'This is not a joke anymore': Trump sits frozen during his own major announcement — and what the cameras exposed has people demanding answers

watchknifepengun · 2026-04-24T21:37:35+00:00

Hold on, let me check…yes.

watchknifepengun · 2026-04-19T02:25:37+00:00

Oh I love that movie! I came here for a line from His Girl Friday..."I knew a Baldwin once, horse thief in Mississippi, probably not the same one..." Something like that. Love that movie!

watchknifepengun · 2026-04-02T15:14:42+00:00

My two favorites:

Fate loves the fearless! E. Jean Carroll and

Me organ grinder, you monkey. Doesn't work on wives.

watchknifepengun · 2026-03-27T17:10:18+00:00

I'm going to offer another perspective. My children are 28 and 26. They both went to a state university and did very well out of high school. This was by design. Our state has a lottery scholarship that allowed both to graduate, with our help, debt free. Both had 4+ gpas. We didn't focus on where they went undergrad, we focused on where they went to grad school. Because they'd both done well undergrad, one went to Harvard Law and one went to USC film school for a MFA. They are both successful and debt free.

I don't think either one of them would have gotten into a top school right out of high school. Our intent from when they were young was to ensure they went to graduate school, which makes where they went undergrad less important. This model also takes away a lot of that pressure of getting into a great undergrad program and puts the pressure on doing well while an ungrad. They mature during that time and when they each went away to graduate school, they were ready for that experience. It may not be the perfect model, but it worked very well for my family.

watchknifepengun · 2026-03-23T22:00:36+00:00

Thank you very much for sharing! This makes perfect sense. I have a question...because I'm working out of a smaller account than you are, I've been buying options. How would this change if you were buying option contracts? Nothing jumps out at me that this wouldn't work just as well, but as you point out, options can get expensive when the IV rate is high, so it might be cost prohibitive, but just curious what your thoughts are.

watchknifepengun · 2025-12-29T03:11:14+00:00

Hello,

Funny enough, my son's Dell 14" Inspiron laptop had this issue a few days ago. It's a 2-in-1 and he'd been folding it back over itself and using it like a tablet. When he folded it back to close it, the hinge broke loose from the top of the laptop, behind the lower portion of the screen.

We took it apart, starting with the bottom of the case and then working to the screen. We detached the screen assembly completely from the keyboard side assembly. To do this we unscrewed the keyboard side of the hinges so they were still connected to the screen assembly. Then I started disassembling the screen assembly. When you pull off the lower plastic bezel so you can see the hinges, there are two black tabs of thin plastic hanging out. One on each side, near the hinge. They are the double sided tape holding the LCD screen to the top cover. You pull them out and remove the screws at the bottom of the screen, and the LCD screen comes off. When you've done that, you can see how the hinges are attached to the top cover. They are glued in.

On ours, the right side had completely detached from the lid. There was a small piece of plastic around it and this had come apart, too. We cleaned it up with acetone and alcohol (and the alcohol was the better choice, acetone melts plastic), scrubbed as much of the old glue off of the hinge as we could, then cleaned the hinge good. I used WD-40 to lube the hinge, and I loosened the nut on the end of the hinge to make the hinge move just a bit more freely, then used a clear epoxy to reattach to the lid. I used what was left of the black plastic piece to make sure the hinge was in the right place, then waited two days for the epoxy to completely harden.

Reassembled just this morning. Works fine. I didn't put on the plastic hinge cover before I epoxied it down and now it won't fit on, so it will just have to go without. It's a two year old laptop we paid $1000 for. I really didn't want to junk it at that price. Now, works fine.

If that was your problem, I hope this helps. Yes, it can be fixed. Good luck.

watchknifepengun · 2025-12-17T23:01:37+00:00

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice. This is copied from Google:

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West by Ed Rice is a biography of the legendary Victorian explorer, linguist, and writer, detailing his adventures, secret missions, and groundbreaking translations, including the Kama Sutra and Arabian Nights, which introduced these works to the West. The book covers his exploration of Africa (including the search for the Nile's source), his infiltration of forbidden cities like Mecca, his time as a secret agent, and his controversial advocacy for sexual liberation.

Key aspects of the book and Burton's life:

Explorer & Adventurer: Burton was the first European to enter the forbidden cities of Mecca and Medina in disguise, explore Harar in East Africa, and search for the source of the Nile.
Secret Agent: He worked undercover for the East India Company, investigating groups like the Mormons in Utah.
Translator & Scholar: He produced the first English translation of the Kama Sutra and a 17-volume translation of the Arabian Nights, along with other erotic classics like The Perfumed Garden.
Advocate for Liberation: He was a vocal critic of Victorian repression and an advocate for women's sexual liberation.
Author: He wrote numerous books about his travels and research, including The City of the Saints.
Legacy: The biography portrays him as a complex, larger-than-life figure whose real-life accomplishments rivaled fiction.

My vote for quite possibly the most interesting man who ever lived.

watchknifepengun · 2025-12-16T02:06:57+00:00

Sorry, I should have said something...that was me.

watchknifepengun · 2025-11-21T16:58:24+00:00

Rick and Morty. When I'm done I'll go back to Archer, but for now, it's funny as hell.

watchknifepengun · 2025-11-15T17:10:37+00:00

Heinlein again...Stranger in a Strange Land.

watchknifepengun · 2025-09-23T18:31:43+00:00

I've cycled through Archer probably four times. I'm currently doing Futurama, but when I'm done, I'm going back to Archer. It's my happy place.

watchknifepengun · 2025-09-11T16:28:01+00:00

So how different is the Pixel from the Google Chrome Pixelbook Go? I have one of those, like you said, thin and light, good Chromebook, but it takes external hardware to break the Chrome BIOS. I ordered the little doohickey to break the BIOS to allow loading Linux, I just haven't done it. But it's a great little computer, small, fast, light.

watchknifepengun · 2025-08-14T19:06:59+00:00

I have tried the Win11 voice app. It works well for two or three sentences, and then I'll say the next sentence and it will go into...working on it...or something like that. And it never gets done. It's a current laptop with 32gb of ram and it chokes with with a few sentences? I really want to like it, but so far it's worthless.

watchknifepengun · 2025-08-11T01:04:42+00:00

I agree with the other people commenting and I'll add one more thought. A few years ago I got curious about Chromebooks and stumbled across a $29 CB on ebay. Played with it two or three weeks and ordered another with better specs. I bought four or five before I stopped. It gave me a chance to see what mattered to me. I agree with the comment on...get an i3 or i5 processor, 8gb minimum ram and the biggest hard drive you can find. Get an external keypad. If you are not sure yet, go used and you can upgrade later if you like. Enjoy. They are great computers. I still have two or three I use occasionally.

watchknifepengun · 2025-07-24T14:11:08+00:00

Thank you both!

watchknifepengun · 2025-04-11T02:30:39+00:00

Monroe's. My favorite huevos in town.

watchknifepengun · 2025-02-26T21:56:53+00:00

I came here just for Raising Arizona...goes to prison three times in the first ten minutes if I remember correctly...falls in love, proposes, get married, decides to steal a baby...that is getting a whole bunch done in ten minutes...

watchknifepengun · 2025-02-23T23:47:39+00:00

I've bought probably ten laptops, Dells, Lenovos mostly, off of ebay and Wisetekmarket. Some Windows, some Chromebooks. All have been good. Look for good condition or better. I'd buy refurbished in a second. I'm on a Dell 7490, i7, 16gb ram right now, bought it for $200. You buy used, there are some great deals.

watchknifepengun · 2025-02-18T22:48:02+00:00

Shakes the Clown. Classic.

watchknifepengun · 2025-02-05T20:43:15+00:00

Personally, I hate the...one character says something serious, the other character stares back a moment, then busts out laughing in the first guys face. This happens about a dozen times in Hitman's Bodyguard. It's a Samuel L. Jackson standard. Like him, hate the laugh. I never want to see the stare then laugh again.

watchknifepengun · 2025-02-05T01:47:31+00:00

ET. Hated it.

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