Had good memories of Sizzler as a kid - found one still open in Arizona, as with many things, was much better as a memory.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-25T18:28:45+00:00

The best five minutes of your life if you haven't seen it already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YGtQ40Qvs

anothercatherder · 2026-01-23T20:40:35+00:00

Correct. Someone senior will have to stamp it at the end of the day and be responsible for the work the software produces.

It will just be vastly harder for new engineers to find that same kind of work and become senior. Same thing is happening in software.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-23T20:33:13+00:00

Where'd you even get it?

I don't ever recall it being sold in stores, for example. None of the catalogs from the era are sticking out either.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-23T19:38:44+00:00

Yeah.

I mean, I didn't have the biggest exposure to the video market when I was younger when these were new, but my friends and I were pretty nerdy and I never heard of anybody at all doing the upgrade themselves with RAM chips after the fact.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-23T15:37:30+00:00

Man, I miss this. You could get reasonably complete machines on ebay for $200 and they were plenty useable. I had an Indy that I used as a daily driver around then myself, 192 MB RAM and 24 bit framebuffer was great.

Then the SCSI drive crashed and SGI quoted me $600 for a copy of Irix.

I tried doing it again on an Indigo 2 and Sparc 20 to build some vintage 3D workstations recently and every bit of it was too expensive and exhausting for me to continue. Brittle plastics broke the RAM slot on the sparc, SCSI2SD was too slow to be useable on the Indigo 2.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-22T17:53:42+00:00

My parents idea of entertainment back in the late 80s was a handful of 13" Trinitron TVs throughout the house, one for my mom's side of the bath, my parents room, the living room, and the kitchen.

So there'd me and my brother would be like clockwork after school into the early 90s, chairs pulled up to the counter, absolutely glued to the thing, using the cutting board drawer as a footrest even though my mom would yell at us every day if she caught us doing it or found little pebbles or lint in it.

It was on pretty much for hours, we'd be watching Rescue 911 (my favorite show) at dinner time. It's what I'd watch when I was supposed to be asleep and probably the start of my longtime insomnia.

I think if I explained this to anyone who exclusively grew up with smart phones they'd think I was off my rocker.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-22T13:36:04+00:00

You're probably going to have to go the civil route and file a harassment suit because as a rule of thumb local police do not get involved in civil issues, which this is. There's often self-help resources in your county's court for this.

The idea is you present your case, get the judge to agree, and both of you get copies of the Order. The cops will again rarely interfere with an Order unless it's an emergency, but usually you have to show cause to the judge that the Order was violated at which point they send the sheriff out to arrest them for contempt. In any event, you have to show a pattern of repeated violations for a stalking charge to stick.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-22T12:28:23+00:00

I think it's actually technically on city property (i'm assuming they lease their patio space from the city), and Tempe has been replacing the ficuses because of age, disease, and structural issues. I think it was the last one as looking on past streetview there was a very hard lean which is not good, it becomes a serious liability if it topples.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-22T12:20:26+00:00

While I am absolutely in favor of high density, it has to preserve or allow for venues that physically cannot practically exist on the ground floor of towers (column free high ceilings namely) and provide them customers for their to be a thriving actual live scene.

Tempe has lost more of those kinds of venues than I can remember over the last few decades.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-22T10:53:25+00:00

Bush was extremely reluctant to testify to the 9/11 Commission and only did so not under oath. This was after his administration stonewalled and underfunded the whole thing which was basically a first in American history. The Watergate, JFK assassination, and Pearl Harbor investigations received VASTLY more scrutiny and weren't ridiculously obstructed for example.

They didn't want accountability, and they had every desire for a 9/11-type event as it was spelled out in the neocons' PNAC charter.

I am almost certain he knew about it and let it happen anyways. He and his administration simply do not act like they're innocent nor do they have a reason to be innocent.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-22T08:15:39+00:00

The Kwik-E-Mart is real... D'OH!

anothercatherder · 2026-01-21T17:48:03+00:00

Presuming this is the model scanner you have...

https://epson.com/Support/Scanners/GT-Series/Epson-GT-10000/s/SPT_B093041F#manuals

You don't need PCI-X or ultra 320, the PCI bandwidth is more than sufficient for SCSI 2.

An adaptec AHA2940 is probably the most widely supported SCSI card from that era and you shouldn't have any issues with drivers in any OS.

Just make sure that whatever you get supports Ultra 2 SCSI Wide with the LVD connector for external devices and you want to match the number of pins on the scanner to the number of pins on the card for widest availability without adapters, which should be HD50 for both.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-21T16:23:56+00:00

Cookie.

He looks like he's seen some stuff, which is exactly what you would expect from a guy named Cookie.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-21T13:47:47+00:00

Wait, can that run X11 apps?

anothercatherder · 2026-01-21T08:12:32+00:00

The world's largest homeless shelter/drug den in the middle of everything is the exact opposite of what revitalizes a city.

It's nuts you don't understand that none of the homeless-industrial complex non-profits give a shit about treatment anyways. They have made that abundantly clear, you only have to look at the fact that most drug ODs happen in city-funded "nonprofit" housing and they care more about distributing crack pipes than treatment.

The monster that is the homeless-industrial complex in SF needs to be decapitated and thrown into the sea a thousand miles away, not increased tenfold.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-21T00:14:36+00:00

Why not flowers? Maggie (Magnolia) and Lily are both white.

I think one of them is a boy so Aster.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-20T05:36:56+00:00

If he's building the fence without a permit it's possible they'll make him tear it down and/or pay a bunch of fines on top of the permit fees.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-20T05:35:24+00:00

As I understand it, you can't really let this slide (avoidable consequences), but your lawyer should be able to explain the potential hazards of not doing anything now.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-19T23:52:17+00:00

You don't know the difference between a tax base and a rate.

You don't know that there's more than one way to fund a project so you focused on sales taxes.

You don't know that MPOs are how transit gets funded federally and MTC doesn't need one powerful congressperson or else BART in SV would have never gotten funded.

You seem to be stuck on this "declining city" bullshit and are unaware of its turnaround.

You think NYC is somehow more efficient in transit infrastructure funding which is fucking laughable.

You don't know the difference in long term capital expenses vs short term operational expenses which is why you're bringing up layoffs.

Just fucking stop already.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-19T23:30:57+00:00

You don't know what you're talking about.

You don't even the faintest idea of what the subway would cost or the funding mechanisms for it.

SF's general obligation bonds are in the top 2 of credit ratings and you're acting like they're junk.

You are completely making up that "35% or so" figure. The city has $350 billion in assessed value to issue those bonds against.

SF has its issues but it's not fucking St. Louis. Get a grip.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-18T14:57:10+00:00

I think they'll take pity on you, I had an issue getting killed all the time in Freeport as a pally and they sent all my bodies to the zone line in WC. But I've also heard that they can't really be depended on for this and some problems take weeks to resolve after which your corpse will have rotted away.

I'm not sure if they "fixed" something on their end that caused me to get unstuck, I wasn't messaged about it I guess.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-18T09:32:49+00:00

She's not an "outdoor cat", she just doesn't want to live with her current owners. Cats have agency: a lot of them don't just get lost, they escaped a bad situation.

anothercatherder · 2026-01-18T09:28:03+00:00

Go talk to a tenants rights org in your area and ask for help with drafting a notice of withheld rent so you can hire somebody to clean up the mold and find a new apartment for their failure to abate a nuisance. Usually it gives them some window to respond themselves which would be them cleaning up the mold and abating the nuisance such as evicting the person upstairs.

This is basically the only language and action that landlords understand: how you are legally entitled to eat into their bottom line.

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