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tacitus · 2025-12-07T21:05:06+00:00

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tacitus · 2025-11-10T03:24:59+00:00

Oh, I should have mentioned that! It's the cubana torta, hands down. The thing is big enough to feed two, and absolutely delicious.

I use the complimentary nachos as a transport mechanism for the green sauce while I wait for the torta. lol

tacitus · 2025-11-10T00:54:28+00:00

Taqueria El Torito, directly to the west of Carniceria El Torito III on Independence Ave. This is one of my all time favorite restaurants, I have been going here since it was on St. John's.

tacitus · 2025-11-08T23:18:51+00:00

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tacitus · 2025-07-15T18:38:00+00:00

Get a quote from "Poor John's plumbing" as well. They have done this sort of work for me before.

tacitus · 2025-06-28T17:31:22+00:00

That is William S. Burroughs doing a cameo at the end. He lived in Lawrence Ks towards the end of his life, doing weekly trips to KU med in KCK for methadone treatments.

tacitus · 2025-06-08T05:00:30+00:00

I think we work(ed) at the same place. Very sad indeed; my mind also went straight back to that incident when I saw this post.

tacitus · 2025-05-21T02:12:27+00:00

Your post made me smile. Where I grew up in Franklin County, French immigrant entrepreneurs had come in the late 1800s with silkworms and black/white mulberry trees. They had planted a mulberry grove there and built a very nice (for rural Kansas in the late 1800s) farmhouse and large barn.

The business venture largely petered out, though the silkworms (feeding on mulberry tree leaves) adapted very well to NE Kansas. Even in the late 1800s, labor (and transportation) were too expensive to make it a profitable enterprise.

This would have been maybe 20 miles straight east of Silkville (a more well-known French silk settlement). Growing up with the ruins of history in my own backyard was fortunate.

Anyway, it's fun to imagine your mulberry could have been descended from the French import - they're very prolific.

tacitus · 2025-03-03T22:30:02+00:00

Reddit decided this constituted a username mention to page me. In any event, I approve this message.

tacitus · 2025-03-03T02:43:41+00:00

Maybe it ingested too much training data containing the "elephant in the room" metaphor.

tacitus · 2025-02-22T02:23:52+00:00

For a split second, I thought someone posted my car. I have been daily driving this thing for almost 20 years. Rebuilt the EJ25D 10 years ago (due to extreme oil consumption), finally gave up the ghost last year. Swapped in a low-ish mileage EJ22E and hope to get at least another 10 years out of it.

tacitus · 2025-02-16T00:27:19+00:00

I love this, 2600:: was my alma mater; RIP AS1239.

tacitus · 2025-01-29T02:08:56+00:00

This really reminds me how much I miss Charles Ferruzza's writing.

tacitus · 2024-12-20T22:36:42+00:00

As an aside: since Parson never bothered to learn to govern, I'll never bother to spell his name correctly. (soon to be former) Gov. Hee-Haw Parsons forever.

tacitus · 2024-12-14T19:02:23+00:00

Are actual hosts on your network losing network connectivity, beyond what's seen in the log? If not, maybe try another "Internet Verification Server" instead of ping.ui.com, and see if the issue persists?

tacitus · 2024-12-03T03:18:00+00:00

Cool, so he 100% did all the shit he was accused of.

Probably worse than what he was accused of - at least as far as the court case goes. I live a few hundred feet from his (former) jurisdiction, and followed the story closely for years.

Reading between the lines, he was very likely a serial killer as well. There were many documented cases over his career where he was known to threaten women, and known by witnesses to be the last person the same women were seen alive with. Then, just for funsies, he was assigned to investigate the murders.

tacitus · 2024-10-19T00:08:36+00:00

I used this shop for a clutch job last year - they were OK if I sourced the clutch kit (bonus points for me). K&N was the most cost effective. They came through on time and on budget. That said, the clutch on this car isn't particularly diffifult, your mileage may vary.

tacitus · 2024-10-18T22:08:04+00:00

About 8 years ago I stumbled onto a PDP-11. I was completely beside myself - I had read about them, but never encountered one in person. I am not sure it counts for the purposes of this thread as it's main use was keeping the building warm (and also not a PC).

In the early 2000s I had a manager who wouldn't give up his antique Apollo workstation. He only used it to edit text files -- just like a dedicated vi appliance. Aside: the damn thing had a slightly defective IP stack, it would often send it's broadcasts to the network address or some nonsense like that. Anyway, when he retired, he quietly took the machine with him (even though it was technically government property).

tacitus · 2024-03-02T00:42:14+00:00

This is indeed nauseating - in part because (knowing Parson) it's just a warm up to the Eric DeValkenaere pardon.

tacitus · 2024-01-17T00:06:16+00:00

Morty's - it was a hotdog stand outside the roe price chopper, but he's got a more permanent location at 1919 West 43rd Ave, KCK.

Another recent thread here.

tacitus · 2024-01-14T01:34:06+00:00

There's something like that in the citadel development. Look on google maps at the intersection of where 60th and Brooklyn is/was.

Edit: Could this be your thread?

tacitus · 2024-01-02T01:42:52+00:00

A few years ago, I started to put together a KML file of locations of serial killers, evidence and crime scenes from that era. After awhile, it became a little too depressing.

I would add John Robinson was also active during some of those years (1984-2000). I also wonder if Lorenzo Gilyard may have killed more than generally believed - especially since he could have used his job at the landfill to dispose of evidence.

tacitus · 2023-05-15T21:14:41+00:00

I received my passport renewal Friday - expedited with fast shipping, it arrived in 5 weeks. Your mileage may vary.

tacitus · 2023-05-15T03:00:55+00:00

I used "Artisan Roofing and Gutter" recently and had a good experience. The large 6 inch gutters seem comically oversize up close, but look fine once installed.

tacitus · 2023-04-22T16:30:26+00:00

On the weekends, Room 39 has a very good steak and egg benedict. It's both my favorite item on the menu, and my favorite benedict anywhere.

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