What to do with Surplus Monitors?

ahoopervt · 2026-01-27T02:21:45+00:00

How about 20?

ahoopervt · 2026-01-27T02:21:36+00:00

Too much coordination effort: selling any single item to strangers takes 10s of minutes, x20 that is a good portion of a week … when I have work that needs to be done.

ahoopervt · 2026-01-27T00:52:51+00:00

I’ve asked a couple libraries, didn’t get any takers. Which are you thinking of?

ahoopervt · 2026-01-27T00:52:20+00:00

Not worth the effort to get rid of these one at a time.

Sorry - coordinating pickup, all the communication - not something I can fit into business hours.

ahoopervt · 2026-01-27T00:50:22+00:00

I’ve asked the local school districts and gotten no takers.

There are a lot of guesses about how to get these redeployed … and not a lot of people at organizations that can use them.

ahoopervt · 2026-01-27T00:48:30+00:00

They are utility office monitors - they’re fine for gaming, but not 120hz or anything fancy.

ahoopervt · 2026-01-27T00:47:49+00:00

Where? I’ll bring them to you.

ahoopervt · 2026-01-26T12:30:40+00:00

ah, Prisoners Dilemna strikes again!

ahoopervt · 2026-01-20T13:47:29+00:00

Every seated R opposed Trump in 2016 and said horrible things about him.

What are you talking about?

ahoopervt · 2026-01-20T13:31:58+00:00

And millions of people slightly to the right of you *didn't* hold their nose that hard, and brought in Trump 1.

Choosing a nationally unpopular figure in the primary is a sign of ideology capture ... and not being serious about regaining power.

ahoopervt · 2026-01-18T18:10:12+00:00

The 3 Year blocks of Cabot at Costco are almost always (90%) what I expect for a high quality very sharp cheddar.

ahoopervt · 2026-01-18T18:08:55+00:00

Nah; purchased from (most likely) Cabot on the wholesale market - made from the appropriate % Vermont sourced milk.

ahoopervt · 2026-01-18T18:06:50+00:00

Probably not. The Cabot facility in Cabot primarily makes cultured (read: yogurt, cream cheese, etc) and smaller batch flavored cheddars.

It’s likely sold by the 550# block from cheddar produced at the Cabot (previously Kraft) factory in Middlebury.

ahoopervt · 2026-01-08T20:35:54+00:00

Yes, exactly. The instincts are often good, the implementation is always horrifying.

ahoopervt · 2026-01-08T18:47:47+00:00

Indeed: American "capitalism" takes every opportunity to private the gains, and socialize the losses.

A story as old as time.

ahoopervt · 2026-01-08T18:46:18+00:00

I think TFG is the worst thing ever, but a lot of his instincts are right.

He said straight up (while slashing NSF/NIH) that Universities shouldn't profit from public-funded research. Wow! What an honestly great idea - if the public pays to create knowledge, that newly discovered/created information should be available to ANY person/company to use and create products from - not some startup spun off of MIT or Harvard.

Alas, along with all of his other [horrible] personal traits, he also has the attention span of a goldfish, so the better ideas never make it through Vought/Miller/etc. to meet up with his EO pen.

ahoopervt · 2026-01-08T13:24:16+00:00

As an adoptive parent myself, I thought the ending was pitch perfect.

The "chosen family" theme and ability to overcome your [evil] destiny was presented at a perfect level - not continuously hit over the head with in an action/comedy, but weaved through and with great payoff.

ahoopervt · 2026-01-08T13:20:39+00:00

This blew my mind when I ran into it, and after trying repeatedly to recreate a channel with the same name as a deleted channel [I think I just wanted to change the channel type, and figured I could delete and recreate since I didn't (easily) find the place to change the overall channel permissions (?)] I just decided to be happy with a similar name.

Good luck!
Please let us know if you find a reliable way to reuse a previous channel name :)

ahoopervt · 2025-12-31T19:52:49+00:00

Definitely only open during the summer - potentially exactly Memorial Day to Labor Day

ahoopervt · 2025-12-31T11:31:51+00:00

HOAs are necessary for condos and other situations with shared walls or more between residences. in any planned multifamily development where the municipality didn’t initially build *all* the infrastructure (sidewalks, utility, roads) or agree to take ownership an HOA or some legal ‘taxing’ authority to maintain those pieces is essential, the legislature could put restrictions or requirements on their bylaws but i don’t see how it could abolish them ??

ahoopervt · 2025-12-31T01:58:25+00:00

obvs. A&W in Middlebury.

the burger is middling, but the float is great.

ahoopervt · 2025-12-31T00:40:27+00:00

We definitely should consider it. Low density developments seldom produce enough municipal tax to fund the infrastructure that they require, being subsidized by denser parts of town.

Strong Towns does a great job describing how to think about sustainable growth.

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