Well, OK, then not the best advice I’ve ever given. Apologies.
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Well, OK, then not the best advice I’ve ever given. Apologies.
So you pit the cherries (messy! do it outside and not wearing good clothes!) and drop them into mason jars and fill with booze. Put lids on.
Let them sit until at least Labor Day. Eat between then and next Labor Day, having made more when July 4 rolls around again.
Ain't no $20/little jar.
2/2
Let them sit until at least Labor Day. Eat between then and next Labor Day, having made more when July 4 rolls around again.
Ain't no $20/little jar.
2/2
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
So you pit the cherries (messy! do it outside and not wearing good clothes!) and drop them into mason jars and fill with booze. Put lids on.
Let them sit until at least Labor Day. Eat between then and next Labor Day, having made more when July 4 rolls around again.
Ain't no $20/little jar.
2/2
Let them sit until at least Labor Day. Eat between then and next Labor Day, having made more when July 4 rolls around again.
Ain't no $20/little jar.
2/2
Apparently some of y'all need to know this.
A cherry pitter is like ten bucks.
There's a couple weeks every year, usually around July 4, when cherries get very cheap.
Costco sells at least one of bourbon, spiced rum, or brandy very cheap at any given time.
1/
A cherry pitter is like ten bucks.
There's a couple weeks every year, usually around July 4, when cherries get very cheap.
Costco sells at least one of bourbon, spiced rum, or brandy very cheap at any given time.
1/
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Apparently some of y'all need to know this.
A cherry pitter is like ten bucks.
There's a couple weeks every year, usually around July 4, when cherries get very cheap.
Costco sells at least one of bourbon, spiced rum, or brandy very cheap at any given time.
1/
A cherry pitter is like ten bucks.
There's a couple weeks every year, usually around July 4, when cherries get very cheap.
Costco sells at least one of bourbon, spiced rum, or brandy very cheap at any given time.
1/
I feel like the Mormons are getting real close to "fuck this shit" territory.
Basically every Mormon I've known at all well has taken their faith seriously including the bits about charity and forgiveness.
The GOP might not be able to count on them as a solid voting bloc for much longer.
Basically every Mormon I've known at all well has taken their faith seriously including the bits about charity and forgiveness.
The GOP might not be able to count on them as a solid voting bloc for much longer.
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I feel like the Mormons are getting real close to "fuck this shit" territory.
Basically every Mormon I've known at all well has taken their faith seriously including the bits about charity and forgiveness.
The GOP might not be able to count on them as a solid voting bloc for much longer.
Basically every Mormon I've known at all well has taken their faith seriously including the bits about charity and forgiveness.
The GOP might not be able to count on them as a solid voting bloc for much longer.
Assuming you like funky, I'd start at Hamilton Pot Still and see how that flies. If the answer is "not well" then you might start looking at higher-end Rhums Agricole. If it's actually from an island, the sugar is probably a cheaper input there than corn syrup and I suspect you'll be OK.
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Assuming you like funky, I'd start at Hamilton Pot Still and see how that flies. If the answer is "not well" then you might start looking at higher-end Rhums Agricole. If it's actually from an island, the sugar is probably a cheaper input there than corn syrup and I suspect you'll be OK.
If ever there was a report that was screaming out to be closed as WONTFIX with the single comment "Not a bug," it's this one.
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If ever there was a report that was screaming out to be closed as WONTFIX with the single comment "Not a bug," it's this one.
Oh damn you ruined it because I don't think I'd be holding it together if I had a headboard that awesome.
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Oh damn you ruined it because I don't think I'd be holding it together if I had a headboard that awesome.
Can you drink rum? I know it's not the same thing, but a nice funky Jamaican rum can at least be interesting like whiskey is.
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Can you drink rum? I know it's not the same thing, but a nice funky Jamaican rum can at least be interesting like whiskey is.
"Good At Math" doesn't even function as a particularly good proxy for "Good At Writing Software" which is only a pretty good proxy for "Good At Software Engineering" which on its own gets you...Engineer money (not that I'm complaining), not "Fuck You" money.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
"Good At Math" doesn't even function as a particularly good proxy for "Good At Writing Software" which is only a pretty good proxy for "Good At Software Engineering" which on its own gets you...Engineer money (not that I'm complaining), not "Fuck You" money.
IDK man that's a LOT of machines. Maybe I'll just do a representative sample.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
IDK man that's a LOT of machines. Maybe I'll just do a representative sample.
As long as their bones are ground for the following week's ingredients, that's the main thing.
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
As long as their bones are ground for the following week's ingredients, that's the main thing.
And then "Scaling the triangle doesn't change the ratio, so let's pretend the hypotenuse is always 1."
Followed by, "And you're not gonna believe this, but Euler proved...and 1 to the anything is still 1, so exponentiation just swings you around the circle..."
That would have improved 11th grade.
Followed by, "And you're not gonna believe this, but Euler proved...and 1 to the anything is still 1, so exponentiation just swings you around the circle..."
That would have improved 11th grade.
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
And then "Scaling the triangle doesn't change the ratio, so let's pretend the hypotenuse is always 1."
Followed by, "And you're not gonna believe this, but Euler proved...and 1 to the anything is still 1, so exponentiation just swings you around the circle..."
That would have improved 11th grade.
Followed by, "And you're not gonna believe this, but Euler proved...and 1 to the anything is still 1, so exponentiation just swings you around the circle..."
That would have improved 11th grade.
SOHCAHTOA for me. Which was...I mean, I guess it's the same thing, but...
If there had been an immediate linkage to a week of "This is i. It's the square root of negative 1. Here's how the arithmetic works. Don't worry about what it *means*." 1/
If there had been an immediate linkage to a week of "This is i. It's the square root of negative 1. Here's how the arithmetic works. Don't worry about what it *means*." 1/
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
SOHCAHTOA for me. Which was...I mean, I guess it's the same thing, but...
If there had been an immediate linkage to a week of "This is i. It's the square root of negative 1. Here's how the arithmetic works. Don't worry about what it *means*." 1/
If there had been an immediate linkage to a week of "This is i. It's the square root of negative 1. Here's how the arithmetic works. Don't worry about what it *means*." 1/
Wait, your HS had unit circles?
Mine was a bunch of tedious and poorly-at-best-justified identities about sines and cosines and their multiplication and division that we just had to memorize. Complex numbers were not part of the curriculum.
It'd be great if this has changed in the world at large.
Mine was a bunch of tedious and poorly-at-best-justified identities about sines and cosines and their multiplication and division that we just had to memorize. Complex numbers were not part of the curriculum.
It'd be great if this has changed in the world at large.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Wait, your HS had unit circles?
Mine was a bunch of tedious and poorly-at-best-justified identities about sines and cosines and their multiplication and division that we just had to memorize. Complex numbers were not part of the curriculum.
It'd be great if this has changed in the world at large.
Mine was a bunch of tedious and poorly-at-best-justified identities about sines and cosines and their multiplication and division that we just had to memorize. Complex numbers were not part of the curriculum.
It'd be great if this has changed in the world at large.
I've hung on to all my CDs because I don't trust my backup media very much (less than commercially burned optical media anyway) and anything I only have from a music service is at best leased and could vanish any instant.
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I've hung on to all my CDs because I don't trust my backup media very much (less than commercially burned optical media anyway) and anything I only have from a music service is at best leased and could vanish any instant.
It's amazing how much less sucky and more intuitive high school trig could be if we started from the unit circle on the complex plane, isn't it? Memorizing all those stupid identities could just be replaced with "keep zooming around the circle, then read out where you stopped."
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It's amazing how much less sucky and more intuitive high school trig could be if we started from the unit circle on the complex plane, isn't it? Memorizing all those stupid identities could just be replaced with "keep zooming around the circle, then read out where you stopped."
Anyway, that's how you do it on simh, so I'm assuming that if I emulate the console microcode + standalone backup through RS-232, and emulate RB80 and TU(77, I guess; whatever the default is in simh) with a Unibone, it will work the same on the iron (which at that point is just CPU+memory).
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Anyway, that's how you do it on simh, so I'm assuming that if I emulate the console microcode + standalone backup through RS-232, and emulate RB80 and TU(77, I guess; whatever the default is in simh) with a Unibone, it will work the same on the iron (which at that point is just CPU+memory).
Attached the VMS 3.0 installation tape as tu0, used an rb80 as the disk, and once I'd booted the console, did the two TU58 backup tapes in order, then just installed VMS from standalone backup tape as usual, cf archive.org/details/vms-...
VMS V 3.x Manuals. 7z : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Collection of Digital Equipment Corporation VMS/VAX V3.x manuals (pdf)
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November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Attached the VMS 3.0 installation tape as tu0, used an rb80 as the disk, and once I'd booted the console, did the two TU58 backup tapes in order, then just installed VMS from standalone backup tape as usual, cf archive.org/details/vms-...
I'm in the US, in Tucson, AZ. The -58 tape images came from Vaxorcist on the DEC Fan Spot Discord. If you PM me an email address I can send those to you (along with the console microcode one you probably already have).
Booted under simh, from BE-T1751-ME.dms in td0 (the console ucode)... 1/2
Booted under simh, from BE-T1751-ME.dms in td0 (the console ucode)... 1/2
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I'm in the US, in Tucson, AZ. The -58 tape images came from Vaxorcist on the DEC Fan Spot Discord. If you PM me an email address I can send those to you (along with the console microcode one you probably already have).
Booted under simh, from BE-T1751-ME.dms in td0 (the console ucode)... 1/2
Booted under simh, from BE-T1751-ME.dms in td0 (the console ucode)... 1/2
Nice! I recently learned where I could find a standalone backup/restore TU-58 tape for VMS 3.0, so all that's standing in the way of getting the 11/730 running is 1) a UniBone (easy but not cheap), and 2) a TU-58 emulator (slightly less easy but cheaper, and it's just RS-232C on the back end).
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Nice! I recently learned where I could find a standalone backup/restore TU-58 tape for VMS 3.0, so all that's standing in the way of getting the 11/730 running is 1) a UniBone (easy but not cheap), and 2) a TU-58 emulator (slightly less easy but cheaper, and it's just RS-232C on the back end).
You leave me no choice.
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
You leave me no choice.
But that said, he dropped a lot of bombs on a lot of Nazis, so it's not like he was all bad.
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
But that said, he dropped a lot of bombs on a lot of Nazis, so it's not like he was all bad.
My former grandfather-in-law (Southern Baptist) was always very very careful to refer to "Catholics" as distinct from "Christians".
That said, no, he hated Muslims, Blacks, Mexicans, and Jews even worse than Catholics.
That said, no, he hated Muslims, Blacks, Mexicans, and Jews even worse than Catholics.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 AM
My former grandfather-in-law (Southern Baptist) was always very very careful to refer to "Catholics" as distinct from "Christians".
That said, no, he hated Muslims, Blacks, Mexicans, and Jews even worse than Catholics.
That said, no, he hated Muslims, Blacks, Mexicans, and Jews even worse than Catholics.