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  • New Dishwashers that aren't junk (America)?

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  • I bought a Bosch 800 series 6 years ago and love it. Bosch is a bit different from American style dishwashers. It has a screen that needs to be cleaned at least once a week. Also the heatless drying is fantastic. Mine is old enough that it doesn't have Wi-Fi with certain features locked behind a cloud based app, which I find appallingly idiotic.

  • To you, what makes a movie a GREAT movie?

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  • They make me feel something.

    The absolute pinnacle of this is "Pacific Rim". The first time I watched that movie I felt like an 11 year old seeing something for the first time. I was 43 when that movie came out and hadn't felt that in a lot of years.

    Honorable mention is "Star Wars The Force Awakens". Yes, I know it's not a great movie, but the feeling it evoked from me was close enough to how I felt when I saw "Star Wars A New Hope" first run in 1977 that I give that particular movie a pass.

    I don't care if the writing is good, or if the plot is tight, or the director sniffs unicorn farts. If the film does not evoke something from me then I just consider it time spent.

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  • #1 choice: Pilot. Unfortunately I am legally blind in my right eye, so that precluded me from attaining an ATP license in the US. My parents absolutely forbid me to move to another country to become a pilot where the vision rules are more relaxed. I did go on to become a skydiver and attained USPA Licenses: A, C, D and Pro, along with BIC (yes I'm old and YES back in those days you did not have to attain each license in order, you could skip and I skipped getting a "B").

    #2 choice: Engineer: Sort of attained this one. I made it to my senior year for ME when circumstances (mainly my own stupidity) took me in another direction. I've worked in IT since ~1995 in a variety of roles. Today I manage processes, which sounds boring and it is, but I don't have to carry a pager and I work 40hrs a week flat and that's it. I plan to stay in this position until I retire in about 9 years.

  • Have you ever made friends with a wild animal?

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  • They are very individualistic. I've had crows that would land on me and say hello (in crow speak) and others that would fly around me, but never really come close.

    The common denominator that I have seen, if you befriend one you will friend the entire murder. The flip side of that if you piss one off, all of them are pissed off at you and that never goes away.

  • Have you ever made friends with a wild animal?

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  • Crows on a few occasions. They are remarkably easy to befriend as they are highly intelligent.

  • What are your cheap, but not miserable, recipes?

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  • Veggie Pasta

    1 Red Onion diced 2 Carrots diced 1 Celery diced Fresh Mozzarella 4oz bacon 6oz fusilli pasta (My personal favorite is Dellalo) 1.5c Marinara sauce Parsley for topping

    Cook the bacon to desired doneness in a 10 to 12" skillet. Personally, I like it just a bit chewy, rather than crispy.

    Drain the bacon on a plate with a paper towel while you cook the veggies.

    Cook the veggies until soft and browned. Add sauce and bacon and warm.

    While the veggies are cooking, bring a well salted pot of water to a boil and cook the pasta per directions on the package.

    Aliquot the pasta onto two plates add fresh mozz into the pasta and spread the sauce evenly between the two plates. Top with parsley.

    This makes enough for two people.

  • What kind of job can you never imagine yourself doing?

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  • Those that can't do, teach... Those that can't teach do HR.

  • What kind of job can you never imagine yourself doing?

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  • Try watching this movie, it was based upon a real event:

    Last Breath

  • What kind of job can you never imagine yourself doing?

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  • My oldest brother went to work for McDonald's, then later for Hardees as a manager. I remember how his room smelled. Like old grease and sadness. He lost feeling in his fingers due to working the grill and was working all the time.

    I vowed never to work in food, ever. Now 40 years later, I still haven't. Although for a bit different reason, as I love to cook and have made it a hobby. I would not want to make something I love to do into something I HAVE to do.

  • What's the worst travel delay you've experienced?

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  • O'Hare (ORD).

    When? Every time I've flown through it.

    Longest? 20 hours... I think... My brain has tried to blank that period of time out to save my sanity.

    Now I avoid flying through ORD at absolute all costs. DTW, DFW, DEN, hell even ATL are better to fly through. 3 years ago my family flew to Kauai. On the way out we connected in DEN, which went great. On the way back we had to make two stops, first at LAX, the second at ORD. We made it through LAX with no issues. Got to ORD and had a 10 hour delay. The only reason why I didn't rent a car and drive home was due to being awake for 30 hours at that point (I don't sleep on planes). Also, the plane was always "just one more hour away".

  • How many hours do you spend on the computer/in front of a screen?

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  • Funny enough that's what I want. No idiotic grave that will just be dug up in 25 years where my remains will be dealt with in other ways that my family would have no control over.

    Just cremate me and spread my ashes above 10000ft (3050m for my more civilized friends). Then I will forever become a resident of the sky, which is my favorite place to be.

    As far as my friends go... Ehhh my last TPK was with a meteor storm spell

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  • Part whirlwind, part most stability I've experienced in my life, and part adjusting to a new norm.

    My life in the mid 00's was... Interesting. Mrs Canopyflyer and I met in 2004, got married in 2005, moved 400 miles for her job in 2006 and baby #1 was born in 2007.

    So by 2008 I was getting used to:

    1. Being a newish husband.
    2. Being in a completely new city where I knew no one.
    3. Being a new father.

  • What's up, curd nerds?

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  • One of the most interesting words in the English language is the word "fuck."

    It can be used as:

    As a transitive verb: "John fucked Mary."

    As an intransitive verb: "Mary was fucked by John."

    As a noun: "Mary is a fine fuck."

    As an adjective: "Mary is fucking beautiful."

    It can be used as a greeting: "How the fuck are you?"

    Surprise: "FUCK! You scared the shit out of me."

    Anxiety: "The day is really fucked."

    It can even be used as nearly every word in a sentence: "Fuck the fucking fuckers."

  • What show do you recommend to watch?

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  • Farscape

  • Is a Dell Latitude 7430 any good for general school stuff?

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  • Yes.

    The multithread Passmark score on that CPU is 13254.

    That's many times what you really need for the work you're describing above. There are a lot of games it could play pretty easily and games are far more demanding than a Zoom call.

    The 7000 series Latitudes are actually OK machines for the most part. Once in a while Dell will have a model with a problem, but not enough to really worry about. As far as storage goes, spreadsheets and the like do not take a lot of room. If you want to lug around a lot of media files, like movies and TV shows then you will run out pretty quickly. Otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.

    For my personal systems and those for my family I usually pick up older Dell laptops/towers and refurb them myself. I usually get several more years out of them. The system I'm typing this on is a Dell Precision 7550 that I rebuilt a year ago. Its predecessor was a Precision 7540 that my youngest uses to run games on and do his homework. My 7550 runs Battlefront II and BSG Deadlock easily.

  • How many hours do you spend on the computer/in front of a screen?

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  • 9 to 10 hours a day for me.

    But I work from home and work in IT. Also, my two main D&D groups play online as we're spread out all over the country.

  • What was the best moment you had in college?

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  • Japanese Literature Course. Dr John (what he liked to be called) was the professor and I had him for an English class already and liked him.

    The class was not overly large, maybe 12 people and we met in a conference room rather than a typical classroom. This event was a couple of weeks into the class and Dr John was getting increasingly... Erratic... I guess is the way to describe him. The class was supposed to be more about open discussion than lecture. However, it was full of sophomores who for the most part were used to sitting for lectures. I think Dr John was getting more and more erratic during class in a hope to get the students participating. It had the opposite effect unfortunately, until he started saying some things that I thought were just wildly incorrect and I called him out on it.

    I literally got a look on my face, which he noticed instantly and he asked what my opinion was... And 19 year old me replied to my doctorate level professor; "Dr John I think you're full of shit."

    Everyone's eyes went wide and people looked stunned, including me because it was an instinctive reaction on my part. I fully expected to get kicked out of the class, but Dr John actually smiled and asked; "Ok Mr Flyer, please explain to me just how I'm full of shit."

    And I did... At least I tried to as at the time I was just a 19 year old moron attempting to take on a middle aged man that had decades of study. What ensued for the rest of that period was he and I going back and forth. Of course he easily dismembered all of my arguments, but he was respectful and we had a real dialog going on. I felt I learned more in that one hour than the previous three semesters.

    While that day helped break some of the other people out of their shells, I ended being the only person in the class that earned an "A".

  • What is your favorite thing about being a parent?

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  • My oldest when I pick him and my youngest up from school one day:

    "Dad, have you ever heard of Dungeons and Dragons."

    Me with tear in my eye thinking about all the books, miniatures, dice, and other accessories from playing D&D since 1978. Only stopping when they were born because I didn't have time and my wife and I had moved 500 miles to a new city. This was before the days of Roll20 and other VTT's and I didn't know anyone in this area back then.

  • It's dinner time, and you have to put together a meal with only ingredients already in your house, no going out for anything. What are you making?

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  • Tonight is leftover night.

    Chicken in Red Thai Curry sauce over rice that I made this past weekend.

  • I've always appreciated Roddenberry's explanation for this.

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  • Minoxidil has a very narrow efficacy.

    P&G's project was aimed primarily to cure baldness in.... Women and not men. Surprising I know, but back in those days baldness in women was viewed as a more lucrative target market. They were also going for much stronger and broader results than what Minoxidil generally provides in order to compete with it. Minoxidil was developed by Upjohn in the 50's.