I happened to see a “preview” or whatever the auto-play stuff that runs on streaming platform menus is called while getting ready to watch Mayor of Kingstown. The acting looked even worse than a lot of what I remember from Voyager.
Well, the Home Depot delivered our new dryer this morning right at 7:00 a.m. and I now have it installed and tested and operational. Only one trip to the hardware store for pipe joint compound and an adapter, which may be a new record for me. I'm washing a load of jeans now and will see how she does shortly. Nearly forgot about the water heater but noticed we didn't have any hot water when I washed my hands, but I've got the pilot relit and it's fired up and raising water temperatures again. I do like being handy.
I bought a wall adapter that connects the dryrr duct to the wall with a half twist (like this), and it has been great for quick access to the wall duct with my leafblower - much better cleaning than trying to snake it.
I bought a dryer vent cleaning kit with attachments for my vacuum. Have used it a couple of times outside. But I haven't exactly been, err, nimble enough to pull the dryer out lately to do the inside.
Our dryer was recently overheating so I cleaned out the vent, just in case (it's pretty much just straight up). But the duct was one of those metallic telescoping ones that's basically made of foil, and it started ripping, which meant I cleaned it out and then threw it away. I bought actual duct stuff and that wasn't the problem with the dryer anyway, so after I cut up my hands reassembling the whole duct the repair guy came and took it all back apart to get access to the heating element and then put it back together in a fashion that quickly exposed my ineptitude.
Apparently because I'm feeling the need to post about this, I guess I'm still kind of bitter.
I saw online a magnet dryer vent connection, which looks like it would work pretty nice. I am going to buy one and try it, because getting behind my dryer is very difficult. Luckily its pretty easy for me to clean out the very short dryer vent run from the outside of my house with a shop vac.
I'm reading a book in which a character tells a story, mentioning a detail that in 1952 someone had tickets to watch the Pirates play the Indians (the story is later called out as false in the narrative, so in take this to be the author clueing us in to the unreliable narrator).
Obviously this detail sticks out to me, so I decide to see if there was some weird exhibition or something. Nope.
I read The Adolescence of P-1 back in college in the early 80s, but heck, if you want an earlier AI book there's Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
I can’t wait for AI to become the explanation for everything that goes wrong in the future. The plane crashed because of AI. We screwed up your cable bill due to a ChatGPT failure. We inadvertently leaked your HIPAA data due to an unfortunately efficient algorithm. Siri-AI says My Bad! (sheepish confusion emoji) .
Yes, this!
Believe the reviews: Star Trek: Section 31 is NOT GOOD. Exposition and lack of chemistry are its highlights.
I agree with this and every bad review.
I happened to see a “preview” or whatever the auto-play stuff that runs on streaming platform menus is called while getting ready to watch Mayor of Kingstown. The acting looked even worse than a lot of what I remember from Voyager.
Fleury shuts out the Canadiens in his last game in Montreal.
Well, the Home Depot delivered our new dryer this morning right at 7:00 a.m. and I now have it installed and tested and operational. Only one trip to the hardware store for pipe joint compound and an adapter, which may be a new record for me. I'm washing a load of jeans now and will see how she does shortly. Nearly forgot about the water heater but noticed we didn't have any hot water when I washed my hands, but I've got the pilot relit and it's fired up and raising water temperatures again. I do like being handy.
I bought a wall adapter that connects the dryrr duct to the wall with a half twist (like this), and it has been great for quick access to the wall duct with my leafblower - much better cleaning than trying to snake it.
Ooooh. Two interesting ideas.
I bought a dryer vent cleaning kit with attachments for my vacuum. Have used it a couple of times outside. But I haven't exactly been, err, nimble enough to pull the dryer out lately to do the inside.
Our dryer was recently overheating so I cleaned out the vent, just in case (it's pretty much just straight up). But the duct was one of those metallic telescoping ones that's basically made of foil, and it started ripping, which meant I cleaned it out and then threw it away. I bought actual duct stuff and that wasn't the problem with the dryer anyway, so after I cut up my hands reassembling the whole duct the repair guy came and took it all back apart to get access to the heating element and then put it back together in a fashion that quickly exposed my ineptitude.
Apparently because I'm feeling the need to post about this, I guess I'm still kind of bitter.
Hahaha, that sounds like something that would also happen in my household, and I would likewise be super annoyed about the whole thing!
Dude. Phyllo.
That's why you got a law degree.
I don't think you understand how poor I grew up.
I wasn't talking about you being cheap. More about the lack of success. 😀
I saw online a magnet dryer vent connection, which looks like it would work pretty nice. I am going to buy one and try it, because getting behind my dryer is very difficult. Luckily its pretty easy for me to clean out the very short dryer vent run from the outside of my house with a shop vac.
AI is stupid.
I'm reading a book in which a character tells a story, mentioning a detail that in 1952 someone had tickets to watch the Pirates play the Indians (the story is later called out as false in the narrative, so in take this to be the author clueing us in to the unreliable narrator).
Obviously this detail sticks out to me, so I decide to see if there was some weird exhibition or something. Nope.
But AI gives me different details:
Hmm, that didn't work like I hoped. Clearly AI isn't alone in its stupidity.
yeah, gotta save those search pics outside of FB
I read The Adolescence of P-1 back in college in the early 80s, but heck, if you want an earlier AI book there's Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Basically, the AI search results said the Pirates and Indians played in July 1952 and gave a score, but no such game ever happened. AI lied!
I think the AI people prefer the term “hallucinated.” I always thought that was a questionable framing for it.
I've just learned that you can add "-ai" to the end of a search to forgo those results. I'm going to start adopting that all the time.
The search results themselves are much better these days though...
This is sarcasm, right?
Well, they've been going downhill for awhile now at least.
I can’t wait for AI to become the explanation for everything that goes wrong in the future. The plane crashed because of AI. We screwed up your cable bill due to a ChatGPT failure. We inadvertently leaked your HIPAA data due to an unfortunately efficient algorithm. Siri-AI says My Bad! (sheepish confusion emoji) .