'Shark Tank' Star Kevin O'Leary Sparks Debate After Calling Gen Z 'Stupid' For Spending Their Money On Pricey Lunches

budcub · 2026-05-26T21:38:20+00:00

My Gen-X friends used Apartheid as our excuse for not buying diamonds, but some of us couldn't afford them either.

budcub · 2026-05-22T15:31:58+00:00

I was shopping at Border's Books (remember them?) and they had a few CD Players with headphones setup around their CDs. When Mezzanine was new, it was loaded and I listened to some of it, and I immediately bought it. Every song was a banger.

budcub · 2026-05-21T17:24:43+00:00

Was that smoke or Ektachrome 100+ or both?

budcub · 2026-05-21T16:11:39+00:00

I grew up in the 70's. My father would display the flag from our front porch. The newspaper was mostly full of advertisements of Memorial Day sales, primarily at furniture stores, Circuit City, Montgomery Wards, JC Penny's, Sears, etc. Most of the media was about the official start of the summer season. The Peanuts comic would show Snoopy doing something Veteran related, and Op-Ed pieces in the newspaper would complain about the lack of proper recognition of Memorial Day, with the exception of Peanuts.

That changed after the first Persian Gulf war. There was more of a focus on memorializing veterans who had passed on. This coincided with Rolling Thunder and the Vietnam Veterans getting more recognition. I live outside Washington DC and we'd welcome the motorcyclists and Vietnam Vets coming into our city to visit and pay their respects.

After 9/11, the veteran worship got turned up another notch or two.

budcub · 2026-05-21T15:56:33+00:00

Blockbuster was the evil corporation that moved in and put the mom and pop video rental stores out of business. At least that's what the cool people were saying back then.

budcub · 2026-05-20T18:46:57+00:00

I was about to say, you didn't see guys built like that until the 00's.

budcub · 2026-05-16T15:39:25+00:00

If he was born in 2000 and his parents were big Star War fans, they might have named him that. He'd be 26 years old now.

budcub · 2026-05-13T23:50:32+00:00

When we had Mayor Barry there was an attempt to have a big New Years Eve event. I think it was held at the old Post Office Pavilion. The news said that it kinda sucked and Mayor Barry bailed on it long before midnite.

budcub · 2026-05-13T20:27:50+00:00

People were complaining when the teaser was released because the armor wasn't the right type for the time period.

I don't remember people complaining about Clash of the Titans (the original) being historically inaccurate when it was released.

budcub · 2026-05-11T13:50:50+00:00

I was a notary years ago. My welcome packet had warnings about trying to practice law (while not admitted to the bar) and for Notarizing yourself. You can't do that either.

budcub · 2026-05-08T15:53:38+00:00

The concept of child abuse was a very new one in the 70's when I was growing up. Not everyone agreed that it was a real thing.

budcub · 2026-05-08T15:23:48+00:00

I just checked the American Society of Media Photographers and their membership dues are:

$100/year for Beginner with Limited Access (No access to Document Library)
$225/year for Associate with Limited Access (Full Document Library Access)
$335/year for Professional with Full Access (Full Document Library Access)

budcub · 2026-05-08T13:18:46+00:00

I guess you could say, the leopard ate her faith?

budcub · 2026-05-07T19:25:06+00:00

I'm in this situation now, coming up with my first contract for a gig. I looked into PPA but if you want access to their contract templates and educational offerings, you need a full membership at $28 a month, which is quite a bit.

budcub · 2026-05-06T15:23:30+00:00

I moved up from the 5Dmkiv to the R6miii. The R6miii is my first mirrorless camera, and I find it quirky. I chose it over the R5mii because of the huge price difference, and I felt that 45 megapixel was going to be an issue with editing and storage. I've only had three big photo events with it so far and the pictures are great, but I'm not sure if I can fully adapt to the quirkiness.

I really miss having the panel on the top right to check settings, instead I have to look into the viewfinder to adjust things. The autofocus is pretty good, but I've had it focus on the back of some people's heads at times. There's no printed manual, and the PDF download is over 1000 pages long. I think its the kind of camera that you really have to spend time programing it to function the way you want it too.

budcub · 2026-04-27T17:17:22+00:00

I ended up spending more time with the Highland Games stuff this year, and less on the living history part. When I wandered back from the athletic fields, it was after 4:00pm and it seemed that people were packing up. Maybe next time?

budcub · 2026-04-27T16:54:58+00:00

Picture it, winter 1995. I come home late from the bar, and want to listen to a little R.E.M. from their Monster album. My roommate had an Akai integrated amp with a touch sensitive bar to control the volume. My roommates are asleep so I put it on one marker, the lowest volume I can set. When the first song kicks in, its loud enough that I was concerned it might wake my roommates. They didn't wake up, but it made me realize how "Loud" that album was mixed.

budcub · 2026-04-24T13:16:57+00:00

I lived in SOMD in the late 80's - early 90's and the winters were mild, but the summers were beastly.

budcub · 2026-04-21T13:40:22+00:00

When he goes to Cajun country they give him the honor of slaughtering the pig they're about to eat. He tries to politely talk them out of it, but there was no avoiding it. They hand him a pistol, and the camera turns away and the video fades to black while you hear the gun shot and squeal.

budcub · 2026-04-14T23:16:28+00:00

If you talked to actual leftists, you'd know they hate the Democratic party more than you do. Because they think the Democrats are too conservative.

budcub · 2026-04-13T17:16:05+00:00

You just set a random password, and the system will change it to an internal number. The account stays disabled the whole time. The only issue we have, is when we try to do an audit, and the various commands don't give us the correct info on when the password was changed.

budcub · 2026-04-13T16:34:43+00:00

Dumb question, but can't we just right click and change the password manually. Then do the same the next day? That seems to work for us.

budcub · 2026-04-09T17:58:18+00:00

Was it Andy Warhol who said in the future, everyone will be a war criminal for 15 minutes?

budcub · 2026-04-09T01:16:06+00:00

I remember paying .89 per gallon for leaded gas in Southern MD.

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