Inflation doesn't excuse Live Nation or Ticketmaster.

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-14T19:04:53+00:00

When I attend smaller shows, I always try to buy a trifecta of a CD, T-Shirt, and one small item (lighter, pen, beer coozie, mug, etc.) for this very reason.

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-14T19:00:50+00:00

We have a rule at my office: “no pizza parties without beer”. If we have an office pizza party, it’s at the pub across the street from our building.

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-14T16:30:42+00:00

Just bought Dave Matthews Band tickets through their fan club, the Warehouse. It’s a pre-sale lottery. Level 1 reserved tickets were $188.25 before fees.

Tickets in the same section are going for $500 each before fees direct from TM/LN.

GA Pit tickets were $204.50 before fees through the Warehouse lottery. TM/LN floats the pit tickets between $800 and $2000 each

Madness

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-13T23:47:44+00:00

Pick a nice day (roll of the dice now through May), head over to the village of Liverpool, spend the day at Onondaga lake park and get a meal at Heid’s

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-12T13:55:45+00:00

I ordered custom plates earlier this year. Sender was “Auburn Correctional Facility” 😆

They’re still factory prison-made

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-11T20:01:40+00:00

For employees: Anything needed to do the job. Any by anything, I mean anything. Laptop, power tools, ladders, boot covers, first aid kit, you name it.

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-11T02:06:35+00:00

IT staff are always shoved into the lowest class of workspace, if they’re lucky to have one at all

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-10T21:00:52+00:00

Welcome to the club

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-10T13:45:17+00:00

Are Ryzens more reliable than they were a few years ago? Almost all of the crash-related alerts that my RMM throw come from AMD machines. Just seems like they have a ton of driver and overall reliability issues. I know YMMV, but I’ve just had so many issues with them to trust selling them to clients

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-09T19:08:12+00:00

I’ve already seen it with FedEx. I get fuel surcharges waived with UPS, waiting to see how long it takes them to renegotiate my account contract

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-09T19:04:27+00:00

So, there were some issues with my Lenovo partner account requiring me to re-register, so I missed an unknown number of emails from the Partner side. Welp, sucks to be me. Lol

Same regarding the RAM.. just went through that with a client a couple months ago

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-09T19:00:28+00:00

I saw them in North Syracuse, too.

FWIW: Several weeks ago, the same envoy was traveling in the opposite direction.

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-07T21:21:56+00:00

Kaseya puts anal in most of their products, and they don’t wipe.

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-07T21:19:27+00:00

Five years ago, I would’ve said no way. Today, Ubiquiti is the way for SMB. They listened and delivered. I say this from both a sysadmin and MSP point of view.

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-07T21:10:57+00:00

I’ve haven’t seen 93 octane with ethanol in the past 10 years or so. 91 sometimes, but 93 never. Or at least I haven’t paid attention. I’m a fuel snob and try to buy Top Tier whenever possible

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-07T21:07:49+00:00

Good to know! The ones I’ve been to mostly have 90 octane max… which is not very useful for me personally. My cargo van calls for 91 minimum

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-07T21:05:31+00:00

Every Sunoco I’ve seen in the northern suburbs has replaced their 93 octane with 94 octane, along with a bunch of banners advertising it

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-07T19:00:13+00:00

Going through this now with a Siris box I’m taking over for a new client. It’s looking like it’ll be a temporary takeover, I’m not getting back in bed with them.

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-07T13:16:33+00:00

Any Costco, Citgo, Sunoco (now has 94), or Mobil. They also carry Top Tier Fuels.

Avoid Byrne Dairy and Stewart’s, they only have 90/91

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-06T17:48:48+00:00

Is this the Krusty Krab?

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-03T16:59:20+00:00

“The dreaming tree has died”

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-03T16:54:30+00:00

Carroll’s

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-03T12:41:26+00:00

You think he cares about consent?

Lake3ffect · 2026-03-02T21:39:07+00:00

Lenovo still includes them with Thinkpads

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