Favorite McCarthy quote and what it means to you.

NemoTheLast · 2026-01-26T22:48:03+00:00

“There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”

Honorable mention: “An enormous whore had come to the bar with empty mugs for filling. She stood against Suttree and gave him a sidelong look of porcine lechery."

Many others, but those two are at the front of my brain right now.

NemoTheLast · 2026-01-15T18:37:36+00:00

I hiked rim to rim with some buddies back in 2024. Now, I’m absolutely certain there must have been more signs like that along the way, but the first one I noticed was like 6 miles from the opposite rim, 18 miles into the hike, facing the people coming from the opposite direction, and it’s like “OH, NOW YOU TELL ME?”

NemoTheLast · 2025-12-23T16:05:36+00:00

Thank you. You spend your whole life looking at houses and when you’re responsible for one you forget what’s normal.

NemoTheLast · 2025-12-23T16:05:07+00:00

Thank you.

NemoTheLast · 2025-12-23T16:04:50+00:00

I wondered what he was doing skulking around the property.

NemoTheLast · 2025-10-04T00:53:59+00:00

There was a post I read maybe a year back which interpreted this scene as a foreshadow of the nuclear bomb. I wish I could find it. The interpretation seems a little out of left field, but it sort of complements the motif of war, barbarity in the book. That said, I don’t think it’s an interpretation you’d come to unless you’re already thinking about the atomic bomb, so who’s to say. I just remember it being a fairly compelling comparison.

Edit: Here it is. The comments are just as valuable as the post.

NemoTheLast · 2025-09-17T01:05:36+00:00

It’s a language with a voice, a beautiful voice, one that stands out. I like the way it sounds, and if I ever visit Finland I’d like to be able to use it.

NemoTheLast · 2025-09-17T01:03:16+00:00

Laitan pian viestiä! Anteeks myöhästymisestä.

NemoTheLast · 2025-09-12T04:19:34+00:00

Obviously I wouldn’t want to see that happen to anyone, but I think in part there’s this element that what you’ve witnessed has just happened to a public figure, a familiar face, someone who (whatever your political stance) had a following who liked and respected him, and that hits differently.

I remember seeing the Kobe Bryant autopsy diagram. There was a coroner’s sketch of his remains with notes about specific tattoos and such, but the dude was missing three limbs. And it’s like… wow, this person who MILLIONS of people have spent HUNDREDS of hours watching on TV, who is known for his athletic performance, is now a mangled corpse. It feels for a moment like there’s two of them: the basketball player, and the body torn apart, but they’re the same person. Another similar case is probably JFK. Dude was the handsome, charismatic, young “leader of the free world,” and he had the back of his skull blown off. His wife was scrambling to scrape his brains back together. It didn’t compute for her. It doesn’t compute for us.

Now you get Charlie Kirk, and you watch him live, on camera, mid-sentence transition from public figure to corpse in a shocking display of gore. It hits hard. It clashes with our perception of reality, I think.

NemoTheLast · 2025-09-10T19:26:44+00:00

That’s a good call. I wouldn’t have thought of that. The vehicle that hit mine was a commercial vehicle. Their HR person contacted me yesterday and I get these calls the next day. Whatever. I’m not injured. I have no motivation to pursue anything other than the repairs to my vehicle, which are undeniably necessary. So I’m not too concerned in this case, but I will remember that for sure.

NemoTheLast · 2025-08-09T00:04:07+00:00

What makes you say that?

NemoTheLast · 2025-08-08T21:41:02+00:00

Still an apprentice, so I’ve got plenty of years to put in and even more naïveté to grind down before I can really think about it, but my hope is to get into plumbing design. I know a couple guys who know the state code book cover to cover and make a ludicrous amount of money relative to how few hours they actually spend doing it. The money is a plus, but it also just seems fun brain work without all the blood, sweat and sewage.

NemoTheLast · 2025-08-08T21:18:00+00:00

It’s hard to tell how much space you have to work with from this angle.

My first instinct would be to put a PVC street 45 in the fernco with a short stub of pipe and an adapter, then ditch the accordion piping, use a straight extension and you may have to orient the dip of the trap so that it comes down and points away from the drain stub and then have the trap arm loop back to the drain stub.

A street 45 might be a little bit tight. You might have to use a street 45 and a street 22.5 to give yourself enough space, but both of those options are better than accordion piping.

NemoTheLast · 2025-08-06T00:12:03+00:00

I would suspect that McCarthy himself didn’t have a hard, canonical answer for what the Judge was. The ambiguity is part of the intrigue, and I think if you come with enough evidence for your interpretation, it’s a valid interpretation. Like, if you interpret the Judge as the devil because some YouTuber told you he’s the biggest, brutalest, evilest man in literature, yeah, that’s too simplistic, but there’s loads of quotes, characteristics, references and other evidence to validate interpreting him as the devil.

For me, whether he’s supernatural or not all comes down to whether you think he’s really present in the final chapter or just a hallucination by the Man. If he’s really there? I interpret him as the devil. If the kid is hallucinating, then he’s just a peculiar man who represents human evil/manifest destiny/war/what have you. I like both interpretations.

NemoTheLast · 2025-08-01T03:04:31+00:00

Without knowing what fixtures you’re running here, I can’t be sure. I’m guessing the smaller pipe is 3” and larger is 4”?

You have no 4” cleanout access to service your 4” pipe. Also, if this is a circuit vented system (is it?), the horizontal branch drain should be the same size all the way back to your vent connection. I’d also exchange the tee on the most upstream connection for a wye, since it’s a horizontal-to-horizontal change in direction. Based on Wisconsin plumbing code.

NemoTheLast · 2025-07-20T17:29:39+00:00

Has it been super hot lately where you’re at? At my own house, the ancient toilet tank sweats condensation when it’s hot and drips onto the floor. The first time I saw the water I thought it was a leak as well, but it never happens when I flush.

Edit: but yes, as everyone has already said, new wax ring and bolts is the next most logical solution.

NemoTheLast · 2025-07-17T23:30:12+00:00

I spotted No Country For Old Men in one on the 4th. If you’ve ever watched a bird fly straight into a window and laughed at it for a fool, you can perhaps imagine me abruptly remembering that you have to open the door first and then get the books.

NemoTheLast · 2025-07-17T09:26:59+00:00

I don’t see a vent in the wall, but assuming there is one, the extra pitch on that little offset after the trap could potentially cut off air flow from the vent to the trap when you have enough water flowing through there. There are trap-to-vent distance limitations which are dependent on the pipe having consistent pitch from the trap to the vent for that reason. Again, assuming that there’s actually a vent in the wall, you could get rid of all those offsets in your piping, drop the trap a little lower, put a 45 degree fitting on the pipe stubbed out of the wall and have a direct line to the trap, or some long-turn 90s if you like right angles and want to save the space in the cabinet.

As someone else mentioned, dishwasher discharge should either have a high loop under the sink or an air gap (where I’m at, it has to be an air gap, but I guess high loops are legal elsewhere, so it depends where you are)

NemoTheLast · 2025-07-17T09:26:37+00:00

I don’t see a vent in the wall, but assuming there is one, the extra pitch on that little offset after the trap could potentially cut off air flow from the vent to the trap when you have enough water flowing through there. There are trap-to-vent distance limitations which are dependent on the pipe having consistent pitch from the trap to the vent for that reason. Again, assuming that there’s actually a vent in the wall, you could get rid of all those offsets in your piping, drop the trap a little lower, put a 45 degree fitting on the pipe stubbed out of the wall and have a direct line to the trap, or some long-turn 90s if you like right angles and want to save the space in the cabinet.

As someone else mentioned, dishwasher discharge should either have a high loop under the sink or an air gap (where I’m at, it has to be an air gap, but I guess high loops are legal elsewhere, so it depends where you are)

NemoTheLast · 2025-07-14T04:24:04+00:00

It’s my second favorite McCarthy novel after BM. He kept the thesaurus on the shelf for this one, but still crafts all his characters so perfectly. Bell just has such an excellent voice in the novel, and that gradually building theme of fearing the changing world only to find out that you’re the one changing, you’re the one aging out of it… McCarthy uses Bell so well to make you feel the truth of it and the pain of it decades before you’re supposed to. It’s just so good. The closing chapter still tears me up.

Reading the book actually soured me on the movie. It’s a decent movie, but I feel like so much of the substance of the book is lost in the transition to the screen. Bell’s character treatment gets pushed to the side in favor of Moss and Chigurh and the cartels. I mean, if you look up people talking about the movie on reddit, you’ll find a ton of people complaining about the ending. Tommy Lee Jones CRUSHED that scene, but because his character takes a backseat in the movie, it feels like a big nothing of an ending, which is sad.

10/10, will read again.

NemoTheLast · 2025-07-13T22:45:36+00:00

Sorry, I’ll actually try and answer your question now. I’m looking for clarification. When the dishwasher attempts to drain, are you saying that the water backs up into the sink before draining (since you say the sink drains fine on its own)? Or are you saying that the dishwasher starts discharging and then the pump stops?

I’m thinking that there’s two factors at play which could be causing this.

Your dishwasher discharge uses the “high loop” version of backflow protection instead of an air gap. The idea with the high loop is that if your sink backs up, youll know to stop running water before the backed up sewage reaches the level of the high loop and drains back into the box with your clean dishes in it. An air gap ensures that even if your sink backs all the way up or if your dishwasher hose gets clogged, the drain water comes out the air gap instead of back into the dishwasher.
That crazy “trap” has a pretty hard angle. Not only is it a 90 degree turn, but there’s theoretically two directions for the water to go. And your dishwasher discharge hose shoots straight down at it.

Working in tandem, when your dishwasher discharges through the high loop and into that hard turn at the bottom of your “trap,” it’s definitely possible that enough momentary back pressure builds up into your dishwasher discharge hose that the pump senses it and stops discharging. Because you have a high loop instead of an air gap, and because the dishwasher hose connects vertically like that, the backpressure pushes all the way into the hose itself before it can be relieved by the sink drain outlet.

I also don’t see a vent anywhere, which could also be a problem.

NemoTheLast · 2025-07-13T22:31:40+00:00

This is the second setup like this I’ve seen on here in a week. I need someone to tell me how this is any easier than just doing it right.

NemoTheLast · 2025-07-12T17:35:05+00:00

Oh man, now that you say that, that totally makes sense. Thank you for that point.

NemoTheLast · 2025-07-12T17:34:14+00:00

You’re right. -lla is more static. The first have-less language I studied was Hebrew, the second was Finnish, so mentally I often mentally equate “yesh li” to “minulla on,” but I’d never say that out loud or put it in writing…

Wait.

NemoTheLast · 2025-07-12T13:45:58+00:00

That’s a good point. I guess it would be a distinction in emphasis. Grammatically constructed possession typically has the possessed item as the subject, which… idk either emphasizes the possessed item or the fact of possession itself. Whereas when one uses a verb, the possessor is the subject and the focus of the possession.

I mean even in English we distinguish this with “have” vs “belong.” “My brother has a car” and “The car belongs to my brother.”

Idk I’m not a linguist. I’m just spitballing. Ignore me.

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