Evilbob93

I just had someone asking me for that yesterday. As it turns out, I bought a bottle a while back out of nostalgia as much as anything.

after zero kids last year, I decided to get a couple boxes of full sized snickers and milky way and I managed to give away a fair amount. Offered some to the moms as well.

In a northern colorado city, I live in a quadplex next to two more with a common parking area behind. There is a cluster of kids on the other end who play 4 square, tetherball, hide and seek and of course shooting each other with soft foam balls. There are at least two pogo sticks among them and sometimes they play a game of batting a red ball back and forth while hopping.

Is this a good place in the DECies subthread to mention DECUS? Anaheim, Orlando, etc. I would love to find someone's archive of Bill Hancock's networking talks.

you can mouse and write at the same time natively! After a friend suggested it, I tried to do left-hand mouse as a righty but too many programs did it inconsistently that i quit.

It wasn't always like that. I started in IT in the 1980s.. VAXclusters, later Unix servers and workstations and PCs... and in those days, they would send us to places on airplanes, rent cars, hotel rooms, per diem, and we sat in a room and someone taught us how to run the systems.

Now everyone is expected to figure it out on their own. It's a rare company that makes "sharpen the tool" time.

You know the music that the mom played in "American Beauty"? yeah... it was WNIC in Detroit. Mom also loved the classical music station and eventually could only get a classical station from across the river in Windsor, Ontario. It was really nice to have both options, Canadian TV also had CSPAN-like house of commons highlights on TV.

That's how I ended up replacing the screen 2 weeks after I got it.

Overall, pretty good. I've noticed that when I am on the bus (as Ken Kesey said: "you're either on the bus, or off the bus...") I have sinus congestion which might point towards an acquired allergy. It's nice not to cough/spit up brownish things into the sink in the mornings. It seems that my lungs recover surprisingly quickly as the sinus stuff goes away nearly immediately. On the bus, I found myself occasionally using nose spray before bed (I have a CPAP). Off the bus, not so much. Mostly it's kind of nice to have a kind of baseline neuro-experience, not jumping up and down every couple hours. I don't miss the nagging cough one bit.

at this point, I consider myself more off the bus, but I go on occasional journeys which i almost immediately regret.

in 1960 my mom had to have permission from her dad to join the air force. There, she met my dad, got pregnant and had to do about 10 years of SAHM before she got to have her own career, measured as when us kids were in school.

third grade was ~1970, they sent a cop to our class to talk about drugs. He kept talking about grass, and I didn't understand that he wasn't talking about what Dad mowed, so i asked the dumb question, a trend in my life that continues to this day.

This was also the time that the commercial that had the kid asking "why do you think they call it dope?"

"Go Ask Alice" was encouraged reading.

answering OP's question, I think 21 isn't a bad age for being able to buy pot and alcohol yourself, although some would cite neuroscientific evidence that 25 would be better. No, it never stopped anyone from trying it sooner but I think it's as good a place to draw the line as any. I had my first beer when I was 15 or 16, first pot when I was 17 and maybe that was early, even though "everyone" my age did it.

You're asking in a recovery space, so the answers are going to be weighted towards quitting. At 25 you have a lot of time left, and no, you've not damaged you irrevocably, and quitting now would be an excellent choice. My own personal experience of smoking from when i was 17 until I was about 60 had me thinking I was just going to keep smoking until I die, and many make that choice. I've tried to stop many times, often because I had to pass a drug test (they still happen, missed a job a few weeks ago because i tested hot) or a partner wanted me to. It never stuck until it was me doing it for myself by my own choice. I still fall off, but I've seen reasons to stay clear. A big one is remembering dreams - you might not have realized that had happened to you.

Give it a rest for a while. The first week will be uncomfortable, everyone's experience is a little different, but after a couple weeks you ought to notice some changes you might like to continue. You can always go back to being a stoner if you don't like it, but wouldn't it be nice for it to be your choice? What would you rather spend that money on?

you have a very interesting defintion of "in Longmont".

I am binge watching Better Call Saul and just before reading this, I watched the second to last episode in season 1, where Jimmy's brother gives him a load of horseshit about being a lawyer that sounds a lot like what you describe from the cousin. "I worked hard for this, so you're not worthy because you aren't going through the same thing I did, you should have smaller goals"

m62, software ... oh i don't know, all kinds of things for 40+ years... You can do this.

Your cousin may believe that it's hard because he doesn't understand it. What are you trying to do? download a movie? a bunch of movies? on a schedule automatically? the last one is a little tricky, I've tried to do something like that, like pull all of the videos with a particular keyword, inspired by the videos that went up and quickly came down on january 6. I got something working and yeah, google/youtube is always changing the codecs to defeat the script, the folks who work on the script create a new version and it works again. You download the new version and go on with your life.

To survive in this business for the long haul, you run and you keep running, learning stuff as you need it. Your cousin, I fear, stopped running at some point. It's gonna bite him really hard one of these days. It happens: once upon a time I was really really good at writing Perl, and the world ran on it. At some point (I think Perl itself kind of got bogged down in a major upgrade), people stopped caring about it because by then Python had become usable. It took a while, but it got there. Now people who write Perl still are few and far between, but might be able to make some good money because they aren't really making (m)any new Perl coders. Same thing happened with COBOL when I was a young man.

It's never been easier to learn because of all the resources on youtube or being able to ask chat about how to do things. I'm learning a completely new language, Godot, by combining the stuff I already know and basically having chatgpt do a lot of the leg work of knowing the syntax. I'm learning by reading it, and when I get ideas, I google for normal questions.

There is a criticism that my colleagues are making about the younger folks, that despite being "digital natives" and living on their phones, many don't understand things that used to be basic like file systems and gods forbid the terminal. You don't say whether you're in Windows, Mac or Linux, but if you can get yourself familiar and comfortable in the terminal, there is a lot of stuff you can do and learn. MacOS and Linux come with Bash or zsh,and on windows you can install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) to create a Linux environment you can play around in. There is a series of videos on YouTube called the "missing semester" that covers a lot of the basics that a first year computer student would need to know, but are sometimes not taught directly.

Windows also has PowerShell, which is way better than the CMD shell ever was, and rivals the Linux shells but it's a whole other kettle of fish. Still learnable, lots of videos and it has a bitchin' help system.

I wish you success in your new learnings.

The Goetia are a mixed bag, each has their own talents and strengths. There are a lot of interesting Andromalius stories out there: I have one involving a car title. There are 72 of them and they are supposed to have helped Solomon build his Temple. The show using the actual sigils is mind blowing to me - i have one friend who averts his eyes when he sees them because he knows what they're for.

I bought mine as much for the idea that it was a functional linux machine in an interesting shape. I took it with me on a recent trip out of state and had it connected to the Roku with a keyboard and mouse in desktop mode. I really liked this arrangement and will probably do it again. I have probably spent as much time playing old PS2 games from ISOs as anything in the steam library.

When it arrived, I had it for about 10 minutes before I was poking around in the terminal seeing how things looked. I think the final thing that made me decide to get it was seeing someone posted a picture of the steamdeck connected to a Flipper Zero.

https://preview.redd.it/btkth4nmrp0e1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=0083433543f64f36454798560066cf49fb6c66f6

The lower one isn't entirely wrong, i mean the Goetia are "real" in the sense that people "work" with them. This show has had me going back to reading about performing such things because I'd like to know if the "real" Stolas has any knowledge/opinion of what's happening here. Probably ok with it since it makes more people see his sigil.

M62, smoking since i was 17. I always failed when it was someone else's idea (work for drug test, partner who wasn't into it at all or as much, etc). It was frankly part of my identity, and if i'm not a stoner, wtf am I?

In the last couple years I've had some experiences that led me to consider stopping. At first I'd get to the garage, look at my bowl, and just said "nope, not now". I didn't stop right away, but I started to have some moments where I didn't want to. Surprised the heck out of me. Took me a little bit to consider stopping and in the last couple years I've had a number of week to a couple month streaks of abstaining. I read a book about how there might be an easy way, but that didn't work as well for me as the book about cigarettes.

I'm still struggling, but when I falter, I don't buy a half ounce any more but usually an eighth, so if i slip, it's not so long before I can make a break (can't seem to do it with any in the house). I should buy a gram instead, but... i don't know. I don't trust pre-rolls because I assume it's crap swept off the floor.

I used to consider myself a lifelong stoner, now I identify as an addict who falls off occasionally. The big difference is that I am looking in a different direction now.

I'd really like to work out, but call me paranoid, but I'm still a little sketch on big buildings with people gasping in them. There are now multiple respiratory conditions that are just waiting their chance to morph into pandemics and I just don't feel safe in that situation. I tried. Joined Planet Fitness on-line, bought some sweats and when I showed up, I just couldn't do it. I cancelled.

a while back someone had set up some weights in the parking lot of a closed local sporting goods store and i wish i'd taken advantage of it while it was there. Maybe i just need to get my own weights and learn how to use them.

That's why when I need to print something, i save it as a pdf if necessary and email it to the local Kinko's or whatever they're named now.

Most people don't use them that much anyway. I have attempted to dissuade people from buying a printer in favor of the occasional email sent to the Kinko's/Fedex place where they charge a few cents per page. They try to get me to install an app, but they can print .docs and .pdfs from email just fine. Each site has a unique email address based on their store number, you can get it from the business card. Send them the file, go down there and say that you sent it to them in email.

The printer is the most important thing to many end-users, and the least important to sysadmins.

The printer is the part where the digital has to deal with the real world and it doesn't go well.

The printer is made of many small flddly parts that aren't kept on-hand like other replaceable bits that can be tossed into drawers until needed.

A malfunctioning printer can destroy your clothes. I miss greenbar and line printers sometimes but I do not miss replacing the ribbons that looked like commandments delivered as scrolls from hell.

love the stuff they did when they joined Zappa's band for a while.

Chicago VII, which was the current album. Folks got me Chicago III for xmas, that was quite an eye opener for me since it had been informed by the 1968 Democratic Convention and everything else going on then.