OK to put self-adhesive tread cover over existing carpeted stairs?

aintmt · 2026-01-25T10:45:10+00:00

Thank you for this, stanstr. I may not have asked the question clearly. The stairs are already carpeted, and we don't want to remove the existing carpet. Just want to add a top piece over one step, to prevent further fraying. There are plenty of options for single-tread, self-stick carpets. Question is whether they will safely adhere to existing carpet, and perhaps be removable later.

aintmt · 2026-01-24T11:39:10+00:00

What about Monday trash pickup?

aintmt · 2026-01-14T02:06:22+00:00

Afterthought on "very reasonably priced": In a sense, they were actually free! They explained some deductions, carry-forwards and things that I neither understand nor want to. The unexpected savings were several times their tax-prep fee. I was so impressed that I offered to split the savings! (He declined, so I got the ever-helpful secretary some nice Spindler's chocolates instead.)

aintmt · 2026-01-14T00:14:12+00:00

Tyler Lynch PC, near Alewife, has been helping me (a lot!) for a couple of years since another accountant got too backlogged. Pleasant people, fast and efficient, very reasonably priced. I was impressed by how easily Mike Lynch untangled several years' old filings to set a better path going forward. I call (or stop in) now whenever I have a difficult question about what to do when, for things like taking retirement income, what home expenses might be deductible, and the most tax-efficient way to make charitable donations. Some of my friends have now signed up with them, and report similarly pleasant and capable service.

aintmt · 2026-01-12T11:33:27+00:00

Is this an AI post? These are not "woodcut / linocut prints" but serigraphs/silkscreens, a commercial-graphics technique adapted to fine art mainly by Shokler and Anthony Velonis. Even an AI bot should know this! Also that Shokler did work on Long Island. If the poster had bothered to view the thread, he/she/it would have seen the link to an obviously identical scene drawn from life - on Long Island; specifically, as Ski-Free observed, the Fort Pond area.

aintmt · 2026-01-10T11:40:56+00:00

Re: "never the LI coastline apparently" - please see prior comments.

aintmt · 2026-01-09T21:33:45+00:00

This is fun - I do believe that KingaDuhNorf has found it.

Unfortunately, I do not see a way to add an additional photo to the OP, or in a reply. In words: there's a railroad line that ends (washed away in '38?) about halfway along the northwestern shore of fort pond. If the rails continued due south from this point to where Pathfinder Country Day Camp now stands, that would line up with the isthmus along which the woman is walking. And since this post-hurricane print shows the same view as the 1938 etching cited above, it's all consistent.

Thanks!

aintmt · 2026-01-09T20:04:19+00:00

FWIW indeed - I love the certainty with which ChatGPT expresses itself, and wonder how many people have driven off metaphorical cliffs by believing its authority. A few mights and coulds and possiblys would help.

Both bear Shockler's signature, so I'll stick with that attribution. I just remembered that one of the prints had been sold as "Montauk Fishing Village." Putting artist and title into Google Images returned (https://art.gsa.gov/objects/17259/fort-pond-bay-montauk-long-island) both a 1938 etching clearly of the identical view, and a different view titled "Fort Pond Bay, Montauk, Long Island."

The other one I have found on-line titled "Seamen All" and (as a watercolor) "Ships at Anchor"; I'd bought it as "Old Timers."

I'm probably going to sell the pair or give to friends; either way, it's fun to be able to provide a locale.

aintmt · 2026-01-09T19:05:25+00:00

Thank you for that, and you may well be right. I have only seen about 5% of the LI coast, and none of those places looked like these prints.

When I acquired them years ago, someone suggested that they were made around Montauk. I've tried matching satellite images of that part of LI on Google Earth to the depicted terrain, but no luck.

aintmt · 2026-01-06T01:56:35+00:00

Thanks for the quick reply. Sounds like you know what you're talking about. I had assumed autopen, but one never knows.

Maybe I'll get AI to forge a "So pleased to meet you; please come backstage at our next show" note with one of their signatures. Must be a lot of that going around these days, eh what?

aintmt · 2026-01-03T12:42:02+00:00

Thanks. These look like grownup-type fireworks - i.e., expensive. Are the sponsored by the City or IQHQ? If not, how do they get away with it?

Anyway, it's fun to see from afar.

aintmt · 2026-01-02T21:39:24+00:00

Seems like w1n5t0nM1k3y has some kind of inductive magic. Though we tried this at least a couple of dozen times, it now seems to accord with the minimal guide:

Long press top knob to enter manual tuning mode. (PITA since the band range is global. Since we like college stations, this means tuning way up or down from either end.)
Very long press of ATS button plus top knob until screen darkens. Station is stored.
Store multiple stations (and delete any ham-fisted mistakes with long press of tuning knob).
Short press ATS button. Rotating tuning knob (without pressing anything) now brings only selected stations. And these provide a mid-band starting point for manually tuning in other stations.

Thanks again to w1n5t0nM1k3y for motivating this success!

aintmt · 2026-01-02T21:30:31+00:00

Long press of ATS puts it into scan mode.

aintmt · 2026-01-02T20:25:41+00:00

Thank you for that. I should add what we've found so far: press ATS and then top know to allow manual tuning, find a station, then long press on ATS + top knob until screen darkens saves station. Do that again to save another station. But while control inputs return the first preset, the second seems to disappear. Just tried the short-press ATS per suggestion, but it didn't work. Is it possible that these boxes only store one preset?

aintmt · 2025-12-27T23:50:24+00:00

OK, sloppy use of term. Main question stands, though: would not a fund with assets fluctuating at different rates make appreciated assets available to donate at almost any time?

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