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Re: Are you guys OK? - 3 months ago

QuoteS. Pupp Here in my part of upstate SC, it was 7 degrees F, and electricity was out for about 8 hours. It didn’t affect me, however, as I had just been admitted to hospital for emergency surgery. Nice and toasty warm on the ward, and cable tv! Score! (Surgery was downgraded from emergency to elective, and happens tomorrow. Wish me luck.) So getting admitted to surgery is a good thi

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Are you guys OK? - 3 months ago

Sounds like there's a massive winter storm causing havoc in the eastern United States. We're lucky to live on the west coast so don't have too much to worry about. How are you east coasters and midwesterners doing?

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Re: Merry Christmas to one and all! - 3 months ago

Hope you all had a Festive Festivus, a Happy Hanukah, a Stupendous Solstice, a Proudly Pagan Party, a Yesty Yule and a Cracking Christmas!

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Re: Joe Rogan Guest on where the minerals come from for batteries - 3 months ago

QuoteRolando They're gonna be horrified when they find out where the oil comes from! ...and where all the rare metals in their catalytic converters come from.

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Re: Suggestions on Preparing and Priming rust Spots on Auto. - 3 months ago

I would go for Evaporust. You can get the liquid version for soaking parts or the gel version for clinging to larger parts.

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Re: Something I didn't know about toaster overns... - 3 months ago

I agree with Robert M. The Breville oven is not even remotely in the same class as the many cheap toaster oven brands that you can buy at Target or wherever. It compares more to our regular oven than any other toaster oven I've ever tried.

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Re: Significant quake in N California - 3 months ago

Paul F! Calling Paul F! Probably working by candlelight and carrier pigeon since there's been significant power outages in Humboldy.

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Re: Now that you've fixed my water heater, basement wall leaks, and room bump-out leak, here's the doorway to the tunnel of doom. - 3 months ago

If that was in coastal California you could rent it out as a studio apartment for about $1500/month.

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Re: Forum Clock - 3 months ago

You are entering....the MacResource Zone!

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Re: What small-ticket tools or gadgets are on your Christmas list? - 3 months ago

Leatherman or similar.

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Re: Argentina vs France (no spoilers): What a game - 3 months ago

Quotegraylocks Quoted4 #1 US Google search @ Noon. "What is extra time in soccer?" i quickly texted my son to ask if soccer overtime was sudden death or not. The answer is no. That was a fabulous match. I feel exhausted just from watching it. Both teams played fabulously (except France in the first half).

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That woke me up!!! Earthquake! - 3 months ago

3.6 earthquake in El Cerrito, California, about 5 miles northwest of here, Shook us awake and smashed a vase that flew off a shelf. Big adrenaline rush at 4 am! No sleeping now.

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Re: England vs France!! (possible spoilers) - 3 months ago

QuotergG QuoteOmbligo Soccer is treated differently in the US than in most parts of the world. Go to any country and you will find children playing independently of any organized effort. Even a child alone just dribbling. Those children are developing skills and a love for the game that will last a lifetime. In the US, game play is organized in youth sports. Kids play in set matches. They go t

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England vs France!! (possible spoilers) - 3 months ago

That was an absolutely cracking match! I thought that the skill level, number of shots, and intensity and energy of this match were the highest of the tournament so far. I also thought England outplayed France...alas it was not to be. These are clearly the two best teams of the tournament...too bad this was not the final and that one has to go home today.

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Re: FIFA chatter (spoilers) - 3 months ago

Brilliant game! It would have been stupid to pull Messi for multiple reasons. "Getting back on defense) is not something that Messi does and not something that was needed. He needed to stay on offense so that the Netherlands had to keep their players back on defense. Also, he is brilliant in penalty shootouts and that was a very likely outcome. With Messi gone they would have played a much m

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Re: Count the things wrong with this water heater - 3 months ago

The pilot light going out every day, a 27 year old water heater, and obvious rust on the lower part of the combustion chamber!? This to me suggests that the tank may be rusting through (which would mean that the pilot light was going out due to water dripping from the base of the tank) and might give way at any time with a giant whooshing sound and a nonstop cascade of water from the tank content

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Re: Now that you've opined about my water heater, there are leaking basement walls - 3 months ago

Quotedeckeda Elaborate on this. The house was built featuring cast iron drains for gutters at several corners. Many decades ago, all of that of course became clogged/inoperable and all the drains were cemented over. Fast forward, the house has modern aluminum gutters and no nearby trees to clog them. They work, however the downspouts exit water only a few feet away. I'd like to extend that

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Re: Now that you've opined about my water heater, there are leaking basement walls - 3 months ago

Is the water coming in via the seam between the basement walls and floor? If so, there are two main ways to deal with this: 1) Did a trench around the interior perimeter and install a footer french drain that drains into a sump with pump; 2) a simpler but less effective method is to install a plastic half-pipe along that seam that is glued to the walls and floor and also terminated at a sump wit

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Re: Even Alex Jones is smart enough to separate himself Ye & Fuentes - 3 months ago

Give me a break! It doesn't matter what Alex Jones says. The only people who listen to anything Alex Jones says are complete morons. End of story.

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Re: Blame for election woes on the right is consolidating around McConnell, McCarthy and McDaniel - 3 months ago

No blame for the orange god?

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Re: And here's some boring pix of the Mothership (Visitor's Center) - 3 months ago

Wow! My first two years at university involved a lot of punching and submitting of card decks but I never knew them as anything but IBM cards. I learned something new today!

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Re: Your Christmas favorite playlist? - 3 months ago

The Hannukah Song by Adam Sandler (and I'm not even jewish...not christian either).

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Re: Recommend some blues - 3 months ago

QuoteWags Allen Toussaint, Gene Harris for jazz flavored blues piano. Two of my all time favs. Also Ray Bryant. I particularly like his "All Blues" album. Not particularly jazzy, but Brownie McGhee's Blues Is Truth album is pretty great.

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Re: World Cup: USA vs. Netherlands, 10 AM EST - 3 months ago

Could have been worse. At least they managed to eke out a goal. US defense seemed to be asleep for the dutch goals.

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Re: at long last - a bargain Ferrari - 3 months ago

Current bid price is still more than the market value of most of our cars.

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Re: And the House just received Pres. Trump’s magnificent tax returns from the US Treasury - 3 months ago

Quotepdq Well, they already were leaked in their entirety, to the NYT. Trump and minions claimed it was all fake news. It seems to me that all the House has to do is say after examination of the returns, there have found nothing different than what has already been released in the press. Not quite that simple. The NYT didn't release the tax returns because they didn't want to expose their so

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Help! Complicated Mac Mail closed account problem - 3 months ago

So, I retired from my job in February, and my work google mail account (xxxx.gov) was closed. However, I still have that account listed as one of my mailboxes on my MBPR and I also have a ton of emails I want to keep in folders under "On My Mac". I think I put them there via either the Export or Archive function but I can't remember for sure. I would like to be able to get rid of my wor

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Re: bluety somewhere near Miami - 3 months ago

Oooh! I would like that. Not so sure I'd be happy with the conversion from fuel injection to triple sided raft Webers though.

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Re: "Mike Lindell Will Go 'Pillow-a-Pillow' With Ronna Romney McDaniel For RNC Crown" - 3 months ago

Pillow fight!!!

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Re: EV 'stang - 3 months ago

QuoteBill in NC I'm hoping for some standardized, drop-in crate EV conversion, like the LS-swaps people do today. Love my 3rd generation Camry, but it has an oil leak I'm still trying to get fixed. Already available...

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