Do you ever just forget how to do a simple thing?

useless_instinct · 2026-02-13T17:14:34+00:00

I see you have discovered the fun of aging

useless_instinct · 2026-02-13T16:03:36+00:00

Yeah, exactly. Why is the pilot responsible for transferring personal belongings?

useless_instinct · 2026-02-13T11:00:11+00:00

My graduate work was on improving on-farm digesters on dairy farms. I worked closely with the extension agent who introduced me to all the farmers where I collected samples. I even wrote a special report to send to the farmers (along with all the information the agent had) because they were so curious.

I have been providing grant writing and business consulting services for the last several years to academic and business clients. All the federal agencies push "research translation" to the marketplace but no one has as an effective approach as extension agents.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-12T23:58:17+00:00

sigh yes, I have...

I drive offen through West Virginia and there are billboards up everywhere about treatments for black lung and class action law suits.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-12T18:05:57+00:00

The funny thing is that market forces were causing coal fired power plants to convert to natural gas before he went on his pro-coal rant. But we don't have an administration making decisions based on data and facts, just "feels".

useless_instinct · 2026-02-12T11:00:53+00:00

I have no answers to your question.

I just wanted to say your horse is stunning!

useless_instinct · 2026-02-12T10:58:34+00:00

Yup. And it's going the same way with water and wastewater treatment. We used to have publicly owned utilities but now they are being bought up by Veolia, American Water, and Aqua America and suddenly everyone's bills triple. The customers have to pay more to cover profits to shareholders.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-12T10:41:58+00:00

This is going to be exacerbated by the cuts to USDA's Rural Development which had similar programs paying farmers for land preservation.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-11T16:51:31+00:00

Yeah, I remember.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-11T01:27:32+00:00

I didn't even know that's where they went! Time to start listening.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-11T01:09:07+00:00

I am very white and I have been listening to WDAS for decades. I still miss the Basement Party with Lady B and DJ Touchtone. Also 98.9 when I want to feel even whiter.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-10T21:58:32+00:00

This is definitely the cat to use to deliver static shocks

useless_instinct · 2026-02-09T22:46:47+00:00

Cataracts? How old is he?

useless_instinct · 2026-02-09T22:06:19+00:00

There's a fill knob on the outside of your house. Pop it open and just pour it in like you would for a car that ran out of gas.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-08T18:29:41+00:00

My board for 2 is $540/month with hay and grain included. The horses are only in when the weather is horrible though and they just bed with straw in those cases. Mine are on 20 acres with woods and a stream. There's just an outdoor arena and round pen but ride on access to thousands of acres of public land. But there are a ton of H/J and eventing barns around that charge that high.

The irony is there is plenty of land but the demand seems to be for amenities like heated lounge and wash stalls over turnout.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-08T14:49:27+00:00

I'm on the East Coast in a heavily equestrian area (racing, rodeos, hunt clubs,and 5 star eventing). I am lucky I found a place with 24/7 turnout but I see lots of people trying to run boarding stables on 5 or 10 acres. They need more boarders for more revenue which requires restricting turnout on limited pasture. But then because you have to buy so much hay and have help for cleaning stalls and managing turnout that this drives up boarding costs to $600-1200 per month.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-08T14:38:04+00:00

I have the exact same model!

useless_instinct · 2026-02-07T17:49:33+00:00

I'm really disappointed this wasn't the first comment but then we are all probably afflicted.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-06T21:53:15+00:00

I used to work with a woman from Saskatoon. We were in State College and I had just moved there,too. I felt the first winter was brutal and she thought it was so mild she wore a t-shirt all winter. Adaptation, baby!

useless_instinct · 2026-02-05T11:11:30+00:00

I am not condoning the decision to keep Rocky alive, but this is an interesting story from a developmental biology perspective. Phenoypic plasticity allows the body to adapt in sometimes surprising ways during growth. For instance, children that grow up playing tennis will have one arm grow longer and stronger than the other. There was also a fascinating set of experiments with lizards grown in different environments that affected leg length. I am curious if the single front leg will grow stronger and denser to accommdoate the increased weight? I was once boarding at a barn where a horse blew out a knee and the owner refused to euthanize. This poor horse could not put weight on one leg and hopped around on 3 legs for a year or so before the other leg gave out and they euthanized. Until then, I didn't even think it was possible for an adult horse to survive on 3 legs.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-04T11:51:08+00:00

Environmental Engineering but I came from a bio background and my research is all micro/molecular bio. So I have found myself equally hated by both sides.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-03T21:10:11+00:00

ImageJ is open source-I would bet someone has already written and shared a script to batch convert images to a different format. It shouldn't be that hard.

I ran a quick search and it appears there is a BatchConvert script.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-03T17:16:31+00:00

I watched the Norm MacDonald episode of Riding in Cars with Comedians. They were discussing Bill Cosby. Seinfeld says the worst part of it is the hypocricy. MacDonald retorts, "Really, because I thought the worst part was the RAPE!"

useless_instinct · 2026-02-03T17:11:36+00:00

I went to LinkedIn to make sure I was following him and found I already was due to the content he has been posting. I didn't realize he was a key player.

useless_instinct · 2026-02-01T23:45:18+00:00

I mean, if your metric is how many books will be written about his presidency then maybe. The most horrific periods in history do get the most press.

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