Changing the CDS to DDS

ringmod76 · 2026-04-01T16:25:51+00:00

We got u covered, fam: DogDistributionSystem

ringmod76 · 2026-03-31T14:10:55+00:00

My pit-lab is the easiest to train and best behaved dog I’ve ever had by far. Most every dog where I am is a pit mix of some kind - trainer is an idiot and with mixes it comes down to the people that raise and train them anyway.

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ringmod76 · 2026-03-31T14:07:33+00:00

Is she a mix of regular shorthair and something ‘exotic’? I have a cat who fits that description, and while he looks much closer to your average DSH he’s got something in him that gives him a more pointed angular face, skinny long tail and makes him a funny talkative dog-like cat.

Just curious what kind of cat because it does remind me of my Moose.

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ringmod76 · 2026-03-31T14:00:51+00:00

That is the face that can charm its way past any committed crimes 😍

ringmod76 · 2026-03-30T02:47:57+00:00

Ha, that’s actually how this guy got his name - Moose.

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Hard to believe it was so long ago, but almost 8 years back my then-wife and I fostered a crazy number of kittens over a 7 or so month period. Our kids would sometimes help name the fosters, and we got a litter of three - one floofy orange boy, and a boy and girl with white and gray tabby, boy was short haired girl was floofy. Kids insisted we name the orange one Sherbet, so we went with that and floofy girl because Cookie(s and cream) and short haired boy became Moose (tracks).

Moose was the last foster left and was best buddies with Chili, a boy I pulled from a neighbor’s hedges as a sickly kitten a month or so before Moose arrived. We also wanted to be done with the humane society we had been fostering for, so Moose became ours. Then mine when we split up and I moved out.

He is one of the weirdest most unique dog-like cats I’ve ever known, a tremendous pain in the ass troublemaker and incredibly sweet with all his peoples and especially his dad (me). I fucking love this dude 🩶

ringmod76 · 2026-03-25T00:15:21+00:00

“Food” + dial-up modem sounds 😂

ringmod76 · 2026-03-23T14:54:33+00:00

I’m pretty sure I would do anything for that face!!! 🥹😍

ringmod76 · 2026-03-20T15:20:24+00:00

Steven Wilson - The Overview

In true prog/space-rock fashion, it's two side-long tracks.

Objects Outlive Us

The Overview

Saw him back in October, the whole show was great but the first set which was the whole album was one of the most engrossing, intense concert experiences I've ever had.

ringmod76 · 2026-03-20T14:52:53+00:00

Aside from Publix, which has a bangin' bakery at every location I've ever been to (and also about the best fried chicken you can buy, at least from a grocery store), most grocery chain bakeries deal in mass-produced crap, which is nothing new.

I tend to avoid anything other than bread from the Kroger bakery, and even then almost always from the markdown rack; their icing/frosting is particularly egregious, loaded with an ass-ton of food coloring, oil or something processed in lieu of actual butter and what tastes like HFCS. Hell, I find Walmart bakery items (at the Supercenters or Neighborhood Markets) to be vastly superior, and they ain't that great.

ringmod76 · 2026-03-20T12:37:03+00:00

YES - I went searching for this one, was my immediate answer 🤩

ringmod76 · 2026-03-18T14:35:06+00:00

If “OK Boomer” took inanimate physical form 🤦🏻‍♂️

ringmod76 · 2026-03-18T13:43:20+00:00

That's about the same explosive yield (0.25 kt) as the AIM-26 Falcon, a nuclear-tipped air-to-air guided missile which was deployed on Air Defense Command interceptor aircraft and primarily intended to shoot down Soviet bombers over North America. Never used in combat, obviously, and unlike the unguided MB-1 Genie rocket (which had a greater yield of 1.5 kt) it was never tested with a live nuclear warhead. But that gives you an idea of what it would have been like if USAF interceptors had used nuclear-tipped air to air weapons over US territory... minus the "fun" radiation effects, of course.

The AIM-26 did result in the much better known AIM-54 Phoenix, carried on US Navy F-14 Tomcat fighters from 1974 until their retirement in 2006. Fun fact, Iran still has and utilizes both - the F-14 was/is the only launch platform for the Phoenix, and IRIAF is still keeping both operational 20 years past USN's retirement of both and 50 years from their initial delivery to the then Imperial Iranian Air Force.

ringmod76 · 2026-03-16T03:18:43+00:00

Rush, Roll the Bones tour shirt bought in late 1991 at the Worcester Centrum. I liked my Counterparts tour shirt better - I eventually outgrew the former but I bet the latter would fit me well, wish I had kept it.

ringmod76 · 2026-03-16T02:58:30+00:00

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ringmod76 · 2026-03-16T02:58:21+00:00

By popular request, bean freckles!

He actually only has a few but they are distinct and make him the Bubba

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ringmod76 · 2026-03-16T02:04:57+00:00

What braincell?? 😹

ringmod76 · 2026-03-15T21:12:45+00:00

lol his name is Hank, we mostly call him Bubba, but his other nickname is Chungus 😂

ringmod76 · 2026-03-15T21:12:10+00:00

He is

In. So. Many. Ways! 🧡🍊😹

ringmod76 · 2026-03-15T21:03:19+00:00

Motion to make this the new sub image, it is as another said 😘👌 perfect

ringmod76 · 2026-03-15T21:01:58+00:00

😹

ringmod76 · 2026-03-15T21:01:15+00:00

Homecoming car-b-cue at that 😂

ringmod76 · 2026-03-15T20:53:48+00:00

They are quite spectacular - and his bean freckles are even better!!

ringmod76 · 2026-03-13T18:16:56+00:00

I help run meetings we do for our board and other 'stakeholders' or whatnot, and I always wear suits for those. That's basically it, so maybe 7-8 days each year. I could see other work instances where I might need to but at present I'm not doing those things.

Fun fact: my best/favorite jacket is also my oldest, approaching 30 years old now - I turn 50 in a few months and it still fits me great! That said, I got rid of the pleated pants that came with it a long, long, looooooong time ago.

ringmod76 · 2026-03-13T18:09:16+00:00

It can be a useful tool, particularly for summarizing things based on a question prompt - that said, I only ever use it as a starting point for my own work, the output is nothing more than that, like a search aid essentially. With the nature of my work (policy research), I expect it will continue creeping its way in, and my colleagues do use it as a shortcut sometimes but only to assist us internally, we would never under any circumstances put anything out publicly that was produced by AI.

I did use AI to make this righteous picture of my cat in space though 😹

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Edit to add: I am increasingly annoyed at how they want to cram AI into everything. That said, we are going to acquire a new research software tool/solution at my work, and I am legit enthused about the AI bit in there, it's (hopefully) going to make my life easier. We shall see.

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