Spring Has Sprung! - 9 days ago

Coming soon to your area! Nearly every house in our town has a 3-5 azalea plants somewhere in their yard. Some have many more.

Re: Is this a coal chute? I should probably seal this up. - 11 days ago

Seems a shame to permanently seal an access between two areas. Suppose you'd want to transfer things for storage between the garage and basement, or move tools back and forth. If you seal it, you'd have to carry those things up the stairs, and traipse through a hallway, kitchen, whatever, to get to the garage, and vice versa, tracking who knows what on your work shoes...

Re: NE tunneling varmints - 12 days ago

Get rid of their food source and they will go elsewhere to search for it. Hereabouts, moles eat mole crickets. Top spread a suitable cricket poison and the moles leave our yards alone. 'Course if you've got cute chipmunks making those holes, you'll have to get rid of your nut trees.

Re: What am I missing? (Covid Math) - 18 days ago

QuoteS. Pupp ... For South Carolinians looking for locations: Vax Locator Checking this site daily took me about 30 minutes per day (you have to check the listed locations one by one), but after a week or so, an opening in my area came up at a CVS. I did not find that website useful at all. The vax location I found was announced on the local news on a Thursday night for Saturday appointm

Re: Do a lot of people use middle name as the name to go by? - 20 days ago

QuoteCJsNvrUrly My grandson goes by his middle name because his first name is the same as his father's. Same for wifey, since her first name is the same as her mother's. Plus, Wifey's middle name is more unique - Ethelind.

Re: Whats the best way to run a virtual Mac OS machine? - 23 days ago

QuoteBuzz ... run SL Server (and old Windozes), but in VMWare Fusion. == This. On a Late 2012 Mac Mini and a 2010 MacBook Pro.

Re: ... and I just got the shot - 29 days ago

Well, at least you will not have to get a second inoculation. And it probably was the large volume that caused the discomfort. I know the Pfizer shot I got last week was a much larger volume, and was more painful, than the flu shot I got in October.

Re: Shameless plug for our Pontiac Transportation Museum - 30 days ago

So now we're getting a Museum going here where Pontiac Motor Division was based and where many of the muscle cars over the years were built. I never had the money to buy one of those muscle cars of the 60s and 70s, but I did manage to pony up for a used, and decidedly unmuscled, Pontiac Astre in the 80s. Subscribed.

Re: A better butter...? - 4 weeks ago

QuoteN-OS X-tasy! Quotedavester QuoteGareth QuotePaul F. I've been storing stick butter on the counter my whole life... You're over-thinking this. Same here. Ditto. I like Kerrygold Irish butter. Not too pricey at Costco. Another vote for Kerrygold. And another.

Re: How To Do "Self Driving" Wrong - 4 weeks ago

Quotedavester So what's the punch line? There's no way I'm going to watch a 28 minute video to find out what this is about. No "active cruise" ability. Set the cruise control to your desired speed, turn on active steering (it will follow lane markings), and it will drive you right into the slower vehicle in front of you, albeit within your own lane.

Re: What’s your status on receiving a COVID-19 vaccine now? - 5 weeks ago

Update: A vaccination site just opened about 25 miles from me and has scheduled Wifey and me for 2 days from now with the Pfizer COVID Vaccine. WooHoo!

Re: Is something fishy about the Merck / Johnson & Johnson deal? - 5 weeks ago

The J&J vaccine uses an Adenovirus, rather than mRNA, to get the genetic info into cells so they can make the actual antigen (Covid19 spike proteins) that we generate immunity against. Adenoviral-based vaccines were first conceived of and engineered in the 1980s, so there is much already known about how to optimize their production. Indeed, a lab I worked in the 1990s-early 2000s genera

Re: What’s your status on receiving a COVID-19 vaccine now? - 5 weeks ago

Registered on several websites, but no responses as to appointments available. Too few doses available, AFAIK.

Re: My latest rabbit hole: ultra-pure water? - 5 weeks ago

Lest anyone think I subjected my family to some horrible pure water experiment, let me shed some light on my experience. I used to drink tap water until my mid-20s, with no issues at all. Then I moved from Boston to Lutz, FL (just north of Tampa) to attend graduate school, pursuing a doctorate in Medical Sciences. Within a week, both Wifey and I developed kidney pain. A drop of tap water, left

Re: Blasphemy ?'New Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups ditch chocolate shell for all-peanut butter version' - 5 weeks ago

Wifey and I are pleased. She's allergic to chocolate, so we seldom have any in the house.

Re: My latest rabbit hole: ultra-pure water? - 5 weeks ago

Quotesekker I concur with the critics here. I would gladly drink pure, 55.000 Molar water. Would not harm me one bit. That Sci Amer blog quote is indeed wrong, as freeradical points out. I have worked in laboratory settings for about 40 years now, and have routinely filled gallon containers with deionized water to take home for my family to drink. The water is made by passing tap water th

Re: favorite non carbonated drinks? - 6 weeks ago

50:50 mix of iced tea and lemonade. Just a touch of sugar. Named after a golf pro, I think?

Re: Oy. Math problem. - 6 weeks ago

Just over 16.5". A squared + B squared = C squared The diagonal defines a right triangle within the rectangle.

Re: Unusual real estate deal? - 6 weeks ago

Get a copy of of the lease signed by the second tenant. Oftentimes, the terms of a lease supersede any change in ownership. She will thus be stuck with the terms of that lease.

Re: Fun fact... - 6 weeks ago

Can you calculate how many of those jars I will need for my trans-Atlantic row boat?

Re: Scientists Accidentally Discover Strange Creatures Under a Half Mile of Ice - 7 weeks ago

Re: Those who deliver our packages deserve our utmost respect, but PLEASE leave the packages against the door, not 6 feet away - 2 months ago

OTOH, leaning the package against the storm door means it will be knocked over when the door is opened, or a heavy box will prevent the door from opening.

Re: Happy Birthday MR Forum member Janit - 2 months ago

Yom huledet sameach, Janit!

Re: What was your first encounter with a computer? - 2 months ago

Mainframe at Drexel U in 1970. No idea what model it was, but I remember the compiler rejecting my 100 or so punch cards 2 or 3 times before I found every last error. I thought at the time we would never run out of confetti.

Re: What language is this? - 2 months ago

Quotefreeradical It's all Greek to me. Whereas in Greece, it's all German to me.

Re: Two Moderna shots received this morning - 2 months ago

QuoteLemon Drop My experience in South Carolina didn't go as well. ... This thing state is @#$%& but we already knew that. FTFY

Re: Final Wording for Ebay listing--any thoughts/suggestions? - 2 months ago

Minor point: Does flashing the BIOS block booting into 10.5 Leopard? IIRC, the 5.1 models came with 10.6.3 or .4 originally.

Re: Does this seem like good wording for an eBay listing - 2 months ago

Can it boot into Snow Leopard? Might be a selling point for those with legacy software.

Re: House Air Purifiers - any suggestions? - 2 months ago

As you know, high efficiency filters require a strong air flow, which is not provided by the run of the mill fan motors in the average central air system. But you can make your own filter unit fairly easily.

Re: Is there such a thing as...? - 2 months ago

How much clearance is there under the seat tail/above the fender? Maybe attach a plate directly to the fender (bolts hidden under the seat tail), or attach the plate directly to the underside of the seat tail.