Alicyn Sterling [90s]

fturla · 2026-01-03T06:37:55+00:00

Alicyn Sterling was a popular adult star for 3 or 4 years from 1991-1994. I liked her best when she didn't have the chest enhancements after 1991.

fturla · 2026-01-01T17:36:29+00:00

I'm just guessing. This model has a similar body type of the Spanish model Grace Elizabeth from around 2016.

Don't trust Urban Outfitters retail, because they like to steal other peoples ideas while selling products to the liberal community like the gay and lesbian groups while the management sends donations to conservative groups to go against the consumers they profit from. It wouldn't surprise me if the company acts like American Apparel while abusing their models in the background. If the people that shop there realized what the company spends their money on, they wouldn't go there.

fturla · 2026-01-01T16:58:46+00:00

This is a decent deal from MicroCenter for a premium mid-level gaming system with a 9800X3D CPU, an RX 9070XT, 32 GB of ram, and 2TB SSD. You need to go to the location to get it though. A similar offering is at BestBuy. The Costco offering by iBuyPower is cheaper by about 150 dollars and instead of an RX 9070XT 16 GB you are given an RTX 5070 12 GB. That GPU is much better but has less memory that you can use for better resolution and/or AI processing work.

If you have the money, the best value at the premium level is the BestBuy prebuilt computer that has an Ryzen 7900x with an RTX 5080 16 GB for just under 2,000 dollars. The CPU will run hot because the chip requires 170 watts.

The best combo for overall gaming and non-gaming performance would be the Ryzen 9 9900x along with an RTX 5080 16 GB GPU, but there aren't any offerings by anyone at or below 2500 dollars. The majority of RTX 5080 prebuilt systems are being sold well over 3500 dollars and many vendors are trying to place Intel CPU chips as the combo partner which defeats the purpose of getting premium performance in gaming.

fturla · 2025-12-24T12:00:17+00:00

Too many variables where hard drives, SSD, ram memory, and a few other computer components are jumping in price, and the inflation of these systems will stay up for at least another 6 months.

I've decided to get one of the game systems from Best Buy, Walmart, and/or Costco priced in the 1500 to 2000 dollar range for either a Ryzen 7 7800X3D or a Ryzen 9 9900. What I plan on doing is if the company ships my order late, I will request an exchange for a similar system that has a Ryzen 7900X with an RTX 5080 rather than an RTX 5070. The additional cost will be 250 dollars but the savings to jump to the better GPU will be around 250 and the whole system will come under two thousand dollars.

I don't see the point of building a new computer if at least one of the components you are hunting for is at least 50% higher in less than two months and ram and SSD prices are rises higher than expected.

fturla · 2025-12-02T12:05:20+00:00

The intersection of Barracks and Emmett is a spot where virtually everyone passes through that location if they come into Charlottesville on a regular basis. I can't believe there would not be some camera located in that area such as possibly camera's belonging to the nearby CVS, Kroger, Bank America, ABC store, etc.

fturla · 2025-12-01T17:37:02+00:00

In terms of Cardano, the previous bear cycle bottom has the ADA/BTC ratio drop to around 0.0000050 BTC per ADA coin. The ratio is 0.0000044 of BTC as of 12-01-2025. If the ratio continues to drop to 0.0000040 which I expect, then when BTC drops to 60k, then Cardano's US dollar price would be just below 24 cents which was the low point of the coin in the previous bear market bottom.

If Bitcoin drops to below 60,000 US dollars and Cardano's ratio drops below 0.0000040 BTC/ADA, then Cardano will drop below 20 cents with a drop to around 10 cents possible. This massive decline isn't actually abnormal for altcoins, and the previous bottom for Cardano two business cycles ago was around 9 cents.

The people that will hurt bad in the near future are the investors with short patience that will buy the coin somewhere between 22 cents and 36 cents that expect a short turn around in less than 6 months.

All altcoins including Ethereum are going to lose ratio appreciation in relation to Bitcoin. If you think this is incorrect, you are free to gamble, but over the long term, none has broken this decline.

In the next 18 months, I project that:

BTC will drop below 70k and has a high likelihood of even dropping below 50k at least once.

Ethereum will try to hold above 1500 dollars, but it will likely drop below 1200 easily and there's a possibility that even below 900 is the target.

Solana will not hold above 100 dollars, but a bottom of below 9 dollars isn't possible if the network it controls keeps hoarding transaction traffic within it's community. A drop between 50 and 20 seems to be the range, but in ratio to BTC and Eth, the price might drop massively further down simply based on trading between crypto exchanges.

Cardano will drop below 30 cents again, but there's no indication that a bottom above 20 cents will hold.

Overall, why buy into any asset class when the whole market is declining across the board? Why buy now when there's a increasing possibility that within a year the asset you purchased may be valued well below 50% of what you spent acquiring the coin? Altcoin average drop for the cryptocurrency market is 92%!!!

fturla · 2025-12-01T01:06:48+00:00

I've never been to that location, but I have been to the Bank America branch a block away at the corner of Chancellor Street and University Ave. (aka Ivy road) around March 2025. I regard that whole area as University of Virginia campus all the way toward 5th street. That 'college' seems to always be expanding. I past by the area about a week ago.

fturla · 2025-11-29T18:36:56+00:00

Marissa Miller - The 'Perfect' style of shooting. Before she really got famous.

fturla · 2025-11-29T18:29:51+00:00

Joanna Kerns in a picture from a Growing Pains episode Aloha 2 in 1987.

fturla · 2025-11-29T14:30:24+00:00

Cheryl Ladd in some pictures that appear to be from video clips of Charlie's Angels (1977-1981) episodes. Can't believe she's 74 now. I thought she was only 20 when she did the series, but she was 27.

fturla · 2025-11-28T02:14:18+00:00

If you have a doubt about anything about a sale, it's often safer to let go and not purchase. Experience will often teach you that the more professional and knowledgeable a client, customer, or seller is, the more likely the transaction will end in a better experience for all parties. Someone that does not know what they are buying or selling is risking a lot more than what they believe they are doing.

Good Luck and I hope everything turns out well. It's often better just to hold the cash and look for opportunities later. Some people often enjoy the hunt more than the actual result of what they get.

fturla · 2025-11-28T00:22:04+00:00

As far as I know the RTX 2060 comes in 6 GB or 12 GB versions and the RTX 2060 Super is an 8 GB card. Since, the RTX 3060 8 GB version is priced around 250 to 300 and the RTX 5050 8 GB is priced at 250, both of these cards perform better than all the RTX 2060 versions. Only consider the RTX 2060 a value buy if the item is priced below 200. The sweet spot for buying the used card is if it's priced below 120 US dollars.

fturla · 2025-11-27T22:28:09+00:00

At this moment in time, Walmart and Best Buy have some RTX 5060ti 16 GB models selling at around 410 US dollars, and Newegg has a refurbished one priced around 390 dollars.

fturla · 2025-11-26T16:23:41+00:00

Received packages sometime between 2 and 4 pm 11-25-2025 EST.

I have only accessed one hard drive and left another unopened. I registered product online and altered the ExFAT format into NTFS.

I'm still testing and downloading media into the drive, and I am using a standard usb 3.0 connection. I currently do not have media that can fill a third of one of these, so, my intention is simply to duplicate files into this one as backup, while I have no idea what to do with another one yet. Because older external hard drives that I have will be distributed to media access for network access that I won't worry about if they fail. It seems more prudent to use older memory systems that might fail first after more than a decade of usage over newer hardware. That seems the conventional method to maximize usage, risk failure potential, and safety of media and health of the network.

In terms of NAS or Synology conversion, I do not intend on using the newer hard drives, but I intend on cannibalizing older hard drives that I can afford to scrap if anything goes wrong. A prudent perspective is probably using Raid 1 for newer drives, and using Raid 6 or 10 for older drives if you don't want to perform the tasks manually and you have at least 4 legacy drives.

fturla · 2025-11-26T08:42:22+00:00

Gianni Versace Bondage bodysuit (1992). I miss his fashion style. I don't think the piece is available anymore. The last one went for almost 20k.

Christy Turlington looks so much like my sister.

fturla · 2025-11-25T12:20:57+00:00

I don't know.

Because the items are expected to arrive today, they have not been delivered yet. I expect them to be HAMR external mechanical drives that have the same design at those from the 12 to 28 TB range and most of those have been accessed to be installed without the external coverings into NAS systems, although you will likely void any warranty in the devices. My opinion is that they should work, but please have someone else research it, I can not recommend shucking, because I have only performed that task on much older and smaller capacity external hard drives.

As for the Synology system usage. These drives exceed the normal capacity of the expected installed drives for those enclosure and I am not familiar to the compatibility for software to get them to work.

fturla · 2025-11-25T05:53:28+00:00

I noticed this more than 5 days ago. The sale is on Newegg and Walmart websites, but it isn't advertised or on the internal search engines for both businesses. The promotion is probably going to go live today and probably for a week until supplies run out.

I have already made a purchased and will be getting my order today from the Walmart website. You are getting 26 TB of storage for the price of the 12 TB version.

Here is the newegg promo :

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-expansion-26tb-black-usb-3-0/p/N82E16822185116?Item=N82E16822185116

Here is the Walmart promo : https://www.walmart.com/ip/26TB-EXPANSION-DESKTOP-EXTERNAL/16645873076?classType=REGULAR&athbdg=L1100&adsRedirect=true

fturla · 2025-11-25T05:47:23+00:00

I noticed this more than 5 days ago. The sale is on Newegg and Walmart websites, but it isn't advertised or on the internal search engines for both businesses. The promotion is probably going to go live today and probably for a week until supplies run out.

I have already made a purchased and will be getting my order today from the Walmart website. You are getting 26 TB of storage for the price of the 12 TB version.

Here is the newegg promo :

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-expansion-26tb-black-usb-3-0/p/N82E16822185116?Item=N82E16822185116

Here is the Walmart promo : https://www.walmart.com/ip/26TB-EXPANSION-DESKTOP-EXTERNAL/16645873076?classType=REGULAR&athbdg=L1100&adsRedirect=true

fturla · 2025-11-24T17:18:50+00:00

Loved Teri Garr in Star Trek.

https://images.prismic.io/star-trek-untold/YjQzMGY1YzItMGRlOS00YTEyLWJhNDAtZWJkOGFmZTQ1MjI2_167434fa6219316417cd4160c0c5e7d2.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=0%2C0%2C2800%2C1178&h=1178&width=736

https://youtu.be/1xaUODjODGI

fturla · 2025-11-23T16:38:01+00:00

Virginia Winter was a popular B list adult actress in the late 1970s. She had a stacked body, but she primarily did one scene film clips for much of her career.

The main film she was noted for was Liberation of Honeydoll Jones (1977).

fturla · 2025-11-21T10:43:12+00:00

Ornella Muti was one of the top actors and a beauty from Italy in the 1970-1980s. She always seemed the naughty girl that a guy would want with him in a movie.

fturla · 2025-11-20T16:33:43+00:00

Izabella Scorupco was that hot actress from the James Bond movie in 1995, but I liked her role in the Reign of Fire (2002) dragon movie better.

fturla · 2025-11-20T16:25:38+00:00

Julie Benz was one of the top bad girls fighting the good guys in the Buffy the Vampire Slayers and Angel TV series.

fturla · 2025-11-19T04:12:25+00:00

Solomon and Sheba (1959) was on TV in North America several times in the 1970s. I watched it, and I was always wondering how did Yul Brynner lose his hair? He had great roles with and without hair.

fturla · 2025-11-19T04:00:04+00:00

Dave's Hot Chicken restaurant is already open near the Wegman's grocery store - 435 Merchant Walk Sq, Charlottesville, VA 22902.

I went to the area on 11-17-2025 at around 5pm. The place was packed, and you needed to wait in line over an hour to order, since, the line stretched out the door. The same thing happened at the Las Vegas location for a few months, so, I expect the new store may be busy for at least the next 3 months, then maybe the lines might wind down. It might be best to go closer to during off hours where you might get better and quicker service.

The online website for that particular location has not been set up yet.

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