Octopus Overlords

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2019 3:33 pm**

1) almost all of the bowlling alleys around here are being torn down bit by bit and this a blue collar area. But oddly enough they just built a new one in our trying too hard town of Royal Oak. It was built pretty much to allow whatever comes after Millenniala to experience the 70s and coming of pop tech, so this could have been prop for Logan's Run or the Buck Rogers reboot.

https://bowlerodetroit.com/

2) It's been a long time since I've had to use apartment washers, but I would not have bat an eyelash at using three washers if I wanted three.

Leaving your laundry unattended was at your own risk. Which is not to say people would steal it. It was to say, no one is waiting for you to come back an empty a dryer or move a load from washer and dryer.

None of this is mitigated by 60 people sharing three washers. It actually exacerbates it. Some households do a load a day or more. If a load "only" takes 45 minutes that means at best case scenario you get under 90 cycles a day between three units in a 24 hour period but realistically most most people are trying to get their laundry in within a 45 cycles or less a day period. That's makes for a shitton of getting in line or making a lifestyle of "fuggit, I'm headed to the laundromat".

If etiquette has changed and you don't touch other people's shit and lines mean nothing for a shared washer and dryer then I would be in the going to the laundromat lot and would treat the apartment as having no washer and dryer in terms amenities.

(I also wash everything in one load once a week nowadays but I run it through two cycles.

water waste be damned soap doesn't get out in one load. I damp dry and hang everything in the basement for a week before returning it to the closet, putting my clothes on a two week cycle. Summer clothes and winter clothes being swapped at as the weather gives. When I was part of a "we" the other part had a gazillion rules for loads and drying and ironing I don't know what else. I gave up and only did my laundry. I never did figure out the rules, even if I have the patience to run six or ten load a week. I mean laundry is the best chore over. You do nothing but you have an excuse to do nothing. "Can't x right now. Doing laundry." Remus West and I used to get in a game of HoMM3 every week because I had do laundry.)

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2019 4:03 pm**

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 3:33 pm
(I also wash everything in one load once a week nowadays but I run it through two cycles. water waste be damned soap doesn't get out in one load.

you're filling the washer too full or you need a new one

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2019 4:06 pm**

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 4:03 pm
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 3:33 pm
(I also wash everything in one load once a week nowadays but I run it through two cycles. water waste be damned soap doesn't get out in one load.
you're filling the washer too full or you need a new one

Yes and yes (But even before then I developed this practice because of dry itchy skin. It's helped no matter how small the load, or good the washer, short of industrial)

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2019 4:23 pm**

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 4:06 pm
hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 4:03 pm
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 3:33 pm
(I also wash everything in one load once a week nowadays but I run it through two cycles. water waste be damned soap doesn't get out in one load.
you're filling the washer too full or you need a new one

Yes and yes (But even before then I developed this practice because of dry itchy skin. It's helped no matter how small the load, or good the washer, short of industrial)

you might also want to try one of the 'new' sensitive skin detergents - it's all that i use, and it's helped immensely for me.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2019 6:42 pm**

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 4:23 pm You might also want to try one of the 'new' sensitive skin detergents - it's all that i use, and it's helped immensely for me.

Been using A&H sensitive skin for over two decades as well as sensitive this that and the other for about everything. I am the cheapest guy you will ever meet except when it comes to cleansers and toiletries. I am very particular and that came after way too much trial and error. Now I'm RainMan when it comes to A&H Sensitive Skin, Bounce Free, Dove Sensitive Skin, J&J Baby Shampoo, etc... etc... etc...

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2019 8:35 pm**

Apartment-complex washing machines are the new Tragedy of the Commons.

Posted: **Thu Oct 24, 2019 2:56 pm**

Hyperflesh masks

https://boingboing.net/2019/10/24/this- ... ito-m.html''

Posted: **Thu Oct 24, 2019 4:42 pm**

Skinypupy - you need some kitties!

The Humane Society of Utah, a private nonprofit animal shelter, has an ambitious goal. It wants to get 400 cats adopted in four weeks.
This isn't just a cute campaign or a fun internal competition. It's an effort to make room for the hundreds of healthy cats that are at risk of being euthanized in Utah municipal shelters.

Posted: **Thu Oct 24, 2019 5:09 pm**

Here are some prime candidates:

Posted: **Thu Oct 24, 2019 6:49 pm**

Going through my annual FERPA and Title IX trainings today. FERPA is easy, but the Title IX stuff is always rough.

Posted: **Fri Oct 25, 2019 2:09 pm**

the resurgence of vinyl is just another silly thing that's happened in the music industry, but if it keeps physical product alive, i'm for it. it's just annoying when i'm at a show now and they don't even have the music available on CD - LP only (but hey, lossy MP3 downloads included).

Posted: **Fri Oct 25, 2019 3:34 pm**

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 2:09 pm the resurgence of vinyl is just another silly thing that's happened in the music industry, but if it keeps physical product alive, i'm for it. it's just annoying when i'm at a show now and they don't even have the music available on CD - LP only (but hey, lossy MP3 downloads included).

I backed a kickstarter and one of the rewards was a signed LP which I received last week. I kind of forgot how big they are and I like the album art - but it went on a shelf because I haven't had a turntable since last century.

Posted: **Fri Oct 25, 2019 5:22 pm**

Under five miles from my childhood home. Jerry's Nugget was more convenient.

North Las Vegas

Police say a woman who was angered when she was kicked out of a Las Vegas-area casino intentionally drove her motorhome into the building, injuring a custodian.

North Las Vegas Police spokesman Eric Leavitt says the 50-year-old woman was ejected from the Cannery Casino Friday morning and drove her Winnebago motorhome into the building.

Leavitt says the woman hit a 66-year-old custodial worker who was outside the building. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the worker was critically injured but is expected to survive.

Posted: **Fri Oct 25, 2019 5:54 pm**

For some reason I expect she smelled of cigarettes and booze.

Posted: **Fri Oct 25, 2019 8:41 pm**

WTF is with Jeopardy? Not long ago they penalized a boy for misspelling the answer but tonight they allowed 2 at the final answer to misspell an answer and be ok. In fact Alex went so far as to point them both out and say "Thats ok we dont penalize for misspelling".

WTF.???

Tonight 2 of them spelled suffrage as sufferage.

The boy lost due to spelling emancipation as emanciptation.

In both instances there is a single wrong added letter and in both you can clearly see what the word should be. Yet the kid lost and this time both pass and one wins?

Posted: **Fri Oct 25, 2019 9:54 pm**

Re: Jeopardy. I haven't watched it in years. The rule used to be that the judges would go against it if a misspelling added a syllable (IE - it wasn't essentially the same, phonetically.)

Also, Golden Girls cereal apparently exists.

Posted: **Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:28 pm**

Washington State Retail Food Code

03321 Preventing food and ingredient contamination--Pooling of raw eggs prohibited.

Except EGGS that are used in batters or POOLED immediately before cooking, raw EGGS may not be POOLED

Posted: **Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:31 pm**

So you cant pool eggs. But you can pool eggs. But you cant pool raw eggs. But only raw eggs can be pooled.

Got it.

Posted: **Fri Oct 25, 2019 11:52 pm**

i was part of the Eggstapo here in NJ. Wasn't really a pooled egg scenario (also a problem in NJ), but it made national news. With pasteurized shell eggs and egg product, it shouldn't be an issue anymore.

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 12:18 am**

I see the Arkansas news made it national. Some hunter shot a deer and when he went to check it out it got up and gored him to death.
Personally I find it quite amusing and have no sympathy for the hunter.

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 12:25 am**

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 11:52 pm i was part of the Eggstapo here in NJ. Wasn't really a pooled egg scenario (also a problem in NJ), but it made national news. With pasteurized shell eggs and egg product, it shouldn't be an issue anymore.

In Europe, they don't worry about this stuff because they vaccinate the hens.

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 12:37 am**

Kasey Chang wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 12:25 am
Smoove_B wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 11:52 pm i was part of the Eggstapo here in NJ. Wasn't really a pooled egg scenario (also a problem in NJ), but it made national news. With pasteurized shell eggs and egg product, it shouldn't be an issue anymore.
In Europe, they don't worry about this stuff because they vaccinate the hens.

In America we're too afraid of autistic chicken to try that.

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 12:54 am**

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:10 pm**

anyone have any good border crossing stories?

like the time i was in Canadian customs and i was detained for an hour. turns out the reason was i 'didn't have enough' stamps in my passport for the number of times i had been there. apparently people's passports never expire and they never have to get new ones issued.

also the time crossing back into the US via car and the car was accidentally blocking the radiation sensor (the big yellow plates) - got chewed out by the US border guards and threatened to take the vehicle apart and they wouldn't have to put it back together, we-have-all-the-power-and-you-are-nothing, etc etc

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:20 pm**

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:10 pm anyone have any good border crossing stories?

Wife's family used to have a cottage in Ontario; we took our honeymoon there, and vacations for several years after that. We always invited all of our friends to come and join us, and some years we got 20+ visitors. Without getting into details, let's just say that we all got a lot of experience smuggling various illicit substances over the border. Taking drugs into Canada was rarely any problem, but we never brought any back with us because US Customs took their jobs way too seriously.

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:31 pm**

I was given one of these the other day. Im trying it now. I have no idea what it is.....going to look it up.......but it tastes like a super strong apple flavored wine cooler. I mean it is STRONG in taste. Props though for using a glass bottle.

https://www.sujajuice.com/products/komb ... -kombucha/

Green Apple Kombucha contains water, kombucha, apple juice, cane sugar, lemon juice, amla, inactivated bacillus coagulans and probiotic lactobacillus rhamnosus.

Made with adaptogen Amla
Added probiotics to support immune health*
Available in 15.2oz
Verified Non-Alcoholic
USDA Certified Organic
Dairy-free, soy-free, gluten-free
Vegan
No added flavors or concentrates

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:50 pm**

It is fermented tea, basically.

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:57 pm**

When I was stationed in northern Maine we used to smuggle guns across the border.
I had a little 22 hidden in my truck that took everywhere and forgot about all the time when I went to Canada. My friend had a 22 rifle in his trunk he forgot about. The Canadian border guard caught him coming back to the US and let him keep it with a warning not to do that any more.
Actually, If you asked a head of time you could take guns over and they had a firing range we used to go to.

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 5:32 pm**

i brew kombucha at home:

i used black currant tea. the jars are one week into fermentation. the bottles are one week into second fermentation (after three weeks of initial fermentation in the jars) - can put those into the refrigerator now. i add ginger slices for carbonation for the second.

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 6:29 pm**

Sexy SCOBYs!

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 6:42 pm**

that's why they're a Sexy Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 7:34 pm**

Why did you put pancakes and waffles into the jars?

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 7:39 pm**

it increases the deliciousness. what isn't improved by adding pancakes and waffles? duh

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 10:20 pm**

I have never tried kombucha, so I can only hate it preemptively.

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:26 pm**

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 10:20 pm I have never tried kombucha, so I can only hate it preemptively.

Take iced tea. Add flavoring. Add just a bit of carbonation. Add a bit of vinegar. Stir, and drink.

I enjoy it, but it took a couple of times before I did - very much an acquired taste.

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:52 pm**

Ugh...kombucha is disgusting.

Posted: **Sun Oct 27, 2019 12:58 am**

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:10 pm anyone have any good border crossing stories?

When I was in my teens, my dad, grandma, and I visited a friend who opened a Chinese restaurant in Chula Vista, which is like, not far from the Mexican border. We didn't have passports, just California ID. This was like, 30+ years. We pretty much just drove through, drove around a bit, and drove back. At the border control, they directed us to a separate area, they pretty much said, park there, border patrol will be over to talk to you. Half an hour later, another guy comes over

"Why are you parked here?"

"Uh, they told us to?"

"You don't have any drugs?"

"No! Aboslutely not! Sir!"

"You're in the wrong spot. This area is for DEA seizures."

"Oh, sorry. "

Eventually, someone came over, checked out ID, went back to their PCs, took another half hour, before we are allowed back through onto American soil. We pretty much have to raise our hands and swear we are American citizens (we are).

Never visited Mexico since.

Posted: **Sun Oct 27, 2019 5:14 pm**

I'm back to one of those times that I want something that I know exists, but I have no idea what it is normally used for.

I need somewhere to hang dice bags. Like a dozen or more. I'm envisioning something like a set of towel hooks on a board that I can mount on the back of my closet door, but I don't need huge, 2" hooks. Something maybe two feet or so long with eight or ten hooks would be ideal.

What is that used for in normal life?

Posted: **Sun Oct 27, 2019 5:18 pm**

Like a key rack? Just do a search on Amazon.

Posted: **Sun Oct 27, 2019 5:37 pm**

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