DarrinBrunner

My mom did all the cooking, and she made it clear she didn’t enjoy it.

One of my favorites was “beans and hamburger”, basically what it says, but whatever else she put in it was lost to time and Alzheimer’s. I gave up trying to replicate it.

Probably, tuna casserole was the closest we got to hot dog jell-o. I liked tuna casserole. I liked pretty much everything my mom made for dinner. We often had canned peaches or pears over cottage cheese as a side.

However, she overcooked meat, and I thought I didn’t like meat until I was an adult. My poor dad just put up with it, because the only alternative was cooking it himself, and that wasn’t going to happen. But, even if he had, she would have complained, so the only time he got decent meat was at a restaurant.

The only thing I remember my dad making was rice pudding. he made it with raisins and it was delicious.

Pudding is goop!

There’s comfort food, then there’s food that makes you uncomfortable.

I was just assuming she would.

37%

It’s better than I hoped.

Xbox in its death throes.

URL?

Just kidding.

I’m guessing by all the springs, that they tried without the springs and the big boy wasn’t fooled?

Also, what is in the stud’s mouth?

It could be both. People do weird things.

American here. I really wish we’d switched to metric back when we tried in the 70s, when I was a kid.

Someday we will, I hope. Probably not in my lifetime, though.

Kids be like that.

You know what costs even more? Burning fossil fuels. I suspect this little bar graph doesn’t take into account those costs.

refurbished 12 TB Seagate HDDs

There’s your problem.

It’s been a puzzle forever, not just 200 years.

My name on here rhymes with my old account name on Reddit.

Usually, I just pull something out of my ass with the idea of it being hopefully unique. I don’t think at all about the potential deeper meaning it might present.

I used the very first username I came up with for AOL for many, many other accounts, including a gmail account. I used to make accounts for every new platform that came along so I could own that name. It’s unique to this day, and includes no numbers or “special characters”. I can search that name and find old posts and comments I made when I wore a younger man’s clothes. I don’t use that name anymore, but I passed it on to my son in the Steam account I gave him over ten years ago.

I haven’t been out to eat since the pandemic. I got used to cooking my own meals. The prices have gotten ridiculous for what you get, and the service sucks. They can all go out of business for all I care.

I used Plex about 12 years ago. The first time my internet went down, and I couldn’t use it, I stopped using it. Garbage. Not what I wanted.

I used Windows Media Center as long as I could, I loved it. But, eventually, I had to leave Windows 8 behind. Now I use Jellyfin and SABnzbd, it works okay most of the time, but I don’t serve media to the outside, so I don’t know if it works for that.

In 2012 (ish), I bought a lifetime subscription for a flat $75. Over the next few years of using it, they got worse and worse with shit like this, so I switched to Emby for a bit, and then Jellyfin. I never shared with friends, tho, because I have no friends, so it was always just a pretty interface and convenience for me. Lately, I’ve just been opening the files directly in VLC, because Remmina is refusing to connect to my media server, and I can’t be arsed to figure out why.