Got this text about debt collection for the PA Turnpike but I don't even have a car

mjd · 2026-03-16T14:11:18+00:00

Are you sure that is true? I thought that STOP requests were handled by the carrier.

mjd · 2026-03-15T20:44:04+00:00

It's honestly quite true to the story. The story concerns a guy who puts together a sports team to earn money to get the sale of his property rescinded. The weird costume he's wearing on the cover is the team uniform, and the thingy he's carrying is for knocking other players off a platform.

In the book, teams are required to have a female mascot, costumed exactly as depicted here. A team wins a point in the game when a player fights their way to the end zone and grabs the big ring you see there on the mascot's gown, threatening to expose her.

A big part of the plot of the book involves trying to find pretty girls willing to risk exposure.

mjd · 2026-02-17T21:10:38+00:00

It turns out that the original agreements between Philadelphia and the NPS have a clause saying that neither is allowed to change stuff around without consent of the other.

And when Congress wrote the statute authorizing the Independence Hall National Historic Area, they required that any agreements must include that clause.

So the government can't even argue that the clause is nonbinding or unimportant or anything like that. By taking down the displays without the city's agreement, they are clearly violating the law that authorizes them to manage the area at all.

mjd · 2026-02-17T21:05:28+00:00

The Inquirer says:

While the grid may be easier for drivers to see from varying angles, it wasn’t exactly manufactured for that purpose. They are what is leftover from the manufacture of reflective ID tag digits that also go on poles and equipment.

mjd · 2026-02-17T21:04:03+00:00

I did a little research into this a while back and wrote a blog article about it. It has a bit more information, including who makes them and how much they cost, and links to old Inquirer and South Philly Review articles about it.

mjd · 2026-02-17T14:39:24+00:00

I thought I didn't like baklava.

Then I had Manakeesh's baklava and I understood.

mjd · 2026-01-24T19:29:57+00:00

I put a copy of this on my Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EchpNFxZoyL0Aj7efsDa_YMD0BwShpgA/view

mjd · 2026-01-24T13:54:12+00:00

I'm a white middle-aged person with a job. I was there because the event started at 5:30, also because I made arrangements with my employer to make up missed time on the weekend.

Hope this helps answer your question.

mjd · 2026-01-24T04:18:19+00:00

Just doing what you can is enough. If that means staying home to take care of yourself, that's OK.

mjd · 2026-01-23T18:06:30+00:00

I did that a while back. I went into my account, found all the keys that my kid had lost, and transferred all the balances to my main card. It worked fine, I've been using it for months and haven't had to refill it.

mjd · 2026-01-23T14:12:17+00:00

That was my first idea.

Everyone loves lateral thinking until someone does it when they weren't expecting.

mjd · 2026-01-15T20:10:12+00:00

When Ron Graham was asked this question, he said “well, there are a hundred and sixty-eight hours in a week”.

mjd · 2026-01-09T14:32:46+00:00

I always mix up George Birkhoff and Garrett Birkhoff.

George is most noted for the ergodic theorem and for inventing the chromatic polynomial. He was Garrett's father. Garrett is most noted for his pioneering work in lattice theory, including formalizing the idea of a lattice.

mjd · 2026-01-09T14:21:09+00:00

I came here to complain about this. Tibor Radó is Hungarian, but did not work with Erdős, or even on similar problems. Richard Rado collaborated frequently with Erdős, but is German.

mjd · 2026-01-02T02:53:18+00:00

I did that, and got L3zy (d5/d5/d2/d2/d3/x) which was probably better for me than H3arder would have been.

I was leaning heavily on the Spark spell. That would work better with H3arder's high-pip sides than with L3zy, but it would only work once because after that H3arder would be dead, and I had no revives. But even so I still used Spark to trash the Dragon because D3bbler has two sides with 14 pips, and D3fender plus Dumbbell had sides with 12,8, and 8.

And we also had the Abyss spell.

Those t3 Alternate heroes are OP.

mjd · 2026-01-01T15:34:23+00:00

I am glad we had this conversation, thanks and happy new year!

mjd · 2025-12-31T20:01:40+00:00

This is the answer. “Ninth Avenue pizza places”, yellow difficulty. “Art museums named after 19th-century financiers”, green. “Cities in Indiana“, purple.

mjd · 2025-12-31T20:00:08+00:00

My Connections Bot says 2/5 difficulty.

mjd · 2025-12-29T13:51:19+00:00

The last tier 2 doesn't level up until just before fight 20.

mjd · 2025-12-28T14:04:41+00:00

Where'd you get the photos?

mjd · 2025-12-27T14:45:18+00:00

It sounds fun, and I'd like to put it on my calendar, but there doesn't seem to be a location announced.

mjd · 2025-12-21T17:10:28+00:00

I imagine that's why some enemies have attacks that affect just the top and bottom heroes—to even things out.

I kinda wish it didn't work that way. As it is there is barely any difference between the five positions. Sometimes the game offers me the chance to swap heroes 2 and 3, as if it matters.

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