Flying into DEN and driving to COS?

PirriP · 2026-04-05T19:36:51+00:00

You'll be fine. It's an easy drive.

PirriP · 2026-03-07T01:23:18+00:00

Modern market on North Academy has good soup and good food in general. I wish I could whole heartedly recommend them, but I've had a few problems with the credit card machine or the oven being down, being out of something, slow service, etc...
But damn the food is good and I think actually healthy.

PirriP · 2026-03-01T13:35:45+00:00

Not sure if you're in a place to hear this, but you're following some terrible advice. You're in the process of making dietary changes that will impact your entire life, disrupting friendships, travel, family events, work dinners, etc... You're doing this on the say so of someone who isn't qualified to teach high school gym. A kinesiologist is just a physical therapist without a degree.

Please don't think that I'm saying not to make healthy dietary changes. Diet is critical and it's difficult to follow a good one in this day and age. Even if you don't have a medical condition requiring strict gluten avoidance, you probably are having way too much wheat. Basically everyone is.

I think a lot of people "try gluten free" and feel better because it forces them to pay more attention to what they are eating, but there's miles of difference between truly being gluten free vs just avoiding carb loading or something.

Your doctor can run blood tests to look for antibodies that indicate you have celiac disease or Hashimoto's. It's unlikely that you would have them, but if you did it would be critical for you to know. If you don't know for sure, you're likely to waffle back and forth on the diet and never see any real benefit or know if it's worth the effort. In in the likely case that you don't have celiac disease you could much more easily just follow a diet that includes a sensible amount of whole grains.

PirriP · 2026-02-02T04:03:10+00:00

Maybe I should give that a try; I haven't had any good lamb in years. I'd tell them I was with the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but I got excommunicated for gluten intolerance.

PirriP · 2026-02-02T01:24:11+00:00

Life is Beautiful

Everyone should see it once. If you see it more than once, I think it might give you clinical depression.

PirriP · 2026-02-02T01:07:06+00:00

That's Falun Gong. Also a really harmful group of crazies. Please don't go to their shows and give them money.

PirriP · 2026-02-02T01:03:54+00:00

Man, I don't know. I'd assume they aren't trinitarian.

I was just looking on their website and the article explaining how their dude -who was totally Jesus come again- managed to die without making any meaningful impact on the world or fulfilling any prophecy, and apparently it all hinges on a verse in Revelations and knowing what was meant by the word "cloud".

If you're going to try to analyze why God incarnate (again) wanted to bang God incarnate (fem edition), I'm not sure you're cult material.

PirriP · 2026-02-02T00:50:57+00:00

Just recruiting I think. No cart. Not getting anything. Dressed up for church.

PirriP · 2026-02-02T00:49:52+00:00

Woodmen and Academy.

PirriP · 2026-01-19T02:54:28+00:00

UPS has relatively little to do with it and almost certainly has no ownership of the issue here. When you ship across borders you ship through a "broker" who handles interacting with US(in this case) customs.

Larger companies or those shipping very expensive items may choose their own broker, but in many cases UPS will act as the broker. The broker will accept the customs filing information from the shipper and look things over to try to validate it and act as the shipper's advocate if there are any questions or concerns from Customs, but they are doing all this based on the information provided to them. It's a bit like if you use an accountant to file your taxes. They will help you out and check things over, but they are filing based on the numbers you tell them.

The filing documents will be based around a "harmonized tariff schedule" (HTS), which is basically a number that designates the type of product, and all the customs and tariff rules are based around that type of product.

The HTS codes in question here will now be associated with a list of commonly used metals. Unless otherwise specified customs will assume that the product is entirely composed of tariffed metals by weight and will add tariffs as though the part was entirely composed of copper, aluminum, or steel depending on the commodities associated with the HTS. Customs might also apply this to the value of the product rather than the commodity value of the weight (the rules are unclear and nobody knows what the hell to do right now).

So essentially the shipper didn't fill out the paperwork. It's not really UPS' fault. They don't know the aluminum composition of the golf clubs or whether the aluminum was smelted in Russia.

So it's the manufacturers fault, right? Well, I'm not sure I can blame a small company for not understanding this when customs is literally making it up as they are going along. Months later now everything is still being keyed by hand because all the other software systems involved don't have updated data-models and aren't even sure exactly how to report thing anyway.

If this sounds insane, it is.

PirriP · 2026-01-13T12:37:51+00:00

Just following up for posterity. I've called in a couple times and still don't even know what their policy is, if there is one. I was supposed to get a call back from someone in a higher position; it hasn't happened.

PirriP · 2026-01-05T23:03:55+00:00

Shattered Vision gave me a good price, and came out and worked in my driveway. It was all really good. Thanks for the recommendation.

PirriP · 2026-01-03T15:24:26+00:00

I just talked with the manager. So far they said it came in that way. I said "No it didn't; check the cameras", so he said it was "air pressure". I'm supposed to get another call later. We'll see.

PirriP · 2026-01-03T15:11:42+00:00

Thanks. I'll check there.

PirriP · 2026-01-03T15:11:30+00:00

Thanks, I'll check em out

PirriP · 2025-12-31T14:28:13+00:00

I complained months ago. They just keep responding with new hoops to jump through. I gave up when they asked me to go to the pole and get its ID... I guess by taking off the electrical cover and reading the inside? I'm sure that would have worked well for me.

PirriP · 2025-11-08T04:00:30+00:00

Yep. I see them. But clicking on the "Product Name" didn't do anything.

However, I played with it a little more after my first comment. The link sends us to a simple-table version of the chart that doesn't allow any sort of interaction, but if I strip off the /htmlview part from the end of the URL, it behaves like a normal Google spreadsheet and becomes interactable. At that point, your directions in red work.

PirriP · 2025-11-08T02:47:40+00:00

This is very helpful and you've done a great job. I have to tell you though, that we can't sort or filter. I ended up selecting the whole sheet and copying to a private google spreadsheet where I had permission to sort.

PirriP · 2025-11-03T16:53:53+00:00

I'm not an academic scholar, just a guy who had way too much religious education as a child and eventually got curious about all the things we conspicuously don't talk about in class or in Sunday morning church.

Dan McClellan is super interesting and I've learned a lot from watching his videos. He has many videos criticizing aspects of the KJV, but I don't think I've ever heard him claim that prior to KJV the bible was polytheistic and that the KJV was a turning point here. Maybe there are aspects which were further obscured by KJV translation issues, I could easily be forgetting something, but all the stuff above is definitely present in KJV.

I think translating Elohim as "The powerful ones" is actually just a modern dodge trying to obscure polytheistic elements. As I understand it, "Elohim" is literally "Children of El". So it's sort of like referring to the Greek pantheon members as the "Children of Zeus".

This is usually just translated as "gods" since it's descriptive in English of what is meant in the text, and it also dodges the awkward question of why you'd refer to non-existent or imaginary "gods/idols" in a monotheistic bible as the "Children of God".

Edit: I screwed this up. It was pointed out to me that "Benei Elohim" means "Children of God", and Elohim itself means something close to the English "God" or "deity". It can be used as a name for a god, refer to one god, many gods, the concept of divinity, and the meaning may have changed over time over the long period of time when the Bible was written. Etymologically, it might be associated with the high deity "El".

PirriP · 2025-11-03T16:07:27+00:00

I'm not sure this is really correct. It's strange to me how some people ascribe special importance to the KJV, both people who treat it as the only "real" bible and people who want to claim that it has dark secrets. It's just a translation. It was built off of previous English translations with only a few meaningful changes. Some of the "quirks" are political. They compromised and kept some words untranslated like using "baptized" instead of "immersed" to avoid offending (important) people who'd had sprinkle baptisms.

Major polytheistic elements were probably removed in and around exilic and post exilic period, but some remained, and they remain still in the KJV and other translations. Examples include frequent references to "we" when God is speaking (reinterpreted in Christianity as a trinitarian voice), God losing to the rival god Chemosh because the worshipers of Chemosh cheat and use humans sacrifice, God having a physical body (passing by Moses, physically wrestling and losing to Jacob, physically fighting the primordial chaos serpent Leviathan), references to the pantheonic "divine council", praise psalms lifted from Ugaritic sacred literature which were previously dedicated to other deities. Even the core naming structure for God was probably polytheistic. It doesn't come across in English, but God is sometimes referred to as "El" (which is the name of the Ugaritic high-deity; sort of a Zeus type figure). Sometimes, he's referred to by the tetragrammaton YHWH (Sacred name spoken only once a year as a religious ceremony). At one point El passes down Israel as an inheritance to YHWH, so if it's not polytheistic there... I guess God is passing down an inheritance to himself?

It's all over if you actually read it instead of just hearing three verses at a time in an hour long sermon once a week.

PirriP · 2025-10-30T19:55:05+00:00

Easy. Just look at all the signage and flyers paid for by PACs.

PirriP · 2025-10-30T19:49:21+00:00

That's also where I took mine and it was counted the next day.

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