BigO

Seems not too far from our weather. I don't believe we officially hit 100F today, but my car thinks we did.

Agreed. It's his acting talent that makes it work.

The voice he uses in the narration is extremely familiar, but I can't place where else I've heard it. Not sure it was him but very similar. Somewhere.

Those tiny little bones were replaced with titanium? Interesting.

I knew a guy who had been deaf in one hear for many years. Then they fixed it by, as I understood, replacing the bones. This must have been what they did. 

Good to know. Maybe I'll sneak through.

What a maroon.

Many doctors don't even provide those things any more. The neurosurgeon (neck) said that it doesn't change anything about the process whether security know ahead of time or not. I've been reading accounts online and that certainly seems to be the case. I've heard that the TSA often won't even look at them.

I told my boss who I'm traveling with that I'll need to allow extra time for this. The neck implants are relatively small so may or may not trigger, but the knees will almost certainly set off the metal detector.

Expecting it to be fun a complete pain.

I can relate. I'm starting to pull out miscellaneous electronics that I've collected and am either making them useful or making them gone. The dents I've made are undetectably small so far.

Sounds like the red tape some missionaries I know are going through. One is a physician who started and runs a clinic, and he can't get back in that country where he has served for decades.

I hope all goes well in your endeavors.

Ayy, up your nose widda...cotton swab. (I'm guessing you're old enough to remember Welcome Back Kotter.)

Is this for travel? Or were you exposed?
I had it in December. Just a few days after being tested negative prior to surgery. I keep meaning to get an antibody test to see how that's going.

I'm not particularly good at it. And I wasn't a Galaga player in the arcades. I liked playing the WIP, and was really impressed by the visuals achieved on the 2600, so it really was almost as much about supporting the homebrewers as it was a love of the game.

On the other hand, I wouldn't buy a game I didn't like just to support the cause. I mean, I'll buy multiple boxes of Thin Mints, but I'm not spending good money on those nasty coconut things.

I'm not really familiar with Gorf. I think I've played it one of my consoles but can't remember anything about it now.

Honestly, this is the type of outcome I suspected I'd have if I ever got it. But I have to admit that the timing, immediately following the non-trivial trauma and invasion of knee-replacement surgery did have me a bit concerned.

Surgery Monday. Covid Wednesday. It was apparently incubating but undetectable via the pre-op PCR test Friday at 5:30 PM.

Thankfully, i didn't share it with any of the surgical team or post-op care team.

Had it not been for several co-workers with similar symptoms, and with timelines slightly ahead of mine testing positive at various labs, I would have learned toward the false positive theory.

While it wasn't the worst I've felt in my life, it was the worst I've felt in at least 30 years. I just don't ever feel sick. So, it was definitely something unusual.

Agreed. A few seconds ago when I was finishing that last Starburst, life was good.

@OldSchoolRetroGamer, yes, there is at least one. I was looking for an APF MP1000 and found one, price reduced to $314.34.
Used: “Works with controller and graphics issues”

Wow, SlidellMan. For a second there I thought I must have set up a second account and replied to myself. ?

I have had a motor control circuit board fail on the washer. Cost about $2 to replace a bad FET and resistor. But the board would have been $300. It has fairly sophisticated motor controls.

I was surprised at how tiny the pump motor is. It turns out it's a permanent magnet motor. It actually still runs. A piece of bra underwire managed to get through the drum at some point years ago, based on it being rusted into two pieces. Once I found it and removed it, the pump worked fine. I noticed a little side play in the shaft so opted to replace the pump. It wasn't leaking despite the play in the shaft.

Other than that, the only problem I had was the knob failing to turn the *mechanical* timer. I fixed that with less than a dollar's worth of o-rings and epoxy.

In 25 years, I have had zero leak issues. The belt still looks good. I don't recall ever replacing it.

If this unit died and this exact model were still available, I'd buy it in an instant.

Unfortunately, everything you guys say about front loaders seems to be the absolute truth about the newer models. Even the next generation of the Neptune scares me silly.

By "to see if it falls onto the bench", I mean the small, lost object not your head.

From this point forward, when you lose something small, I predict that you'll tilt your head down to see if it falls onto the bench.

So that's a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken stuffed with sausage, and the whole thing wrapped in bacon?

That sounds like something to be thankful for.

I haven't noticed it being particularly tough when prepared that way. I know that slicing it "on the diagonal" helps with that (not that I've personally sliced it, I just eat it ?).

The Schoolhouse Rock segments were well done, educational and somewhat entertaining. I'm not sure if they were effective due to their entertainment value or sheer repetition. Maybe a little of both.

I've wondered where they got TV's that lacked the ability to tune to a different channel or to turn off altogether, and were somehow permanently affixed such that they couldn't be removed from the home. I suppose they bought them at Vast Wasteland.

"We" make brisket wrapped in heavy foil, with liquid smoke, celery seed, other spices and baked in the oven for a long time. Is Texas Brisket like that? Or are you using real smoke? As much as I like the oven baked, liquid smokey kind and could eat it all day, the real wood smoked kind is even better.

Speed Buggy. 
Scooby Doo.

Hong Kong Phooey.

etc.
I remember how exciting it was to watch the previews of the upcoming season of cartoons in prime time!

Yeah, I'm not sure why everything has to be overtly educational. I'm also not sure why certain people tried to say that cartoons like the Road Runner were too violent and should be banned. I knew physics didn't work that way. Were kids getting hurt by dropping anvils off cliffs onto one another's heads? Were other kids really that much stupider than I was?