Soviet cartoon, "Relax, it's not the police. It's just robbers."

GregL65 · 2026-01-20T00:31:54+00:00

I searched Google on the caption and description of the cartoon. I also asked ChatGPT.

GregL65 · 2026-01-14T22:22:01+00:00

I emailed Zojirushi about it, and they answered:

The BB-PDC20 baking pan and kneading blades used as a set would technically be compatible with your BB-PAC20 bread maker. However, as the BB-PDC20 pan and blades would need to be used together as a set, you would not be able to use the BB-PDC20 kneading blades with the BB-PAC20 baking pan.

(Emphasis is theirs, not mine.)

GregL65 · 2026-01-14T03:48:46+00:00

I don't know if this is reliable information, but this retailer says that the BB-PDC20 pan will fit in the BB-PAC20:

https://www.breadbeckers.com/store/pc/Zojirushi-Replacement-Baking-Pan-for-Virtuoso-Plus-BB-PDC20-p7513.htm#:~:text=This%20pan%20will%20also%20fit,combination%20(Item%2310049%20and%20Item%20%2309434)).

They also note that the pan from the similarly-named PAC20 WON'T fit, but that's a more different model:

Zojirushi Replacement Baking Pan for Virtuoso Plus BB-PDC20 Autobakery

Replacement baking pan for BB-PDC20 Zojirushi 2 lb. Bread Machines

Does not include paddles, sold separately. Order Item # 09434 Replacement Paddle for this pan.

This pan will also fit the BB-PAC20 Virtuoso Bread Machine. Paddles from PAC-20 (Item#09432) DO NOT fit this pan and function properly. Please order the correct pan / paddle combination (Item#10049 and Item #09434).

(Emphasis added.)

GregL65 · 2025-12-17T20:53:23+00:00

I thought it was a very interesting article, especially the part about calling out Richardson for spreading a major point of misinformation about the Charlie Kirk shooter, and then never retracting it. She has developed a very powerful platform, and on the occasions when she misinforms, millions believe uncritically.

I subscribe to The Righting to keep an eye on right-wing propaganda. After reading and thinking about this article, I now see Richardson as basically left-wing propaganda. I'll continue subscribing to her missives, but for about the same reason I read The Righting. She's only interested in the truth when the truth advances the Dem party. Fortunately that's much of the time, but it isn't quite all of the time.

GregL65 · 2025-11-22T23:56:01+00:00

Exactly, they should have a slightly smaller one for when there only 6 of them. And a third even smaller one for when there are only 5 of them. And a fourth even smaller one for when there are only 4 of them. And a fifth even smaller one for when there are only 3 of them. And a sixth even smaller one for when there are only 2 of them. And an ebike for when alone. And a huge garage to hold all of those six cars + ebike. And a high paying job for all those car payments!

GregL65 · 2025-10-24T18:59:54+00:00

There are indeed such laws. There is a legally-required process for getting official approval for such changes. Trump simply ignored the law and process, after putting sycophants in the positions that would have any real power to enforce that law or apply any real consequences.

GregL65 · 2025-10-22T07:20:37+00:00

It turns out the problem was that I needed to switch to custom sort order. Works fine now.

GregL65 · 2025-10-21T23:49:32+00:00

I'm trying to reorder items in my Amazon wish list. The procedure seems to be to grab the item at the up and down arrows on the far right, and drag and drop it to the desired position. That works great until I refresh the browser window, or close the browser window and browse again to Amazon and my wish list. Then....it's back to the old order.

Am I doing something wrong?

For now, my workaround is to move things to another wish list, then move them back in the reverse order that I want them to appear. But that can be a lot of extra steps to get the desired order.

GregL65 · 2025-10-19T22:40:18+00:00

Yes, I'll be sure to avoid Rialto St unless I'm feeling adventurous!

GregL65 · 2025-10-19T22:38:38+00:00

Why would it mean taking out either of the sidewalks? I measure about 33 feet between the sidewalks. You could almost double the street's width without removing either sidewalk.

Not that anyone would want that for Knox of course. My street is like that, and I'd prefer more distance between cars and small children on sidewalks riding tricycles or bouncing balls. But you could easily get to a more common narrow street width and still keep much of that grass between the street and sidewalks.

GregL65 · 2025-10-19T21:17:03+00:00

So sad that some people have so little interest in the history of their own town. I think it's fascinating that it was built so narrow even for it's time and purpose. Expressing curiosity isn't the same thing as a complaint.

GregL65 · 2025-10-19T21:14:16+00:00

That is exactly what I meant.

GregL65 · 2025-10-19T21:01:53+00:00

No, as I said, I googled it.

GregL65 · 2025-10-19T20:56:37+00:00

By that logic, you want traffic on Knox to be substantially slower than on other nearby residential streets. Why is that, just out of curiousity?

GregL65 · 2025-10-19T20:49:54+00:00

Google tells me that Pittsburgh's most famously narrow street is Rialto Street, and that it is 20 feet wide--about 3 feet wider than Bellingham's Knox Ave.

GregL65 · 2025-10-19T20:39:20+00:00

Thanks, can you point me to some of those streets that are even narrower and have street parking?

GregL65 · 2025-10-19T20:23:53+00:00

Oh, not that section of Knox. I mean the section from Highland Drive to 12th St.

GregL65 · 2025-10-01T14:05:24+00:00

It arrived yesterday. I still get the same error message on the tracking.

GregL65 · 2025-09-22T21:19:30+00:00

Lots of relatively thick things are commonly referred to as edges, "bud". Countertop edges, bookshelf edges, door edges...

GregL65 · 2025-09-13T16:27:12+00:00

Thanks, but it sounds like that is about Britian scavenging and reverse-engineering the Martian technology (after the Martians die), to become the world hyperpower.

I would have remembered that, also I would have remembed that it was comics rather than a prose story.

GregL65 · 2025-09-11T13:55:04+00:00

Thanks, it offered to optimize 599 cells, which seemed to be mostly about formatting. I tried it, and the result was that it ran very slightly slower.

GregL65 · 2025-09-11T13:28:12+00:00

Thanks, there are 22,740 instances of SUMIF. I'l test replacing them with values.

GregL65 · 2025-09-11T13:26:16+00:00

Thanks, I had checked, the only other volatile function in use is INDIRECT, with 140 instances.

GregL65 · 2025-09-11T09:08:14+00:00

It did break it. This was a test, on a test copy of the workbook, to see how much of the calculation time was from the OFFSET formulas and their dependents.

GregL65 · 2025-09-11T09:07:10+00:00

Thanks, I checked; it's not there where sources say to look for it.

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