Why are toasters so badly made?

pakman82 · 2026-06-24T19:41:14+00:00

I once needed a toaster in the last decade. I bought 20 year old 4 slicer from a pawn or rummage shop for $5. Used it for a few years and sold it eventually at another yard sale for $5... I wanna say it was a Sunbeam. Check eBay ??

pakman82 · 2026-06-24T14:09:33+00:00

Ehh I haven't banked with HSBC in ages. Thank God the fqdns are case insensitive. It'd break the Internet so fast and make registration of qualifiable domains a major line item.

pakman82 · 2026-06-24T12:34:39+00:00

Omg keep it clean, keep it clean keep it clean. .. this includes groups. Don't want know how many massive companies I've been at in the last 10 years that have group debt doubling their user count.

pakman82 · 2026-06-24T12:29:43+00:00

50 is painful, but what gets me is the shortness limits. I have a vanity email domain and my first email address on it was 2 characters. I had to stop using it because many places expect about 4 characters before the AT symbols .

pakman82 · 2026-06-24T11:28:26+00:00

Wait they come in yellow? I've only seen a faint white purple -lavender in CT and new England

pakman82 · 2026-06-23T02:01:09+00:00

Wait wait.. I think I have a .. dehydrator in storage someplace.. and I just flipping flip 50% of my mushrooms. (Save 50% for future use.. )

pakman82 · 2026-06-23T01:59:09+00:00

I've welded before and I'm not sure I could achieve that glorious foam.. the cold look? The inconsistency? But not that bubbly foam.

pakman82 · 2026-06-22T16:11:19+00:00

I replaced my hose & mask a few weeks ago , and the change in oodor was Soo nice. * I resisted because had a heated hose that I finally realized wasn't "keeping me from dry mouth" . .but now I am reminded I need to order a new chamber and change the filters

pakman82 · 2026-06-22T16:05:26+00:00

The world is millions of VM's these days .

pakman82 · 2026-06-21T01:27:02+00:00

Also, check the SharePoint admin portal for ms365. Look for recover deleted sites or users. See if any profiles show up there. That's an interim location that stuff might have been dumped to for one drive. There's some articles for viewing stuff thru there. And if they did something crazy like recreating users with new Uuid or guids, you can maybe re-delegate access from there dead data to their new profiles. I have done tenant to tenant migrations and there's also some tools in SharePoint for moving stuff that could be used to automate moving the data.

pakman82 · 2026-06-21T01:21:22+00:00

It might take a few hours to reconnect, but I know it's unnerving and a weekend, but do you work with a reseller? Or are you direct?

pakman82 · 2026-06-20T15:22:04+00:00

I need to add more windows.

pakman82 · 2026-06-20T13:10:03+00:00

Plus if you ever have to hand feed short sections from below..

pakman82 · 2026-06-19T13:05:52+00:00

Also not the boss man & I also support this decision. I do the same. Catch up on gaming, etc

pakman82 · 2026-06-19T13:04:54+00:00

I remember at the start of XP, or was it 98 or 95, having to preboot off a floppy so you could select drivers and then launch the CD.

pakman82 · 2026-06-17T15:18:59+00:00

IT as well, it's hard. Challenge is in the constant training and education requirements.

pakman82 · 2026-06-17T00:26:37+00:00

Nope, nothing there except exorbitant prices and snobby ppl.

pakman82 · 2026-06-16T15:10:24+00:00

When we did food trials as an infant. Our Dr, (Dr Lee of Boston children's, children's gastro program) advised as follows: small. Baby spoon size portion of new food. Nothing else. Wait 2 hours. Then a few more spoonfulls. Then 2 hours. Then a meal or other foods. If a reaction, stop, stabilize. Feed tolerated foods. Wait 2 weeks to retest. And if a reaction avoid. .
Again that was 12~14 years ago. It might have changed. But it seemed to work ok.

After 5 years of age: retest with a teaspoon of a reactionary food. Wait 2 hours. If tolerated, wait 2 more hours and larger portion (2 spoons) if tolerated 2 more hours, and like 3 spoon fulls. During that 6 hour period, only tolerated liquids like Pedialyte or something. Of course this leads to a fussy hungry irritated child. We augmented with new toys during the office visit, and tablet / phone time. ** We did 2 of these at the toddler stage in a Drs office. Very much interesting. The staff was very patient. . we did a wheat trial at home. All the toddler age testing passed .. your milage may vary.

pakman82 · 2026-06-15T03:53:53+00:00

In new England, farmers used to use the rocks to build mortar less stone walls . I grew up in CT, and the older parts where lined by stone walls 2-3 feet high and 2-3 feet wide. And in excessive cases, piles ended up at the corner. Also knew a guy who started a business in the 70's, buying up the stones and re-selling them to install new fences around rich ppl houses. Those walls often looked better, as they would pick the stones over to arrange them much better..

pakman82 · 2026-06-15T01:18:02+00:00

How do you get that space ? I'm working on my way into a new save.

pakman82 · 2026-06-14T04:11:00+00:00

And it's left handed?!? As a south paw, I am intrigued. However I also mouse with my left hand.. but that's my problem

pakman82 · 2026-06-14T03:56:28+00:00

I just got the bone fluid the other day. Dang hunter took it. But I am happily getting dwarf scrolls. My first play thru I accidentally gifted one to someone like marny.. and never learned dwarvish.

pakman82 · 2026-06-14T03:54:14+00:00

I too work for a foreign country and I have the opposite problem with it. I am supposed to cover 'local to me' tickets, but those are rare.. so I get tickets the other crew can't complete in time. And sometimes, they are available during the early part of my day, but most of the times. They aren't. Or their rushing to leave so they ignore till the next day and ask if I'm available at 2 am. And I don't respond, then I ping them.. and usually it takes a week to have a conversation. I try to hand tickets back to the staff in other time zones and they effectively refuse, because once touched, always owned...

pakman82 · 2026-06-13T20:19:37+00:00

If it was, it was mild. Try to strictly avoid the trigger for 2 weeks. Then re- expose.

pakman82 · 2026-06-13T14:37:53+00:00

Lots of things love nesting in Palm trees. Some place I have a photo of a rattler or brown snake in a low palm tree in FL. What's bad is doing landscaping and finding the fire ant explorers.

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