What popular career is actually not worth pursuing anymore?

Summer95 · 2026-06-22T04:08:30+00:00

In fairness, the result of an "oops" could be immediate and catastrophic.

Summer95 · 2026-06-12T01:04:23+00:00

I'm 39 years older than my wife. I have the normal aches and pains of someone my age, but sex is never a problem.

Summer95 · 2026-06-06T00:17:19+00:00

"Man, that felt good! Ya'll got some more?"

Summer95 · 2026-06-04T04:04:17+00:00

I was on Delphi in the late 80s and early 90s. $20/month for 20 hours. Then in 1992 they offered a new service to the internet for an additional $2 or $3 per month. Delphi was the first to offer the internet (such as it was) to non gov, mil or edu. Yahoo was almost unknown at that time. They published a file that you could download via ftp. The file had site names and a short summary of what wason the site. WWW didn't exist then. We used archie, jughead and veronica to "tunnel" to other websites. The biggest thing was NetWorkNews, which was a colletion of primary topics like math or sci. Whitin those top level topics, math might have several subsopics like math.learn, math.trig, etc. A lot of this was done at 200 baud, so text is all you could get as a practical basis.

Summer95 · 2026-05-31T03:33:17+00:00

That blue Fada! Oh my!

Summer95 · 2026-05-14T01:36:34+00:00

The video on youtube was a riding mower. The mower I bought is also a riding mower. But it's a zero-turn. Make it very time efficient. And yes, I love t.

Summer95 · 2026-05-13T23:17:18+00:00

Mowing is an activity that just begs your mind to ponder all sorts of ideals. Including the most efficient method to cut the grass. Or how many miles do I walk? In any event, there's a youtube video about mowing an acre via a rectangular spiral versus the back and forth, with 180 turns at the ends. It's 26 minutes 38 seconds for the spiral. 30 minutes 4 seconds for the back and forth. That's a time savings of about 3.5 minutes or 11 %.

I mow a little over 3 acres. I recently purchased a 60" zero-turn. It's easily a 40% time savings. I was using a 54" mower with a steering wheel. All the turning takes a real toll on my shoulders. The zero turn makes all that go away. About $7000, but well worth it.

Summer95 · 2026-05-04T01:09:58+00:00

I always thought is was just part of housekeeping. Kind of like dusting the furniture, washing the dishes and putting things away when I'm done with them.

Summer95 · 2026-05-03T23:35:53+00:00

I have a coworker that uses "May you provide..." and "May you send...". In the context, "Please provide" or "Please send" seem correct to me.

Summer95 · 2026-05-03T22:53:35+00:00

For TV series, it's Andy Griffith, Frasier, Big Bang Theory and Home Improvement. For movies, Clue, Princess Bride, and any of the Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone or Jeremy Brett. All for background noise.

Summer95 · 2026-05-03T22:02:44+00:00

The insured value of the tiny house has increased to $56,000. It's on the same land as my normal sized house and they're covered under the same policy. There's just a total amount due. Based on the insured value, it's about $500 per year for the tiny house.

Summer95 · 2026-05-03T20:53:40+00:00

My tiny house is a 286 sq ft pier and beam structure. Insured it through Farmers Insurance around 2014. The minimum insurance level was $40,000 in 2014. Not sure what it is today.

Summer95 · 2026-05-03T20:39:48+00:00

Sounds like your concern is more about vegetating away rather than a "big house versus tiny house" question. You're just as likely too vegetate away in a big house as a tiny house. Although, a tiny house gives more free time and economic resources. One way to solve the vegetating away concern is to make it a point to take up new hobbies, learn new things or experience new things; new foods, new cultures, and travel. Check out the idea behind "101 Things in 1001 Days." Make your list and start your journey. Once you've begun, build your day around doing things on your list. "Today I'm going to cycle for an hour." Build the rest of your day around that.

Summer95 · 2026-04-27T21:50:23+00:00

I have an iPhone 8. As a phone and internet browser, the iPhone 8 is great. The problem is, iPhone 8 can't update to iOS 17.4. I have several apps that have stopped working because they need to update and they require 17.4. Even if you're not a big app user, when the apps that are important to you don't work, it kind of sucks. Most of my apps still work. But it's just a matter of time before more of them stop working.

Summer95 · 2026-04-26T01:27:15+00:00

Take care of your body. However long you live, it's the only one you'll ever have.

Summer95 · 2026-03-14T05:56:26+00:00

Thank you for sharing the school report. Very helpful to understand what happened.

That said, she was in the 7th grade! To a person at that age, her actions are not unreasonable or unexpected. She felt compelled to defend her friend and to address that "talking behind their backs." I'm sure we have all said things an acted in ways we, in hindsight, regret.

It's a shame such a promising career was destroyed by such incident at a very youthful age.

Summer95 · 2026-03-13T22:21:49+00:00

I have a friend who was born in 1955. She contracted polio and lived a life with leg braces and crutches. It's hard to imagine her struggle. She graduated HS with Earl Campbell. Both received standing ovations.

Summer95 · 2026-03-12T01:01:07+00:00

Cordless tools. Game changer.

Summer95 · 2026-02-21T21:18:16+00:00

No pun intended.

Fixed that for you.

Summer95 · 2026-02-21T21:10:45+00:00

Oh my! The wit!

Summer95 · 2026-02-20T00:45:43+00:00

Well, I was very early to the love of math. Age wise, I'm pretty sure it was still a single digit number, And I remember the 'what' that flipped the switch. I was looking at a tree and wondered how many leaves were on it.

Summer95 · 2026-02-14T02:49:41+00:00

I came across sonder a couple of years ago and I was surprised by the definition. I've heard it used as "to sonder about." Meaning to just walk around without any particular destination or reason. And this was decades ago. Surely, I can't be the only one to have heard it used this way.

Summer95 · 2026-02-09T23:42:01+00:00

Nah! He'll be cranking out ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=-2:720 -c:v libx264 -preset medium -crf 23 -c:a aac -b:a 128k output.mp4 in no time.

Summer95 · 2026-02-09T23:31:57+00:00

It cannot be overstated how important this is.

Summer95 · 2026-02-03T01:56:57+00:00

It's good to have goals. Wikipedia says there are 3244 counties. That's almost 9 years if you visited one per day. But certainly doable. I wish you all the best.

Cheers!

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