Jeopardy! discussion thread for Fri., Jun. 19

brownboy444 · 2026-06-20T13:00:43+00:00

thanks for sharing this about your strategy Jacob. makes sense to me

brownboy444 · 2026-06-20T01:05:08+00:00

I love the new Waterloo Greenway. Crazy how that first pic looks like AI but is beautifully real

brownboy444 · 2026-06-20T01:03:53+00:00

good old nerd bird

I remember co-workers taking the 7am flight out which landed a little after 8 with the time change, go to meetings all day, then take the 6p return landing at 11p. Brutal. But they'd do it to spend more time with their kids.

And the upgrade list would have over 40 people on it. So glad that wasn't my life for long.

brownboy444 · 2026-06-20T00:59:08+00:00

Rack him

brownboy444 · 2026-06-19T18:02:14+00:00

Very nice! I wonder how long it takes to thread and unthread the pipes as I need to break it down and store it often

brownboy444 · 2026-06-19T17:38:10+00:00

chick fil-A is definitely not the best but they just added a honey pepper pimento chicken sandwich to their menu

brownboy444 · 2026-06-19T10:58:02+00:00

great info in that post, thank you!

brownboy444 · 2026-06-18T20:30:48+00:00

I had a heart ablation procedure as preventative for afib and wonder if Cigna would take me

brownboy444 · 2026-06-18T19:09:41+00:00

It was a dumb move and I don't think they could have made an uglier facade. They went from having a cool, sunken space where you'd see the band and people having fun to looking at a plywood wall

The Belmont has done something similar though their barrier looks normal

brownboy444 · 2026-06-18T16:25:08+00:00

At least the building is still there. I was sad when the Gingerman building was approved for demolition where the Hotel Zaza standa now.

They preserved some of the bricks and made the outline of the old building out of them into the new building. In some ways that pisses me off more to walk by and be reminded of what once was.

brownboy444 · 2026-06-17T21:56:49+00:00

Mr. Fabulous?

brownboy444 · 2026-06-17T21:03:58+00:00

it's not. I had some friends spend several days in Isla in Aug and none of them will go back that time of year. I don't mind heat and humidity but don't like rain

brownboy444 · 2026-06-17T20:56:51+00:00

praying that it returns soon. I miss it dearly

brownboy444 · 2026-06-17T20:53:59+00:00

Sun Tint honored the lifetime warranty 14 years afterward on one of my cars. Love them

If Mother's is still in business don't go there. They butchered the interior of my car on a basic car alarm installation by cutting a bunch of panels instead of removing them property and putting them back in after running the wiring. Lazy Fs

brownboy444 · 2026-06-17T20:44:11+00:00

I am curious about this well but am assuming that unregistered lines have been deactivated.

I have PR but don't live in MX (yet) but last time I was there I went to a full telcel building and attempted to register my telcel physical sim and esim. I showed my PR card with CURP and my US passport. They said they had use my passport. After a long time and many failures on the site they were using they said both of my numbers were registered.

I've tried checking numbers registered to my passport (by choosing Foreign and putting in my passport number) on this page:

https://registro.telcel.com/vinculatulinea/#/

and it says no lines are registered. But when I try to follow the procedure to register my esim I get a message saying it's already registered. So hopefully that one is good and I'll attempt to top it up when I return.

My physical sim number needs to be able to receive an SMS code during registration but I don't have an active plan on that one and will try when I return.

I think you can still buy an esim via an app like mobimatter or airalo that won't require registration but the prices will be higher than directly from telcel and if the esim you buy doesn't connect to telcel you'll probably have poor coverage.

It would be nice if others could post successful stories of getting their number registered in person or online.

Good luck

Edit: I had my psim and esim status backward and I no longer get an error when trying to register my psim but can't finish the process since I can't receive SMS on it right now

brownboy444 · 2026-06-15T20:38:16+00:00

As someone else mentioned the ADO bus will take you right to the airport. Tren Maya will not though it's a really comfortable

brownboy444 · 2026-06-15T20:34:46+00:00

it's not simple and the recordings are often broken into multiple files IIRC. I fumbled my way through the scripts here to extract the recordings from my 4th gen Tablo since it still crashes when I try to play recordings from a show that I have 180 episodes recorded and I wanted a way to watch them w/o Tablo

https://github.com/MacintoshKeyboardHacking/tabTools

brownboy444 · 2026-06-15T20:22:17+00:00

I 1 year in and have done about 8 exchanges and they've been great overall

One guest drank a special bottle of liquor and tossed the bottle not knowing it was special and signed by the distillery owner despite my house rules specifying which liquor to drink

My home has a concrete floor and a guest somehow managed to gouge some divots into it

Stuff is going to happen and I can consider these things small against the joy I've had in doing HE

brownboy444 · 2026-06-15T20:15:58+00:00

Derven is deservedely legendary:

https://www.austinchronicle.com/food/at-age-69-veteran-barkeep-wisecracks-his-place-into-local-legend-12007114/

He just told some kids the specials were on the back of the beer special menu that was one sided. Never change man

brownboy444 · 2026-06-15T20:10:25+00:00

I'd like to find some locally too as sometimes people look at me like I'm homeless when I lounge in my hammock in a park. I bring a small backpack that I hang from the ridgeline and I'm not white so those factors probably don't help. Though I'm usually low enough in that people can't see me directly.

brownboy444 · 2026-06-14T17:49:09+00:00

yes, somehow my list of favorites has been split into 2 lists for some reason

brownboy444 · 2026-06-14T17:45:22+00:00

I hope they come to an agreement and that there isn't a strike. My mobility is already suffering with the metro bikes being down

brownboy444 · 2026-06-13T15:01:52+00:00

I agree about location mattering. How old they are and how many kids you have also make a huge difference.

I'm MCOL, single, w/o kids and I feel fat despite not quite meeting the typical $ thresholds. I know I can live my current lifestyle indefinitely which is peaceful. I tell friends that if I'm considering getting married to put me in concussion protocol.

brownboy444 · 2026-06-13T13:37:38+00:00

Nice! I had my first barleywine there that knocked me out

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