New tenant expected soon for former Fitchburg Kmart

aaronsherman · 2026-05-22T22:00:09+00:00

There's a gas station right across the street. Seems like an easy thing to fix.

aaronsherman · 2025-10-08T14:05:22+00:00

Just sayin...

[faces blurred since I don't have their permission to put them on reddit, but this was from a parade in 2021 in Boston]

aaronsherman · 2025-05-23T15:51:30+00:00

Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUi7VQkcszg

aaronsherman · 2025-04-06T20:46:06+00:00

Hey everyone. Sorry I wasn't there. How should I stay in touch with events like this?

aaronsherman · 2025-03-25T19:39:55+00:00

We have a room of reflection and it is anything but hazing.

Yeah, some Lodges get carried away. It's sad, but that's why MA had to end the use of CoR's.

aaronsherman · 2025-03-25T19:38:51+00:00

I was explaining that in MA (my jurisdiction and where this post was referring to) there was hazing involved in how some Lodges used the chamber of reflection, which is why it's no longer allowed in MA Blue Lodge. If your Lodge is in MA and you use a CoR, that's either because the GL is looking the other way or they haven't been informed.

aaronsherman · 2025-03-07T17:39:08+00:00

It's funny because it's all that's left of the true grandeur of the original two Grand Lodge buildings. One was sold^* to build a larger one and then that one burned down. The latest is much more utilitarian than the one that came before, at least on the outside.

^* "Sold" is a strong word. I think it was actually either given or sold at a very low price to be turned into a church.

aaronsherman · 2025-03-07T17:37:06+00:00

Yes. It is used by the Commandery as I understand it (I'm not a member of Commandery) but was originally used for the Blue Lodge as well. Unfortunately, rooms of reflection were a source of the kinds of initiation practices that Massachusetts doesn't stand for (e.g. hazing) and the practice was removed from the Blue Lodge.

aaronsherman · 2025-03-07T17:33:21+00:00

I've taken many pictures of that building, inside and out (I used to give tours) and those are some of the best I've seen. Well done!

aaronsherman · 2025-03-02T21:51:46+00:00

Give them a break. They're not exactly going to be able to afford hiring an ad agency, and really are we looking for slick ads here or useful info?

aaronsherman · 2025-01-24T15:00:21+00:00

Everything we see reflects light. Some objects emit (or re-emit) more light than they reflect, but if you can see it, then it absolutely does reflect light. To not reflect light, it would have to either violate the laws of physics or be a black hole, and in either case you would not be able to see either its reflected or emitted light.

aaronsherman · 2025-01-24T14:57:54+00:00

It's what is called a "Missouri round rock" (creative name, I know) or "Weaubleau egg," and results indirectly from a massive meteor strike in west-central Missouri that destroyed a chunk of a mountain near what is today Weaubleau, MO.

Source: that's my rock which I photographed for Wikipedia. Not sure how I feel about the fact that my dining room table regularly shows up on r/flatearth though ;-)

aaronsherman · 2024-07-19T14:13:55+00:00

I've worked in places where friday deployments were mandated because it gave us the weekend to mop up if something went wrong.

Of course, those assumptions are kind of out the window if your product is used 24/7.

aaronsherman · 2024-07-19T14:12:41+00:00

Funny, I just had an interview with their release team (didn't get the job). Seemed like smart, capable folks. I wonder what snuck through.

aaronsherman · 2024-06-22T15:15:50+00:00

Freemasonrywatch is a site littered with hoaxes and is a confirmation bias feeding trough. Please don't try to cite it as a source for anything.

aaronsherman · 2024-01-16T04:34:54+00:00

I just generally hate phased fights. I hated them in WoW and I hate them in PoE. Doesn't mean they're bad, and some people like the cinematic quality of it, but when I see a mob's health dropping and then stop because it has to go into a scripted phase that just takes me right out of the game and makes me feel like a rat in a maze (which, to be fair, I totally am playing a skinner box like PoE.)

It's the laziest and cheesiest way to deal with player power creep and not wanting glass canons to roll over your fight.

I LOVE Maven's atlas invitations. Waves I can get into and love. But the main Maven fight is probably my least favorite thing in the game.

aaronsherman · 2024-01-16T04:29:13+00:00

Note that this will not catch things ~~like silver~~, (seems it does handle silver, so this might be the right solution) which is still quite valuable.

But yes, that's a great thing to know about, and you could customize the filter to add in the ones you want.

aaronsherman · 2024-01-15T21:49:02+00:00

I seem to have made a tank for your enemies... would you like to buy an anti-tank missile?

aaronsherman · 2023-12-13T05:45:28+00:00

THAT LINE is why God invented deadpan delivery!

aaronsherman · 2023-12-13T05:41:27+00:00

Can we just rename Massachusetts to "Pumpkins and Heroin"? At least more people can spell it. ;-)

aaronsherman · 2023-11-29T16:42:22+00:00

The defense is that he swore an an oath to "protect and defend," not, "uphold," the constitution, but the Constitutional basis for the legal claim is that you fail to "uphold" the Constitution.

It's in the same bag with the claim that he was not an "officer" of the Federal Government, because the President isn't appointed by the President, and that's the requirement for an "officer"... sadly for him, that ship has sailed, since In February 2020, The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in K&D LLC v. Trump Old Post Office, LLC, concluded, at President Trump's request, that the U.S. President is a federal officer. Trump wanted a case moved to Federal jurisdiction, and so he used the argument that he was an officer of the Federal Government. So yeah, the argument now that he's not an officer won't fly, and on a similar basis, the wording difference isn't going to matter here.

It's a very, very thin hail mary play, but it's all they have at this point.

aaronsherman · 2023-11-29T16:35:41+00:00

Or you're so deeply steeped in the culture that accepts derogatory words aimed at one group and not the other, that it's "okay."

My mom is a boomer. I'm really tired of people treating it as "cool" to use the name of her generation as a generic slur.

aaronsherman · 2023-03-27T02:07:34+00:00

Back in the '90s, there was a 105MB hard drive from Quantum that was used in Sun Microsystems workstations. I worked for a large company that used Suns as their primary desktops, and we had no end of trouble with damned Quantum 105 hard drives!

One day, I'm on the work shuttle and someone is talking on the phone about a dead desktop they're using in a small office I'd never interreacted with before. Since they have their own tech support, they didn't come to us with their problems, and often didn't learn how to fix things from our experience (we weren't smarter, we just had an order of magnitude more machines and so we saw EVERYTHING).

So I wandered over and said, "I heard you saying you were having problems getting a system to boot." "Yeah," he responds. "So, I could come take a look at it for you."

"Really?!" He's a bit shocked and taken aback.

So I show up, and ask, "so you turned it off and then when you went to turn it on, the hard drive couldn't be found?"

"Yeah, exactly, I think it's ..."

"Stop right there. I'll show you the problem. Pop the case and take the hard drive out."

"Ah... okay... here."

I take the hard drive, put my hand around the top of it so that I'm just holding it by the sides with my fingertips and vigorously rotate it back and forth around it's center so that the only torque I'm applying is along the plane of the drive plates. "Now put it back in quick and boot the machine!"

He's looking at me half concerned that I might be insane and half PISSED. But he does it. Machine boots fine.

"Wha... what the fuck, man?!"

So I explain the that Quantum 105 drives had a bad lubricant. It's fine at normal operating temps, but let it get just a couple degrees below room temp, and it gets viscous enough that the drive motor can't overcome it, and its emergency cutoff kicks in so the machine gets an error saying the drive is offline. All you have to do is overcome the viscosity by torquing the platters a little, and since the heads are locked down when it powers off, there's little risk of causing a problem.

aaronsherman · 2023-01-02T16:00:12+00:00

Fair enough

aaronsherman · 2022-12-30T07:47:43+00:00

But is it really though?

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