it looks like that’s gone for good, too. Oh well.
My media player is pulling up all my old CDs that I ripped to FLAC.
Any Level 42 fans?
Lessons in Love
Well, I knew there was something about you.
I like the bassline in that one song.
Level 42 puts its bassist front and center.
Similar to Rush with apologies to Geddy Lee, Rush and the late great Neil Peart made me realize that drums could be played with something other than a syncopated 4 count.
You mean like this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl6s1x9j4QQ
Mike Portnoy wishes you’d look impressed with his big drum kit, and all the boring music he plays on it. Gene Krupa, though, is forever Gene Krupa.
I never really got into much prog rock, but I do like Rush, mostly.
Looks like we need to go down the Buddy RIch rabbit hole.
The Muppet Show – Buddy Rich vs Animal Drum Battle
Although I’ve not heard good things about how he treated his band. No denying his talent.
You ain’t kiddin’, baby! Bonus for stupendously gorgeous Barbara Stanwyck. She later utters one of the movie’s best lines while complaining about her throat – “It’s as red as The Daily Worker and twice as sore!”
What sucks about Disc Golf? When the first Fairway and Tee pads are full of people playing a pickup game of foosball, we ain’t playin’ that hole, just putt out and go on….
/First World Rant Off
There’s a Foosball table in the first fairway? That’s my kinda park.
no, otherwise I would have shot right over there heads….
Don’t miss….
And this is really funny/ cool,
bonus for cool scenery!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4it_VRtZX60
Please save me from receipts. I am drowning in them.
Taxes coming up and apparently a simple profit-loss statement wasn’t sufficient for the attorney so I have to re-do that part. Also, I vastly underestimated how much we spend on food.
That is frighteningly easy to do.
Anybody have experience burning pinon vs other pine for heat? Been waiting all day for a wood guy to deliver and he said he was out of pine, but I could have the pinon for twice the price. He claims it burns twice as long, hotter and cleaner than other pine. If I wanted wood after waiting all day I guess I have to take his word for it. I invested in only 1/2 cord in case I have been conned. Late in the season I expect to pay premium prices since I am a procrastinator, but double was a bit much. Oh well, it’s only money and I am warm.
Looks like it is better for heating, but nowhere near 2x.
Ya, that is what my research showed as well. It is heavier than the pine I usually get but who can tell if it is all pinon and not mixed. Split, pine looks like pine, which looks like pine to most of us. It does seem to burn well.
Nothing smells better than piñon, though. Worth a few bucks just for that.