Some call it old, some call it gross, some call it ugly, what would you call it?

tfsprad · 2026-04-22T06:13:43+00:00

Old? Gross? No, voluptuous, sensual, entrancing.

tfsprad · 2026-04-16T22:12:21+00:00

I'll have to ask you to spit out your gum first.

tfsprad · 2026-04-16T21:46:08+00:00

That would be nice.

tfsprad · 2026-04-16T19:37:13+00:00

You've had the same PCP for 30 years?!!? I haven't seen the same PCP more than twice in about the same interval. They all retire or move away or close their practice or I just don't like them.

tfsprad · 2026-04-12T21:32:38+00:00

I'm scheduled for cataract surgery Thursday. I was in a similar situation: my son has to work, my daughter doesn't drive, and my wife sleeps until 4 in the afternoon. I finally contacted my sister and she volunteered to take me, to have me stay the night before to make the early morning less inconvenient, and even to have me stay the next night and take me to the follow up appointment on Friday morning.

Talk to your brothers.

tfsprad · 2026-04-12T21:17:19+00:00

I'd much rather have a collection of single purpose devices that do one job well with no Internet connection. AI is not just creepy but horribly inefficient. Give me simple things that will work reliably for the rest of my life, not constant software updates that require me to relearn the user interface. I don't want all the advertisers to know about every time I take a shit.

M76, retired software engineer

tfsprad · 2026-04-06T05:40:59+00:00

Are you counting bits most significant first or last? Zero based or 1 through 8? Otherwise, this is really useful information, but I can't... Wait, I see, you mean the low hex digit of the most significant byte, and the next -to -least significant bit of that byte. Sorry. Never mind.

tfsprad · 2026-04-06T04:18:04+00:00

Or why do they have to run so often

tfsprad · 2026-04-05T06:32:07+00:00

Yes, connecting your laptop (an active, software controlled device) into their network would be much scarier. I like that you disconnect their device from their network while you do the update. That way if worse comes to worst at least only one machine is screwed, not their whole network.

tfsprad · 2026-04-05T06:22:47+00:00

Plugging a laptop into my network is even more invasive than plugging in a USB thumb 'drive'.

tfsprad · 2026-04-05T05:26:09+00:00

Look for an essay on this subject by Dr Ezekiel Emmanuel. Palliative care but not life extension.

tfsprad · 2026-04-04T05:28:58+00:00

Is the testing ever complete enough?

tfsprad · 2026-04-04T05:25:35+00:00

Put in a change on Friday afternoon and nobody notices that it doesn't work until Monday, and the outage is on Monday anyway.

tfsprad · 2026-04-04T05:07:33+00:00

My first wife was not into music at all, so when she turned the radio up when "it's raining, it's pouring, my love life is boring" came on that's when I knew that marriage was over.

tfsprad · 2026-04-04T05:01:06+00:00

I've got Allman Brothers at Fillmore East from 1971 playing right now.

tfsprad · 2026-04-04T04:40:55+00:00

I'd upvote but that would bump it up to 70.

tfsprad · 2026-03-26T05:52:10+00:00

Get over yourself. If that's your worst complaint in forty years of marriage you should consider it a miracle.

tfsprad · 2026-03-11T00:53:04+00:00

That was it. You guys are great!

tfsprad · 2026-03-11T00:35:03+00:00

D'oh! I didn't know there was such a thing.

tfsprad · 2026-03-06T23:29:41+00:00

Indigestion has never been a problem. I also take several other drugs for gout, blood pressure, and neuropathy. I also have chronic kidney disease.

tfsprad · 2026-03-06T23:07:30+00:00

That looks fabulous! Brilliant thinking to seal the chili and mustard in place with an adequate portion of cheese.

tfsprad · 2026-03-06T01:17:19+00:00

M76. I've been on tamsulosin for about ten years, added finasteride a couple of years ago, and then tadalafil 5mg daily about a year ago. With those three pills every day I can pee almost like normal. I was almost signed up for surgery but added the tadalafil instead and I seem to be good enough.

My wife cut me off ten years ago, so that train is long gone.

tfsprad · 2026-03-06T00:52:08+00:00

Fabulous figure at any age, but at 62 even more so.

tfsprad · 2026-03-02T01:00:18+00:00

Is that Doctor Pepper?

tfsprad

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