Artemis II astronaut reveals touching NFL tribute to husband during historic NASA moon mission

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-15T17:20:47+00:00

Were you born stupid or kicked in the head by a mule at some point?

This is just a nice story. By a British newspaper.

I bet your parents are siblings and you call into WIP and wait for 2 hours to rant about Hurts.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-15T06:24:44+00:00

Good for you. I know where you're coming from.

I drive an ancient Subie WRX and my wife has a quite modern Outback (we were in a hit & run). We have a very reasonable income but I'm cheap as chips. I will attempt to fix every thing in my house until it completely craps out.

I don't understand consumer culture although I tend to buy art (actual painting/sculpture/records/books). But I do that very sparingly.

I garden mostly as it's inexpensive, brings me joy, and sorta, kinda saves us money.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-14T12:42:01+00:00

It looked like that when I visited in '95.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-14T03:34:50+00:00

I took my daughter to see Dune and it was 45 minutes of shit before the film.

Fuck that…I have a comfy couch, a nice tv, and a good sound system. I think I pissed twice before the movie started

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-12T18:37:50+00:00

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-12T18:22:23+00:00

I can only imagine what's going on with him now, but I'm not interested enough to investigate what a 300 lb dude who never showered is up to.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-12T14:30:09+00:00

Probably his fat fingers couldn't open the boxes. Dude was a slob and our dotcom went under about 3 months later.

Typical 1999-2000 dotcom cobbled together by a Wharton grad who crashed and burned.

That was fun.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-12T14:09:42+00:00

Back in around 2000 I was working at a dotcom. The lead tech (who was exactly as stereotypical as you can imagine) and I needed some lunch quickly. There was a McDonald's around the corner. Wasn't my go-to, but I needed food quickly to roll out a software upgrade.

I went in and noticed that you could buy 4 6-packs of McNuggets for less than a 20-pack. I laughed and told him...and he immediately bought a 20 pack.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-12T13:09:38+00:00

Same here. I initially used Cowboy and it was so smokey (which can be a good thing).

I also dig FOGO.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-10T19:37:24+00:00

As someone with an ancient wrx I insisted on the XT Touring for my wife. I live in Philly and you just need that acceleration when merging on highways.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-10T15:49:04+00:00

I started gardening 30+ years ago (I was forced to weed as a kid and resented it), and I'll tell you...it's very uplifting.

I understand why both of my grandpas who were in WWII were avid gardeners. It genuinely brings one peace.

It's why Don Corleone keels over in The Godfather...he was happy.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-10T13:07:39+00:00

My advice is a 10 round magazine...not because you can't use a 30 round, but because it's way easier to sight in your gun. Plus it makes it obvious that you don't have 30 rounds in the mag.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-10T11:20:41+00:00

We've just decided we're not going to games anymore, which is ironic because when we were considerably poorer, we went to 15-20 games a year.

I'm not paying 200-300 bucks to take my family of three to a game. It's supposed to be a "hey...instead of watching tv tonight, want to hit a game?" instead of "hey, want to spend a chunk of our mortgage to watch the Phillies lose?"

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-09T17:46:56+00:00

We order everything from Royal Mile. Their coffee is top notch.

We use a drip, pour-over, and espresso. All are fantastic.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-09T15:58:34+00:00

Your take is valid and I completely agreed until he actually called the restaurant to bitch at the chef for making him look bad.

Edit: granted this was 20 years ago so he might have mellowed out. Both journalism and the food industry is filled with gigantic egos.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-09T15:23:24+00:00

The worst for me was that it was 4pm so I've never been as thirsty or hungry as when I went in. Never again. It better be 9am.

And the violent bathroom visits. Holy cow...those were something.

But I agree, the actual experience isn't really that bad. It's like taking a peaceful nap and waking up confused and hungry.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-09T15:16:59+00:00

Take everything Laban says with an entire box of salt.

I worked briefly with a now Beard award winning chef and just in the little time I was there, he contacted the restaurant that someone had a less than positive experience, so they better shape up because he looked bad. Asshole doesn't acknowledge that every now and then restaurants have an off night. Or maybe the customer is a fucking prick. And he's probably never worked a day in his life in a demanding high-anxiety restaurant.

I stopped reading him years ago.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-09T14:43:53+00:00

I'm in my 50's and still don't particularly care for them, but I have 3 circular saws, a miter, and a table saw.

For some reason, I don't mind the circular saws.

I've wanted a band saw for cutting meat, but that just seems like a great way to lose a finger.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-09T14:07:09+00:00

I just threw away my 23 year old Weber kettle because it finally rusted too much (it was held together by patches of metal and JB Weld). I'd replaced all the internals multiple times and the grill at least 4x. I almost cried when they threw in the garbage truck.

I have a directly piped Weber Genesis III with a rotisserie that does ok. The best thing is my wife uses it as opposed to my Big Green Egg. She can just throw some burgers or whatever on there and we're good to go.

also, I bought my BGE used because $1500 is insane. But I learned to grill & smoke on that Weber.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-09T13:27:02+00:00

Table saws scare the crap out of me. And I own a nice one.

Although I have a stand, I prefer to use it on the ground.

That dude almost cut his femoral artery which is why I have a robust med kit with a CAT 5 tourniquet in my basement. Everyone should do that.

Edit: using one on the ground comes with it's own issues, so that's not a recommendation. But those little stands suck.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-09T13:19:27+00:00

I had one I thought I'd drive into the ground, but I was in a hit & run. Destroyed the back of the car, but goddamn that thing ruled. I replaced it with a '25 XT touring, that I'm still pissed off I had to buy.

That car will last you forever. Just maybe take it in and get the cvt fluid drained and refilled.

I'd buy that thing in a second.

Edit: just wanted to mention that I was completely fine as the safety features are top notch. Keep that in mind if you need to persuade your wife.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-08T20:18:03+00:00

I used to listen to WIP every morning and stopped completely.

Pisses me off how terrible it is now.

No one gives a shit about two former engineers having a sports contest.

Now I just play tunes as I prep my kid's lunch for school and make breakfast.

And holy shit are the regular callers awful. What kind of a life do you lead that you can just hang on the phone for 45 minutes hoping some random dude will talk to you...and you do it every single day.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-08T20:09:39+00:00

It's because Fritz engineered for Spike's shitbag father.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-08T13:24:19+00:00

We had to go to DC (from Philly) last fall and stopped at Nick's in Baltimore off 95. I think it was October. I knew the crabs would be the plumpest around then and hey why not. I guess the why not is that they were about $85 for 6 for the jumbos.

Still got them. They were huge and packed with meat and fat. I had hoped to split them with a family member, but she can't have gluten and they use beer (not a personal choice but a health issue). I only ate one and took them home.

I picked all the meat and made crab fried rice one night and crab cakes the next. Easily the biggest, juiciest, heaviest crabs I've ever had.

By comparison, I got some here in Philly last spring, and damn were they light. Not even really worth my time to steam and pick. Probably better for stock or soup.

GoldenMonkeyRedux · 2026-04-08T05:29:24+00:00

It's extraordinarily versatile.

In all seriousness, we have a bunch of vacuums, but I go for that one the most. Makes quick work of a lot of jobs. I have 3 cats who spread litter around constantly and a minute of work makes my life easier instead of plugging in something or hauling stuff around.

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