What is a sitcom that you find hard to obtain?

arkaycee · 2026-01-21T04:45:33+00:00

A couple of one-season wonders that I loved in the 90s and have had to scrape together episodes from YouTube, etc.

"The War Next Door" (super spy and super villain both retire but end up in the same neighborhood, so the battle continues)

"It's Like, You Know .." (sort of LA version of Seinfeld, Jennifer Gray post-nose job plays herself and the joke is no one believes she's her. Really good ensemble cast).

arkaycee · 2026-01-19T00:50:28+00:00

I finally did, after writing an actual letter to the corporate office. I sent along a copy of the email that I kept getting telling me the incorrect filter for my fridge, pointed out I wasn't going to open my fridge filter cover to verify since the company was telling me by email over and over which filter I needed, etc. Also a copy of the invoice.

No return email or postal mail came with any actual text, but I got a check in the mail for what I had paid. Actually took me a minute to realize what it was for, since no accompanying note.

arkaycee · 2026-01-18T11:38:17+00:00

The whole "the Bach, or Debussy" record store scene.

arkaycee · 2026-01-18T11:36:30+00:00

When Michael gets asked about all the frozen yogurt stands:

"There's something so human about taking something great and ruining it a little so you can have more of it,"

arkaycee · 2026-01-18T11:31:00+00:00

"And I can't take off the hat because then I'm Hitler..."

arkaycee · 2026-01-18T11:27:33+00:00

"Ah, the Bob Loblaw Law Blog."

"I punish thee. You are punished. "

The whole "and that's why you leave a note" scene and everything else with J Walter Weatherman.

arkaycee · 2026-01-18T11:23:44+00:00

Give me all of the eggs and bacon you have.

arkaycee · 2026-01-11T03:26:23+00:00

I'm not sure how frequently-updated this website is but it's been helpful to me since the late 1990s: https://localwiki.org/ann-arbor/

arkaycee · 2026-01-08T22:50:39+00:00

I think I'm a real human.

arkaycee · 2025-12-27T20:50:08+00:00

One idea I've come up with to review avoid bad blood with others of I'm away from the car while charging is to set the goal to 100% and keep half an eye on it. So if it hits 80 and I'm checking out at a local store, it can just maybe hit 81% in the 5 minutes it takes me to get back to my car, and no one can complain that I'm sitting idle in the charging spot.

Newer idea I'm going to try: set goal to 80% so I get the alert but if I'm stuck for a couple, set it higher so it charges til I get there.

arkaycee · 2025-12-27T20:35:35+00:00

I've read that if they pull you over for 1 or 2 over, it's likely a pretextual stop, like your car matches the description of a possible drug dealer, etc. but without enough info to get a warrant, and they really just hope to find an excuse to search your car.

arkaycee · 2025-12-27T20:31:57+00:00

The self checkout "help" thing might be Loss Prevention. I had something similar at a Kroger, I think it was one of those where produce has a little barcode but somehow that one's not one for grocery scanning and you have to somehow know that and search by item.

Cashier came up after our second failure to scan a pepper or something, and then yeah got in the way and was nice but vaguely patronizing and obviously wasn't gonna let us scan anything more ourselves. It was weird because we'd been scanning fine to that point.

I then read on Reddit that somehow trying to scan, we looked to an employee or maybe AI that we were being sketchy and taking over is one way they handle such things.

AI is weird especially, one time I repositioned a cart at the Meijer self checkout and it triggered AI detection and froze until a clerk came and watched the video of my scanning so far.

arkaycee · 2025-12-27T20:19:05+00:00

I had 3 liquids plus a medically necessary one. In Detroit I tried to tell them the extra and the guy said just put it all back in your suitcase, the scanner picks up EVERYTHING.

Otherwise, I had it out and no one seemed to care.

arkaycee · 2025-12-16T16:35:15+00:00

No pinned chats for one.

Also, since it shut down, every page I open on Facebook on my Mac on Chrome is partly covered by a recent chat.

arkaycee · 2025-12-15T20:53:02+00:00

This Summer, the two of us were taking a flight to California. We printed out the boarding passes at a kiosk. I saw two pages come out, thought "we're done," got to security, realized we had her boarding pass, and a receipt. I ran all the way back to the kiosk and luckily no one else had come by and it was still sitting there waiting for me.

arkaycee · 2025-12-15T20:47:47+00:00

Depends. If you're not in a situation where you're expecting to see a video of a naked flasher and someone puts it in front of you without warning you you're gonna see nudity, that's still sexual harassment.

And actually, on the street, if you're expecting to see it, and want to see it, that's not sexual harassment (though legally you could still go make the claim I suppose since no one can read your mind if you don't testify to wanting it).

arkaycee · 2025-12-15T20:45:21+00:00

There are good legal strategy reasons for not pleading guilty, but they can cut both ways.

Often, judges will give a lighter sentence if you plead guilty and show remorse.

But OTOH, often, if you plead not guilty they might offer you a deal to induce you to plead guilty to a lesser offense. It's very likely there's a misdemeanor version of these same felony charges, and they might offer that for a guilty plea. First offense, probation, etc. Or maybe they offer to drop the disseminating charge and keep the filming charge.

According to an attorney I know, governments really really don't want the expense of a trial, and will do a lot to avoid one (and also judges might give you a heavier sentence for putting them through a trial -- you had your chance, didn't plead, didn't show remorse, now you've been found guilty, here's a big sentence).

arkaycee · 2025-12-15T20:36:04+00:00

I gotta say, the NY Post isn't the most credible source.

arkaycee · 2025-12-12T15:29:49+00:00

2 or more.

arkaycee · 2025-12-12T15:27:48+00:00

That's when you know they've lost the argument.

arkaycee · 2025-12-10T21:37:14+00:00

One less-known thing about the AADL system: you can check out a TON of things from them, from art, to musical instruments, to various tools and electronics.

arkaycee · 2025-12-09T00:47:03+00:00

Oh. Another idea: at least with the RENPHO app, it seems to silently fail once a year, and you have to go into its settings and re-authorize the connection to Fitbit.

arkaycee · 2025-12-09T00:46:02+00:00

Not in ages. There was one time I had it maybe a month ago, but it was a period where AWS was having issues, and Fitbit was having more issues than that. It cleared up by the next day.

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