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Speed Way gas station pizza is wonderful.

Daehawk wrote:Woke up and cant hear as well out of my right ear. Sounds like half my hearing in that ear is gone. Ive cleaned it and cleaned it and ran warm water and alcohol into it multiple times. Still the same. Nothing comes out and nothing is crawling around. Just seem to have part of my ear capped off to sound. Maybe its swollen. Will have to have the doc look next visit. But damn losing part of your hearing instantly overnight is damn strange and hard to get used to.

You need an ear wax removal kit. Happens to me every couple of years, and to Wife more frequently than that. Don't overdo it though; last time I over-treated it and my inner ear was sore for days.

I use a Chinese ear spoon. Works great. From Amazon.

How to take your morning medicine before your morning caffeine, an order of operations:

1. Remove bottle from shelf.
2. Note that you are on the last pill in the bottle.
3. Consider that, after taking the pill, you will have to throw the bottle away.
4. Throw pill into trash.
5. Look at empty bottle in confusion.

Blackhawk wrote:How to take your morning medicine before your morning caffeine, an order of operations:

1. Remove bottle from shelf.
2. Note that you are on the last pill in the bottle.
3. Consider that, after taking the pill, you will have to throw the bottle away.
4. Throw pill into trash.
5. Look at empty bottle in confusion.

At least you have the excuse of caffeine. The experience is very familiar to me and I don't do morning caffeine... I guess I'm just nuts.

Daehawk wrote:Woke up and cant hear as well out of my right ear. Sounds like half my hearing in that ear is gone. Ive cleaned it and cleaned it and ran warm water and alcohol into it multiple times. Still the same. Nothing comes out and nothing is crawling around. Just seem to have part of my ear capped off to sound. Maybe its swollen. Will have to have the doc look next visit. But damn losing part of your hearing instantly overnight is damn strange and hard to get used to.

I have a summer allergy that causes swelling in my ear canal. It feels like a blockage, but it's not wax--it's just that everything has tightened up. Goes away after a few days.

Mine also seems better today. I asked my wife last night what if I wake up and its worse or the other side is now half gone and she said maybe that one will be ok. Doh she is always right ...damnit.

Also I think ticks are in some unknown line waiting on me. That one weeks ago itched for over a week and when it was about gone another one bit me. I scratched the blood out of that one after 4 days and it healed a day or so ago...well it quit itching...its still scabbed over. Now this morn I had another one on me. DAMN

Day old pizza and fresh shucked boiled corn is what we're having to eat tonight. How bout yous'ns?

Grilled swordfish with farmer's market corn, plus homegrown zucchini and green beans.

Interesting girl I never heard of before ... Hannah Stocking

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Unlimited movies for $10 a month - with a catch

Today, [former Netflix exec and current MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe] announced that MoviePass will allow subscribers to see one showing a day of a film at any theater that accepts debit card payment for just $9.95 a month. The only restrictions that have been announced so far are that 3D and Imax films are off limits. I’d tell you if any terms of service have changed on the MoviePass website but it’s apparently getting crushed with traffic at the moment and won’t load.
[...]
The new plan is the same as many startups these days. Lose a bunch of money, gain a bunch of customers, and sell that sweet, sweet data. MoviePass sold a majority stake in the company to Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. on Tuesday and now it has some cash to burn. An average movie ticket costs $8.84 in the US, so the company will almost certainly lose money on subscriptions. Given the new pricing, an average user would only have to go see two movies a month to come out on top.

gilraen wrote:Unlimited movies for $10 a month - with a catch

Today, [former Netflix exec and current MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe] announced that MoviePass will allow subscribers to see one showing a day of a film at any theater that accepts debit card payment for just $9.95 a month. The only restrictions that have been announced so far are that 3D and Imax films are off limits. I’d tell you if any terms of service have changed on the MoviePass website but it’s apparently getting crushed with traffic at the moment and won’t load.
[...]
The new plan is the same as many startups these days. Lose a bunch of money, gain a bunch of customers, and sell that sweet, sweet data. MoviePass sold a majority stake in the company to Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. on Tuesday and now it has some cash to burn. An average movie ticket costs $8.84 in the US, so the company will almost certainly lose money on subscriptions. Given the new pricing, an average user would only have to go see two movies a month to come out on top.

The key would be to make it so that it is like flying standby, you can only go in if there are open(unsold) seats. Then they are just selling seats that would be empty and I am sure the theaters would give them a huge volume discount with that caveat included.

Rip wrote: The key would be to make it so that it is like flying standby, you can only go in if there are open(unsold) seats. Then they are just selling seats that would be empty and I am sure the theaters would give them a huge volume discount with that caveat included.

Well, obviously you can only buy tickets if there are available seats, and they only allow same-day purchases. Which would still work for me, I don't remember the last time I went to a sold-out movie (even the opening weekend, we go so early in the morning that the theater is half empty). The article does say that they would be reimbursing the theater full price of tickets - the money would be made selling customer data (since you must get their app).

I paid money for Alien:Covenant.
I feel ashamed.

You should.

I bought a microphone arm even though I have no plan (EVER) to podcast or livestream... Why did I buy it then? I have no f***ing clue. It just seems to be something cool to have.



(yes, I have a VERY cluttered desk)

Im sure its in there somewhere.

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gilraen wrote:Unlimited movies for $10 a month - with a catch

Today, [former Netflix exec and current MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe] announced that MoviePass will allow subscribers to see one showing a day of a film at any theater that accepts debit card payment for just $9.95 a month. The only restrictions that have been announced so far are that 3D and Imax films are off limits. I’d tell you if any terms of service have changed on the MoviePass website but it’s apparently getting crushed with traffic at the moment and won’t load.
[...]
The new plan is the same as many startups these days. Lose a bunch of money, gain a bunch of customers, and sell that sweet, sweet data. MoviePass sold a majority stake in the company to Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. on Tuesday and now it has some cash to burn. An average movie ticket costs $8.84 in the US, so the company will almost certainly lose money on subscriptions. Given the new pricing, an average user would only have to go see two movies a month to come out on top.

AMC out

AMC Theaters is already working to fight against MoviePass, following the company’s decision to massively decrease prices for unlimited tickets.
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Mashable shared a full press release from AMC Theaters following MoviePass’ announcement where the company revealed its intentions to take legal action to not have to honor these tickets. AMC states their concern stems from a belief this new plan will be profitable for MoviePass, but hurt them, theaters, and consumers in the long run should it end.
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“While AMC is not opposed to subscription programs generally, the one envisioned by MoviePass is not one AMC can embrace. We are actively working now to determine whether it may be feasible to opt out and not participate in this shaky and unsustainable program.”

How many carrots is that ring again?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40956139

Another night another tick. Average about 1 every 2 or 3 nights. Got bites all over my feet and legs. This one was just a tiny dot...could barely grab it with tweezers. I sprayed the entire bed down at feet level.

My tv surround sound system died. Now all I got for tv and Xbox 360 is the tv speaker.

Tick or bed bugs?

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I would think it was bedbugs that destroyed his tv surround sound system.

There's a huge new bright pink billboard on my way to work that says "Cosmopolitan Magazine is PORN", with this url to

Is this one of these "Only in Utah" things, or has anyone else seen this?

Given the baggage that the word "cosmopolitan" carries in alt-right circles, it is hilarious to see that Breitbart is getting in on the hype.

A new generation of speed bump ONLY hardens when you run over it at speed, but is smooth if you go slow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQSxsb ... e=youtu.be

Kasey Chang wrote:A new generation of speed bump ONLY hardens when you run over it at speed, but is smooth if you go slow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQSxsb ... e=youtu.be

Sounds like my sex life.

Me too if the road is cul-de-sac... with no buildings on it.

What works for me is to take speed bumps at speeds > 5 × resonant frequency.

I have to go over them at an angle or drag my long tube headers. So I get to either look silly or sound silly.

I'll take obscure left handed poets for 200 Alex.

The Meal wrote:What works for me is to take speed bumps at speeds > 5 × resonant frequency.

Spoiler:

That's still gonna be hell on your suspension, even if you're comfortable.

GreenGoo wrote:

The Meal wrote:What works for me is to take speed bumps at speeds > 5 × resonant frequency.

Spoiler:

That's still gonna be hell on your suspension, even if you're comfortable.

If you'd like, I'd listen to your reasoning why you think this is the case.

Presumably because the wear and tear of rapid compression and expansion. I'm pretty far from a vibro-engineer, but presumably something has to eat the displacement of the speed bump, even if that displacement never makes it to the rest of the car.

There's much more displacement in your shocks as you near the resonant frequency (which is what speed bump designers are going for). There is less expansion/contraction at speeds well away from resonance (whether they are very slow or very fast). I'd expect the graph I spoilered is pretty arcane to non engineers, but it shows the actual relative displacement between an excited body (Y, your wheels, in the case of a speed bump) and an attached body (X, the sprung mass of your car) which has a spring between them (the zeta values in the legend refer to the amount of damping on the spring -- heavy damping, such as ζ = 0.7, lead to less displacement at the resonance, with a slight shift in the frequency of the resonance, and a heavier response at higher frequencies). That's the physics between the bodies -- the spring-and-damper (the vehicle's shocks) experience less motion (i.e., forces) than at the resonance. If you're going fast enough (roughly greater than 1.5× the resonant frequency) they experience less motion than if you're going slowly.



I assume wear and tear on your shocks correlates with the forces involved.

I understood the concept that the graph illustrated, or thought I did at least, as it was relatively clear that you were suggesting that at high enough speed there would be little movement (or bouncing) of the car body itself.

I still am not sure why rapidly compressing and releasing the suspension would cause less damage to a suspension than multiple, mild and slow (relative to other example) compressions/expansions. The force impulse would be significantly higher at rapid speed, I would think.

The difference between pushing/pulling a spring with your hands multiple times versus hitting it with a hammer once.

At least that's what I was thinking. Obviously you'd know better.