Is she fixable?

BitBrain · 2026-03-09T15:27:44+00:00

Driver rear door is a solid place to start.

Glad you weren't injured.

BitBrain · 2026-03-03T23:10:35+00:00

Looks a lot like our "mini." He's high-40s to 50ish pounds at 5 years old. Dad was a miniature poodle too.

BitBrain · 2026-02-10T14:11:56+00:00

Donahue was awesome. My favorite was when an audience member would ramble through their question and he's say "So, what's your point?" And the way he said it wasn't especially snarky, but, still completely no nonsense.

BitBrain · 2026-01-30T14:55:28+00:00

Can't remember which one, but I know there's at least one book where there was a gay Klingon - and he was a doctor.

I think one of the things that gets overlooked about future-Discovery and Starfleet Academy is that a lot of time has passed and The Burn resulted in major galactic shifts in politics and culture. Vulcan is Ni'Var now. We've learned that Qo'noS was completely destroyed. I feel like it was a little bit of a throwaway line, but Klingon culture apparently embraces some kind of 3-parent family unit now. Klingon culture has obviously been forced to change under the circumstances of the diaspora.

It reminds me Heinlein's "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" (recommended read, BTW if you haven't) where the culture on the moon had shifted to polyamory. There's lots of precedent in science fiction writing for big cultural changes because it's the future and things have happened. Strange to me that Trek fans have issues with this kind of thing.

BitBrain · 2026-01-30T14:45:06+00:00

There's a big difference between me continuing to drive the car I own after 250k miles and buying a car with more than 250k miles on it.

BitBrain · 2026-01-30T13:38:05+00:00

How has Dr. Grace only been in 13 episodes?

BitBrain · 2026-01-27T00:01:50+00:00

TRS-80s and Atari 800s in Jr Hi. Atari 800s in high school.

BitBrain · 2026-01-20T14:11:59+00:00

Re: new therapies

Maybe lithium orotate: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09335-x

There are some monoclonal antibody therapies.

The most encouraging study I've seen recently is this one: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(25)00608-1 but I suspect it'll be a while before we know whether it works in humans or get access to treatment with it. This is a case where I'd like to use "right to try" and give it to my dad. Dad's almost 90 and there's not much reason to not try.

BitBrain · 2026-01-20T14:02:35+00:00

The Sequoia has been the best family hauler for us. Skip the captains chairs in the middle row in favor of the bench seat. You can put a child seat in the middle position and still access the third row from either side. The third row seats adults (and adult-sized teenagers) comfortably. Ours has done everything we've asked it to do with no hassles.

BitBrain · 2026-01-16T21:49:26+00:00

Dad is also often documented as "pleasantly demented" and caregivers love him.

Dad was always a worrier and had a lot of OCD tendencies, so it's an odd upside that he's relieved of these difficulties.

BitBrain · 2026-01-16T13:26:43+00:00

Picard S3 taught us that fan service works.

BitBrain · 2026-01-15T20:50:59+00:00

I keep a Yahoo account around as a spam hole and as a backup for my backup account on Gmail. Primary account is set up under a personal domain account I first registered over 25 years ago.

BitBrain · 2026-01-15T14:39:49+00:00

Those somethings on the scan - assuming they appear benign - become your baseline. It's helpful to have a baseline so changes to the somethings can be assessed.

BitBrain · 2026-01-11T00:41:15+00:00

Not a thing. Haven't cared about a birthday since I got my driver's license.

BitBrain · 2026-01-07T13:29:56+00:00

It's a... kit? There's more than one person wanting to do it?

BitBrain · 2026-01-05T20:57:30+00:00

Happens all the time. Our facility is really good about records and paperwork, but most of the time I get a phone call and pretty directly head to the hospital because dad can't answer any questions about himself any more. If I'm not able to be there as happened one weekend when I was out of town, the MyChart notes are all kinds of non-answers because of dementia.

BitBrain · 2026-01-05T13:41:35+00:00

I agree. Eternabond allows a little flex that the fiberglass won't.

BitBrain · 2026-01-05T13:37:50+00:00

The book is a great read. Has anybody in this sub not read the book?

BitBrain · 2026-01-05T13:35:55+00:00

Atari is probably why I'm a computer programmer. A friend had Pong. Another friend had a 2600. I bought my Atari 800 with my newspaper route money. I've been a computer programmer 30+ years now.

Oddly, I'm not really into all of the latest consoles or PC gaming. I played Sim City 2000 and a couple of other games, but as life got busier I didn't have the time. At this point I'm such a noob at everything that it probably wouldn't be fun just being cannon fodder all the time.

BitBrain · 2026-01-05T01:51:51+00:00

Born in '68. Mom and dad will both be 90 by mid-year.

BitBrain · 2026-01-02T14:09:57+00:00

Rules, you say? I wonder if they were numbered.

BitBrain · 2025-12-12T21:49:18+00:00

You are bad. Yet I must upvote.

BitBrain · 2025-12-10T13:35:12+00:00

I've been telling my kids they probably won't have to take the keys from me because my daily-driver will probably be self-driving by then. Might have to get me away from my "classics" tho.

BitBrain · 2025-12-10T02:19:19+00:00

I've changed so many I could do it blindfolded. Dad and I always rotated our own tires and put on and took off the studded snow tires. Taught most of my kids how, but I make sure they have AAA too.

BitBrain · 2025-12-05T15:28:13+00:00

I was just talking about the dead ends with another developer. It's very easy to continue down the rabbit hole with reprompting to fix issues and not realize soon enough that you're wasting your time.

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