jordanlund

They really wanted to sit on my chest and had zero concept of surgery incisions. 😞

It's going to be tough here in a couple of weeks when I go in for cancer surgery.

Xbox One X is still a better choice than the Xbox Series S.

Let me explain:

It has more RAM than the Series S, so Xbox One titles and backwards compatible titles will run with Xbox One X enhancements that the Series S cannot run.

It has a physical disc drive for backwards compatible titles, DVDs, Blu Rays, and 4K UHD movies. The Series S is discless.

The only downside are newer games that are exclusive to Series S/X, but really, how many are there? Cyberpunk 2077 plays on the One X.

The new Forza won't run, but the older ones should!

Source: Put the Xbox Series X and PS5 in the living room, moved the Xbox One X and PS4 to the bedroom. Still use it!

Can confirm. Following open heart surgery, it was a competition to see if Rocket or Keanu could get closer to me.

Farro. Boil water w/ salt, add a bag of 10 minute farro from Trader Joe's. Reduce heat and boil 10 minutes. Drain and serve.

I like mine on the sweet side so I add dried fruit, butter, and my secret ingredient: Pie Spice:

https://www.penzeys.com/online-catalog/pie-spice/c-24/p-3079/pd-s

When I was a kid, I was eating cereal and toast. A piece of toast fell in the cereal and me, being a kid, I just cut it up with a spoon and ate it anyway.

To my surprise, it made the milk and cereal warm and buttery, and made the toast slightly soft and milky. It was delicious!

And so ever since then, when I have cereal and toast, I dunk the toast in the cereal. Everyone thinks this is weird. EVERYONE!!

To which I reply "Great! More for me!"

The Cell - Trailer here:

https://youtu.be/eIpy4p_yMV0

Weird how, on the cat, you have ⚫ ⚫ and then 3 tiers of stripes, but on the tattoo, they only do the top 2 tiers, leaving out the one on the bottom...

Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck... Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that's the way it's supposed to be... Refunded it in less than an hour.

Start with Ezekiel 20:24-26

24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.

65" and it's impressive with ONE drawback... Samsungs HDR implementation SUCKS. Suuuuuuuucks.

Without HDR, everything is bright, crisp, and clean.

With HDR, it's dark, muddy, and unwatchable.

I've done all the firmware updates, RTINGS calibrations, NOTHING works.

Well, nothing except disabling HDR on every device attached to it.

I bought one on the premise of both PS5 and Xbox Series X releasing 8K content.

We got:

The Touryst - Not a bad game, but not needing 8K either.

https://youtu.be/DNGA_XnWVMg

Ori and the Will of the Wisps supported 6K, GREAT game.

https://youtu.be/4nUYBcp_WP0

On the PS5 Pro (through PSSR upscaling)

F1 24 (at 60 FPS)

Gran Turismo 7 (at 60 FPS)

No Man’s Sky (at 30 FPS)

Pure Pool Pro (at 30 FPS with ray tracing)

[REDACTED] (at 60 FPS)

The Callisto Protocol (at 30 FPS with ray tracing)

And that's it...

They can, but they also don't meet the corporate dictate of "Everyone use AI." 😉

So, a couple of things... Fighting stage 2 colon cancer right now.

6 months ago they found 17 polyps, 2 were an unusual size, 20mm and 30mm.

Rule of thumb is "Anything more than 5 or anything bigger than 5mm."

But - not cancer. Repeat in January. 6 more polyps including one that's 20mm and stage 2.

So it went from 0 to stage 2 in 6 months. I'm going to lose my entire sigmoid colon and all the lymph nodes around it for biopsy.

If the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes, that's stage 3 and I'll have chemo, but we won't know until after the surgery.

Don't sleep on this. My symptoms were anemia and tiredness all the time.

Yes, colonoscopy prep sucks. I had to drink 4 liters of fluid, wait 6 hours, and do it all over again. I lined up 10 glasses and drained one every 12 minutes for 2 hours.

But - you can mix in gatorade powder so long as it's not red or purple. 😉

March is colon cancer awareness month, wear blue!

"The judge disagreed, finding the stalking charges did not amount to “crimes of violence” and dismissed two counts in Mangione’s federal case – the murder charge and a related firearm offense.

“The analysis contained in the balance of this Opinion may strike the average person – and indeed many lawyers and judges – as tortured and strange, and the result may seem contrary to our intuitions about the criminal law,” Judge Margaret Garnett wrote in her ruling. “But it represents the Court’s committed effort to faithfully apply the dictates of the Supreme Court to the charges in this case.” "

Supreme Court: "Not like this..."

I had a cat oddly addicted to the flyers printed by Lincoln Automobiles.

Went to a car show, got a bunch of pamphlets, he'd pull out the Lincoln one and roll on it.

Coincidence? I'd stack them all up, square off the stack, he'd DIG through the pile until he found Lincoln and walk off with it. LOL.

Expensive tastes!

Not at all wrong, just showing what can be done with virtually zero effort and time.

I could most likely perfect it in a few minutes more, still a fraction of the time of doing it by hand. I'm not extending a proof of concept to win arguments on the Internet. 😉

But as I noted at the bottom of the comment, which apparently nobody bothered to read, there are ALREADY royalty free libraries for this kind of thing. So it also has to be faster than searching libraries that are already there.

Of course that action is it's own time sink as anyone who has gone looking for "the perfect font" can tell you.

It did get maybe 90% there in a minute which is faster than a person would do it. Not a perfect tile, maybe take a few more interations. But not awful for cobbled together in a minute, and if your job is to come up with 50 or 100 different textures, still better than doing it by hand.

But as I noted, there are also already royalty free libraries for this stuff as well.