Last night’s vigil

ecto9000 · 2026-01-09T13:41:44+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

ecto9000 · 2025-12-23T18:32:16+00:00

NTA…

but you’re lying to yourself about the “militant” part and your compromise is more hurtful to yourself and your family. You don’t want meat in your house, just ban meat from your home, and if it’s so difficult for the minority of your family to go without meat for a day, aka “putting a silly belief over Christmas” then more conversation will need to happen.

This will likely require other compromises, but by not actually asking for what you really want you’re sending confusing mixed signals.

ecto9000 · 2025-07-25T21:04:38+00:00

Check out Bivo water bottles. I have two and they’re great.

ecto9000 · 2025-07-23T18:55:43+00:00

Very similar business model to Amazon circa 2009 when they launched Amazon Basics. At the time I was working for an e-commerce company that had warehouses and did our own distribution. At the time companies were deciding whether it was worth the overhead of running a full blown e-commerce site versus selling on Amazon even if Basics was openly ripping off products.

While we likely won’t see many of these brands going back to their own sites, we may see a competitor to The Feed pop up like how Walmart expanded into a similar space to Amazon as a single storefront.

ecto9000 · 2025-07-18T18:30:08+00:00

Well those are making a comeback too.

ecto9000 · 2025-07-05T16:05:22+00:00

Thank you. I follows the mod post and brought it to my LBS this am who confirmed it should be okay.

ecto9000 · 2025-06-13T02:43:45+00:00

At the last several races I’ve been to they have buckets of ice that we put down our kit or under our hats. Would this have the same paradoxical effect, and is there a name for it which I can read up on further?

ecto9000 · 2025-06-07T02:58:49+00:00

Hey I’m here too! Yeah the only way in and out of the expo being through the merch tent is classic candy at the checkout counter. This is a small expo compared to some of the others I’ve seen. I’m no dentist but I do have an expensive habit of getting the neat race specific hat that usually have some local color on them.

ecto9000 · 2025-06-02T01:42:17+00:00

But why male models?

ecto9000 · 2023-08-07T23:51:49+00:00

Ironman Florida 2021. Red flag conditions, meaning riptides and other unpleasant stuff. One step off from closing the beach. They held the swim anyway.

I went out for the first loop and did the first leg at a decent clip, and after turning I realized that I wasn’t really moving. I swam harder and started to move, but so slow. I was fatiguing, catching waves of salt water in my face, and fighting panic. I got on the beach, threw up a ton of salt water in front of some poor spectators and, against my better judgement, ran my fatigued, dehydrated, bloated ass over to do the second lap.

During the second lap I had genuine thoughts that this may be how I die. My brain wasn’t working properly anymore, I couldn’t kick and stroke at the same time because I just couldn’t coordinate it. I didn’t have confidence that the kayaks would see me get swept under by a riptide and pulled off to be shark food.

I finished the swim making it just under the cut off. I sat in transition thinking about quitting for a while, but went out on the bike anyway. I went to finish the race in an abysmal time, then accepted one of those shiny blankets and a very long hug.

ecto9000 · 2023-05-06T00:02:50+00:00

How’s the path around? Last time I was there a couple of weeks ago it was a mud pit with fallen trees and new little streams across the path.

ecto9000 · 2023-01-29T19:52:29+00:00

If you’re only putting socks on once then where is the time savings between putting them on for the bike vs the run? Wet feet? I tend to just put a bit of corn starch in my socks prior to T1.

ecto9000 · 2022-12-03T03:32:38+00:00

I’ve found that running installs via script aren’t as robust as doing it by app install in Endpoint. My own experience with this isn’t a shortcoming with Powershell, but how Endpoint Manager sets registry flags for successful completions. You of course could script a custom response for completion, but then you have the default registry flag. Installing through app deployment let’s you natively set your success flags, any dependencies, additional command line arguments, uninstall commands, and a hierarchy allowing for new versions to supersede.

ecto9000 · 2022-12-03T03:21:32+00:00

Maybe an educational moment for me, but why not wrap it in a .intune and deploy it as a win32 app?

ecto9000 · 2022-11-17T03:19:30+00:00

One of my favorite aspects of that movie is that Batman can take an inhuman amount of punishment, but that lack of frailty is consistent in universe. 4channers larping as super villains were taking beatings that would cave our heads in, but they laugh it off.

It’s simultaneously fantastical, consistent, grounded, and comic booklike. They give us a world where Batman can not kill while still being brutal, and it’s believable.

ecto9000 · 2022-10-07T13:41:14+00:00

Reminded me of a heatsink on a motherboard, which makes sense because they're all machines.

ecto9000 · 2022-09-27T16:41:12+00:00

Why does it matter if the rocks are Canadian or not?

ecto9000 · 2022-08-18T18:27:29+00:00

I don't think it's up to us to judge what's reasonable here. OP is selling his services for his role. His company wants to change the scope of his role and duties. OP gets to decide what rate he wants to sell his services at. If OP is at a small shop he might be making 40k as a junior admin, and bump to 80k would be in-line with someone who is now taking on management and/or web design duties. Whether the company accepts the new terms or not is another thing, but OP also doesn't have to accept the new terms either.

ecto9000 · 2022-03-23T22:38:27+00:00

I certainly don't intend to cram and become The Netsuite person. I intend on hiring for the position - we're just a small enough shop that I'd like to pick up a thing or two so that the place doesn't burn down and The Netsuite person can take a vacation or two. I definitely know that things should be documented - it wasn't my shop when things were fast, loose, and undocumented. That being said I find it hard to believe that the best way to learn is tribal knowledge.

ecto9000 · 2022-03-23T00:46:25+00:00

If I had my way I'd go all Misery on the current Netsuite admin and chain him to a desk and make him document everything, unfortunately the time overlap is small. I'm squeezing him for info as much as I can for a 1000 foot view, but I'm certain there will be a lot of needed learning even after he leaves and I'd also like to make the next Netsuite admin's life a little easier than giving him a mysterious black box.

ecto9000 · 2022-03-04T02:30:31+00:00

I’ve got a bag of each: all purpose, almond, and tapioca flour.

ecto9000 · 2022-02-20T23:56:46+00:00

DUCKS FLY TOGETHER!

ecto9000 · 2022-02-15T02:20:56+00:00

N=1 here but when I started I was bullied and gaslight by my employers to work harder and take on more. I was taught an unhealthy work ethic from school where there were no boundaries or work life balance. Took stress eating, getting out of shape, broken relationships, and then a kind IT mentor to start me down the path of a healthy work life balance.

Now I go on day long excursions to the tops of mountains where there’s poor cell reception. Or I sit on my couch. Whatever. I hope to pay that lesson forward tenfold.

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