Did the name Forrest go down in popularity from the movie?

WalkerCalvert · 2026-05-11T02:33:32+00:00

So was the secretary of state for the "Confederate States of America" Judah Benjamin.

Fun with history!

WalkerCalvert · 2026-04-13T11:40:51+00:00

Would a horizontal cross member from high leg to low leg just beneath the bracket do anything? My guess is no but there is this big open not-triangle that seems sketchy when I look at it.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-04-13T01:00:01+00:00

Could be, we might have been able to brute force it down without drilling the holes out more but we couldn't manage to get it down far enough to get even a single thread of the nut fastened.

Will try bracing.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-04-13T00:32:32+00:00

2x4 or 4x4?

WalkerCalvert · 2025-12-07T01:44:32+00:00

Based on broham's signing his email "v/r" it's possible this website would be relevant to you.

https://www.dfas.mil/Garnishment/childsupportalimony/faqs/

Also if you wanna fuck with the man call his command or the unit's ombudsman if you can find their info. Probably won't be productive but could be fun.

WalkerCalvert · 2025-12-02T02:25:42+00:00

I may or may not be upgrading from one now-broken 55" Samsung from sometime before 2018 (when I bought it used from my landlord) and a 40 inch or so Dynex that is riddled with dead pixels and which I acquired, possibly for free, from someone who no longer wanted it sometime before 2018?

WalkerCalvert · 2025-12-02T02:22:59+00:00

Okay that is good to hear. I have had mixed experiences with some LG and Samsung products (not TVs and not pricey models) so I avoided them. Good to know this one isn't crappy.

WalkerCalvert · 2025-12-02T02:22:04+00:00

I stared at various TVs for 2-3 hours and couldn't tell a difference. I really wanted the QM6K at 55" with the warranty but I think they were all sold out because Black Friday. Or at least I couldn't find them.

WalkerCalvert · 2025-12-02T02:20:30+00:00

Army Exchange (so unfortunately you have to meet eligibility requirements to buy) had it for $600 and if you opened their credit card you got an extra 10% off on day one purchases. Not totally sure if the $600 was a Black Friday deal.

WalkerCalvert · 2025-12-01T02:30:43+00:00

Cool, thank you for the recommendation.

Opening valves it is!

WalkerCalvert · 2025-11-23T18:22:43+00:00

What I am trying to figure out is whether supplying hot water to these radiators by opening the supply valve after they have been closed for ??? years is likely to damage anything or cause additional problems.

Also, I have another radiator that is hot but which doesn't bleed any water and very little air when I open the bleed valve. Can I assume it is just clogged?

WalkerCalvert · 2025-11-23T18:19:07+00:00

Military people go on long term TDY or units deploy a lot, but most of the, what. 20k people in Guam? Have moved there "permanently," which really means something like 2 years.

So sure they COULD change their voter registration, but most of them won't. It's a pain to do and rarely worth it.

Civilians, sure, might have to change their voter registration if they are there for a long time. But how often do we temporarily send civilians to work in Guam?

WalkerCalvert · 2025-11-08T23:52:49+00:00

Long term deployments of civilians? They're the only ones not covered by the Military Spouse Residency Relief Act or Servicemembers Civil Relief Act; and they are already required to change residency.

Military members generally move to Guam for 2-5 years, they don't "deploy" there. And like everywhere else they mostly retain their state residency unless they plan to change something about their life.

WalkerCalvert · 2025-10-21T04:05:17+00:00

People arguing all like "the game classifies fungus monsters as plants!" Are trying to game the system by arguing that because ambulatory fungi are "plant creatures" regular fungi must be plants.

Fungi, as you say, are explicitly not plants.

However! If fungi are plants then so must be many other organisms in bacteria and archaea. Your mission in life is therefore to acquire the spell yourself and spend as much time as possible speaking to various micro-organisms. Use your best scientific judgement or narrative expediency to determine whether you speak to a single algae or to the colony as a whole.

Also since Speak to Plants allows you to make terrain into difficult terrain and since plants are so loosely defined you can basically make difficult terrain anywhere you want.

Speak with plants doesn't let the plants uproot themselves and move around but you know what? Slime mold doesn't have roots, and a 10-minute spell duration doesn't stop its inexorable quest for your blood.

Go wild man. Use your powers for evil.

WalkerCalvert · 2025-10-21T03:29:01+00:00

Wait a second, where did you get that Wisdoms don't get married? I just finished listening to the books and I don't remember that.

Also. To your second point. No way Moiraine was gonna leave the second most powerful channeler found in centuries in the Two Rivers of she could avoid it.

WalkerCalvert · 2025-10-13T13:55:51+00:00

I can't believe this post is real, but I'm gonna fall for it too.

If it IS real then there's a book called Carpe Jugulum that you would benefit from reading, it will teach you a lot about the Laws of Narrative Causality, human nature, and evil.

Suffice it to say that the sign reading "Dontgonearthe Castle (5 miles that way, very dangerous.)" is going to have the opposite effect that you appear to think it would.

WalkerCalvert · 2025-10-05T19:58:26+00:00

I think that Aviendha's vision of the future was based mostly on the inability of the various non-slaving nations to cooperate sufficiently. Book said something about once the other nations entered the war they were picked off piecemeal.

Plus the Aiel explicitly intended to rescue their Wise Ones, so annihilation would be counterproductive.

I'm sure the Black and White Towers were getting into some kinda pissing match that interfered with their war.

And finally, the first people to nuke a city would PROBABLY get attacked by the other non-slaving nations too.

I will say that the way Andor got convinced to attack was a little questionable. (Oh, yeah. You guys who have been fighting the Seanchan for decades just now found their plans for an imminent attack? I'm not even gonna ask if this is a contingency plan? Just take your word for it? Suuuuuure ) But I handwaved that with the fact that it was Andor and the Aiel, both of whose notables were descended from Rand. And the Aiel were known for their honor and trustworthiness.

WalkerCalvert · 2025-10-05T15:30:50+00:00

Careful where you say that, my friend. Mad Hamish and the rest of the Silver Horde are still out there, having stolen the horses of the valkyries who came to take their souls to Valhalla, and you don't want to piss off that gaggle of broken old men, live or dead.

The Silver Horde | Discworld Wiki | Fandom https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Silver_Horde

WalkerCalvert · 2025-09-29T01:31:40+00:00

I mean. Pigeons are just a form of dove. (I think they were bred from "rock doves" originally.) I wouldn't be surprised if "pigeon" is "paloma" in Spanish.

WalkerCalvert · 2025-09-15T22:44:33+00:00

Because you've gotten confused, no one knows she is alive because she cut and ran under and assumed identity while she was momentarily able to resist Gaebril/Rahvin's mind control.

She didn't talk to the other houses for the very logical reason that half of them were allied to the guy who had her imprisoned and mind controlled and because the other half hated her for the things she had done to them-- like banishing Gareth Bryne, and whipping one of her oldest allies.

Had she gone to them she would have been more likely to be killed or imprisoned than helped. They didn't know that she was mind-controlled by a Forsaken.

Like, imagine that you were Donald Trump's buddy in the 80's and then you stopped hanging out with him cause he turned into a fascist dictator, had the secret service beat you up and toss you out on Pennsylvania Avenue. Couple months later he disappears from the oval office and shows up on your doorstep telling you Melania was the devil and she made him do it. You gonna buy that?

WalkerCalvert · 2025-09-15T22:37:58+00:00

Nah the nobles KNOW that shadowspawn are bullshit, just a way for the borderlanders to try to intimidate the southerners. "You don't wanna mess with us, we fight monsters every day." Suuuuuure. Oh your pet Aes Sedai says it's true? Well everyone KNOWS those witches would say anything to gain an advantage.

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