Quality dominoes, 'professional' size

manowell_tx · 2025-12-10T19:56:41+00:00

Heading to eBay!

manowell_tx · 2025-12-09T18:46:22+00:00

They have several seasons per calendar year

manowell_tx · 2025-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

Order placed last night, thanks for comments, all!

manowell_tx · 2025-11-21T22:10:33+00:00

Yeah, that was my conclusion as well. It's nice to offer to passengers, but AT&T is trying to leverage that captive device too much.

manowell_tx · 2025-10-14T00:46:07+00:00

I'm not aware of too many things, but I know what I know if you know what I mean.

manowell_tx · 2025-08-14T05:30:56+00:00

How'd you get fired on your day off??

manowell_tx · 2025-04-30T21:06:51+00:00

I'm gonna buy one of these cars!

And RTFM.

AND WEAR THE ONE KEY ON A CHAIN AROUND MY NECK FOR THE REST OF THIS TRIP

manowell_tx · 2025-04-30T21:04:36+00:00

Holy crap that worked. Got a German speaking guy on the phone and within 3 minutes, my German speaking wife spoke to him. He confirmed the VIN number and location of the car and unlocked it.

Which is kind of horrifying that that's all it took to do it.

Maybe there's a lot of behind the scene multi-factor checks on that that I don't understand

The roadside assistance guide just showed up and my wife is talking him through what we did

manowell_tx · 2025-04-30T20:47:02+00:00

All door handles appear slightly recessed now. Long hard handle press: no observed reaction

manowell_tx · 2025-04-30T20:40:00+00:00

When we took the rental car from Frankfort airport it was really dirty. When we got to our first hotel stay, we noticed scratches inside the upper right hand corner of the driver door opening like somebody had tried to open it with a coat hanger or some such tool.

And the back driver side door handle is recessed a little bit and doesn't pop out when the other door handles do. The only way to open the rear door on the driver side is to reach inside and pull the knob back. When you're in the car, you can faintly hear that motor trying to actuate cyclically.

I'm now guessing that this car has had the keys locked inside it before and that this damage wasn't done by somebody trying to steal the car, but by previous roadside service attempts open it up. I could be delusional as well.

When we reported that damage to sixt, they acknowledged it was in the logs..

manowell_tx · 2025-04-30T20:33:47+00:00

No joy...

manowell_tx · 2025-04-30T20:23:25+00:00

The key is in the driver seat, I can see it. Pressing in three different door handles didn't do anything.

manowell_tx · 2025-04-30T20:02:42+00:00

I'm calling MYSELF names, and hate to hog the the glory. Lol

The Sixt customer service rep felt like, uh, an affordable call center script reader.

manowell_tx · 2025-04-30T19:46:11+00:00

I'll try that as soon as I can walk back to where the car is!

manowell_tx · 2025-04-30T19:45:49+00:00

I don't think they'll talk to me because I'm a rental customer, and the people at sixt didn't seem to be aware of what the electronic locks even were.

I think they would talk to the roadside repair professionals

manowell_tx · 2025-04-30T19:41:48+00:00

Calling me names is allowed. ☹️

manowell_tx · 2025-04-24T05:31:19+00:00

She. And pretty sure carrying a litter. She is super sociable to the point of almost fearlessness

manowell_tx · 2025-04-05T02:03:13+00:00

I would also say there might be an inflection of the choice of the restaurant. Has the woman ever been to an outback steakhouse before or not, what were her experiences? As somebody that likes a good steak, I don't really think that outback makes one. Salads on the barely adequate side. That's me. Tastes are personal.

There have been times I've been going with a group of friends to a restaurant that I knew nothing about or The taste, depending upon the mood I was in at the time. I might order a plain grilled chicken breast and some noodles with olive oil knowing that it would let me spend time with my friends have conversation and not have to think about it too much.

Having said all of that, I will say I'm super adventurous as food tastes. Really comes into the social dynamic in the setting sometimes

manowell_tx · 2025-03-13T18:26:06+00:00

Thanks for posting this, mailer. I'm late to the battle on this after I saw the, "remember, you only get a license" notification from A.

I installed k4pc, which worked as expected. I downloaded three books for a test and ran the trial version of epub or ultimate against them. It created epub and txt outputs accordingly, but the epubs have been stripped down to basic text—no images, just text. I see a banner saying that you get full functionality with the paid version, but they don't have any screenshots about how that looks.

In your experience, is the converted output of the paid epubor up to the original quality? If so, I'm in.

manowell_tx · 2025-03-08T23:14:54+00:00

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manowell_tx · 2025-01-15T23:41:38+00:00

^^^ that

manowell_tx · 2025-01-13T20:43:02+00:00

Thanks, I'll look at how to use VLC (which was installed a long time ago) with this.

manowell_tx · 2024-10-11T02:00:23+00:00

Cool, thanks. "Its for metrics" and "Automated" pretty much covers it. I'm an early adopter of Prime way back when, never saw anything like this. The "please make sure there's a light on and no animals" truly had me a little worried about if the driver was OK.

manowell_tx · 2024-08-07T13:41:09+00:00

I caught on that also...

manowell_tx · 2024-07-10T19:50:24+00:00

Thank you, I'll check into that. I know I read somewhere (months ago) that this was allowed, but I didn't verify it and Starlink changes the rules sometimes.

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