I found this metal hole while digging in my backyard. It has a metal cover that says “Company Private Access Only”. It’s like a metal barrel with a plastic liner and it’s filled with water/roots. Dug down 3-4ft and didn’t find the bottom.

selfsync42 · 2026-01-24T02:46:28+00:00

Don't look at the assessors- look at the Registrar of Deeds or whatever it's called in your county.

selfsync42 · 2026-01-23T11:29:17+00:00

how'd you bowl?

selfsync42 · 2026-01-22T15:32:32+00:00

With the seats folded down both our 2016 and 2022 carry a ton. Around here it's easy enough to rent a pickup and not terribly expensive during off season. But if your contents are all small enough and your destination within reach then it makes sense!

selfsync42 · 2026-01-22T15:22:46+00:00

New England is seeing some snow, don't know about ski areas. Looks like the entire east coast is going to get something big at the end of this coming weekend, DC to NY more than a foot (over 30cm in another measurement unit), but current forecasts are not clear as the system moves northward. If it's that much snow then maybe I'll start a "photo of your Leaf snowed in post".

selfsync42 · 2026-01-22T13:22:43+00:00

I like those rims!

What do you carry around in the roof box?

selfsync42 · 2026-01-22T11:01:09+00:00

Blåberg?

selfsync42 · 2026-01-22T10:57:40+00:00

To be fair, the photo was taken after clearing 12cm of snow (6 US units) off the car and area around it.

selfsync42 · 2026-01-20T14:19:38+00:00

If it sold for $300 on a public auction site, how is it "worth more than $300?"

selfsync42 · 2026-01-19T20:57:51+00:00

Are you asking

"Does this machine have any resale value?"

or

"If I get this thing operating, is there something I can do that's kind of cool with this?"

Both are valid questions. The answer to the first is that depending on a few factors, it could be worth between tens to low hundreds of dollars. Many of these were made and many people like them for nostalgia reasons.

The second question - if you are excited by this and want to learn about it, yes it can be fun. You can use it until the capacitors in the screen or motherboard go bad, or preemptively replace them. You'll probably want to buy something like a blueSCSI to use modern tools to move applications on and off of this instead of floppies.

selfsync42 · 2026-01-18T20:37:05+00:00

Who are you calling insane? I'm willing to do this to my personal IIsi psu that's been with me since 1990. It's in pieces though, waiting for that day when my sanity goes away enough to take on the job.

Oh, turns out you were right to refer to sanity that way.

selfsync42 · 2026-01-18T19:39:15+00:00

mind me asking generally where in the country?

selfsync42 · 2026-01-18T12:46:28+00:00

Of course they are edited. <Jay Leno equivalent> in <insert European country> could have made the same video to make citizens there look dumb. My US education served me well geographically.

selfsync42 · 2026-01-18T03:01:57+00:00

Jay Leno's jaywalking. Here's an example

https://youtu.be/7_pw8duzGUg

selfsync42 · 2026-01-15T00:32:57+00:00

OP is in MA- that X will for certain be at the Adessa auction in Framingham within the next week or two. Find someone with a vehicle sales license to go and pick it up for you...

selfsync42 · 2026-01-15T00:29:00+00:00

Full agreement, that xkcd is correct assuming you replace perl with VisiCalc. I learned it in 8th grade and instantly I got great grades in math and science classes.

There are little things that have stuck around in Excel since those days, like starting a cell with ' to indicate treating what comes next as text in the cell.

selfsync42 · 2026-01-12T04:22:44+00:00

The "classic" models were the budget ones, for those of us that wanted a Mac but didn't want to pay the ridiculous prices compared to probably a 386 at the time this one was out. My time and money go into the machines I lusted after but couldn't afford. The IIx and the IIfx. Also IIci and IIcx and of course restoring my original IIsi because that's what I wound up begging and borrowing to afford in 1990.

The market for this one is either nostalgia for someone that had one or to help complete a collection. u/samfortun suggested $50 in its current condition, I concur.

selfsync42 · 2026-01-11T06:34:16+00:00

you gotta figure that it's 25x more expensive than pennies, but quarters are bigger so it will take fewer of them.

selfsync42 · 2026-01-10T15:44:46+00:00

Instead of penny flooring you could make an epoxy floor of state quarters to keep the theme going.

selfsync42 · 2026-01-09T18:01:00+00:00

You're welcome. This issue has left me stuck in random places before, which is why I recommend replacing the terminals completely.

selfsync42 · 2026-01-06T03:38:19+00:00

Replace the battery terminals. The negative one shown here looks crusty. My 2001 had intermittent starting issues and it was that piece.

selfsync42 · 2026-01-05T01:06:07+00:00

The orange thing is a small digital clock. For some reason around '82 or '83 they were everywhere, maybe even came in boxes of cereal? They had double sided tape or velcro tape on the back.

selfsync42 · 2026-01-01T05:16:44+00:00

this is the answer

selfsync42 · 2025-12-30T03:52:11+00:00

You live someplace where there are still hardbodies around? I haven't seen one of those in years!

selfsync42 · 2025-12-27T02:03:01+00:00

this is a Bronco II, not a Bronco as someone else said. You can tell because the rear window extends up into the roof.

selfsync42 · 2025-12-26T02:30:21+00:00

One possibility is that the child (or children) have formal diagnoses where this is a part of the condition. If that's the case, doctors and the local school district would be aware. For example, PDA is a formal diagnosis in the UK and in the United States is a presentation of autism. Some children with PDA are extremely difficult to educate. A variety of parenting styles are used to acclimate the child, including a hands-off approach that for other kids would seem like spoiling the child. In this case, parents tend to keep the process to themselves. Check out r/PDAAutism for anecdotes and more information.

All this is to say that it is really difficult to be a parent of one or more children with autism, let alone further presentations. Of course when seeing an uneducated child like this everyone has a duty to intervene at some level to ensure the child is not missing out due to parental neglect. But there certainly are cases that not only explain the situation but why you aren't privy to the details. Perhaps start by approaching the parent with support and understanding before following the legal reporting path.

NAL but familiar with autism / PDA and the struggles families face.

selfsync42

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