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  4. Posted

    On 7/24/2022 at 10:28 AM, mlooney said:

    Made a plate of fake crab with "extra hot" cocktail sauce.  Needed to drink some milk while I was eating it.  Still not what I would really call "extra hot".

    There was some variety of sauce, wish I could remember the name, that I tried once and reviewed as follows:
    "A hot sauce with no heat, used to flavor food but it has no flavor. Why does this exist?"

  5. Posted

    8 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    But they won't tell me for what exactly they are looking."

    GAAH! What an awkward sentence!

    But you're doing it to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition, which had been perfectly acceptable for several hundred years - until it was prohibited less than 200 years ago because English is derived from Latin (it isn't) and ending a sentence with a preposition isn't even possible in Latin (it is both possible and grammatical, but only in certain sorts of usage).

    And in spite of this silly misguided prohibition, great writers kept on doing it anyway.

  6. Posted

    20 hours ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    My doctor has put me back on oral Bumex diuretic pills 2x a day to try and reduce the swelling. If that doesn't work, he's going to put me back on my old friend, a 24/7 Bumex IV drip for a few days. No fun, but at least it comes with an upside - I won't have to take oral potassium horse tablets! :) He said he can do IV potassium, which would be a blessing.

    You do NOT want to take a hefty diuretic dose without potassium!

    My dad had not been informed of this, so he went a few days without the potassium (until he was planning to go into town anyway). As he was walking across the street to the pharmacist, suddenly the curb in front of him appeared to grow about three feet higher. So he sat down on it - by feel - and a few minutes later the pharmacist came out to ask him what was going on... helped him get inside and on a chair, had him take ALL the potassium pills he'd missed, and then wouldn't let him leave for a couple hours.

    It's just an amazingly good thing that Dad's eyes didn't go wonky any earlier... like as he was driving...

    But... IV potassium is surely at least as effective as pills. (It definitely all gets into your bloodstream, which is the first step to getting it everywhere else.)

  7. Posted

    On 7/19/2022 at 3:16 PM, mlooney said:

    The didn't have Pennsic for two years due to Covid.  Next year is L.  This year is XLIX

    Just so long as it isn't XLAX.

    Of course, it could just be IL.

  9. Posted

    Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park was declared fully open on July 13 this year. The opening was delayed because of excessive snow and continued bad weather, including a bit of a snowstorm about a week earlier.

    It has opened on July 13 on two previous occasions: 2020 due to the Covid pandemic, and 2011 due to excessive snow. Normally it opens in June, occasionally in May.

    The only later official opening day was the very first official opening, on July 15 1933. On that occasion there was a dedication ceremony with various visiting officials and dignitaries, so it had to be scheduled well in advance - and it would have been embarrassing to have to delay it due to snow, so they scheduled the ceremony late enough they could be near-certain the road would be open. In fact, it had been open for four days already - since July 11.

    (The norm is that they officially say "it will be open no earlier than..." until the day they say "it's open".)

    (I wish I could find what date it opened in 1934 or 1935 - the first opening days clearly not altered by the needs of public ceremony.)

  10. Posted

    We keep a 2.5-gallon water dispenser in the fridge, and next to it is a gallon jug of water. Because we like drinking COLD water - and on days like today (93 degrees Fahrenheit at 5 PM) we go through a lot of it. When the dispenser is low (under about 1.25 gallons) we dump the jug into it and then refill the jug, so the water in the dispenser is always COLD.

  11. Posted

    2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    English doesn't make much use of gender grammatically

    In the languages that use grammatical gender, what is the gender of Glass, the material?  Glass the drinking vessel?  Glasses, the vision aide?

    Since glass is amorphous until shaped, does this make it gender neutral until the final form is determined?

    French: window glass and eyeglasses are feminine, drinking glasses and bulletproof glass are masculine.

    Spanish: eyeglasses are feminine, the others are masculine (but the window itself, the whole thing, is feminine).

    I couldn't think of a way to ask about the condition of being an extremely-viscous liquid pretending to be a solid - window glass, lollipops, et cetera - that chemists and materials engineers refer to as "glass".

  19. Posted

    8 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    From a certain point of view, Moperville is already on the edge of the continent.  There is a Divide for Mississippi & Great Lakes drainage near Chicago.  And there is a rift down the Mississippi valley that tries to pull N America apart every few centuries

    There was a mid-ocean rift that produced a bunch of typical ocean-floor rock... and then stopped, about a billion years ago. The known portion of ocean floor it produced runs from about the middle of Kansas up to take in roughly Lake Superior, then turns south through the middle of Michigan's Lower Peninsula and ends a bit west of Detroit.

    https://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=dc2e783552b84ed8957cb8d2dfac235e#

  20. Posted

    40 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    There is a saying in Proverbs "As dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off an evil odor, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor".

    "As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy." - Christopher Dawson

    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

    (and I know of a fictional character who was described as having won that staring contest...)

  22. Posted

    "She was wearing what appeared to be a green fairy costume..."

    This doesn't say whether the wings really are hanging from the shoulder straps, or if the straps are there merely to keep up appearances. Could be either one.

    (If she had the wings without the straps, that would make it look rather less like a costume.)

  23. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    The Air Force is the right ones to operate the A-10, but they need to embrace it.

    I would absolutely agree that an Air Force which embraces the A-10 and its mission would be the right place for the A-10.

    Thing is... they don't.

    An Army or Marine Corps that embraces the A-10 might be a better place for it than an Air Force that treats it like the ugly foster child.

  24. Posted

    In general, ground troops (Army, Marines) want to whack the enemy that's practically right in front of them, while the Air Force wants to whack the enemy that is way. Over. There.

    That's why the Air Force neglects the A10s and tries to phase them out at every halfway-reasonable opportunity - and would rather have a multi-mission plane that does none of its missions (include close air support) well, than have a dedicated close-air support aircraft that does the job really well.

    And why I've suggested a few times that the A10s be reclassified as "high-speed tanks" and handed to the Army and Marines. Who would then - since the A10s are all old - be free to start writing specs on a proper replacement.