I just did an oil change on the Miata Wed night and am getting a haircut next week. I am thinking of putting shelves in a closet for my mom to use as a pantry so she doesn't have to climb on a step stool to get things over the old 60s double oven.
Miles or once each year. I do it about every 5K, even though synthetics say 10K. If you do it at the dealer they would reset your reminder, though I don't know how often their maintenance lights go on.
On no 1's STi, it seems sensitive on changing it after a certain number of miles. Every so often, he'll get a check engine light but after he changes the oil it goes away. He thinks he might have a part that sticks when the oil gets to a certain age. At first he was alarmed but I think he found a thread that others have had something similar and an oil change usually fixes it. So maybe on the WRX you need to be mindful on when you change it.
Gather around everybody we're gonna have a quick huddle. Settle down, quiet please. Just wanted to remind you all that: We've got the Axe! Okay, carry on, let's have a productive DBD day and a nice weekend. And oh by the way...Go Bears!!!
In partnership with a private company, NASA successfully lands a payload on the moon. This is a huge development as the notoriously risk-averse NASA has begun relying on private companies to assume much of the risk, thus greatly lowering NASA's costs for getting equipment to the moon
For the first time in more than half a century, a US-built spacecraft has made a soft landing on the Moon.
There was high drama and plenty of intrigue on Thursday evening as Intuitive Machines attempted to land its Odysseus spacecraft in a small crater not all that far from the south pole of the Moon. About 20 minutes after touchdown, NASA declared success, but some questions remained about the health of the lander and its orientation. Why? Because while Odysseus was phoning home, its signal was weak.
But after what the spacecraft and its developer, Houston-based Intuitive Machines, went through earlier on Thursday, it was a miracle that Odysseus made it at all.
earlier this week i caught up a w/ grad school friend who currently teaches physics at Penn St.
was fun to hear his stories of the continuing saga of our grad school research. his current projects involve going to the South Pole to launch a balloon borne particle detector as well a putting a particle detector on the Intl Space Station. all these particle detectors are probes for dark matter candidates ..
the coolest thing was just the fun videos of the emperor penguins in Antarctica.
So, a close family friend of ours in his 70’s just got a diagnosed with tongue cancer…a pretty common form and thankfully prognosis is good. He’s been drinking for 60 years and smokes a pipe, but according to the oncologist, this specific cancer is apparently caused by…oral sex? Wowsers…
I believe most tongue and throat cancers derive from HPV, which is definitely spread by oral sex. Now whenever I encounter a man who has/has had throat cancer, I am low key impressed.
This is why it is so important to get young people vaccinated against HPV, especially before they are sexually active. This vaccination didn't exist when most of us were growing up, and health professionals are having a hard time getting max number of users. Partly b/c so many people don't know the strong link between HPV and cancer.
I would’ve bet lotsa green $ it was boozing heavy since the Kennedy administration and smoking a pipe for 5 decades…turns out being married 4 times was probably the likely culprit…so the former Mrs. Chitwood may have one last F-You in store? Wonderful.
on men or on women? not necessarily a question related to this guy – not that there's anything wrong with it! – but wondering which types of bodily fluids are the cause.
Going down a Michael Mann rabbit-hole here, so started by re-watching Collateral…Tom Cruise was pretty good as the hitter, Vincent…and a great Javier Bardem/Jamie Foxx scene. Solid effort.
The Last of the Mohicans, Heat and Miami Vice all on the docket upcoming…
Seriously, it is hard to overstate how frightening this decision is and how it is likely to trigger an onslaught of similar thought in conservative states. This ruling utilizes a dogmatic, metaphysical belief about life as foundational theory for civil and criminal law. If this doesn't wake people up, we have no one but ourselves to blame for what comes next.
So far in GA they have put the line at "heartbeat", and Gov Kemp went on record yesterday as saying that he supported IVF/many families would not have children if not for IVF. TN Gov also made some noise as to maybe not going as far as AL courts. So, there is SOME threshold here, though none good. And yes, when GA went to heartbeat for its abortion access restriction, some of the legislators confirmed that it was likely a child support and tax deduction personshood determination--- though it then starts all of an early chain of terrifying possibilities for murder/assault charges as well.
Truly, I think Kemp and others are just attempting to quell the political backlash this could have at the polls, but do believe they would go this far if they could.
Kemp is surprising me sometimes with a more practical stance on a variety of things that I would not have originally predicted, but you are probably right.
More than a battle for civil rights and autonomy of rights and body, this portends a battle of religious dogma versus conscious liberation. What has transpired since the overturning of Roe and the advent of Trump makes me think of MGMT Lyrics from Hand it Over:
Poll of Republican voters find that 64% believe Trump to be a person of faith. The absurdity of this being outdone only by the fact that 56% find Pence to be a person of faith.
Checked the score of men’s hoops before bed last night and it was not a good first half. I forgot how bad OSU is so was surprised to see the final score this morning.
oh man, that sounds good. I miss those classic bacon+egg+cheese on a kaiser roll, that were like $2 at the deli in nyc (or really anywhere in the tri-state), just not the same elsewhere.
PTO today. I am doing all the crap I have been putting off. Oil change. Hair cut. Hang shelves. Filing.
Also, I noticed the poll glitched and closed early. I reset it
I just did an oil change on the Miata Wed night and am getting a haircut next week. I am thinking of putting shelves in a closet for my mom to use as a pantry so she doesn't have to climb on a step stool to get things over the old 60s double oven.
you 2 have parallel lives it seems.
oil change .. cant remember the last time i did one. it seems that the yearly maintenance things take care of it these days (no?)
hair cut .. should be ok for another couple weeks
shelves .. we are in good shape. i do need to frame some art and pictures and hang those up. sort of related, right?
Miles or once each year. I do it about every 5K, even though synthetics say 10K. If you do it at the dealer they would reset your reminder, though I don't know how often their maintenance lights go on.
On no 1's STi, it seems sensitive on changing it after a certain number of miles. Every so often, he'll get a check engine light but after he changes the oil it goes away. He thinks he might have a part that sticks when the oil gets to a certain age. At first he was alarmed but I think he found a thread that others have had something similar and an oil change usually fixes it. So maybe on the WRX you need to be mindful on when you change it.
true about the WRX. need to investigate
Gather around everybody we're gonna have a quick huddle. Settle down, quiet please. Just wanted to remind you all that: We've got the Axe! Okay, carry on, let's have a productive DBD day and a nice weekend. And oh by the way...Go Bears!!!
these comments always make me smile!
She blinded me with science
In partnership with a private company, NASA successfully lands a payload on the moon. This is a huge development as the notoriously risk-averse NASA has begun relying on private companies to assume much of the risk, thus greatly lowering NASA's costs for getting equipment to the moon
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/a-little-us-company-makes-history-by-landing-on-the-moon-but-questions-remain/
For the first time in more than half a century, a US-built spacecraft has made a soft landing on the Moon.
There was high drama and plenty of intrigue on Thursday evening as Intuitive Machines attempted to land its Odysseus spacecraft in a small crater not all that far from the south pole of the Moon. About 20 minutes after touchdown, NASA declared success, but some questions remained about the health of the lander and its orientation. Why? Because while Odysseus was phoning home, its signal was weak.
But after what the spacecraft and its developer, Houston-based Intuitive Machines, went through earlier on Thursday, it was a miracle that Odysseus made it at all.
earlier this week i caught up a w/ grad school friend who currently teaches physics at Penn St.
was fun to hear his stories of the continuing saga of our grad school research. his current projects involve going to the South Pole to launch a balloon borne particle detector as well a putting a particle detector on the Intl Space Station. all these particle detectors are probes for dark matter candidates ..
the coolest thing was just the fun videos of the emperor penguins in Antarctica.
Man, ballooning is just continuous drama.
The documentary BLAST! gives a nice flavor, worth a $3 rental: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1190065/
I personally have experienced balloon craziness that makes the documentary look tame, though.
So, a close family friend of ours in his 70’s just got a diagnosed with tongue cancer…a pretty common form and thankfully prognosis is good. He’s been drinking for 60 years and smokes a pipe, but according to the oncologist, this specific cancer is apparently caused by…oral sex? Wowsers…
I believe most tongue and throat cancers derive from HPV, which is definitely spread by oral sex. Now whenever I encounter a man who has/has had throat cancer, I am low key impressed.
This is why it is so important to get young people vaccinated against HPV, especially before they are sexually active. This vaccination didn't exist when most of us were growing up, and health professionals are having a hard time getting max number of users. Partly b/c so many people don't know the strong link between HPV and cancer.
Hah!
I would’ve bet lotsa green $ it was boozing heavy since the Kennedy administration and smoking a pipe for 5 decades…turns out being married 4 times was probably the likely culprit…so the former Mrs. Chitwood may have one last F-You in store? Wonderful.
You win today :-)
My favorite joke on the topic: https://youtu.be/OUN_f7xKnpM?si=6Ww9mfhRcr8eXaln&t=23m37s
on men or on women? not necessarily a question related to this guy – not that there's anything wrong with it! – but wondering which types of bodily fluids are the cause.
this is why we DBD, to know the answers to such things ..
true dat
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/blog/oral-cancer-facts.html
An unlikely trio
Cal, Stanford, SMU
DBD AV club
Going down a Michael Mann rabbit-hole here, so started by re-watching Collateral…Tom Cruise was pretty good as the hitter, Vincent…and a great Javier Bardem/Jamie Foxx scene. Solid effort.
The Last of the Mohicans, Heat and Miami Vice all on the docket upcoming…
Our stumbling, bumbling, crumbling democracy
Alabama IVF clinics are closing
https://www.yahoo.com/news/days-alabama-supreme-court-ruling-205606844.html
Seriously, it is hard to overstate how frightening this decision is and how it is likely to trigger an onslaught of similar thought in conservative states. This ruling utilizes a dogmatic, metaphysical belief about life as foundational theory for civil and criminal law. If this doesn't wake people up, we have no one but ourselves to blame for what comes next.
So far in GA they have put the line at "heartbeat", and Gov Kemp went on record yesterday as saying that he supported IVF/many families would not have children if not for IVF. TN Gov also made some noise as to maybe not going as far as AL courts. So, there is SOME threshold here, though none good. And yes, when GA went to heartbeat for its abortion access restriction, some of the legislators confirmed that it was likely a child support and tax deduction personshood determination--- though it then starts all of an early chain of terrifying possibilities for murder/assault charges as well.
Truly, I think Kemp and others are just attempting to quell the political backlash this could have at the polls, but do believe they would go this far if they could.
Kemp is surprising me sometimes with a more practical stance on a variety of things that I would not have originally predicted, but you are probably right.
More than a battle for civil rights and autonomy of rights and body, this portends a battle of religious dogma versus conscious liberation. What has transpired since the overturning of Roe and the advent of Trump makes me think of MGMT Lyrics from Hand it Over:
The deals we made to shake things up
And the rights that they abused
Might just fuck us over
But the doors won't shut
Until they're sure there's nothing left to use
Someone's taking over
Threw it away, but now I say
It's time to hand it over
The joke's worn thin, the king stepped in
Now we'll see who is who
Look who's bending over
But the stars weren't wrong, the time felt right
We both knew it was true
The smart ones exit early
And the rest hope for a shoulder
Poll of Republican voters find that 64% believe Trump to be a person of faith. The absurdity of this being outdone only by the fact that 56% find Pence to be a person of faith.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4389102-trump-biden-pence-person-of-faith-2024/
seems to be a confusion of cult vs faith. Trump is definitely a member of the cult, though just as leader as he believes none of it.
Elsewhere in college
Pros
Cal
Go Bears!
Checked the score of men’s hoops before bed last night and it was not a good first half. I forgot how bad OSU is so was surprised to see the final score this morning.
Question for the DBD: How early is too early to order a pizza?
1886
Pizza was reportedly invented in 1889
It's only too early if the pizza joint isn't open yet
Some places take recorded order messages.
never too early.
cold pizza + beer = breakfast of champions!
i guess this doesnt count as "ordering a pizza", just eating a pizza
I don't have pizza with my coffee.
YMMV.
in my Wall St job days, we would occasionally get a breakfast pizza ordered for everyone on the floor on Friday mornings. good stuff
Breakfast pizza sounds thoughtfully intentional, and just totally right.
"Breakfast pizza" sounds good, and less shameful
now you have me checking my meeting schedule today and when my local pizza joint opens!
the toppings were basically bacon egg and cheese .. classic breakfast sandwich in the form of a pizza
The little cafe on the corner of my block does a delicious breakfast pizza that is shaved ham, gruyere and two runny eggs. Hangover cure of champions.
oh man, that sounds good. I miss those classic bacon+egg+cheese on a kaiser roll, that were like $2 at the deli in nyc (or really anywhere in the tri-state), just not the same elsewhere.