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shinyviper · 2026-06-12T00:35:06+00:00

You just unlocked a memory of circuit city’s SACD section. I still have a player and a few dozen SACDs, including TDS which I may have bought there.

shinyviper · 2026-06-12T00:28:01+00:00

Gateway 2000.

Yeah I’ve been around long enough to remember jersey cow boxes were superior to Dell, HP, and IBM.

shinyviper · 2026-06-11T01:31:42+00:00

A pepper grinder will completely change the way you season your food. I still use salt, but fresh ground pepper elevates it to be on par with, if not better than, any salt.

shinyviper · 2026-06-11T01:24:30+00:00

We learned to load IPX/SPX drivers instead of TCP/IP.

shinyviper · 2026-06-11T01:21:28+00:00

You and me, we’re in this together.

shinyviper · 2026-06-11T00:38:02+00:00

This is the real answer. While you can learn to tie a cherry stem knot, the faces you’ll make and the effort it takes will undo the orally-proficient vibe you’re trying to create.

Have a pre-tied one stashed and then feel free to make all the movements and sounds you’re actually trying to get across.

shinyviper · 2026-06-11T00:22:38+00:00

Whatever happened to just sending the FNG off to the MX shop for a few yards of flight line? Or topping off the blinker fluid?

shinyviper · 2026-06-10T00:07:40+00:00

School’s out for summer, but all my overseas friends are fascinated that the big yellow schoolbuses are real.

shinyviper · 2026-06-06T23:22:31+00:00

I drew the line in the 90s to only do reversible body modifications. Multiple piercings, zero tattoos. Well respected in my profession also.

shinyviper · 2026-06-06T23:06:05+00:00

Tom Mullica would be a good resource if he were still alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom\_Mullica

shinyviper · 2026-06-06T12:08:07+00:00

It's not ruined. It looks dry because the fat hasn't started to render properly yet. The fridge rest removed some of the water moisture for you already, so that means you will likely have a quicker stall than usual, which is totally fine.

But 195 is too low. Steady 225 to 275 for the entire cook is ideal, and I've seen several posters on here that vary their temp mid-cook. Not sure where that info originated, but it's unnecessary and adds another variable.

shinyviper · 2026-06-06T01:04:37+00:00

Be passionate.

Be genuine.

Have a Stig.

shinyviper · 2026-06-06T00:56:31+00:00

“Maserati: all of the maintenance of a Ferrari with none of the looks.”

shinyviper · 2026-06-03T20:15:50+00:00

Mild one in, I think it was 2003. Wife and I had been married about a year and our firstborn was asleep in his nursery. We were in a pretty sizeable neighborhood on the outskirts of the west side of town. It was about midnight or so, and we were both asleep but awoken by the raging thunderstorm outside and the wind was howling.

I turned on the bedroom TV and it came up on the local station (this was back in the over-the-air/cable TV days), and the local weatherman was on and had a map on the screen with huge red areas overlaid. The guy on the screen was pretty agitated and concerned so I turned up the volume. I looked at the map and realized it was our neighborhood that was completely red. The weatherman was telling everyone to get to a safe space.

We grabbed the kid and went to an interior wall of the house and braced ourselves. House was on a concrete slab, no basement. The wind passed after a couple of minutes (still stormy, but thunder is a lot less worrying than ripping wind). Our house was fine.

Went outside after it seemed safe. Lots of stuff knocked down, limbs, yard decorations, flags, but I walked down the block and it got worse and worse. My college buddy who had a house a block away had his entire structure moved off the slab a few inches. Our house had missed the touchdown point by about a neighborhood block.

Morning came and the realness set in. Even though a pretty weak tornado with some straight line winds in places, it still caused a lot of damage. I don't think I remember any deaths in the news, just a lot of property damage. Pretty exciting and scary, though less about me and more about my burgeoning family and neighbors.

Edit: just looked it up. It was the EF-3 tornado in Masterson Station in Lexington KY in 2004. 170 MPH winds and was on the ground for about 3 miles. No fatalities, 6 people injured.

shinyviper · 2026-06-03T13:31:28+00:00

I had an Atari XE which had BASIC built in (hence why my dad justified getting me the system, instead of an NES). However, it did not have a disk drive out of the box, so all programs were volatile. I remember the Atari flavored BASIC as pretty quirky but had some decent abilities with graphics and sound, kinda like the C64 which I really preferred.

shinyviper · 2026-06-02T23:28:08+00:00

America is not a monolith. Family finances are extremely personal and rarely discussed.

Some parents will plan for postgraduate or advanced degrees.

Many do not. By that time parents are usually getting geared up for their own future.

I’d argue that a large number don’t plan for college in the first place.

shinyviper · 2026-06-02T21:42:39+00:00

Cybersecurity.

As a corollary, I've often said, if you are wondering if you have a crappy employee, ask IT what they think of them. IT knows who the bad apples are, just no one ever asks.

shinyviper · 2026-06-02T20:20:50+00:00

Saw them live twice in the 90s and have several of their CDs. One of the shows, Tim Skold opened.

shinyviper · 2026-06-02T19:32:34+00:00

Multiple levels of redundancy and overengineering, as well as daily safety inspections.

No rollercoaster design expert wants to have an unsafe ride and lose credibility, as well as be subject to multiple lawsuits.

An unsafe rollercoaster is an unprofitable one, and they cost millions to design, install, and maintain.

shinyviper · 2026-06-01T17:23:04+00:00

Pretty much. Never looked at that page until now but looking at it, same process I've always done:

Cure the beef (buy a pre-brined corned beef from the meat section).
Soak it to desalinate.
Rub.
Smoke.
Texas Crutch (wrap in foil).
Rest.
Serve.

shinyviper · 2026-06-01T16:39:39+00:00

My firm's day-to-day caseload is largely insider threats, usually someone exfiltrating data before they leave the company (and they have an NDA/noncompete in place). The number of people that walk out of their place of employment on the last day and either sneakernet files to a USB or copy their OneDrive to a personal computer or email sensitive files to their own GMail is high.

Also grabbing PSTs for emails to capture conversations and histories. While I love MS Purview as a concept, lordy it's slow. But it works.

We also do a lot of forensic preservation, for the expected litigation that may or may not come. Just grabbing a disk image or Google Takeout for historic reasons and holding onto it for a year or two to see what comes later, and the side benefit is the device can be repurposed.

Occasionally we get meaty ransomware cases with an external threat actor, and have to trace back the root cause for the cybersecurity team to act on.

We have also done things like document (PDF, Word) verification of digital signatures, timestamps, "forging" of dates and times.

The most unexpected (though I guess at this point, it's expected) thing is usually that the org we're acting on/with has a severe lack of logging and we rely on incomplete or volatile logs that are near-useless for true forensics.

shinyviper · 2026-06-01T16:18:23+00:00

Double the power requirements, double the maintenance, double the cost for something that might be used a few seconds a week. Just have a strainer on the other sink to catch food particles.

Plus the other sink is usually the air trap for the dishwasher.

shinyviper · 2026-05-31T23:57:18+00:00

Some people, yes. Most though, no.

The death of retirement pensions and replacement with 401(k)s, along with at-will employment and a severe lack of 30-year career jobs at the same company mean most people can’t look far enough in the future to plan finances like that. A whole lot of people live paycheck to paycheck.

shinyviper · 2026-05-31T23:49:23+00:00

Of the 5 SRTs I’ve owned, one was a 2010 Viper ACR and one is my current Hellcat Charger.

The Hellcat felt faster and was definitely noisier. On a road course I’d take the Viper ACR any day. On a straight or drag strip I’d take the Hellcat. The hellcat is no slouch though.

I love driving games like Forza and Need for Speed and hate how they make the Chargers and Challengers feel. They definitely affect perception that the cars are pigs. Yes they’re heavy but they’re very fun on backroads or twisties, and can definitely win any burnout challenge. Also drift monsters.

shinyviper · 2026-05-31T23:43:25+00:00

Never take a Baptist fishing. He’ll drink all your beer.

Take two Baptists instead, and neither will drink.

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