KerwoodDerby
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In my younger days, we would jokingly refer to the 3.5 diskette as a "stiffy".
December 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
In my younger days, we would jokingly refer to the 3.5 diskette as a "stiffy".
If you've been an even occasional visitor to Task & Purpose, you'd have been struck by their consistently apolitical coverage of events which only directly affect the enlisted. Until recently. I wonder what changed.
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
If you've been an even occasional visitor to Task & Purpose, you'd have been struck by their consistently apolitical coverage of events which only directly affect the enlisted. Until recently. I wonder what changed.
Shirer did a pretty good job with the limits and constraints he endured. Rise and Fall had mistakes which he couldn't have known about until years later. But They Thought They Were Free, by another journalist, Milton Mayer, was frighteningly precise in its assessment.
October 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Shirer did a pretty good job with the limits and constraints he endured. Rise and Fall had mistakes which he couldn't have known about until years later. But They Thought They Were Free, by another journalist, Milton Mayer, was frighteningly precise in its assessment.
I live in one of the affected counties (Carroll), so I see ALL the tumult. Facts: DE/PA/NJ has excess generating capacity seeking sales; NOVA has huge, hungry IT farms, but VA won't build new plants; MD chooses to soak the players, or else no dice.
October 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I live in one of the affected counties (Carroll), so I see ALL the tumult. Facts: DE/PA/NJ has excess generating capacity seeking sales; NOVA has huge, hungry IT farms, but VA won't build new plants; MD chooses to soak the players, or else no dice.
TIL what "meme stock" meant. WTF.
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
TIL what "meme stock" meant. WTF.
I can't speak to the scientific record on nuclear weapon seismicity, but I'm reminded that hydrogen bombs were unimaginably violent nuclear fusion events triggered by an immediately prior, outer shell of nuclear fission bomb explosions; perhaps that's the double-peak source?
October 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I can't speak to the scientific record on nuclear weapon seismicity, but I'm reminded that hydrogen bombs were unimaginably violent nuclear fusion events triggered by an immediately prior, outer shell of nuclear fission bomb explosions; perhaps that's the double-peak source?
Ours was a tort-tabby mix, and for her 17-year life she was the kindest, sweetest, most endearing cat we've ever known. It took me a while to understand why the vet techs would stand on the other side of the exam room when I pulled her out of the carrier.
September 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Ours was a tort-tabby mix, and for her 17-year life she was the kindest, sweetest, most endearing cat we've ever known. It took me a while to understand why the vet techs would stand on the other side of the exam room when I pulled her out of the carrier.
I tell you the secret to happiness is low expectations, and this is what you bring me? 😆
July 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I tell you the secret to happiness is low expectations, and this is what you bring me? 😆
Find some other animal to both endure and spoil
June 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Find some other animal to both endure and spoil
It would help your cause to post a non-paywalled source. That said, vitamin A and E are historically the least villains in this discussion
April 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It would help your cause to post a non-paywalled source. That said, vitamin A and E are historically the least villains in this discussion
There are worse things
April 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
There are worse things
While I can appreciate the sentiment behind this post, I'll just note my astonishment while reading a history of the Spanish Flu, learning that Americans worked hard to erase its memory, starting in 1920. Pandemics simply don't inspire any kind of remembrance.
March 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
While I can appreciate the sentiment behind this post, I'll just note my astonishment while reading a history of the Spanish Flu, learning that Americans worked hard to erase its memory, starting in 1920. Pandemics simply don't inspire any kind of remembrance.
I'd like to believe that thoughtful people would wisely consider which grammar battles to fight, and which to let-slide-for-the-moment. That said, you'll pull that oxford comma from my cold, dead hands.
February 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I'd like to believe that thoughtful people would wisely consider which grammar battles to fight, and which to let-slide-for-the-moment. That said, you'll pull that oxford comma from my cold, dead hands.
I've found that listening to history audiobooks on my commute has been quite calming over the years, reminding me that things have been much worse in the past, and giving me the sense of perspective that bad people in the media want to take from me.
January 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I've found that listening to history audiobooks on my commute has been quite calming over the years, reminding me that things have been much worse in the past, and giving me the sense of perspective that bad people in the media want to take from me.
I was shopping at Food Lion and gradually realized I was listening to Comfortably Numb while picking over produce. At check-out, I casually remarked to the cashier that I had apparently lived long enough to hear Pink Floyd played at the supermarket, and she busted out laughing.
January 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I was shopping at Food Lion and gradually realized I was listening to Comfortably Numb while picking over produce. At check-out, I casually remarked to the cashier that I had apparently lived long enough to hear Pink Floyd played at the supermarket, and she busted out laughing.
Since bakelite is a thermosetting polymer, it's not a candidate for FDM, but there certainly are ways to simulate it.
I had always marveled at how benign bakelite was, full of aromatic hydrocarbons yet so harmless, easy to machine, and wood-like.
I had always marveled at how benign bakelite was, full of aromatic hydrocarbons yet so harmless, easy to machine, and wood-like.
January 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Since bakelite is a thermosetting polymer, it's not a candidate for FDM, but there certainly are ways to simulate it.
I had always marveled at how benign bakelite was, full of aromatic hydrocarbons yet so harmless, easy to machine, and wood-like.
I had always marveled at how benign bakelite was, full of aromatic hydrocarbons yet so harmless, easy to machine, and wood-like.
"Carne diem!!!"
"Dude, you just yelled 'Meat Day!'"
"Dude, you just yelled 'Meat Day!'"
January 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"Carne diem!!!"
"Dude, you just yelled 'Meat Day!'"
"Dude, you just yelled 'Meat Day!'"
way ahead of you
January 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
way ahead of you
it does give one pause to consider that a global actor most certain to be invoked in a discussion of social media vs. morality reacts with "dude, don't dump that shit on me, I was just running a business"
January 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
it does give one pause to consider that a global actor most certain to be invoked in a discussion of social media vs. morality reacts with "dude, don't dump that shit on me, I was just running a business"
Welcome to my world. Nose hair never bothered me until covid, and masking drove me mad until I managed my nose hairs. It was not a proud moment. I'm over it, though.
January 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Welcome to my world. Nose hair never bothered me until covid, and masking drove me mad until I managed my nose hairs. It was not a proud moment. I'm over it, though.