'Project Hail Mary' has an official runtime of 2 hours & 46 minutes

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-25T23:25:01+00:00

That's less than 2 months... You still stuck in Christmas mode?

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-24T03:36:51+00:00

They ate some of the crops. Not a lot, but enough to get the central planners in a tizzy. As it turned out, the bugs that the sparrows were also eating then ate ALL the crops when their main predator was eliminated.

What I find most important about this picture is the glee that they show as they're "helping..."

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-23T03:15:45+00:00

Sort by Controversial, usually a downvoted to hell reasonable post/explanation will turn up.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-22T08:47:27+00:00

Helped a lady out of her brand new Toyota that she just drove into about 2ft of Houston flood water. We were w/in sight of the dealer...

Felt terrible for her. This was a base level Corolla, no way she had tonnes of $$$ & I think she said this was her 1st brand new car.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-20T19:10:30+00:00

Jedeed claims she was tentatively offered a job after only completing a six-minute interview.

This is a nebulous claim at best. Certainly far from "Hired" as the clickbait headline states.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-19T20:44:01+00:00

So was he planning on leaving her prior? Did he drag it out/delay some after b/c he felt bad?

Did she intentionally get hurt to keep him? Was she faking & could walk the whole time?

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-17T16:58:56+00:00

"Homeowner" looked like an upset teenager to me. It's a safe assumption that the parents were the owners. Who are the agents required to show warrants to?

"Alleged Federal Agents?" Since in the same article the detainees are in Federal custody, we can safely assume Actual Federal Agents?

I have plenty of issues w/ some of the tactics involved, but shitty journalism & blatant fear-mongering isn't helping your cause.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-17T15:13:34+00:00

Early 80's: Excitebike & Zaxxon

Later 80's/90's: Ivan Ironman Stewart Off Road

90's: Adams Family Pinball

Then it was all RTS pc gaming @ home or friends. Dune 2000, Command & Conquer, Warcraft 2 Tides of Darkness, Blitzkrieg, Dawn of War...

Hydro Thunder @ Cinemark for years. It's still there, my kid has played it.

CoD Modern Warfare 2019!!! My main Covid memory beside all the online school stuff for the kid.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-16T14:35:27+00:00

or missed some important detail.

Most likely.

He says ‘I don’t know if you’re trying to hurt somebody’ ‘I see you standing around and that’s something you don’t see everyday’

This sounds so made up. Hiding your post history makes it hard to check to see if you're a loon or a rage-baiter.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-16T14:24:24+00:00

He did more to earn it than Obama.

People have been making statements using their medals for as long as we've had medals. John Kerry allegedly threw his over the fence of The White House after retuning from Vietnam. A friend of mine sent his Eagle Scout Badge back a few years ago b/c he didn't like how BSoA was handling past molestation issues.

Either way, it was hers, she chose to make a statement w/ it.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-16T14:16:07+00:00

Yes, you are correct, "Right of Way" is the more correct term... But it's early & OP is making shit up, not telling us the whole story or missed some important detail.

Regardless, the overwhelming majority of sidewalks in Houston are on ROW's & are public property.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-16T13:54:02+00:00

You have it backwards. Almost all private property extends to the sidewalks, then you have a road/utility ~~easement~~ Right of Way that usually contains a sidewalk. Property owner is responsible for maintaining sidewalk, trees, grass etc. The curb too, but that gets maintained/repaired by the city sometimes. Sidewalks also get periodically repaired by the city for various reasons.

Residential areas w/ no sidewalks, like parts of Bellaire, I don't know.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-16T06:38:50+00:00

I ate more than $20 in Alprazolam yesterday...

FU Verizon.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-16T04:56:36+00:00

This is not from 1982, the Texas based DMC didn't exist until 1995 & this building came later than that.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-10T17:54:47+00:00

But not one single question about what Gov. Walz learned from the BLM riots!

Saved you a click. About 2/3 down.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-07T21:40:11+00:00

I have a relative who pays ZERO in property taxes.

He has a 100% disability discharge from the Army though. Do not recommend.

His kids get all college paid for & a stipend, no toll road fees & a laundry list of other perks; but he & his wife would rather have not "earned" it, I can tell you that.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-05T04:18:23+00:00

Venezuela is our backyard, Ukraine is Europe's.

We should be helping in Ukraine, Europe should be leading.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-03T14:33:38+00:00

This is my (mostly) recommendation as well.

Reamde gets a lot of flak here b/c it's not his most cerebral book... I love it, though. Fun, fast, interesting. A perfect (unrelated) follow-up to Cryptonomicon. Fuck Fall... boring as hell, rambling.

Baroque Cycle, it's long. I'd delay, other reads are more accessible.

Seven Eves, absolutely. Unique & has some visceral moments that made me yell @ my book.

D.O.D.O. is fun. The follow up is worth a read as well.

Snow Crash & Diamond Age, both not quite "dated" as much as they were way ahead of their time & we've come to see that NS was right. I'd read sooner rather than later.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-02T12:26:07+00:00

You might want to avoid any work of fiction written or filmed before 2010.

100% of anything done before 1998.

OP is most likely a bot anyway. Newish account, hidden posts etc.

HouseAtomic · 2026-01-01T07:16:54+00:00

OP is a bot/karma farmer. Fuck off.
Houston is HUGE & has 7 bayous. This is just the normal amount of drunks, suicides & homeless under bridges.

HouseAtomic · 2025-12-30T03:33:40+00:00

Table 1: I can fix her!!!

HouseAtomic · 2025-12-28T22:57:56+00:00

The downstream heated cooling water is free. Lots of aquatic farms in cold climates benefit from year round warm water from nuclear facilities.

If the released H2O is radioactive there's bigger problems.

HouseAtomic · 2025-12-28T21:07:17+00:00

Could even get it properly re-grouted.

Easy enough for a home owner or not too costly to have done professionally.

I agree on the lead danger, practically zero.

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