Um… That’s a drawing… there is no light.

I’m with you. Professional sports have gone downhill. I used to be a diehard Denver Broncos fan. I had DirectTV specifically so I could get every NFL game. During football season, I’d watch every game I could. If I were to do that now, I’d need a number of different streaming services. Apart from that, I began watching less and less a few years ago when every other commercial, and every commentation, became about betting. Draft Kings, Fan Dual, MGM, and whatever else there was. It stopped being about watching the game and became more about gambling.

With baseball, they’re digitally putting ads on the pitcher’s mound. A couple years ago, they added advertising patches to the damn uniforms. It’s disgusting. People don’t play for a team anymore, they play for a brand.

Yet, even with all the additional ad revenue, ticket and concession prices have skyrocketed. It used to be that you could take a family of four to a game and not break the bank. Now, a single game is the cost of a full vacation. With four tickets, concession, and parking, you’re paying at least $500. And that’s without any sort of souvenirs. To make it worse, every team is wanting a new stadium and they are forcing the cities and states to pay for it through taxes. It’s greed on top of greed on top of greed.

I can’t stand watching professional sports anymore. On the plus side, I now have a lot more time to do other things that are a more fun and give a better sense of accomplishment than, “Hey, my team won.”

Reading. Too many people say they hate reading because it’s boring or there is no point. Most cite the books they went over (probably never read) in school. They think everything is going to be like Romeo and Juliet or something. They don’t seem to realize that you study classics in school and that there are troves of modern books that they’d enjoy. I like to find out their favorite movies and get them an audio book in the same genre. It’s easier to get them to listen to one than to read one. I now have a handful of people who come to me asking what they should listen to or read next.

It’s quite dated, and there are some blatent white-suburban-privlage references, but if you can get past that, it’s not bad for business relationships. If anything, the book is an eye opener to disingenuous relationships.

The biggest take away was recognizing when others are using the techniques. You really notice it if you deal with a salesperson. Go buy a car and watch them flick between different items from the book; trying to use your name as much as possible, trying to figure out and relate to your interests, etc.

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Hands down the best audio book series I’ve ever listened to. If you like video games, sci-fi, or fantasy, you will not be disappointed.

As an old person today, I have no clue what these words mean. Assuming cooking has nothing to do with food. I’ve never heard rizz. I’ve at least heard people use based, though I don’t know its use.

If you’re in an HOA, check the bylaws before replacing with clover.

Having said that, depending on where you’re at, clover can work incredibly well. A couple years ago, I changed the layout of my yard - moved flower beds and such. I put down clover in the areas where the beds used to be and it’s taken over a significant portion of my lawn. It’s great. I don’t have to mow as often and my lawn looks nice.

I get a ton of bees in the yard now too; which are fun to watch. I sware my vegetable garden has much better yield since doing it too. I thank the bees, but a friend of mine insists it’s just my imagination.

Regardless, I’m in the midwest and clover has grown well with very little maintenance. Of course, your milage may vary.

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In the Stormlight books by Sanderson, society is split based on eye color; bright eyed vs dark eyed. Bright eyed people are called Brightness or Brightlord. Not exaclty the same as what you said, but it is an interesting society based on eye color.

And that somehow makes it better?

I’d fit in this category. I’m a company executive and I have a voice that carries. I tend to be the quiet person in the room until I need to speak up. When I do, a mix of my position, and the whole quiet-person-speaking-forcefully thing tends to make others listen.

In general, I don’t mind being in front of a room, giving a presentation to 2000 strangers. The faces blur together and it’s like being alone. Because I’m willing to do this, many people think I’m an extrovert. On the other hand, I don’t like being in a room with 4 strangers. I can do it, and I’ll interact with everyone, but it is freaking exhausting.

Anytime I’m with people for a decent length of time, I need time alone to recover. A large part of my job is managing or dealing with people for one thing or another. It’s become a habit that when I get home from work, my family leaves me alone for an hour so that I can decompress and recharge.

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Sodium Hydroxide, when exposed to Carbon Dioxide (already in the air), combines to become Sodium Carbinate.

NaOH + CO2 → Na2CO3 + H2O

Sodium Carbinate then reacts with water and more Carbon Dioxide to become Sodium Bicarbinate, which is baking soda.

Na2CO3 + CO2 + H2O → 2 NaHCO3

Not only does a Sodium Oxyde fuel cell produce electricity, it takes CO2 out of the atmosphere.

From a physics and chemistry point of view, it’s pretty cool. I’m curious how well it scales though.

Depends which part of myself I’m talking to. If it’s just a general conversation, it’s “we.” If it’s more of a direct conversation to a part of my mind, it’s “you.” If I’m talking about myself to a third-party, such as this response, it’s “I.”

Ran into a couple small bugs on xbox.

When making a potion the game crashed. After repeating it multiple times, I figured out that it only happened when mixing a stolen and non stollen ingredient. I have not retested since the last update.

Prior to the update, I could not create an enchanted item with a static effect at frostcrag spire. For example, a ring with nighteye. I could create one with detect life because it was a magnitude selector. This bug went away after the update.

If it’s raining, there’s snow on the ground, or many other low traction scenarios, the cop would have to really want to pull you over. Chances are they won’t.

On a clear, dry day, depending on where you are, barking your tires is a violation of nuisance laws. Again, most likely not getting pulled over unless you consistently did it.

Now, if you stomped on it and your tires broke loose, you are looking at reckless operation of a motor vehicle. Expect to be stopped.

It mostly comes down to conditions and level of egregiousness… and how bad of a day the cop is having / wanting you to have.

“The government” is multiple agencies and departments. There is no single computer system, database, mainframe, or file store that the entire US goverment uses. There is no standard programming language used. There is no standard server configuration. Each agency is different. Each software project is different.

When someone says the government doesn’t use sql, they don’t know what they are talking about. It could be refering to the fact that many government systems are ancient mainframe applications that store everything in vsam. But it is patently false that the government doesn’t use sql. I’ve been on a number of government contracts over the years, spanning multiple agencies. MsSQL was used in all but one.

Furthermore, some people share SSNs, they are not unique. It’s a common misconception that they are, but anyone working on a government software learns this pretty quickly. The fact that it seems to be a big shock goes to show that he doesn’t know what he is doing and neither do the people reporting to him.

Not only is he failing to understand the technology, he is failing to understand the underlying data he is looking at.

My guess is that the label is wrong. My water bill has the same chart with about double the usage as yours, but same ranges. On mine, the label is “gal (in hundreds)”. I’m betting that some developer just didn’t put the full label on the screen.

Best audio book I’ve listened to… Dungeon Crawler Carl. Great story. Amazing audio book production.