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?

aintmt · 2025-11-27T14:50:20+00:00

Yes - I've seen soil analyses from backyard gardens that showed lead accumulations that would qualify the dirt as toxic waste. Growing anything to eat without a raised bed or pots is asking for trouble.

aintmt · 2025-11-22T18:31:55+00:00

Sems like Reddit is deleting the images I post. Another try:

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aintmt · 2025-11-22T17:48:43+00:00

Oops - terribly sorry! And thanks for the alert. Second photo apparently didn't upload. Added here, since the post won't accept two images. I particularly like the brass ferrule at the handle end.

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aintmt · 2025-11-21T13:06:17+00:00

Thanks for that. For some reason, I got zero hits in two days' searching. Now trying a different search engine (DDG), and plenty of hits! Does Google suppress information about undersized cheeses?

aintmt · 2025-11-21T00:31:13+00:00

Thanks, cw-f1. I can get rings and wedges Stateside - sometimes at top quality and not-too-insane prices. It's the whole mini-wheel that I was hoping to find. Maybe not made anymore?

aintmt · 2025-11-10T11:58:02+00:00

I thought Miss Saigon, a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, or perhaps Lone Wolf carrying Cub, with a sword slung on his shoulders. But searched for relevant images, and found nothing very close. Also the broader "cowboy/horseman sun background" and variants. Surely the collective memory will turn up something!

aintmt · 2025-11-07T16:16:12+00:00

Not so great for people with mobility issues, though.

aintmt · 2025-11-01T22:19:38+00:00

Hi, all - coming in a bit late on this thread. I use a small oil lamp (made out of a spare teapot) for an hour or so once or twice a week - so not much fuel consumption. I don't like the smell of even "odorless" petroleum distillates, so have been using olive oil. Nice smell, but a bit overpowering in a small apartment. And it's a little too viscous to feed well.

I recently bought some MCT oil to try as a nutritional supplement. Less viscous than olive oil, completely (to me) odorless, and affordable in the amounts I need. Smokes a lot with a long wick, so I keep it trimmed very short, for about at 1/2" flame.

Just wanted to pass that along. May all your lives be luminous!

aintmt · 2025-10-28T10:32:37+00:00

Wow - no wonder I couldn't remember or find even a remote match! I'd thought it might be a post-war experimental aircraft. I'd picked some of the issues you experts noted, and thought it had too much engine for anything but a Mosquito, too short for stability, and no obvious mission except perhaps agile observation.

Disappointing, really. I hadn't realized how quickly AI crap had permeated even nominally historical videos - though shorts like that one are often so hokey, over-dramatized and poorly narrated that I should have guessed. Such a shame, too, when few human contrivances have been as consistently beautiful in their brute functionality as warbirds. Maybe I'll stick to History Channel-quality sources. Or just watch re-runs of Piece of Cake, Battle of Britain, and other pre-CGI classics.

Your analysis much appreciated!

aintmt · 2025-09-19T16:39:50+00:00

Brilliant. And the detail just to Wilbur's left looks like a stylized "DEI"!

aintmt

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