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8trackdisco Offline
#1001 Posted: Thu, Dec 14 2023, 5:19 PM EST
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Learned sourdough bread is actually good for most people!

Have always avoided it (even though toasted sourdough has been a fave) as somebody told me it was bad. Had a slice yesterday when having lunch with mom. Told her what I “knew”. She asked why.

Looking it up today, it is actually good for the gut and heart. Welcome Home, Sourdough!
MACS Offline
#1002 Posted: Thu, Dec 14 2023, 5:24 PM EST
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Love sourdough bread. Also a big fan of rye and Italian bread. Don't get me started on Thomas' English muffins.

Mmmm... nooks and crannies.
Palama Offline
#1003 Posted: Thu, Dec 14 2023, 6:03 PM EST
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Sourdough English muffins! Herfing
MACS Offline
#1004 Posted: Thu, Dec 14 2023, 6:04 PM EST
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Palama wrote:
Sourdough English muffins! Herfing


Winna!!!
BuckyB93 Offline
#1005 Posted: Thu, Dec 14 2023, 6:20 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Love sourdough bread. Also a big fan of rye and Italian bread. Don't get me started on Thomas' English muffins.

Mmmm... nooks and crannies.


Ditto. I've tried to make my own at home. Did the research on how to make your own culture to make it "sour." It looked like the culture was going fine it followed the rules and acted like the stuff I read about an the videos I watched so I had high hopes. In the end, the bread didn't work out. I'll just buy it going forward.

There is a local home baker that sells sourdough bread and will give you some of her culture if you wan to try to make it at home but I haven't gone there yet.
Gene363 Offline
#1006 Posted: Thu, Dec 14 2023, 6:27 PM EST
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Costco baguettes, cut a length that fits into a toaster, then split in half lengthwise, toast then butter, fantastic!

I'ma go get some right now.
BuckyB93 Offline
#1007 Posted: Thu, Dec 14 2023, 6:34 PM EST
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The keyboard on one of my laptops is going bad. The left hand side of the keyboard has some keys that won't type. Was just going to replace the keyboard. I've done it before on other laptops and it's not very hard to do. This one, not so much based on the tech specs and the vids I watched.

So I punted and just bought another one. It arrived today so I'll mess with it this weekend and transfer all the stuff over to the new one. Not an emergency just annoying. It'll give me something to do while I cook and watch football on a rainy (predicted forecast) Sunday.

I blame the left handed people since the keys that lost function are on the left side. I also blame the metric system. Gotta blame something.
BuckyB93 Offline
#1008 Posted: Thu, Dec 14 2023, 6:34 PM EST
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And this brings us to...
BuckyB93 Offline
#1009 Posted: Thu, Dec 14 2023, 6:35 PM EST
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One oh oh NINE!
delta1 Offline
#1010 Posted: Thu, Dec 14 2023, 7:51 PM EST
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was looking at my phone while waiting for food to arrive at a local Japanese eatery...checking out an article about foods that are good for the brain...

as if on cue, the article listed wasabi and ginger as brain food, shortly after the waitress put a small plate with the stuff on our table...

then the article said salmon is also good brain food...the sashimi plate we had ordered contained slices of salmon, as did one of the sushi rolls...

Google is getting kinda creepy with these coincidences...
Palama Offline
#1011 Posted: Thu, Dec 14 2023, 8:31 PM EST
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I always ate salmon ‘cause of its Omega-3 content, guess it was making me smarter at the same time! ThumpUp

Wasabi and ginger (“gari”) ALWAYS a part of my sushi meal but ate the ginger in-between different types of fish or seafood to cleanse my palate. Glad it was making me smarter too.
MACS Offline
#1012 Posted: Fri, Dec 15 2023, 7:51 AM EST
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Google knew where you were and what you ordered... they're watching.
Homebrew Offline
#1013 Posted: Fri, Dec 15 2023, 2:22 PM EST
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MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:
Unless you have a newer car with radar cruise control. It's a wonderful thing. That and automatic high beams.

Those automatic high beams, are annoying, if you are in front of someone, who has them. They keep flashing high beams into my mirriors, on the interstate. If you are within 500 ft of the vehicle in front of you, you should always switch to low beams, as the automatic high beams do not automatically dim. If you come up behind me, get ready for what I call my "Midnight Sun." I have a LED light bar, facing to the rear. It will turn your high beams off for you, and me. If I turn it off, and your highbeams come back on, automaticaly, get ready for the light bar being on, until you pass me, or your lights stay dim. I have them on both pickups, and my semis as well.
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew) Beer
Gene363 Offline
#1014 Posted: Fri, Dec 15 2023, 3:26 PM EST
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Homebrew wrote:
Those automatic high beams, are annoying, if you are in front of someone, who has them. They keep flashing high beams into my mirriors, on the interstate. If you are within 500 ft of the vehicle in front of you, you should always switch to low beams, as the automatic high beams do not automatically dim. If you come up behind me, get ready for what I call my "Midnight Sun." I have a LED light bar, facing to the rear. It will turn your high beams off for you, and me. If I turn it off, and your highbeams come back on, automaticaly, get ready for the light bar being on, until you pass me, or your lights stay dim. I have them on both pickups, and my semis as well.
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew) Beer



Agree, I have auto high beams, they are OK on country roads with few other drivers, but typically on a busy highway I turn them off. Until I RTFM I got really annoyed turning the high beams off only to have them automatically turn back on. I like lots of light, but on the road, not in other drivers eyes.

The dickhead pickup and even some semi drivers that run all sorts of off road lights/light bars down the highway, lights they never turn off, can all KMA. The same for lifted PUs when the driver never bothers to re-aim the lights.
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#1015 Posted: Fri, Dec 15 2023, 3:59 PM EST
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Homebrew wrote:
Those automatic high beams, are annoying, if you are in front of someone, who has them. They keep flashing high beams into my mirriors, on the interstate. If you are within 500 ft of the vehicle in front of you, you should always switch to low beams, as the automatic high beams do not automatically dim. If you come up behind me, get ready for what I call my "Midnight Sun." I have a LED light bar, facing to the rear. It will turn your high beams off for you, and me. If I turn it off, and your highbeams come back on, automaticaly, get ready for the light bar being on, until you pass me, or your lights stay dim. I have them on both pickups, and my semis as well.
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew) Beer

The midnight sun lol. I think some people believe it's OK to have their highs on when following someone because peiple have been doing that for a lot longer than auto beams have been out.
rfenst Offline
#1016 Posted: Fri, Dec 15 2023, 4:35 PM EST
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Interesting.
My Honda won't switch to high beam when only 500 feet behind more like- 750 and I think the distance is adjustable.
Palama Offline
#1017 Posted: Fri, Dec 15 2023, 6:26 PM EST
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Sheesh, automatic high beams? Really? I mean, how hard is it to pull the steering column arm? Forgot iffin’ it was the left or the right arm since I rarely use my high beams

Very few younguns probably know about the floor switch / button that we had to press with our left foot when we wanted high beams in our back-in-the-day vehicles. fog
Homebrew Offline
#1018 Posted: Fri, Dec 15 2023, 8:14 PM EST
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Palama wrote:
Sheesh, automatic high beams? Really? I mean, how hard is it to pull the steering column arm? Forgot iffin’ it was the left or the right arm since I rarely use my high beams

Very few younguns probably know about the floor switch / button that we had to press with our left foot when we wanted high beams in our back-in-the-day vehicles. fog

I still drive my 1968 chevy C10, pretty regularly, and the highbeam switch is in the floor.
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)Beer
delta1 Offline
#1019 Posted: Sat, Dec 16 2023, 2:15 AM EST
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Palama wrote:
Sheesh, automatic high beams? Really? I mean, how hard is it to pull the steering column arm? Forgot iffin’ it was the left or the right arm since I rarely use my high beams

Very few younguns probably know about the floor switch / button that we had to press with our left foot when we wanted high beams in our back-in-the-day vehicles. fog



you just reactivated a dormant brain cell...
deadeyedick Offline
#1020 Posted: Sat, Dec 16 2023, 7:57 AM EST
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Palama wrote:
Sheesh, automatic high beams? Really? I mean, how hard is it to pull the steering column arm? Forgot iffin’ it was the left or the right arm since I rarely use my high beams

Very few younguns probably know about the floor switch / button that we had to press with our left foot when we wanted high beams in our back-in-the-day vehicles. fog


I have driven a few vehicles that had the starter button on the floorboard.fog
tonygraz Offline
#1021 Posted: Sat, Dec 16 2023, 8:39 AM EST
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Damn, you are old.fog Sarcasm
MACS Offline
#1022 Posted: Sat, Dec 16 2023, 11:09 AM EST
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delta1 wrote:
you just reactivated a dormant brain cell...


Was talking on the phone with my HS buddy Joe. He's going to stop by for a couple days on his way back from visiting his brother in Myrtle Beach. He was talking about our days in A-school in Great Lakes, IL... I was there 2 months ahead, but we had a few months of overlap and apparently we hung out a few times that I do not recall. fog
Gene363 Offline
#1023 Posted: Sat, Dec 16 2023, 11:30 AM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
I have driven a few vehicles that had the starter button on the floorboard.fog


Yes, 1950'ish Chevrolet pickups.
deadeyedick Offline
#1024 Posted: Sun, Dec 17 2023, 8:13 AM EST
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tonygraz wrote:
Damn, you are old.fog Sarcasm


I represent that but ya don't have to be old to like old cars and trucks. Before I bought the '65 Corvette I had a '41 Ford truck for about 5 years. Of course the only thing that was '41 was the body. Everything else was modern EFI V8 and total modern drivetrain. Modern vehicles have little style and all look the same.
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#1025 Posted: Sun, Dec 17 2023, 10:30 AM EST
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From the Honestly podcast by Bari Weisse. December 8th episode titled Why Half of Americab Babies are Born to Unmarried Mothers, Bari talks with an economist who put a bunch of data together, sharing it while being honest about what she is seeing- while trying to insure she doesn't stigmitize anybody (good luck).

In the category you could call "Duh", kids who are raised by two parent homes have more success than those raised by a single parent.

Asian American groups, across all income groups do best by percentage. They have the highest rates of marriage and two parent households.

She tracked % by race. Here is how it breaks down.

Asian 88% of kids are being raised by two parents.
White kids 77%.
Hispanic 62%
Black 38%

She's been hammered by critics publicly, while some of those same people are privately telling her they agree with the overall direction of the book, while warning her she was going to get crucified for being a racist. Appreciate her courage.
rfenst Offline
#1026 Posted: Sun, Dec 17 2023, 11:29 AM EST
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If the numbers and analysis are accurate, the truth can hurt.
MACS Offline
#1027 Posted: Sun, Dec 17 2023, 11:35 AM EST
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rfenst wrote:
If the numbers and analysis are accurate, the truth can hurt.


Then the FBI's Uniform Crime Report must be pretty painful. It shows 52% of all homicides in this country are committed by black males... who make up about 7% of the population.

Wonder if there is a correlation? Think
rfenst Offline
#1028 Posted: Sun, Dec 17 2023, 11:42 AM EST
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MACS wrote:
Then the FBI's Uniform Crime Report must be pretty painful. It shows 52% of all homicides in this country are committed by black males... who make up about 7% of the population.

Wonder if there is a correlation? Think

If the numbers and analysis are accurate, the truth can hurt.
Gene363 Offline
#1029 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 3:54 PM EST
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A couple should not marry until they set up and decorate a Christmas Tree together.
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#1030 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 4:28 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:

A couple should not marry until they set up and decorate a Christmas Tree together.


+1

But, we were married for a little more than 7 years before we had a tree big enough to really decorate. Prior to that we only had short trees 'cause we lived in a small apartment and the kids were young and crawling around.

Can't wait till we get rid of our 7' fake tree and get a shorter one.
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#1031 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 5:04 PM EST
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Britton Hill is the highest natural point in the state of Florida, United States, with a summit elevation of 345 feet (105 meters) above mean sea level. Britton Hill is the lowest state highpoint in the United States.
MACS Offline
#1032 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 6:24 PM EST
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Yeah... this place is flat as a planed board. Rhode Island has hills, but IIRC 800 feet or so is the highest.

De Portola Road in Temecula by the old house rises more than that from bottom to top. Winds through the back side of wine country.
rfenst Offline
#1033 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 7:03 PM EST
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I am 115' above sea level.

LOTS of hills and such southwest of here.

There is also Sugar Loaf Mountain near here at 312'. Biggest peak in the state about 200' above ground-level. Noticeably cooler and breezy at the top on hot days when the air is saturated and stagnant. So steep, I could not ride my bicycle up it when I was riding 35-45 miles per week.

Need to take a car trip there again. It's only about 20 miles from here in the country/agricultural land.
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#1034 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 7:49 PM EST
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Here in north central MA we have Mount Wachusett (just a tall hill for mountain folks). 2,000 over sea level. On a clear day, at the summit your can see (they say) 5 different states: MA, NH, VT CT and RI. I believe the first two but the others I question (need better eyes or sate lines painted out for me). I do know, on a clear day, that you can see Boston since I witnessed it and saw some of the taller buildings on the horizon from the top of the mountain.

They have a nice central MA snow ski thing going on at Wachusset. Summit Elevation: 2006 ft, Vertical Drop: 1000 ft, 27 trails, 8 lifts They do a lot of snow making when the weather is right. I think they only have half of the trails open right now since it's been a rather mild winter so far.
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#1035 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 7:56 PM EST
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New Orleans is 2 feet BELOW sea level….


“ Why does New Orleans flood so much?”
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#1036 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 8:24 PM EST
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I heard it was Bush's fault... Mellow
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#1037 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 8:41 PM EST
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Maybe that's where CROS is. We should send Drafter and Frank's associates to dredge the rivers and stuff.
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#1038 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 9:18 PM EST
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dkeage wrote:
New Orleans is 2 feet BELOW sea level….


“ Why does New Orleans flood so much?”


Next you'll be telling us the USA spent billons of taxpayer dollars building it back in the same below sea level sinkhole.
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#1039 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 9:22 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
Next you'll be telling us the USA spent billons of taxpayer dollars building it back in the same below sea level sinkhole.

"…….or that the crooked politicians had the money necessary to rebuild the levees around New Orleans BEFORE Katrina but chose to pocket it…
Gene363 Offline
#1040 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 10:02 PM EST
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dkeage wrote:
"…….or that the crooked politicians had the money necessary to rebuild the levees around New Orleans BEFORE Katrina but chose to pocket it…


Excellent point. Brick wall Brick wall Brick wall
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#1041 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 10:21 PM EST
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Reminds me of a great song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3fodiK9rY

But that's not recently acquired knowledge
DrafterX Offline
#1042 Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023, 10:35 PM EST
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Mean ole levee... Mad
MACS Offline
#1043 Posted: Sun, Dec 24 2023, 8:21 AM EST
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Temecula was high desert... 1200' above sea level.
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#1044 Posted: Sun, Dec 24 2023, 10:41 AM EST
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rfenst wrote:
I am 115' above sea level.

LOTS of hills and such southwest of here.

There is also Sugar Loaf Mountain near here at 312'. Biggest peak in the state about 200' above ground-level. Noticeably cooler and breezy at the top on hot days when the air is saturated and stagnant. So steep, I could not ride my bicycle up it when I was riding 35-45 miles per week.

Need to take a car trip there again. It's only about 20 miles from here in the country/agricultural land.


My motivating thought was If I was super lazy, and I wanted to conquer a peak in the Lower 48, where would that lowest, high peak be?

Weird in retrospect I was Motivated enough to look for something so Lazy.
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#1045 Posted: Sun, Dec 24 2023, 10:45 AM EST
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Timm’s Hill is Wisconsin’s highest natural point at 1,951 feet. It’s up in the NW Wisconsin, off the beaten trail (3.5 hours) away.
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#1046 Posted: Sun, Dec 24 2023, 2:09 PM EST
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Yesterday was Christmas Adam. Because Adam came before Eve.
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#1047 Posted: Tue, Dec 26 2023, 9:35 PM EST
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Gave a ride to a Corpral in the Marines today. Shared a sharable story from our Cbid resident Senior Chief and he laughed.

It was a fun chat, and I asked his if there were nicknames for Marines that I may have not have heard.

"Well, there is Crayon Eater. As in Maries are so stupid, they eat crayons. It's funny. And kinda true."
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#1048 Posted: Tue, Dec 26 2023, 10:25 PM EST
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Are they flavored Crayons? Like those wax candy things that had fruit or root beer "juice" in them? I liked those things as a kid but I'm not sure they sell them anymore.

I might have to buy a box of Crayons and test them out with some scented candles and stuff.. ya know... for research and stuff.
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#1049 Posted: Tue, Dec 26 2023, 10:25 PM EST
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One O forty NINE!
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#1050 Posted: Wed, Dec 27 2023, 5:01 PM EST
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spectacular pink clouds are caused by air pollution
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