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Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world - 1 year ago
DPBD! I may be a drunk. It may be a way of coping with depression, anti-depressants don't seem to work. I don't have time during the week to see anyone, and on the weekends, I'm looking after the kid or sleeping something off. My wife is coping with PTSD with equal parts wine and graduate-level papers. She's two classes away from an MBA (and in an honors society, and at the top of her class), anby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world - 1 year ago
Crap. I'm sorry. But goddamn, if you aren't one tough sonuvabitch. Listen to the doc, believe in what he says, and we'll believe in you. Hell, we'll believe in you any-goddamn-way. (<- New Englander for "God Bless You." You've never seen so many churches in one town, if you visit Newport. Which you will.)by SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Welcome - 1 year ago
DPBD! I also owe on some kind of bet involving a Yankees cap. Double or nothing - if the Sox lose the next series vs. the pinstripes, I'll pose with a =Jets= cap at "The Penalty Box", the bar nearest to where I am, known for its fervent support of the Bruins and the most stabbings per square foot in all of New England. If they win, I get to post a youtube vid of my 18m.o. girl going "Yankees, PUby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Welcome - 1 year ago
Got married, moved to Providence, regretted it, had a kid (well, not personally, but I helped), developed a bicycle fixation, bought an Android phone, regretted it, gained weight despite commuting by bike to the train station daily, garnered 6200 favorites on Metafilter and realized, "If I was staying away from Spork to avoid drunk posting for accolades, why the hell do I have 6200 favorites on Mby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago
The mainstream right-wingers are calling for armed insurrection. While I don't think it will result in the civil war they want, I do think we're headed back to the Militia/armed cult nonsense of the '90s. (And if you think the editorializing on that isn't in good taste, you should see the comments on the conservative blogs reporting the same.)by SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Magic numbers: retirement/investment coffers - 4 years ago
What went wrong? This does a good job of explaining it. Well, except where it doesn't explain how that the toxic mortgages only account for $20bln, where the rest of it comes from Wall Street massively over-leveraging itself into $trillions of losses, with Hedge funds proudly leading the way, over-investing in both junk CDOs and the commodities bubble. Gold is at a thousand bucks an ounce. Heby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago
I'm beginning to see why Ben Bernanke is still around - he's a fall guy for when the "Bad Bank" fails, and the administration moves to nationalize, reform and then re-privatize the banking system. It's the only recent model that's a proven winner - Sweden pulled out of its nosedive, Japan wallowed for more than a decade. But, to be able to make the political pieces fall into place, the Bad Bankby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world - 4 years ago
People could not outrun the fires in their cars, even with a head start, and the heat was so intense, it melted the alloy wheels right off the axels. That's some scary, end-of-the-world shit right there. They're warning people not to leave the house if they know the fire is coming, because while the house will burn down, it will burn down slowly compared to being caught out on the road. You canby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Rugby World Cup - 4 years ago
He's like McNabb mixed with Brady - On the one hand, you don't want to have to be the one who has to sack him, because he'll sack back. On the other, if you try anyway, he runs away from you like John Cleese in the Silly Walks sketch, and your coach yells at you for being unable to tackle a fat QB who runs like an idiot, unaware that =everyone= is unable to tackle the big, goofy bastard. Oh, yeaby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Getting Smart about OSX86 - 4 years ago
With ARM architecture Linux netbooks on the way, yeah, $250 sub-sub-notebooks (Netbooks, sorry Psion) are reality. Moore's law, baby. To my mind, we're on the cusp of a new computer paradigm - the money is out there for it at $2500-$6000 workstation... so long as it offers two or three more magnitudes of productivity. Enter the mind-interfaces? I think so. The tech is here, it just needs a decby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Rugby World Cup - 4 years ago
Damn, what a fine Superbowl! Now Brady needs to win three more to bring us even.by SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Rugby World Cup - 4 years ago
With an offensive line and some discipline (100 yards of penalities? In the Super Bowl? Really?) the Cardinals would be unstoppable. Their small-and-speedy defense is proving itself in the 2nd half, looking more energetic than they did in the 1st half, with a (double) goal-line stand to their credit. Real small. I mean, Dockett is their nose-tackle... the Steelers have a safety bigger than he iby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago
Most politicians would regard this as an attack-piece. Obama seems to regard it as a "To-Do" list...by SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: That Darn Microsoft! - 4 years ago
Windows 7 is what Vista coulda been, shoulda been... only... it's aimed at the netbook and the home desktop. The pro windowz wonks I know now all run OS X at home unless they want to play a game like Crysis, and even that's begun to pale as Nintendo steps up the Fun Factor on their Wii and DS, and X-Box brings you Portal and Team Fortress in the same damn orange box, and, oh yeah, NetFlix HD moviby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Eat, Drink and Be Merry - 4 years ago
DPBD! The ol' Battle-axe has been making me low-carb Pita samwidges for lunch, and this has helped me to stick to the diet. In return, I've been making myself dinner entrées for the evenings when she's at grad school. I have invested heavily in sausage. The local, Portugese-cuisine varietals, savory-and-pungent Linguicia (Lin-gwee-saa) and spicy-and-meaty Chourico (Sha-reese) are staples, butby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Eat, Drink and Be Merry - 4 years ago
Sea-bass, yuo say? "Striper" we say, or, to be accurate, "Stryyyype-AH!" Striped Sea Bass. Stolen shameless from "Steve in MA" from the "SurfTalk" angling forum: Make my striper on the grill all the time....do it the same way I do bluefish...... 2 or 3 tablespoons dijon or whole grain mustard 2 or 3 tablespoons mayo Crushed fresh garlic to taste (that would be about 20 cloves for me.... )by SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: iBox (the hardware) - 4 years ago
Since when has Apple evarrrrrrr? Apple is as apple does... so long as demand doesn't too outstrip supply (Amiga 1200) they are in this recession's catbird seat. I fully expect Apple to steal away Dell and HP's home-user marketshare entire. If the recession lasts longer than two years more, Apple will be the dominant layer on the desktop, period, theeee end, with Ubuntu and Windows 7 snarfling foby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Digital Lifestyle - 4 years ago
I love, and I mean love, the new Palm phone. I have Sprint right now. I got them because they were cheaper than anyone else, with tons of free minutes, and their flip-phone, the Samsung Glint, was sexy in a way flip-phones aren't supposed to be. Let me say this now: Sprint sucks. You couldn't get coverage on top of a hill in a top-40 American city... I know this because I'm on top of a hill inby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: small, furry, loud, dangerous - 4 years ago
My SO's secret wish is to own a black Porsche Cayman S with a custom red-and-black all-leather interior to match her custom stiletto-heeled boots. This is one of many reasons I married her.by SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Reciprocating Mass - 4 years ago
ddt - It'd be better then Chrysler's in both respects. They seem to have a lot of product overlap that won't translate well to the US market... Pick 1) 5-door compact, 1) Box/Minivan/MPV 1) Econocar. (And see if Suzuki will let you sell the Panda 4x4 as a Jeep.) I think the Doblo and the Punto would be fine fits as Scion-fighters. Re-skin the Doblo with a "retro" grill, and call it the PT Wagoneby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world - 4 years ago
My Dad is heavily involved with the Middletown HS/NUWC FIRST team out of RI (The Rhode Warriors), and has been since my Brother was in highschool in '95. He goes out of his way to make sure the kids are involved and running the show. The kids do a lot better job at programming than the engineers, anyhow. His team has something of a bad rep, hard earned and carefully nourished. They're responsiblby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Click Click Click - 4 years ago
I would demand tickets, but my shiny, new 50" Plasma TV says, "Stay at home, your nachos are better!"by SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Click Click Click - 4 years ago
I wait patiently. In two years time, full-frame DSLRs will be common as dirt... and Cosina will make one with a cheap plastic body and a nice Sony chip... and a Contax/Yaschica mount. For $500. Then me and my Zeiss kit will pwn. Meanwhile, someone else, possibly also Cosina, will make full-frame 2-1/4" backs for press cameras, also around $500. Then me and my Linhoff metal and Schneider glass wiby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: MacOS X a dog or just in need of a good bitch slap? - 4 years ago
Top 5 Good Moves: 1) Apple II 2) Macintosh 3) iPod 4) Trackpad (remember the marble trackball on most Windows notebooks? No? Good.) 5) Rehiring Steve Jobs Top 5 Bad Moves: 1) Firing Steve Jobs. 2) Lisa ($10k for a desktop personal computer? Really?) 3) Centra - Brand dilution did no-one any good. 4) Dock/finder - Still sucks after all these years. 5) Jailed iPhone - Palm is gonna kick their asby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world - 4 years ago
Tliet - have you read Neil Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle" yet? It will make you proud to be Dutch... He briefly talks about the canals freezing, and the French and English conquerors getting their asses handed to them by Dutch sailors on skates (more of a nod to the entrepreneurial spirit in Nederland at the time than a major plot point, but still - awesome to see that pic! Give them cutlasses anby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world - 4 years ago
Baha - no, was not around online (except for Metafilter, the Tetris of online forums!) I generally didn't do the coffeehouse schtick when down that way. I like dive bars better, no-one tries to one-up your Moleskine/fountain-pen combo while sneering, or conspicuously fails at using an iPhone. The best dive on that side of the Bay is the Oak Hill Tavern. Real, pit-smoked BBQ, and the best damn corby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: iPhone - 4 years ago
Things are in flux, right now, a real sea-change in the entire computer industry, from top to bottom, has been in play since the middle of 2006. - At the top, general purpose servers are giving way to appliances. Storage servers, firewalls, DNS servers, mail servers, loghosts, web proxies, load balancers - when someone starts selling turnkey RDBMS and webhost appliances, it's all-fucking-over fby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world - 4 years ago
This ain't even that bad, as in the winters of 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, when the Alberta Clippers swung south to clobber Newport and Cape Cod. Right now, 11:00pm, here in Providence, we got less than 8", and it's been snowing since 2:00pm. - dude, when the Best Beloved Battle Axe moved up here in '05, we had a thunder-snow that dumped a foot on Newport in less than an hour. This is kiddee stufby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Loonie Legislators and that Wacky Webernet Thingo - 4 years ago
I was on myspace, once... I was clobbered by come-ons from former High School crushes, most of which I don't remember, because I was an upperclassman who deigned not dwell on lowerclassmen, tho they crushed on me heavily.* Facebook, I haven't bothered with at all. There is a ton of online crap I have deemed worthless, from texting to social networks to p2p, which, despite their popularity, havby SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central
Re: Sporkers Helping Sporkers - 4 years ago
I buy my USB hubs from Ocean State Job Lot, made by slave labor in The Emirtate of Iryian Jaya, three bux a pop. They work, which is more than can be said of the $40 (on SALE!) Belkin hub from CompRIP.by SoupIsGood Food - Spork Central