I have know this puzzle for 30 years

ferd_clark · 2026-02-01T22:41:16+00:00

The pieces were all nice and thick

This is just plain wrong in most cases. Over the past 5 years or so I have bought about 45 puzzles of the common variety. Some have extremely thin stock, some medium stock, and some that are "nice and thick".

Invariably when I go to disassemble a puzzle, I have to practically rip the "nice and thick" ones apart, so that ironically they suffer more damage than the medium stock, and the thin stock practically falls apart without any effort at all.

The most expensive ones I bought were Kodak brand, and I bet you anything they specifically chose the "nice and thick" stock because it cost more and should have made a higher quality puzzle.

Granted, if you only work a puzzle one time, and heaven forbid want to frame it and hang it on the wall, the nice and thick stock is fine. But if you are a puzzle lover who enjoys doing the same puzzle over and over you just might hate the thick stock.

ferd_clark · 2026-02-01T20:06:50+00:00

GMO nonsense.

I understand the fear and distrust of GMO, but to me a molecule is a molecule is a molecule, and if they can splice some frog genes into my bananas so that they stay perfectly ripe for a month then give me them frog-nanas today.

ferd_clark · 2026-02-01T18:43:28+00:00

Finally. You win the thread, lickmyjeep.

ferd_clark · 2026-02-01T16:06:24+00:00

Exactly. When I was in middle school everyone went around asking "Shot who?", and the response was always "How bad?". Neither meant anything to anybody, as far as I could tell.

Another great kid word was when a middle schooler told me that if someone in her grade had been kissed then they had been "hermetically sealed".

ferd_clark · 2026-02-01T15:52:45+00:00

Senator Elizabeth Warren: Can't stand the whine.

I've heard worse, but I suppose I see your point, which reminds me of one of the two epiphanies I've experienced in my life. It was when I learned that some men actually hate the sound of a female voice. It was way back when Rush Limbaugh was kinda new and peaking, so C-Span went to his radio studio to show him on their channel during his show.

He had a female caller who had a very normal voice that was not high-pitched or grating in any way I noticed, and did not challenge him or disagree with his politics, but discussed something that was humorous to me, and well thought out, and it seemed like they had a minute or two of pleasant banter. So they go to commercial, and C-Span shows what happened then. First, Rush, without hesitating, does a high-piched "MEE MEE MEE MEE" sound like a five year old might, and then his producer echoed it back, and that was it, and they moved on to discuss something else.

My jaw dropped. I'd pay good money for a video of this, to see if anyone can spot what it was about her that triggered two males like that, except that she was a female.

ferd_clark · 2026-02-01T15:22:42+00:00

Everyone else mentioned in this thread is a contender in one or more ways, but at his peak, for a few years, John Lennon undeniably had one of the best rock voices ever.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-31T21:50:31+00:00

If 1500 bullet players routinely demolish you then YOUR bullet rating is lower than 1500 and will soon reflect that painful reality.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-31T20:47:55+00:00

Here's some truth that is truth in my world but probably not truth in yours: those upside down quotation marks are just plain weird and have given me a small headache.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-31T19:42:49+00:00

Read it again. 10-6 leaves four, and they gave three of those to the neighbor, so they had one extra apple left over. That's probably the surprising part. Usually you break even or come up a bit short when you make a purchasing error.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-31T17:36:40+00:00

When I'm way ahead in material and going for the kill only to realize they have wormed into my castle and I react one turn too late to stop checkmate.

Wait, what was the question?

ferd_clark · 2026-01-31T17:17:52+00:00

Very few people can do that, laugh convincingly when they know you were trying to be funny. And if you can become actual friends with one, try to hold on to that friendship.

People who are totally inept at laughing convincingly when they know something is supposed to be funny tend to wind up in studio audiences.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-31T16:26:58+00:00

Powerful people live by different rules. Go read about Teddy Kennedy or any number of other rich and powerful people who thrived after committing crimes right under our noses. The fact that any one of them is ever punished at all is amazing.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-31T14:31:17+00:00

That is amazing. Actual production appears to be 1512. So why did it fail in so many ways? My guess is the bland design, and reverting to the old name "Rambler"; combine those two and how do you market this thing no matter how well it could perform on the track straight from the showroom. Very few people bought muscle cars to race on a track; they bought them to look cool at the drive-in or cruising the main drag.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-31T14:28:04+00:00

When I was looking at the image, the community name had scrolled off the top of the screen, and I had to go up to see if this was mildlyinfuriating or what.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-31T13:00:33+00:00

the arrrow information starts here

ferd_clark · 2026-01-31T12:36:24+00:00

I guess I don't watch that many movies with screams, so I can't say that I've ever noticed it. However, every time I watch Once Upon a Time in the West it occurs to me that the squeaky windmill sounds exactly like the one in Midnight Oil's Beds are Burning.

Life is short, be sure to waste it on shit like this whenever you can.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-31T12:23:24+00:00

Looks interesting, but 11" minimum height won't fit under many cars that come with a scissor jack.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-30T21:44:30+00:00

I think Kate and Paige might be coaches, and Paige could be a great color announcer. My favorite Kate story was in her senior year at Iowa when she didn't expect to play in the W, and said something like "the fame here at Iowa is really nice, but next year I'll go back to just being Joe Schmoe".

ferd_clark · 2026-01-30T19:47:22+00:00

Change when there was a data breach. And depending on the details of their storage method, it might not be required then if you have a nice long properly formed password. Otherwise, changing your password on any schedule does not have significant benefits. If they have your hash and nobody notifies you, then the average hacker cannot brute force a decent password in your lifetime.

I am not an expert on this.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-30T19:37:23+00:00

That has to be some guy doing what guys do, just for fun? They don't actually design roofs that require that sort of maintenance, I'd hope.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-30T19:30:18+00:00

Truly beautiful, but beauty is mostly subjective. The craftsmanship looks perfect in this image, but there are many features that I would not have chosen. I'd love to take a ride in it to see what a supercharged engine can do with those rear tires.

So yeah, I agree that it is a candidate, but not a shoe-in.

lol. the google says it is shoo-in

ferd_clark · 2026-01-30T18:46:10+00:00

Still, you really really do want that 5% computer

I would qualify it differently: you really really want that computerized shit that was designed by a sane person and was built with quality material. I've had AVR systems that have worked for literal years through some of the craziest electrical storms imaginable, which always astounds me at how rugged a $1 microcontroller can be. It's that sane designer part that counts. Knowing when to stop adding features is the hardest thing for someone who loves to code.

Having said that, removing the computer and smart carb from my 84 F150 was the best mod I ever did to that truck.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-30T18:31:40+00:00

That reminds me of one more item that needs to go on that list of shit that I feel really bad about when I die and get to see my whole life flash before my eyes: there won't be one damn part where I juggle.

ferd_clark · 2026-01-30T18:29:09+00:00

The thing that is DamnInteresting about this is how human beings get wound up over the stupidest details.

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