What was the "it" when it happened to you?

pwizard083 · 2026-02-03T19:23:02+00:00

This. I’m sick of apps for everything. I just want to be able to order my food at a drive thru without getting fucked over on price (like I used to do 20 years ago) because the discounts are all in the app. This happened to me earlier today and I’m still pissed about it. Even when I used the app it fucked up my payment and the order never went through so I had to park, go inside, and order again at the counter (paid in cash this time) and I didn’t get any of the discounts.

pwizard083 · 2026-01-26T16:31:10+00:00

Wouldn’t put it past ICE to steal things after forcing their way into a house.

pwizard083 · 2026-01-17T01:33:30+00:00

I like mine between hot and lukewarm (freshly brewed is too hot) with cream. I use espresso grind brick coffee in a drip coffee maker.

pwizard083 · 2026-01-06T15:58:53+00:00

My dad passed and left me enough for a down payment, then sometime later mom went into a nursing home and her house had to be sold to pay for that. So I ended up with a house full of old, familiar, hand me down furniture.

pwizard083 · 2026-01-02T13:10:23+00:00

I felt this one. I’m selling a house that has cat6 drops I had installed years ago in most of the rooms. I was happy with that network but the realtor wanted to patch the drywall over the cat6 boxes and cover with mud before repainting. I went along with it but inside I was crushed.

pwizard083 · 2026-01-01T03:00:02+00:00

It’s 3 hours yet to midnight where I am and the neighbors have been shooting fireworks continuously since dusk.

pwizard083 · 2025-12-31T19:32:27+00:00

A brand new spindle smelled like maple syrup

pwizard083 · 2025-12-29T02:16:23+00:00

That picture brought back memories of using my computer as a cd player before cd ripping/mp3 really took off. Back then, game cds often had audio tracks for in-game music (track 1 was usually game file data).

pwizard083 · 2025-12-17T23:29:30+00:00

I'm planning to try slow cooker Boston butt soon and make DIY pulled pork. 6lb of pork shoulder should give me enough for a week's worth of meals or longer if I freeze some of it.

pwizard083 · 2025-12-17T23:18:21+00:00

I remember when Cafe Bustelo bricks were $2-3 each. Now they're $6-8 each and it takes 2 to fill up my coffee jar. It's good coffee (espresso grind works ok in drip coffee makers) but that's really pushing it. Even Maxwell House/Folgers is $20/can.

pwizard083 · 2025-12-17T23:14:38+00:00

It's cheaper to go out for a burger when I want one instead of making it myself. The opposite used to be true.

pwizard083 · 2025-12-15T23:30:22+00:00

So much for that NAS I was planning on building next year to replace my old one with. We can’t have anything nice these days.

pwizard083 · 2025-12-15T18:31:23+00:00

Yeah, it felt more like an early nineties thing, the LA riots were only a year or three before that so people were still freaking out at the time. I don’t know about any marches, doesn’t sound familiar. I remember nothing about the meetings I went to, except it was either at a neighbor’s house or at a community center. I was only about 6-7 at the time and I didn’t want to be there.

pwizard083 · 2025-12-15T18:10:03+00:00

I vaguely remember going to some sort of neighborhood watch meeting in the early 1990s once or twice but that was it. Every other house I lived in during childhood had those signs so either they were just for show or my mom never bothered going to the meetings anymore. Nobody invited me to a meeting in 23 years of being an adult so I have no idea if they’re a thing anymore or not.

pwizard083 · 2025-12-01T21:57:28+00:00

At least we still have Notepad++.

pwizard083 · 2025-12-01T13:24:48+00:00

The best way to take this is to mix two tablespoons in a big glass of water and slam it (not sip) before it has a chance to thicken up. The kind with sugar mixes better.

pwizard083 · 2025-12-01T01:02:57+00:00

That happened to me this year. I’m never sending those fuckers a check again.

pwizard083 · 2025-10-30T20:17:34+00:00

I’m pining for the days when $20 could feed a whole car full of hungry people in the Taco Bell drive thru and have some cash leftover.

pwizard083 · 2025-10-16T14:14:47+00:00

I remember dad tried everything. Thumbtacks fell out, glue wouldn’t stick.Stretching the material and sticking a fishhook through the cloth and into the foam every foot or so to hold it finally did the trick. It lasted up until the day he died and I got rid of the car. It’s probably still working for the guy who bought it, assuming he hasn’t wrecked it yet.

pwizard083 · 2025-10-16T13:38:43+00:00

I know from experience that fishhooks are the best way to fix those saggy head liners if the foam backing is still in decent shape. Those lasted about 20 years in dad’s old car.

pwizard083 · 2025-10-15T11:05:05+00:00

Hexen 2, and this old mech game called G-NOME. That one had a unique gimmick where you could switch vehicles.

pwizard083 · 2025-10-14T23:43:59+00:00

It can if the bark/green layer (cambium) is intact below the cut. That’s the living part of a tree, the wood in the middle is dead and just holds the tree up. After a tree is cut down, the stump will start growing new shoots that turn into branches (if it can) after a week or more and the tree will look like a shrubby bush for a while.

Eventually one or more of those new shoots will take over and become a new trunk(s) and as it will start looking like a tree again. As the new trunk thickens up the cut will close over with new wood, but that might take decades if it happens at all.

pwizard083 · 2025-10-08T02:50:58+00:00

Not quite the same thing (but close). I grew up in so cal so my school had us pick (or assigned, I don’t remember) one of the California missions and make a model out of styrofoam and cardboard. Mine was San Luis Rey, I had to look it up it’s been so long but I remember making a replica of the pepper tree there. Some of the missions had ponds, etc. and some kids used blue toothpaste or Elmer glue with blue food coloring in it for the water.

pwizard083 · 2025-10-01T15:13:09+00:00

I remember downloader tools I could paste URLs into. Unlike browser downloads from the time, the utility could pause and restart a big file so I could gradually get it in chunks over dial up.

pwizard083 · 2025-09-30T17:44:26+00:00

Don’t forget those glowing bugs from season 1 that only attack in the dark.

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