While I regret clicking on the video (I saw the title and apparently didn’t know what I was expecting) I do have this nostalgia for when TVs were freaking furniture.

The only thing missing is the newer TV sitting on top of this one.

I don’t ever see myself disconnecting from the water company since I have to use sewer service and lack the space to install a septic system. Though I have been looking into plumbing in a grey water system to capture from sinks, showers, dishwasher, and the washing machine. Can do some simple filtering to re-use that for flushing or watering the lawn/garden.

I’ve got 4x55 gallon rain barrels for watering (they’re food grade but advised for non-potable water only). Definitely not enough to cover the household usage even if they were potable. I couldn’t imagine living without water service or a well on my property (not sure if a well would even be practical/possible here).

I’d love to be self-sufficient but not quite able to do so right now.

Hey, I may be ugly and hate-filled, but…what was that third thing?

The only silver lining here is that it’s lit a fire under me to get my small grid-tie solar setup out of storage (haven’t installed it at my new house yet) and expand it.

When I had that running at my old house ($0.09/KWh), my 1.2 KW setup was only saving me about $7-10/mo at most, but at $0.29/KWh, I’m looking at about $27-30.

One particular spite house in Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinny_House_(Boston)#History

According to local legend, the structure was built as a “spite house” shortly after the Civil War:

… two brothers inherited land from their deceased father. While one brother was away serving in the military, the other built a large home, leaving the soldier only a shred of property that he felt certain was too tiny to build on. When the soldier returned, he found his inheritance depleted and built the narrow house to spite his brother by blocking the sunlight and ruining his view.

Another source states:

Not much is known about the city’s narrowest house. Legend has it that … its unnamed builder erected it to shut off air and light from the home of a hostile neighbor (also nameless) with whom he had a dispute. … Believed to have been built after 1874

Anytime someone is the first of their species to join Starfleet, they tend to bend some rules. Which seems pretty consistent across the franchise.

Even in The Orville (which is a love letter to the franchise) they do acknowledge that, especially when there’s a Xeleyan applicant. Xeleyans typically don’t join Starfleet the Union fleet due to their preference for academic and scientific endeavors. When one does sign up, they get fast-tracked.

Sadly never came up.

I generally dislike editorialized headlines (when used as post titles) but this is the exception. Nicely played.

I noticed that, too. I think it’s just the lighting, color balance (it’s got a heavy yellow tint), and the sharp focus only on Briones’s face that’s making it look off. Pretty sure it looked the same in the episode.

Or maybe Briones wasn’t available to shoot that scene and they filmed it with a body double and added her face on in post? I don’t think I’ve read that, but it wouldn’t be unheard of.

Lol, I was gonna say:

If you’re Worf, “Whil Whheaton” is also acceptable.

(Just paying this forward from the last time I made this mistake and someone had to correct me)

Wil Wheaton.

That’s actually closer to real poor than I thought, but I know people who live comfortably on way less. Guess he’s just gonna have to give up the avocado toast until he pulls himself up by his bootstraps.

I’m largely guessing here, but I’d venture he’s just “rich person broke” which is still wealthier than most people will ever be. Again, just a guess.

This piece of shit will appeal all the way to our corrupt SCOTUS and get this nullified. I hate this timeline.

Probably, but that is yet to happen. Until then, join me in just reveling in the headline for a while.

Damn it, Seven, those were my cheesecakes in the mess hall fridge. They even said “Janeway” on the side.

Not sure about Android, but on iOS, when one scans a QR code it shows the web address on the screen that the user then taps on. For the average user, I doubt that they are going to question what the URL is before following through to the website.

Android does the same. The problem is most of those QR codes are encoded short links which tells you nothing about where they’re taking you.

https://short.link/au1034gha could take you to a PDF on the restaurant’s Wordpress site or it could take you to malware or somewhere else you really don’t want to go.

In that case, I blame the people generating the codes for using URL shorteners. My org uses them in flyers for the public, and I always have to chastise them and re-create the QR codes because they run the URL to our website through bit [dot] ly. 😡

I used to work with a guy who was a dead ringer for Bill Bailey both in appearance and personality.