The cafe that opened up in the Credit Union next door is… wonderful.
Their menu is different every day, and it has been delicious every time I’ve gone.
Edit: The menu is different every week too. I don’t think they’ve repeated yet.
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The prices are awesome, and the food sounds great!
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Would someone please get this guy a better bio pic?..
I don’t know if he is a complete tool in real life, but I just don’t get a good vibe when I see him at the bottom of an article.
Is that an old school jacket or a boating club one? Either way, I agree with your “complete tool” analysis.
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Thanks; good to know it isn’t just me.
Gotta wonder. Bio says he is originally from the UK, but has lived here long enough to have potentially adapted to a more colonial sense of style, so to speak.
Trust me, in the UK that is going to get a similar response.
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Dang. I knew cat bites could be nasty, and I expected the antibiotics (horse pill sized), but do not exercise, rest, keep the hand elevated, and come back tomorrow?
I kind of wonder if he’s just wearing it to get attention. Gives me kind of a Paul F. Tompkins vibe. (Who, in the linked picture, had a suit made to mimic one from Jaws.)
Also consider drawing a line at/around any swelling or redness so they can see if it is progressing or regressing. Speaking not one bit from experience, no… 
There’s a line around it. I have to go back today to get it assessed.
Edit: I also took a picture.
“The Next Phase” is a Star Trek: TNG episode that is infamous for having a really big fridge logic problem. Ro and LaForge are out of phase with the rest of the ship, yet no matter how much they run around or how heavily they fall, they don’t sink through the decks and out the bottom of the ship. But a Romulan who had also been phased in that same accident is able to be pushed through the outer bulkhead and drifts away into sapce. At the end of the episode, LaForge is enjoying a meal because they haven’t been able to eat in three days.
That episode was repeated last night on the Heroes & Icons channel and I realized there are a lot more fridge logic problems with that episode:
- Unless the ship was perfectly still relative to the entire universe, the ship should have moved enough for them to have been left behind and they would have been in space pretty quick.
- Because they were out of phase and couldn’t eat, that should have meant that they couldn’t see, hear, speak or breathe. They would have suffocated within minutes.
Stargate SG-1 did a “take that” against the episode by having a character point out that they should sink through the floor if they were phased, but I wonder if anyone else has realized the other points I spotted. I know Spider Robinson used not taking into account the motion of the Earth while teleporting as a point in one of his Callahan’s books.
Fuck off Wix.
Every other Youtube video has a Wix advert now. Even if I did want to build a website, I could use this magical new thing called “doing it myself for free”, and all it’s making me want to do is to go to Curries PC World and pour paint all over the stupid empty cardboard boxes they have in there for Wix products.
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Plus the “actors” punting Wix looks really weird. Never heard of them either.
Finally sold the couch, I took $50 off the price, but the couple that got it was very appreciative and came right on time to get it.
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And another WTF.
I just … I … I have to take a nap.
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Watching the second episode of Ash vs. Evil Dead and Highway Star cranks up before a fight and the CC says “Upbeat Music Starts”…
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The “call an elderly person with news their grandchild needs to be bailed out of jail” scam isn’t new, but The Register has a new twist on it: get ahold of a long enough recording of someone’s voice and software will play back in that voice anything you type.
The scam has depended in the past on older people not having clear memories, and the calls often come in the middle of the night when anyone might not be thinking clearly. Now we add in synthesis of a voice they might actually recognize as legitimate. You’ve got the “you have to take care of this now” urgency that scams usually employ coupled with “that really does sound like my grandson/granddaughter”.
The Register pointed out security and legal issues this technology raises over a year ago. The article said people might have to start speaking differently to voice assistants like Alexa and Siri so that if the recordings of what they’ve said are accessed and fed into the software, there would be a difference in the output as compared to everyday conversations.
I got to listen to a presentation recently on the history of microprocessors and one of the points was that problems like Meltdown and Spectre involve technologies and systems that are so widespread that fixing them may be impossible. Google, Amazon, Apple and Comcast (for their TV remotes) are all pushing their voice assistants. “See how easy it is when you can just say things and search or execute things by voice?” We’re at the Star Trek level of interaction with computers.
Now comes the fact that we shortly may not be able to trust that an audio recording is actually from a person. We’ve already got that with video and pictures. Adobe’s initial reaction was “we’ll watermark it for security purposes”, but that earlier article on the Register pointed out that will raise the question of what about all the other recordings that don’t have a watermark?
I’ll point out this: Will phone systems and VOIP systems have to add in watermark-detection processes so they can alert you that the person you’re speaking with is actually a human and not a simulation of their voice? What about all the existing systems that don’t have that function? How many years did the U.S. have to prepare for the transition from analog to digital TV? That wasn’t a change in response to a security issue. Would it even be possible to completely replace all components of the voice infrastructure?
But that’s not the only voice system that is affected. Cockpit voice recorders become evidence when an accident occurs. Will those also have to be watermarked?
In reading about this issue and while typing this post, I’ve already figured out three other ways voice manipulation could be exploited. I’m not going to say what they are because I don’t want to give anyone ideas about how to commit crimes. And that’s coming from someone who only learned about this a half hour ago.
It’s been said in a few different ways, but I’ll use the quote from Jurassic Park. “[Y]our scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
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Wow. Scary stuff.
Chicken and goat farming in a remote location far and away from technology sure do sound tempting.
@RRabbit42 - another one from The Reg which seems to be harmless, is this one :
What with deepfake and the above voice faking, one can but wonder where things will be going next.
I want to get off this planet.