Not gloating. I genuinely enjoy eating pork and meat in general. It's the most nutritious food a human can eat in my humble opinion. I hold no shame in eating and enjoying meat.
If I was a scientist and a piggie died as part of an experiment or whatever. I would do my best to eat the piggie and not let any part of it end up in the trash and going to waste.
Do they mean literally putting a sign in someone else's yard, without their permission? Is that a done thing? Wouldn't you just drop a note in their letterbox?
Amazing. I live elsewhere in the world so had never heard of that. You are honestly not allowed to put a letter in a friend/neighbour's letterbox? A letter under the doormat then?
>You are honestly not allowed to put a letter in a friend/neighbour's letterbox?
Yes, that is correct. If you want to hand deliver a note to your nextdoor neighbor, their mailbox is off limits. The federal government views that mailbox as some sort of exclusive domain of the USPS. You can leave the note anywhere, other than their mailbox.
The text of the law is:
>Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits any mailable matter such as statements of accounts, circulars, sale bills, or other like matter, on which no postage has been paid, in any letter box established, approved, or accepted by the Postal Service for the receipt or delivery of mail matter on any mail route with intent to avoid payment of lawful postage thereon, shall for each such offense be fined under this title.[1]
(An interesting possibility would be to affix the correct USPS stamp on the note, void said stamp by crossing it out, then hand delivering the note into someone's mailbox. In that case the correct postage would have been paid, so maybe that might be legal? Not a lawyer, just pondering an interesting possibility out loud.)
Interestingly, the most frequent violators of this statue are commercial in my area. Periodically an Amazon contractor will place my package in the mailbox, very rarely UPS or FedEx but by far the biggest violator is DHL. I must believe that DHL instructs their contractors or employees to place packages in the mailbox since there is a greater than 50% chance when I get a DHL package that it ends up in the mailbox.
Sometimes I wonder that too. Have you reached the point where sometimes you imagine people responding to your invisible posts? Regardless, Happy New Year!
I've been fooling you--kinda for years, but I'm hellbanned. I'll post this anyway.
In all honesty, I haven't found a writer, or journalist, I'm giving any money to besides a few honest non-profits. (And yes it's hard to find a honest 501c3.)
I feel you should put the affiliate links on your writing. It's not selling out. It's selling out when you have good income, security, and a home.
I don't have any problems with average people putting up affiliate links, or ads.
It's the wealthy boys who can never get enough monetary praise I have a problem with.
The only reason I find it interesting is because she started that company when people were still thinking any new tech will change the world.
You guys were still drooling over Zuckerburg, and that movie. (Some claim different, but for many Zuck was John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever for a generation of nerds. Yes, it's embarrassing now, because they All sold out. Facebook, Google, etc. were going to make society better. The story is still unfolding, but greed rules when you get out of school? I guess?
She copied Steve Jobs with her rediculious attire, and we all were afaraid to ask the tough questions because of her gender. Everytime I questioned her company, someone would accuse me of misogyney in a subtle ways.
In the end, she blamed her actions on that little fat guy who followed her around like a hungry puppy dog.
In a way, I'm glad we had a Holmes. Getting that gold rush money was irritating for those that didn't have the inside friends, or the wealthy parents.
If people watched The Social Network and thought it was a heroic portrayal of a visionary making tech to change the world, they didn’t watch The Social Network.
I'm fascinated because I don't understand how a bunch of rich, powerful men (they were mostly men) fall for this? Was she the daughter they wished they had? Was she like an angel fallen from heaven with an odd hairstyle and deep voice that gave a subtle signal she was not used to inhabiting a human body, and she came here to save millions of lives with her device? The ability to hypnotize rich and powerful men and the angelic aspect of it is why I call it almost mythological, like Odysseus and the Sirens.
Every good Psychiatrist will ask you about your sleeping pattern on the first visit.
I haven't been able to sleep through the night for decades.
The number one cause if not depressed, anxious, or blew a mental gasket (sorry about the nomenclature. Psychiatry is very much an art. I have a hard time with their diagnoses.); is alcohol use. Too much. You go to sleep, but wake up three hours later.
Yea, but low voltage pumps are pushing moving water through pipes (copper, or Pex) throughout your home when the boiler (modern condensing boiler) is on. You want a efficient release of heat.
So I agree with you that stone is a better material for holding heat, by how much--I don't know.
Having a stone fireplace might make sence heating one room, but I still have my doubts on energy saved, unless you have some kind of adobe house built around a huge stone fireplace.
It just seems more practical to have hydronic heating in your structure than a stove in each room. I have tried to heat a home with a Wolf Stove in a fireplace. A Wolf stove use just a metal stove with a fan in it. It's a fireplace insert. It only heats up the room it's in. It does heat up the bricks on the fireplace, but not enough to keep heat in when the fire is out.
If anyone decides to put in a hydronic heating system, you will like it. It's good for allergies too. I put one in a bay area home, and the install is pretty simple. The books make it much more complicated than needed.
Basically put down pex piping, or registers (radiators, baseboard) in each room. Soneyinrd you need both. Buy a boiler that has been around awhile. Condensing boilers are new, but efficient. Buy your primary pump, and your sector pumps. Know the difference between primary, and secondary piping. You will need an expansion tank. I used a mixture of copper, and pex. And a thermostat.
(In the Bay Area, we use natural gas. An electric heating here is very costly. Stay away from electric. Oh yea, for some reason hydronic heating was stopped in the 50's here. Contractors went to forced air, even though most homes don't have air conditioning. This means many hvac techs do not know how to work on hydronic, but act like they do. So double check their estimates.)
I will keep the 1st editions, and most reference books.
I feel can toss everyone of my computer books. (Not one did I find well written, or worth keeping. If anyone decided to write a computer/programming book take out every unneeded word. Maybe take a technical writing course if you live near a good university?)
My father got old, and had to downsize from a large house to a small flat, which didn't have room for all his books, so most of them went to charity shops. A year later, he advised me "Try not to get rid of your books; you'll regret it."
He's died now, I took over the flat, and moved from a family home into the same flat. I also had to shed a lot of books in the process. I ripped my large CD collection to a media server. I miss some of those books I got rid of; but I like this small flat, and I don't want to dedicate a small room to a library.
The first books I got rid of were computer books. They were all manuals for some obsolescent technology; like, I thought the "Rhino" Javascript book would be useful forever (um, no). I got rid of a few feet of books on Buddhism, and several more feet were books on Western philosophy from my undergraduate days. These were books that had been formative for me, but I was honestly never going to open them again.
So I don't really agree with my father's advice. If you regret ditching a book, you can just replace it.
Interesting—I find I have a hard time reading technical books on my ebook reader. When I read fiction, it’s usually a linear process, making the reader ideal: read, swipe, repeat until done.
With technical books, I often need to jump to another section, which is so much slower and more painful than with dead trees. Code formatting also tends to be abysmal on my reader—although books are not the best for this either. Maybe I’m not using my device to the fullest?
I have never found a solution for this. At my desk, with multiple extra screens and a keyboard and mouse for searching and rapid navigation, a PDF is sometimes a decent enough alternative but for non-computer based hobbies as well as reading reference books more casually / when not actually needing to be at my computer I have been unable to find anything close to paper books.
