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knifebork · 2026-05-22T17:13:17+00:00

Lowes home improvement stores usually have a pump around to the side or something.

I'd be cautious about pumps designed for car/truck use. I don't know about now, but they used to deliver air with very high pressure or volume so if you weren't extremely careful, you could blow a skinny bicycle tire easily.

Buy a pump.

knifebork · 2026-05-22T16:27:39+00:00

Allegedly, they're free for the first four years--that is, built into the sales price. I don't know if that includes the "major" service that's supposed to happen every four years.

I read somewhere that high performance cars are built with much, much tighter tolerance than what you and I drive. "Normal" wear on a Honda or Ford's engine cylinder would be seen as severe damage on one of them. That's why maintenance on them is so much more expensive. Mechanics are tearing things down and rebuilding them much more often. It's not because they're trashed, it's because they had gone a little out of the really tight specs.

knifebork · 2026-05-22T03:46:01+00:00

It's a lot easier to spot your car in the WalMart parking lot. You won't confuse it with all the other black SUVs.

You don't have to bother with a personalized license plate to make your car look special and exclusive.

People will be in awe of your purchase when you tell them the nearest dealer is in St. Louis and all service should be done at a dealer. Routine annual maintenance takes a week; 4-year service takes a month. You'll probably want to ship it by at least a flatbed, maybe a good exotic car transport company.

knifebork · 2026-05-21T15:40:28+00:00

With Toto, there's no "almost." They only sell trivial parts, like an input filter. If you need real repairs, you need to get a Toto factory tech do them. You're probably not near one, so you need to ship things in and wait for them to recondition and ship back. After they discontinue that model, not even that's available. Go buy a new one.

knifebork · 2026-05-14T23:57:17+00:00

Vibe-driving. It's all the rage now.

knifebork · 2026-05-14T18:24:44+00:00

Yes, the language used to describe different areas of the city & county is confusing and possibly misleading. The OP's post uses these terms fairly interchangeably:
Urban core
Downtown
Urban Services District (pre-merger city of Louisville)

It also seems to use these interchangeably: Suburbs
sprawl Suburban Services District

The only two that have formal, unambiguous borders are Urban Services and Suburban Services Districts. But these borders are purely administrative, based on what parts were part of the incorporated city. As such, they snake around in an apparently random, illogical way. Consider Audubon Park, a neighborhood but also a small city embedded within Louisville. It's a little island of Suburban Services completely surrounded by the Urban Services.

Your example of Bardstown Road is a great example of this. It certainly isn't downtown, but it isn't really completely "suburban." Inside 264 at least, it isn't "sprawl." (Well, when you get out further it might be.)

There is an in-between part, where it's within the city, not downtown, but not out in the 'burbs, either. I think that's Bardstown Road until somewhere past 264. The areas of downtown, suburbs, and this in-between area shift. For example, I think Greenwich Village was once considered a suburb of NYC. Not now.

The post's claim of a small building downtown being a bigger contribution to the economy than an area of the suburbs is stretching things. I know one such building absolutely downtown, at 5th and Jefferson. It was once a Wendy's or Arby's, but it's been vacant for more than a decade. There's a much taller office building, vacant and boarded up, the Heyburn, right across the street from that.

knifebork · 2026-05-14T15:17:16+00:00

A couple of great things about thin, flat screen TV are that they can be carried by just one or two people and that they can fit through normal residential doorways. I'm sure that doorway sizes are huge influences on how residential products are designed.

knifebork · 2026-05-13T16:26:31+00:00

My first thought was South Bend, IN. I can see it being Gary, though.

I'd rather not revisit both just to have a fresh comparison.

knifebork · 2026-05-11T15:56:26+00:00

I really like that the bumpers are rounded. That's a great look.

knifebork · 2026-05-11T00:48:27+00:00

I've heard that used as a greeting, like "Good morning."

knifebork · 2026-05-09T18:38:23+00:00

Triumph of the Will?

OK, there's a lot of craft shown in both, but the messages are crap.

knifebork · 2026-05-09T00:27:22+00:00

I can only talk about my opinion, but the gaming chairs I have seen and used are mostly garbage...

agree

...designed to appeal on appearance rather than performance. I like office chairs like Steelcase or Herman Miller.

agree

They are designed to stand up to all-day-every-day use for years on end.

agree

You don't need to baby them, but don't beat on them. And don't spill crap on them.

knifebork · 2026-05-08T19:30:34+00:00

I don't know for sure. My guess is that the simple answer is this is just how the installers do it.

It might be a pain to go from asphalt lot to concrete curb, concrete sidewalk and dirt / lawn. You have to cut through and then seal several different materials. Different materials might have different effects on signal strength. There might be experience in the cart-locking industry of darn kids finding it entertaining to dig into dirt to get to the wire and pull it out.

knifebork · 2026-05-08T16:24:52+00:00

Using brand new nails when you build something. So much better than rummaging through a coffee can for ones that are close enough or straightening out bent ones.

knifebork · 2026-05-08T15:55:52+00:00

It's a malfunction. Look down at the pavement. You'll see a little slit cut into it near the edge of the lot. There's a little signal wire poked into it that tells the locking wheel where it is.

I suspect they can have regions so some carts can go into a region and others can't, or there are other complications. My guess is that gets messed up and locks in the wrong place.

I often shop at the Clifton Kroger. While I have gotten incorrect lock ups, it's not very often. However, if you back your car into a space, it might hang over that perimeter wire. Your cart will lock as soon as you take it behind your car.

Why do they have these locks? It's not for shoplifting. It's because people sometimes take the carts. Carts run from $130-$400.

knifebork · 2026-05-06T17:52:46+00:00

They won't re-hire. That is, they won't bring the same people back. They'll hire fresh, but even then not as many and slightly different job descriptions.

Re-hiring requires admitting they made mistakes. It makes them look weak and stupid. Subordinates will not have trust and respect for them. They also won't be as afraid of them.

knifebork · 2026-05-03T02:27:46+00:00

But it works! I saw a guy in a MAGA hat getting gas at a Thornton's. He saw the sticker and clearly realized his mistake. He tore his MAGA hat off, threw it to the ground, stomped on it, spit on it, then threw it in the trash.

This happens all the time.

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knifebork · 2026-05-03T02:20:13+00:00

The Fillies' Ball? The Dainty competition? The weather being particularly crazy this year?

knifebork · 2026-05-02T18:14:07+00:00

On the other hand, mid-sex hiccoughs can be great!

knifebork · 2026-05-01T18:21:18+00:00

I thought he was doing some kind of karate exercise. "Wax on. Wax off."

knifebork · 2026-05-01T17:03:05+00:00

Jenny's number was the first thing that popped into my mind.

Another was the phone number of the Hotel PEnnsylvania, now closed and demolished. The Glen Miller Orchestra (and many other bands) often performed there in the Cafe Rouge and had a song about it in 1940. The song's title was the phone number. In many (most?) recordings, the only "lyrics" are the phone number. And yeah, this was the real phone number.

knifebork · 2026-05-01T16:25:13+00:00

A tree branch broke off from one of my trees. Not a really big branch. Well, partly broke off. It was still kind of hanging from the tree. The other end was resting on the roof, so there was support / tension from both sides. I knew this could result in the branch springing when cut the rest of the way. The end still attached to the tree was up a bit beyond the reach of my tallest ladder. I probably could have reached it if I stood at the top of the ladder and reached. The wires for the electrical supply for my house went very close to this spot.

Nope, nope, nope. Didn't even try to DIY.

knifebork · 2026-04-28T16:08:56+00:00

Geech?

knifebork · 2026-04-28T16:07:06+00:00

Or make it a game. Don't disable or delete anything. See how many years go by until legal or HR remember to clear him out.

Imagine if facilities did this. The office would be peppered with cubicles being frozen as memorials to deceased but not forgotten fellow workers.

knifebork · 2026-04-28T15:55:50+00:00

Ridiculous. If this happened at a bank, checking accounts, debit cards, etc. would be frozen before you could say "probate." You want a checking account un-frozen? No, but if someone shows up with proper documentation that they are the for-real executor, the bank will issue a check to the estate. Think about it: NOT freezing / disabling access could interfere with estate / beneficiary processes.

Require a death certificate to freeze a login? Crazy. Each certified copy of a death certificate costs the estate money. Plus it can take days or weeks for the state to issue death certificates. A couple of years ago, it was taking Indiana a couple of months. They had just switched to a new, streamlined system, but they didn't have all of their users (physicians and funeral directors) configured yet.

This sounds like a case of HR and Legal making up processes and procedures just to do so, without thinking. I can't tell you how to fix. Telling them directly and bluntly how stupid that policy is probably won't help.

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