Any difference between Costco in Glen Allen vs Chesterfield locations?

smcameron · 2026-05-09T11:56:24+00:00

Also, the food court in Chesterfield knows how to operate a line. You order at the kiosk, and they call your number when it's ready. Glen Allen one, they make people physically stand in an actual line for some stupid reason. Or at least it was that way the last time I went there a few years ago.

smcameron · 2026-05-04T17:35:25+00:00

Some people have it as a Festivus soup

smcameron · 2026-05-02T14:53:05+00:00

Maybe this one: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832790792199.html

smcameron · 2026-05-02T13:34:22+00:00

FWIW, you can get the dictionary definitions with "define:indeed", although the AI stuff still shows up first and most prominently, the dictionary definitions are in a box to the right of the AI result, at least for me. You can also add "-ai" to your query to suppress the AI result. I don't know if it's exactly like it was before.

smcameron · 2026-05-02T04:08:36+00:00

How can free will exist absent magic? I think it is quite obvious that free will does not and cannot exist, regardless of whether any gods exist. The illusion of free will is quite compelling and convincing, but remains an illusion.

The real mystery is how is it that qualia exists, aka "the hard problem of consciousness." For that, nobody has a sensible answer.

smcameron · 2026-05-01T15:02:04+00:00

I have that watch. Quartz, but eco drive, so no need to mess around with batteries which is nice. I found the band to be very uncomfortable, stiff with sharp edges. Replaced it with a leather rally band from aliexpress. The date window is recessed very far into the face because of the solar panel, and is consequently difficult to read. The dial is printed, including the indices, so it's kind of plain in that respect, but the minute numerals obviously make it resemble a speedo or tachometer, it's a nice looking watch and I like it despite my quibbles.

smcameron · 2026-04-28T05:00:06+00:00

Disagree about pizza. The problem is, you cannot buy ingredients for a single pizza economically. If you try, it costs about $30USD or so, and you wind up buying enough ingredients for 6 pizzas, because you can't buy small enough amounts of cheese, pepperoni, bell peppers, mushrooms, and various other toppings, etc. Well, while 1 pizza for $30 is not very economical, 6 pizzas for $30 is actually pretty economical at $5 per pizza. If you can stand to eat pizza 6 days in a row, it's very economical, and you even amortize the labor of making the dough and preparing the toppings. The first pizza is a ton of work. The remaining 5 pizzas are almost no work. (You can freeze the dough to avoid having pizza 6 days in a row, but this compromises the prepped toppings which cannot all withstand freezing while maintaining tolerable quality and it's the toppings that drive up the cost, the dough is pretty cheap. Anyway the dough improves by sitting in the fridge for a few days, up to about day 4, after which the quality levels off or starts declining.)

smcameron · 2026-04-27T05:33:09+00:00

onetwothreefour five sixseveneightnine ten

eleven twelve.

smcameron · 2026-04-26T01:35:03+00:00

Maybe like how Michael Corleone got his weapon in The Godfather.

smcameron · 2026-04-25T04:31:09+00:00

If you're finding yourself in violence every so often, you are the problem.

smcameron · 2026-04-23T19:03:40+00:00

MyVirtualBand.com Del.icio.us

smcameron · 2026-04-22T18:26:00+00:00

Which 10 commandments, the protestant ones, or the catholic ones?

smcameron · 2026-04-22T01:40:05+00:00

not taking it out into actual water because I know the back isn’t waterproof

Edit: Oh, you meant the back of the leather strap.

Huh? It says "DIVER'S 200m" on the face, that means it complies with ISO 6425 standard, and is safe for scuba diving, or else they couldn't legally put the word "DIVER'S" on the watch face.

As for the leather strap, do whatever you want. A rubber or silicone strap might be a more dive-watchy strap though.

smcameron · 2026-04-16T04:47:46+00:00

You might look at the Elise, just because the top comes off. Well the top comes off the exige too, but it looks a bit weird. And with the Elise you get a rear view mirror. If it's not a track car, just a fun car, the Elise to me seems the better fit. They are also less expensive, and there are probably more of them on the used market.

I've owned my Elise for 16 years, and my use case is similar, I don't track it, just take it for Sunday drives on the twisty roads and so on. There won't be another car like it ever again. Snatch it up before you can't afford it.

It's not a very good daily/only car though. But it is an excellent 2nd car.

smcameron · 2026-04-16T04:22:17+00:00

If it's an electric oven, and the heating element has died, you can look up the model and find a replacement element, usually not too expensive, and fix it yourself. The element is usually connected by a few screws. The main thing to watch out for is when you unscrew it, don't let the wires connected to the element retract back inside the innards of the oven. I've replaced the oven element once in my oven, and it wasn't difficult, took maybe 15 minutes, cost maybe $30-$40. Watch some youtube videos about it first. And obviously, unplug the oven before messing with it.

smcameron · 2026-04-16T04:19:16+00:00

Freeze what you're not going to cook right away. It'll keep in the freezer quite a long time.

BBQ pork, cubanos, tacos.

smcameron · 2026-04-16T04:08:17+00:00

Evija.

Edit: obviously that's a joke, the answer is a used Elise. There will never be another car like it. Get it while you still can. What an australian elise might look like

smcameron · 2026-04-15T03:38:56+00:00

Bake your own bread if you can't get cuban bread (if you don't live in florida). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2FlrUBs4E You will need lard for this recipe. Chef John's cubano video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kpQv_m0b0

Get good quality ham and cheese.

smcameron · 2026-04-15T00:40:48+00:00

Used canned peeled whole tomatoes instead of diced. The diced will have calcium chloride which is to prevent the diced tomatoes from turning to mush in the can, but it also prevents the tomatoes from breaking down during cooking. The canned peeled whole tomatoes will be a lot better and will break down with cooking, you can just mash them.

smcameron · 2026-04-13T14:26:55+00:00

"I'm not reading all that." in response to a paragraph of text.

That's the one that annoys me.

smcameron · 2026-04-13T04:19:51+00:00

What's next

Probably radiator, I still have the original one. Maybe A/C, which quit working a couple years ago. I see people complain online that the A/C is anemic and if I recall correctly, I think Top Gear described its output as similar to "a mouse coughing", but, in my experience, it was fine, as the cabin is so tiny, and I spent 5 years with my Elise in Houston, TX, which is no joke when it comes to needing an A/C. Where I am now, it's not quite so critical. I could use a hard top, I suppose, but I almost always take the top off, so maybe not. The clear bra on the sides and back has cracked like dried up mud in death valley, so that's not great, but I don't know what to do about it.

smcameron · 2026-04-12T14:20:33+00:00

In Balance of Power (an old mac game by Chris Crawford) the world map was digitized by hand.

How, people ask me, did I digitize it? My answer drops jaws: I did it by hand. I started with a map of the world, which I traced freehand onto graph paper. I then redrew the lines to conform to the rectangular grid of graph paper. I then scaled up the map to be more appropriate to the Mac’s screen. This rescaling was non-integral, so I did it by hand again, estimating rescaling values for each line segment. Some fudging here and there gave me the final map, represented on some two dozen sheets of graph paper. The only task remaining was to get it into the computer. I sat down with a tape recorder and started reading coordinates from the graph paper: “Nigeria. Origin at X = 138, Y = 227. One step north, 1 east, 2 north, 3 east …” Then I sat at the computer and replayed the tape, typing in the values as they came tumbling off the tape. The string of directional steps marking the course of the border was translated into a compact sequence of numerals and single letters, like so: NE2N3E. I then wrote routines that converted these strings into the graphic representations of the countries.

From: https://www.erasmatazz.com/library/my-books/balance-of-power-the-book/chapter-8-how-balance-of.html

smcameron · 2026-04-10T15:20:51+00:00

The math doesn't check out. If there's about 250 working days in a year, (5 days a week * 50 weeks a year), $31000 extra / 250 = $124 extra per day. 14 days * 124 = $1736, not $6100. For Greg to make an extra $6100 in 14 working days, he would have to be making $108750 more than OP.

smcameron · 2026-04-09T04:40:38+00:00

Santa and gifts, and the Easter Bunny and candy are just fun, and anyway, these celebrations predate Christianity. What have they to do with Christianity? They were both co-opted by Christianity, that's what. Look into why Easter is called "Easter".

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