Acetone mixed with ATF (50/50) is a miracle penetrating fluid. Better than anything you can buy, honest. Try that.

I second that.

1:30am local time. Remoted into work, on the company-wide conference call dealing with the time-change rollover. The east-coast stations are mostly doing ok (one playout server crash, one log mis-sync.) Getting prepped now for Central, which is where all the network uplinks originate (Chicago and Indy).

Can we please get rid of this fucking daylight savings time? Whatever theoretical economic benefits it still provides to farmers are outweighed a thousand-fold by the economic costs imposed by / upon engineers across the nation.

I don't know a single farmer who ever gave a shit about daylight savings time.
Indiana is mostly rural, and we were one of the few states that did not follow daylight savings time.
When it was introduced a few years back, people were seriously pissed.

The "farmer's like it" argument has been debunked. It was propaganda to sell it to the masses back in WWII. DST has less than 35% support of people in this country, and any perceived benefits have long ago been disproven in this age of electronic thingies. The only question remaining is whether to set the time to DST*, standard or split the difference. Not many people want to keep switching back and forth twice a year.

I call it jet lag day. The only thing it does is disrupt my sleep patterns for a week or so.


*Oh, and just to be pedantic, it's Daylight Saving Time, not savings.

We stopped using DST over here.
We're either permanently saving daylight, or permanently wasting it, I'm not sure which way we went.
Speaking of time, the country has definitely gone back a couple centuries, that's for certain.

Heard the latest miff with Netherlands?
People are fiercely attacking French President Francois Hollande on Twitter, because Hollande.
That, and slashing local grown oranges in the streets with dinner knives, because Holland.

Seriously, never a dull moment.

Beside the personal inconvenience of going to DST, High School students waiting for a bus in the morning, in the dark, never seemed all that safe to me.

and this

Aaaaah, Turkey. You gave humanity so very much. But now you've gone and thrown it all away.

As far as DST goes, I really like it being light until 7:30/8PM in the evening. So I'm fine with getting rid of the time shift -- as long as we're on DST permanently, rather than on "standard" time.

Unfortunately, it appears that Federal law prohibits states from doing that.

--Ian

The damned feds. Is there anything they haven't screwed up?

Japanese tentacle-porn.

I bought a rotary vane vacuum pump, vacuum chamber and some stabilizing resin. I am now vacuum infusing a very nice old burl with "cactus juice" (brand name of polymer). Later I will bake it in an old toaster oven, and then I will turn it into pens.

Pens. You pens. Not penis.
For a second I thought...

I have lived a sheltered life:eek5:

Even before that, when a kid is like 6 to 18 months, they are wide open to new flavors. Sometimes you have to try something 10 times (literally) before they pick it up, but they will.

As they get older and are exposed to shitty food (you can avoid it at home, but not everywhere), they may become more picky, but the baseline you set will always be there.

And if they refuse, they don't have to eat it. But you gotta stop making two dinners. We make dinner (OK I make dinner) and if there are complaints, we simply say, "This is what is for dinner. You can eat it or not eat it. There is nothing else for dinner."

And then you laugh when they don't eat it and ask for dessert.

This suffers from the common "all kids are the same, do what I did, you're just not trying hard enough" fallacy. No, they're not all the same.

--Ian

Am part of the 2 meals growing up crew. And I side with Ian.

I literally would not eat things I didn't like when I was younger. To the point of poor nutrition. My parents are not the type to raise a snow flake, yet they gave in on this one.

While you're not wrong, neither is he. My opinion of course. Father of a 4yo boy and 2yo girl.

Not all toddlers are the same, that's true.

But most babies are very similar.. in that they are more open to new foods before 18 months. You can train an 18 month old to eat just about anything.

This is why at age 4 some kids will only eat chicken nuggets and fries

and some will eat hot sauce on their al pastor taco or raw oysters

and some will fall in between.

The question becomes: how do you know why they won't eat what they won't eat? Is it because they truly don't like it or because they want to avoid trying something new and different?

It's not in a human's nature to gravitate to only beige food, it's learned.