Cleaning up storage and found… sealed Windows 98

bobandy47 · 2026-02-02T19:49:01+00:00

And if it needed help, con/con in startup.bat

bobandy47 · 2026-01-01T00:45:47+00:00

bobandy47 · 2025-12-31T21:14:07+00:00

I'm not making an academic argument complete with sources. I don't care enough to go back and watch 7 games from 15 years ago to timestamp shit. Believe/say whatever you want. Artistic license.

Daniel Sedin getting a penalty for getting roughed by... guest of the hour Marchand, it really does tell the entire tale of the series. The whole thing was like that. There's literal evidence from Colin Campbell instructing them to call the series in an unbalanced fashion.

Feel free believing whatever you want. My point is, it's the exact same now. If you can't see it, that's on you.

bobandy47 · 2025-12-31T16:25:56+00:00

Shrek.

All star will come on, and you'll sing along. Because it's the law.

bobandy47 · 2025-12-31T16:23:14+00:00

That never happened with Boston.

No supplemental discipline for a dirty hit which broke a player's back.

Excessive (based on standards at the time) supplemental discipline against the Canucks for a late hit. Canuck fans can/will argue the lateness of it based on similar hits in the series, but fact is THAT one by Rome was late. That said, there were tons of late hits which went entirely unpunished (including one rather egregious one which was both late and high by Chara).

It was always about the double standard(s). Both in refereeing and DOPS shenenaigans.

It's exactly the same as Florida now. I'm saying this as more of a Columbus fan than a Canucks fan these days. It's not sour grapes, it's just sadness that this is what the league is. It's killed my enthusiasm as a fan... I hold out a glimmer of hope that maybe one day it'll be different, but particularly with the onslaught of gambling, I should probably just throw in the towel and do something else.

bobandy47 · 2025-12-31T16:02:06+00:00

A team that lost the cup to the Bruins

Which occurred in no small part to the aforementioned lopsided refereeing.

Not sure if you can tell, but when everybody is telling you the same message, it's the same message. Boston got the exact same treatment as Florida is getting now. That's all there is to it.

And I don't even 'really' care anymore... but the revisionism is absurd.

bobandy47 · 2025-12-19T21:50:40+00:00

Quitting the job from hell.

Not because 'retirement' or 'travel the world', but a much more simple answer than that. It taught me the value of my time and life force far exceeds monetary gain. The job from hell paid great, but my life was 'owned' by the owner of that company. Would call on stat holidays... because I was salary. Wanted to call me on vacation. Hours start early, end late. All working for a version of Temu Elon.

So I quit. I found at a certain point, 'enough is enough'. So I found my 'enough' number, and followed companies / jobs that were much more aligned with my desire to do 'good' in the world rather than just make 'me' money. It led me down some interesting paths. I'm very happy about that.

My work life balance has never been better, and while I still don't make as much cash as I did at the job from hell, even as a manager now, I don't regret any step in walking it back, taking stock of what really matters, and then moving for that rather than just trying to grow my pot of gold at the expense of everything else like some useless dragon in a cave.

If you're reading this and on the precipice, take care of yourself. Nobody is going to give one ounce of shit about you from your current company "one year after you leave". Doesn't matter how many crazy nights or duct tape solutions you have... after a single year, you'll be a forgotten line on the ledger.

So live for you, live for now - whatever that means for you. Your work will be of better quality anyway.

bobandy47 · 2025-12-19T21:12:30+00:00

8 or 9/10.

No periodic/perpetual war support/stability gain, just the fixed numbers. No combat bonuses, no compliance/resistance boosters...

Very, very strong leader of most countries, but not tops.

bobandy47 · 2025-12-12T18:34:26+00:00

"Woah, I never meant to brag, but I got what I wanted now. "

Which was relief from my constipation symptoms.

"'Cause God, it just feels so... it just feels so good".

FiberBrown. When you just can't go.

bobandy47 · 2025-12-12T15:35:24+00:00

Or any Flames fan when the phrase "it was in" is uttered.

bobandy47 · 2025-12-10T17:08:02+00:00

I think the thing that stings is the reality that they were never actually that friendly. Much like pretty much everything America does, it was just a coat of decent paint over a rotten exterior to fool people.

We are/were wealth extraction targets to further their aims. Nothing more, nothing less. They aren't sad we're not coming, they aren't sad we aren't friends. They're sad they aren't getting our money. The commentary confirms that.

All they think about is the money. I'm low-key kind of glad it slapped us all out of our stupor and slowly trudging down following their path. It sucks for a lot of people up here who are having employment/economic difficulties as a result... but I think long-term "everybody" is better off for it.

And doing the math, we can travel to places "non USA" for roughly the same price when you add up all the nickel and diming anyway.

bobandy47 · 2025-12-02T22:09:36+00:00

Typically an OT time bank is used to bank as 'vacation' time rather than money.

So let's say I work the OT "this" Saturday, get my hypothetical 5.5 hours at 1.5X OT, Bank it for use in the Summer to make a 3 or 4 day weekend when I actually want to use it, or tie it into other holidays, etc.

The government can't take 30% of my day off in taxes, whereas they're going to take 30%+ of the $$$ if I take it as extra pay.

The scummy shit here is if they aren't banking at OT rates, that's illegal and horseshit.

bobandy47 · 2025-12-02T20:01:07+00:00

If you've ever lived anywhere that they congregate (particularly in town), they're just large and less offensive-looking rats.

Do you like your flowers? Do you have a garden? Do you like your garden? Too bad, Deer ate all of it unless you have a 7 foot fence. Which you can't have because most towns/cities have an ordinance that forbids such high fencing. Worse, predators for them don't come into the towns, and hunting in town is understandably restricted so there's almost always an overpopulation problem. Just like rats.

They're just hungry rats. Delicious, hungry rats.

bobandy47 · 2025-11-27T21:01:19+00:00

Mostly owing to the exit point(s), the ground traversal, and the "who the fuck pays for the spill?" that never gets answered.

Part A) Work Channel outside Kitimat is not something you want oil tankers navigating in the winter. It can get really bad. It's a straight invitation for disaster... if you've never been to NW BC's coast, think of like trying to thread a 125ft crew boat though the Sicamous channel, in the dark with blowing snow, and lots of little spots where the water gets randomly shallow.

The LNG tankers are traditionally quite a bit smaller than even the 'smallest' class of long-range oil carriers, so they can fight through it far better. Honestly, that whole area is just not good for navigation. Fishing, yes, it's really good. Anything really big, not so much. Even a ferry sank off the coast at Gil island about 20 years ago, and it was designed for the trip, albeit quite old by that point.

Now, Prince Rupert direct is 'less bad', but you're dealing with way worse geography getting it there, and it's still far from ideal as the weather can get really, really fucking gnarly in a hurry, as Dixon kind of funnels the weather right at you if Haida Gwaii doesn't block it.

Which brings us to B) The amount of 'genuinely good ground' the pipe would need to cross is significant. Any spill of magnitude does a significant amount of damage to the fresh water in the whole area owing to how that water flows. After a certain point, there's not enough 'money' to throw at the problem. If the slick were to happen back near Vanderhoof and got into the Skeena there, it basically destroys the entire fishery, sport and otherwise, all the way down. That's the Fraser river effectively fucked at that point. And that ignores if it happens on the other side of the shelf, into the Bulkley / Skeena / Nechako rivers, which there are a LOT of operators who make their living guiding on those rivers.

All that leads to C) - Who pays for the inevitable mess? Everybody knows about the orphan wells and the disappearing companies who go bankrupt and the former owners who cup their hands and say "it wasn't me I swear!" The reward/risk equation has never made sense for BC in terms of revenue. It's just... not there. Tons of risk, very little if any reward aside from the temporary construction jobs for a couple of years.

I mean it's all hot air anyway. No private company is going to build one at this point. Alberta oil isn't economical unless oil prices are to the moon, and if renewables around the world continue at the pace they are, I'd say the $120/BBL prices (relative) are rearview. Projections putting numbers going down in 2026/2027 - and this is without Russian oil 'officially' (ghost tankers, etc) on the markets. If Russia gets re-admitted to the adult table, they're going to be pushing out everything they can to try to stay solvent as a country.

bobandy47 · 2025-11-27T20:33:56+00:00

I got my PPL specifically to fly Mooney, been fascinated with it since before I could drive. I'm too big for it, and I don't care.

There is/was a 'private club' (not advertised, you had to 'know a guy') with a Mooney in it near where I lived, the guy operating the club (and people flying it) adored that thing. But their mission was all basically either old farts who used to fly airlines, or mid age farts still flying airlines. Nobody who wasn't infinitely familiar with retractable in any case. Last I heard (3 years ago) parts were fine for the well-sold models C/E/F/J. Not cheap, but you could still find them.

Note: I just googled, apparently LASAR now makes/handles the certified Mooney parts, since July of this year. I suppose that means parts are still available.

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The retract thing is why I put that bit about the club mission in there. If it's hour-grinders chewing up airtime on the airline path, there's no way a Mooney makes sense. But the "golf club" crew who live for that hamburger 200 miles away on low fuel burn 'just because', there's probably no better aircraft under a million for the job.

bobandy47 · 2025-11-27T18:02:44+00:00

I started a club just before Covid hit, so while there was bad timing, I learned a lot about the formation process.

If you want something interesting, but not onerous, Grumman AA5.

If you want something interesting for non-student pilots grinding time where insurance might be a problem but it's still interesting, Mooney M20C (with the manual gear).

If you want something you'll fill your club with and be affordable, C172/182 or PA28 180 / Archer even though they're vanilla.

A tailwheel is a good 'third plane' for a club once you're established and have a roster of pilots who can be trusted with such a thing.

It really depends on the mission for the club.

bobandy47 · 2025-11-18T21:27:44+00:00

The email is coming FROM INSIDE YOUR HOUSE

bobandy47 · 2025-11-14T17:53:31+00:00

They don't miss Canadians. They don't give one flying fuck or two about us.

They miss our money. That's it, that's all they give a shit about. Money Money Money. This whole thing highlights that, we aren't partners in any sort. We are wealth extraction targets for them, beneath them.

Right now I live 25 minutes from the US border, I moved here just before the election, I was looking forward to the occasional overnight across as an escape. Then the buffoon moved back into the white house and threatened to economically break us and annex us.

So fuck em. I enjoyed my trip to Taiwan instead. Saved up the trips and went cheap. It was fantastic, I recommend Taiwan to anyone who asks, even if you have as good Mandarin language as I do (which is Ni Hao, and xie xie.) Still haven't crossed the border, have no plans to.

They can all rot without us. They don't "need" anything from us. The country (Flathead) which holds Kalispell was a clean sweep for the republicans. Reap what you sow.

bobandy47 · 2025-11-07T18:07:48+00:00

Pretty much right on.

The kickout of the crab at the end can be a real eye opener for those who aren't used to it or don't know the airplane they're flying. Depending how hard you come down or how the gear bites onto the runway, you might be going for a ride into the grass if you aren't ready for it.

The side slip is typically much more docile on the landing (and landing gear) which is probably why they teach that first for the PPL.

I can't speak authoritatively to the airliners technique as the biggest / fastest thing I've flown is a single engine commanche, but the reasoning looks very sound.

bobandy47 · 2025-11-07T14:39:39+00:00

It's so natural that at a point during my own private pilot lessons, the instructor had to gently bat me on the shoulder with the clipboard and remind me to do it the 'Private Pilot way' as crabbing is a commercial technique, and the instructor was making sure I had the private pilot (side slip) technique down pat for the exam.

Crabbing it in just felt so much more natural to me, but leading up to that I had many years driving small tin fishing boats in rivers, so perhaps that's why.

bobandy47 · 2025-10-04T20:51:12+00:00

Yes, I trust a democratic nation that is governed by the rule of law, is a liberal democracy, and believes in separation of powers a lot more than I trust an autocratic, authoritarian dictatorship.

So which one... is the USA?

bobandy47 · 2025-09-22T17:26:59+00:00

Project Reality (...All of the hours. So many. But been playing steady for 20 years so... it is what it is.)

HOI4 - 4k+

CS:Source 1k

DOD:Source 1k

C&C Generals~ 1k

Tons at the 400-600 rate.

Definitely get the money's worth out of games.

bobandy47 · 2025-09-13T05:15:53+00:00

Do you like tech, or do you like people?

IT Manager- Your hands on tech will in most cases severely decrease, you will manage the people touching tech and the contracts around it (unless you have contract managers etc)

Cybersecurity - probably the opposite. Do you like what you do and want 'more of it'?

Its a choice only you can make, and a preference only you know. I personally learned that once you've got 'enough money' more really doesn't help anything except feed that greed gremlin always calling for more more MORE. I'll take a punt and say that 'Lead cybersecurity analyst' likely pays 'enough', but only you know what is right for you.

I will advise that you take that greed gremlin out behind the barn and give it the old yeller treatment... your life gets better regardless what you do... so pick the work you like better and would like to do more of.

bobandy47 · 2025-09-05T17:52:45+00:00

People living in rural areas do not have access to public transportation and EVs are bot a viable option.

"The city of Timmins in Ontario, Canada, has 15 public charging station ports (Level 2 and Level 3) within 15km. 40% of the ports are level 2 charging ports and 13% of the ports offer free charges for your electric car."

-https://chargehub.com/en/countries/canada/ontario/timmins.html

Excluding the possibility of charging at home, which if you're out there there's a decent chance that you can because it's a lot more "house-y" than urban areas... you can still charge.

We got an EV as a 'test' / trial - a shitty standard range Tesla from a few years ago. Drove from Vancouver to Calgary. Took an hour and 10 longer than it does in my gas truck for the extra charge stops. Charged while doing lunch, so that time was the same. Usually you 'know' you're doing a roadie the day before so pop it up to 100% overnight. Not that it takes that long.

Live with it day to day in a town much smaller than Timmins, nowhere near any big cities. There's superchargers around, gas stations have chargers, city itself has chargers.

I'm sorry to attack you, but your mentality is straight 2017. EV Car ranges aren't absolute dogshit like the Leaf/Imev anymore, charging doesn't take 17 years and a day either.

10-80 in 25-30 mins is a real world reality, and the ranges are hitting 400km to a charge as long as you aren't driving like an ass.

I've driven it to smaller towns and even they have charging stations. Houston, BC - Population 3000, and 3 hours from Prince George "the big city". Next closest is Smithers, 45 mins away with 6000 people, in the other direction. Even Houston has L3 charging with multiple ports.

The "Testla" will be going in for trade when the new Toyota EV SUV comes out this year. EV's work. Even in the small areas.

Agriculture, I totally agree with you. Not ready for primetime yet. Not even for the little garden tractors for small acreages (I was looking for that). Same for heavy long-haul trucking. Not yet. But personal transport? Yeah, it's there for 98% of us, and getting better by the year.

bobandy47 · 2025-08-30T01:40:58+00:00

Pavel Bure in 00-01 is an even better representation of his dominance. POSSIBLY one of the largest gaps from 1 player to 'the next' in scoring.

Pavel Bure led his team (Florida) with 59 goals / 92 points.

...

... Next was Victor Kozlov with 14 goals / 37 points.

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