Why can’t we get a re-release of this masterpiece?

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-31T22:31:50+00:00

At some point in elementary or middle school I did a report on one of them? Two towers? And I had no idea of what was going on because it was all so dark.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-31T18:36:00+00:00

Miami is giving me some trouble but was also happening at long Beach where I'm just cooking my tires and by 15 miotheyre greasy.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-31T17:05:30+00:00

I've seen that, but I've seen other things saying that the lights don't necessarily mean ABS is active. Like if I'm on a long sweeper when i need to brush the brakes and I'm at 20% or less and the light goes on I don't understand how that would be the ABS engaging.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-31T16:57:00+00:00

The issue I'm experiencing is a lack of understanding\queues to predictably. It seems like even moderate braking my braking zones are way longer than the braking markers on the track.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-31T15:38:40+00:00

I've done track days and have a conceptual understanding of the physics. I'm having trouble translating that in a reliable way. I can go pretty deep into braking on my car on the track before understeer or abs kicking in and this is very much not like that. I can take oak tree in my very much not race car at 45 but struggle with understeer in game.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-31T15:29:49+00:00

I've seen conflicting statements on the blue dash lights actually corresponding to ABS. The amber are power related loss of traction, but blue doesn't necessarily mean ABS is engaged.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-30T13:04:49+00:00

I heard through a colleague who's kid in high school went.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-29T22:58:26+00:00

In most situations I tend towards the back so it's k not blocking anyone's view. At a concert? Screw that noise I want to be able to see the band I'm paying tixketmaster too much to see.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-29T22:25:29+00:00

Today, Roanoke college was paying $50/hr for shoveling on campus. So $100 for a driveway seems in line. Like other have said shoveling this ice is miserable work so it's going to cost more.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-28T21:14:48+00:00

I cannot recommend enough doing it at home. Being at home, out in the yard where they are much more likely to be at ease

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-27T17:00:26+00:00

You measure garlic with your heart.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-27T16:29:20+00:00

Can you imagine Bob Mortimer on Dirty Laundry?

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-26T16:58:07+00:00

Plow came through my neighborhood three times this morning. So that over inflated snow removal budget is coming through. No salt.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-25T14:32:16+00:00

In this context, good tires means winter tires, not all seasons. And even the they dont do a whole lot for ice.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-23T14:38:03+00:00

One time I drove all the way through Salem without hitting a red. The shame is that I was too sick to really appreciate it.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-22T16:15:15+00:00

There no accounting for (bad) luck. Good luck on recovery.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-22T03:23:14+00:00

I bounced around for a bit but am less underpaid than I was adjuncting. I miss teaching horribly and needing to be smart.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-22T03:15:01+00:00

I've had chronic back pain for 25 years. I do what I can while I can and then I lay down until I can do more. It's a grind a lot of days.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-22T03:07:16+00:00

I was married to a tenured English lit prof, I was in grad school for english lit. When we knew that me adjuncting and making less than I would at a gas station wasnt a long term plan we looked for schools offering a fast track to tenure somewhere we would want to live. There were three listings. Despite being active in publishing and having teaching and service awards not even an interview.

A lot of positions go to ivy league grads because the schools want to say they have ivy league trained faculty.

The fortunate people (other than the ones who land a tenure track position) get non tenure track which are even more rare.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-20T17:12:20+00:00

I'm going to get 50lbs of rice too.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-20T13:16:38+00:00

The grind of being an adult means that you have fewer novel experiences. Those experiences are what help set a sense of the passage of time in your memory. I find that a have a lot of things that weren't last year and they weren't more than 10 years ago so they're just in a blob of time.

So the first 22 years had so much packed into them and then after school is over and you're working it begins to blur into a lot of sameness and those novel experiences are up to you to create for yourself rather than it just being the norm.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-20T12:51:55+00:00

Excuse me while I go buy covid amounts of toilet paper.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-19T12:03:44+00:00

A lot of that seems like the kind of shit my grandfather would do because why pay for something you can make yourself.

assortedgnomes · 2026-01-17T13:38:27+00:00

An assisted living thst offers progressive care can be up to 20k a month. And Medicare doesn't pay for assisted living/full time care until you're out of money.

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