• your opinion of current w

    From Tiny@21:1/700 to FUSION on Tue May 14 04:17:00 2024
    Quoting Fusion to Arelor <=-

    ketchup belongs on hot dogs

    I was with you up until this. Ketchup belongs on onion rings and only if
    they are bad onion rings. I haven't found another use for the stuff. ;)

    Shawn

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  • From fusion@21:1/616 to Tiny on Tue May 14 04:44:22 2024
    On 14 May 2024, Tiny said the following...

    Quoting Fusion to Arelor <=-

    ketchup belongs on hot dogs

    I was with you up until this. Ketchup belongs on onion rings and only if they are bad onion rings. I haven't found another use for the stuff. ;)

    i recently "discovered" thousand island dressing (was pretty picky as a kid)
    so now i have that with onion rings.

    part of the japanese dish "omurice" is fried rice fried with.. ketchup. it's actually quite nice! but i like ketchup with eggs too

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  • From Dr. What@21:1/616 to Tiny on Tue May 14 07:47:54 2024
    Tiny wrote to FUSION <=-

    ketchup belongs on hot dogs

    I was with you up until this. Ketchup belongs on onion rings and only
    if they are bad onion rings. I haven't found another use for the
    stuff. ;)

    But we aren't supposed to talk about controversial stuff. Like ketchup on oatmeal.


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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to fusion on Tue May 14 08:24:21 2024
    ketchup belongs on hot dogs

    Blasphemer! :D



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Tiny on Tue May 14 07:55:00 2024
    Tiny wrote to FUSION <=-

    ketchup belongs on hot dogs

    I was with you up until this. Ketchup belongs on onion rings and only
    if they are bad onion rings. I haven't found another use for the
    stuff. ;)

    Anybody here from Chicago? I don't know where they learned how to make a
    hot dog, but they own it.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to fusion on Tue May 14 07:59:00 2024
    fusion wrote to Tiny <=-

    i recently "discovered" thousand island dressing (was pretty picky as a kid) so now i have that with onion rings.

    Love it as a "secret sauce" on burgers. My local burger joint calls
    thousand island "burger lube".

    We have a bottle of HP sauce at home all the time, it's like a better A1
    sauce, and is great on fries.



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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 14 11:22:18 2024
    Anybody here from Chicago? I don't know where they learned how to make a hot dog, but they own it.


    Lived in northern Illinois (including Chicago) and I much prefer the Italian Beef sandwich over the Chicago Dog.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Tiny on Tue May 14 09:50:07 2024
    Re: your opinion of current w
    By: Tiny to FUSION on Tue May 14 2024 04:17 am

    ketchup belongs on hot dogs

    I was with you up until this. Ketchup belongs on onion rings and only if they are bad onion rings. I haven't found another use for the stuff. ;)

    I like ketchup and mustard on hot dogs.. And I think ketchup goes pretty good with french fries (and onion rings too).

    One time I saw somene dip a tuna sandwich in ketchup.. That's the only time I've ever seen anyone have ketchup with tuna.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to fusion on Tue May 14 09:52:00 2024
    Re: Re: your opinion of current w
    By: fusion to Tiny on Tue May 14 2024 04:44 am

    i recently "discovered" thousand island dressing (was pretty picky as a kid) so now i have that with onion rings.

    Yeah, that's pretty good too. And I've seen some fast food places and restaurants carry what they call "fry sauce", which seems to me is just thousand island dressing.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Blue White on Tue May 14 09:55:14 2024
    Re: controversy!
    By: Blue White to fusion on Tue May 14 2024 08:24 am

    ketchup belongs on hot dogs

    Blasphemer! :D

    When did ketchup on hot dogs become such a controversial thing? I've always eaten hot dogs with ketchup and mustard, as one variant (chili dogs are another one). I don't recall there ever being a debate about ketchup on hot dogs, but this sounds similar to the pineapple on pizza debate..

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 14 09:58:21 2024
    Re: Re: your opinion of current w
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to fusion on Tue May 14 2024 07:59 am

    i recently "discovered" thousand island dressing (was pretty picky as a
    kid) so now i have that with onion rings.

    Love it as a "secret sauce" on burgers. My local burger joint calls thousand island "burger lube".

    Yeah, there are a couple places in my area that use a variant of thousand island for their burgers. I think it's pretty good. There's another in my area that has their own burger sauce that they make which I think is fairly good, and they even sell it in bottles.

    We have a bottle of HP sauce at home all the time, it's like a better A1 sauce, and is great on fries.

    I often saw HP sauce in a local grocery store chain (Fred Meyer, which has now been owned by Kroger for years), so I didn't think much of it. Only a couple years ago, I learned that HP sauce is from the UK, and it seems it isn't as common in the US as I assumed it was.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Tiny on Wed May 15 06:31:00 2024
    ketchup belongs on hot dogs

    I was with you up until this. Ketchup belongs on onion rings and only if they are bad onion rings. I haven't found another use for the stuff. ;)

    I heard... ketchup is actually collected from bleeding hot dogs. :P

    Spec


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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 14 22:20:27 2024
    Anybody here from Chicago? I don't know where they learned how to make a hot dog, but they own it.

    I'll be heading there soon, but may go more for the pizza.

    I think I like Detroit style the best, and Chicago-style is... weird, but I still prefer it over a variety of thin-crust versions.

    As blasphemous as that may be.

    And I will resist ranting about pineapple on pizza. Talk about controversial, though...

    (But all in fun. Thus why it'd be allowed, as while I have _strong_ opinions on it, I'm not _serious_ about it, as food preferences are a personal thing. If I'm bothering someone, it's wholly non-intentional, beyond a light amount of non-serious teasing.)

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Tiny on Wed May 15 11:06:24 2024
    On 14 May 2024 at 04:17a, Tiny pondered and said...

    Quoting Fusion to Arelor <=-

    ketchup belongs on hot dogs

    I was with you up until this. Ketchup belongs on onion rings and only if they are bad onion rings. I haven't found another use for the stuff. ;)

    Ketchup what's that? :)

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Dr. What on Wed May 15 11:07:26 2024
    On 14 May 2024 at 07:47a, Dr. What pondered and said...

    But we aren't supposed to talk about controversial stuff. Like ketchup
    on oatmeal.

    In the words of George Takei "Oh My" :)

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  • From fusion@21:1/616 to Nightfox on Tue May 14 19:22:29 2024
    On 14 May 2024, Nightfox said the following...

    Re: your opinion of current w
    By: Tiny to FUSION on Tue May 14 2024 04:17 am

    ketchup belongs on hot dogs

    I was with you up until this. Ketchup belongs on onion rings and onl they are bad onion rings. I haven't found another use for the stuff.

    I like ketchup and mustard on hot dogs.. And I think ketchup goes
    pretty good with french fries (and onion rings too).

    One time I saw somene dip a tuna sandwich in ketchup.. That's the only time I've ever seen anyone have ketchup with tuna.

    my sister will eat potato chips, pickles, all sorts of things with ketchup.

    it's weird because french fries go fine, people have pickles on hot dogs. but those seem weirddddd

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  • From fusion@21:1/616 to Nightfox on Tue May 14 19:33:14 2024
    On 14 May 2024, Nightfox said the following...

    Re: Re: your opinion of current w
    By: fusion to Tiny on Tue May 14 2024 04:44 am

    i recently "discovered" thousand island dressing (was pretty picky as kid) so now i have that with onion rings.

    Yeah, that's pretty good too. And I've seen some fast food places and restaurants carry what they call "fry sauce", which seems to me is just thousand island dressing.

    yeah! Freddy's i think has that. funny i never thought of that but they are incredibly similar!

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  • From fusion@21:1/616 to Nightfox on Tue May 14 19:35:03 2024
    On 14 May 2024, Nightfox said the following...

    Re: controversy!
    By: Blue White to fusion on Tue May 14 2024 08:24 am

    ketchup belongs on hot dogs

    Blasphemer! :D

    When did ketchup on hot dogs become such a controversial thing? I've always eaten hot dogs with ketchup and mustard, as one variant (chili
    dogs are another one). I don't recall there ever being a debate about ketchup on hot dogs, but this sounds similar to the pineapple on pizza debate..

    ironically i almost didn't post that one (the text editor one was the other one) .. that and suggesting detroit style pizza is better than deep dish
    seems to ruffle some feathers :)

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to fusion on Tue May 14 18:34:14 2024
    On Wed, 15 May 2024 00:22:28 -0400, you wrote:

    my sister will eat potato chips, pickles, all sorts of things with ketchup.

    it's weird because french fries go fine, people have pickles on hot
    dogs. but those seem weirddddd

    Imagine eating a nice juicy burger.. or hot dog even, with pickles on it. Then dumping a bunch of ketchup over the top. Same thing, minus the bun and burger.

    Potato chips are the exact same thing as fries, except sliced differently before frying them. Same boat.

    Now mind you, I don't eat pickles or potato chips with ketchup, either. I was just playing devils advocate. :)

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to fusion on Tue May 14 17:31:31 2024
    Re: Re: your opinion of current w
    By: fusion to Nightfox on Tue May 14 2024 07:22 pm

    my sister will eat potato chips, pickles, all sorts of things with ketchup.

    Ketchup is a popular potato chip flavor in Canada. I've tried ketchup chips, and I actually like them.

    it's weird because french fries go fine, people have pickles on hot dogs. but those seem weirddddd

    Yeah, pickles with ketchup is unusual.. I've seen people put relish on hot dogs, but not pickle slices. But yeah, even pickles & relish have vinegar, which is also in ketchup, so perhaps ketchup would go well with pickles..

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to fusion on Tue May 14 17:33:50 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: fusion to Nightfox on Tue May 14 2024 07:35 pm

    ironically i almost didn't post that one (the text editor one was the other one) .. that and suggesting detroit style pizza is better than deep dish seems to ruffle some feathers :)

    :) I tend to prefer thin-crust pizza. To me, thick crust and deep dish pizza often feels like the ratio of crust/bread to toppings is wrong (too much crust/bread). But it can still be good sometimes.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to fusion on Wed May 15 16:02:00 2024
    ironically i almost didn't post that one (the text editor one was the other one) .. that and suggesting detroit style pizza is better
    than deep dish seems to ruffle some feathers :)

    Is a detroit style pizza made of steel?


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  • From fusion@21:1/616 to Spectre on Wed May 15 05:24:08 2024
    On 15 May 2024, Spectre said the following...

    ironically i almost didn't post that one (the text editor one was the other one) .. that and suggesting detroit style pizza is better
    than deep dish seems to ruffle some feathers :)

    Is a detroit style pizza made of steel?

    according to some youtube video i watched the rumor is they used scrap sheet metal to make the pans for the pizza. and while i doubt it (if you can convince an italian to cook a pizza on a pan in the first place it better be a nice one) it's a fun idea ;)

    speaking of pizza.. i think i could eat it .. four days in a row?

    1) detroit style - preferably Jet's
    2) new york style - hopefully greasy a.f. this probably can't be a chain..
    3) "little caesars" or perhaps frozen - looking for that "junk" taste
    4) neapolitan / other authentic pizza . googled around a bit and now i wanna
    try this one with zucchini and eggplant.. mmmm

    perhaps day five could be a meatball sub lol

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  • From Tiny@21:1/700 to NIGHTFOX on Wed May 15 06:21:00 2024
    Quoting Nightfox to Tiny <=-

    I like ketchup and mustard on hot dogs.. And I think ketchup goes
    pretty good with french fries (and onion rings too).

    I like mustard on a hot dog, but not ketchup. I don't really eat fries
    anymore but if I do I like a chili sauce with them now.

    One time I saw somene dip a tuna sandwich in ketchup.. That's the
    only time I've ever seen anyone have ketchup with tuna.

    That just sounds disgusintg to me.

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Tiny on Wed May 15 07:25:56 2024
    On 14 May 2024, Tiny said the following...

    I was with you up until this. Ketchup belongs on onion rings and only if they are bad onion rings.

    Have you ever had a Bloomin' Onion from Outback (when they were still in Canada)? We've made them at home a few times along with the dipping sauce, I think the Food Network has a recipe online.

    While the Bloomin' Onion itself is fine & more of a novelty, the we do make just the sauce every so often when we have onion rings (even good ones).


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  • From Dr. What@21:1/616 to Nightfox on Wed May 15 07:54:28 2024
    Nightfox wrote to fusion <=-

    :) I tend to prefer thin-crust pizza. To me, thick crust and deep
    dish pizza often feels like the ratio of crust/bread to toppings is
    wrong (too much crust/bread). But it can still be good sometimes.

    Bringing us back to the "ketchup topic"....

    Back in college, I had a roommate who was... let's say "acted like he had had a frontal lobotomy", to be nice. I.e. he couldn't think ahead.

    Every week, I would get pizza fixings - just a crust/sauce combo, cheese and toppings - make a big pizza, eat a slice or 2 then put the rest in the fridge for later that week.

    He decided that he wanted to do the same thing. So he bought a crust mix. That's all.

    After the crust is made, oiled and spread out in the pan, and the oven pre-heating, he opens the fridge and says "there's no sauce". Like the fridge was a magic box like the Room of Requirement from Harry Potter. So he used ketchup (see what I did there?).

    Then he opens the fridge back up and says "there's no pizza cheese". Why he thought that pizza cheese would magically appear since the last time he looked, I have no idea. Now my grandma had given us some of that gov't cheese - which tastes great on grilled cheese. So he grated some of that on to his ketchup covered pizza dough.

    And third time's the charm, he opens the magic food box back up only to complain that there were no pizza toppings. No substitute here. He puts his processed american cheese topped, ketchup covered, pizza into the oven.

    Needless to say, it did **not** turn out to be a good pizza. And he complained how his pizza didn't turn out like mine.


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  • From Dr. What@21:1/616 to Spectre on Wed May 15 07:54:28 2024
    Spectre wrote to fusion <=-

    Is a detroit style pizza made of steel?

    You remember how people would try to smuggle files into prison in cakes? Detroit pizza comes with a gun. Ammo on the side.


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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Nightfox on Wed May 15 08:32:21 2024
    Blasphemer! :D

    When did ketchup on hot dogs become such a controversial thing? I've
    always eaten hot dogs with ketchup and mustard, as one variant (chili
    dogs are another one). I don't recall there ever being a debate about ketchup on hot dogs, but this sounds similar to the pineapple on pizza debate..

    I actually don't have strong feelings about ketchup on hot dogs, although
    I prefer mustard only on a "plain" dog. Chili dogs and conies are
    excellent provided the sauce is good.

    Now, puting pineapple in pizza is, for me, a true blasphemy. ;) I do
    not like pineapple in general.



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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to fusion on Wed May 15 08:42:02 2024
    2) new york style - hopefully greasy a.f. this probably can't be a
    chain..

    Sounds sort of like what they used to serve us in school, except the
    slices were rectangles. I would use extra napkins to dab the grease off
    the top before eating it. Otherwise, I did enjoy it. ;)



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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Blue White on Wed May 15 11:05:16 2024
    On 15 May 2024, Blue White said the following...

    Now, puting pineapple in pizza is, for me, a true blasphemy. ;) I do
    not like pineapple in general.

    I'm also in the "pineapple is delicious on pizza" camp. I also like a grilled pineapple ring & back bacon on a burger now & then.


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Dr. What on Wed May 15 09:52:09 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: Dr. What to Nightfox on Wed May 15 2024 07:54 am

    Every week, I would get pizza fixings - just a crust/sauce combo, cheese and toppings - make a big pizza, eat a slice or 2 then put the rest in the fridge for later that week.

    He decided that he wanted to do the same thing. So he bought a crust mix. That's all.

    After the crust is made, oiled and spread out in the pan, and the oven pre-heating, he opens the fridge and says "there's no sauce". Like the fridge was a magic box like the Room of Requirement from Harry Potter. So he used ketchup (see what I did there?).

    I've heard that in China, people often put ketchup on pasta, thinking that ketchup is pasta sauce (or close enough)..

    looked, I have no idea. Now my grandma had given us some of that gov't cheese - which tastes great on grilled cheese. So he grated some of that

    Government cheese? What is that?

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Blue White on Wed May 15 09:54:45 2024
    Re: controversy!
    By: Blue White to Nightfox on Wed May 15 2024 08:32 am

    Now, puting pineapple in pizza is, for me, a true blasphemy. ;) I do not like pineapple in general.

    I didn't really like pineapple when I was a kid, but I did like Hawaiian pizza (with pineapple and Canadian bacon). Maybe it was similar to mayonnaise, where I didn't really like it by itself but I thought it could be good on other stuff. These days, I have more liking for pineapple, and even like pineapple juice mixed with other things sometimes.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Warpslide on Wed May 15 10:00:31 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: Warpslide to Blue White on Wed May 15 2024 11:05 am

    I'm also in the "pineapple is delicious on pizza" camp. I also like a grilled pineapple ring & back bacon on a burger now & then.

    For a while, Carl's Jr. had a teriyaki burger which had teriyaki sauce and a grilled pineapple slice on it. I though tit was pretty good. I don't think they have that burger anymore.

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  • From n2qfd@21:1/154 to Blue White on Wed May 15 18:30:50 2024
    Sounds sort of like what they used to serve us in school, except the slices were rectangles. I would use extra napkins to dab the grease off the top before eating it. Otherwise, I did enjoy it. ;)

    Neapolitan style... we had that very same thing right down to mopping up the oil!

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  • From Newtype Len@21:2/148 to Nightfox on Wed May 15 18:47:00 2024
    Hawaiian pizza? Pineapple on a pizza? I will meet you at a location of your choice to 1v1


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Blue White on Thu May 16 14:45:32 2024
    On 15 May 2024 at 08:36a, Blue White pondered and said...

    +1. ~30 years ago, nano (or a predecessor) was the editor that my shell account used as the pine e-mail editor and, IIRC, also with the editor that I used to compose usenet replies.

    this takes me back to the same days using Pine for email and Tin for Usenet etc... I recall using ytalk (I think) to chat with someone in the USA at a St Louis university using the Internet... this was circa 1994/1995 I think.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to ogg on Wed May 15 06:45:00 2024
    ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Lived in northern Illinois (including Chicago) and I much prefer the Italian Beef sandwich over the Chicago Dog.

    What's that like? I'm imagining a sub with roast beef and oil/vinegar?



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Adept on Wed May 15 06:51:00 2024
    Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I think I like Detroit style the best, and Chicago-style is... weird,
    but I still prefer it over a variety of thin-crust versions.

    As blasphemous as that may be.


    Here in California, we do horrible things in the name of Pizza,
    including gluten/dairy free pizzas, but I can still appreciate a good
    slice.

    I went to New Jersey years ago and went to a boardwalk on the coast.
    Went to the pizzeria and got a slice of pepperoni pizza. The crust was
    to die for, and I've never been able to find a comparable crust on this
    coast. It was soft and crunchy at the same time, and thin enough to
    fold and eat properly.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Spectre on Wed May 15 07:17:00 2024
    Spectre wrote to Tiny <=-

    I heard... ketchup is actually collected from bleeding hot dogs. :P

    Top Dog is a seriously cool hot dog restaurant in Oakland and Berkeley,
    CA. They cook to order hot dogs, polish sausage, bratwurst and a couple
    of other sausages on a grill.

    In their condiment bar, they have 3 or 4 mustards with a little
    artisanal description ("A german variety made with xxy mustard seeds,
    coarsely stone ground, with hints of vinegar and white pepper...")

    For Ketchup, the description was

    "Smooshed-up tomatoes. It's really GOOD!"




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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed May 15 23:03:53 2024
    Lived in northern Illinois (including Chicago) and I much prefer the Italian Beef sandwich over the Chicago Dog.

    What's that like? I'm imagining a sub with roast beef and oil/vinegar?

    You're close. It's a sub like bun with sliced, spiced beef. They take the cooking juices (think aus jus) and pour it over the beef depending on how "soggy" you want it. They'll add cooked, long strips of sliced green peppers if you ask.

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  • From Dr. What@21:1/616 to Nightfox on Thu May 16 07:18:45 2024
    Nightfox wrote to Dr. What <=-

    I've heard that in China, people often put ketchup on pasta, thinking
    that ketchup is pasta sauce (or close enough)..

    My grandma used to make "spaghetti like great-grandma" which consisted of elbow macaroni, tomato soup and bacon. Not Italian, but very tasty.

    Government cheese? What is that?

    Wow! That was a long time ago. So back in the 1980's, the gov't had "surplus" food (because of the usual gov't reasons) that they would give out to low income or other "needy" people.

    The food was usually butter, cheese and, sometimes, honey.

    The honey was just regular honey. The butter was awful, but grandma found that it worked really nice for butter toffee. The cheese, though... Oh, the cheese was really good. Sort of like a very firm Velveeta. It melted nice and had a good flavor. Us college guys made grilled cheese sandwiches. Sometimes we made mac and cheese too.


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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Warpslide on Thu May 16 07:28:12 2024
    Now, puting pineapple in pizza is, for me, a true blasphemy. ;)
    I do
    not like pineapple in general.

    I'm also in the "pineapple is delicious on pizza" camp. I also like a grilled pineapple ring & back bacon on a burger now & then.

    Mmmmmmm... back bacon.

    The rest sounds hideous. :D



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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to n2qfd on Thu May 16 07:35:27 2024
    Sounds sort of like what they used to serve us in school, except
    the
    slices were rectangles. I would use extra napkins to dab the
    grease off

    Neapolitan style... we had that very same thing right down to mopping
    up the oil!

    I did not realize that was what it was called. ;) They used to make it
    on huge rectangular cooking pans, like one might make cookies on but much larger.

    Assuming it didn't come pre-made, I am guessing that is what they used
    their government cheese for.



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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Avon on Thu May 16 07:37:25 2024
    this takes me back to the same days using Pine for email and Tin for
    Usenet etc... I recall using ytalk (I think) to chat with someone in
    the USA at a St Louis university using the Internet... this was circa 1994/1995 I think.

    Tin! That is the name of the news reader that I couldn't remember. I
    don't remember using ytalk, but I do remember using finger to figure out
    if someone was on, and then using talk (which could have been ytalk) to
    chat for a bit.



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  • From tenser@21:1/101 to Blue White on Fri May 17 02:56:39 2024
    On 16 May 2024 at 07:37a, Blue White pondered and said...

    Tin! That is the name of the news reader that I couldn't remember. I don't remember using ytalk, but I do remember using finger to figure out if someone was on, and then using talk (which could have been ytalk) to chat for a bit.

    `ytalk` was (is?) a client for the `ntalk` protocol, which
    let users "talk" over a bidirectional TCP connection; the
    `ntalk` protocol was just a way of shipping information
    about who wanted to talk to some remote machine; the conversation
    itself happened over a bog-standard TCP connection. The
    `ntalk` protocol differs from the `talk` protocol in being
    slightly less machine-dependent (ie, the byte order of the
    computer matters in the latter, while the former uses network
    byte ordering for everything. So with the latter, you couldn't
    talk between a VAX and a Sun, but with the former you could).
    Neither protocol ever grew support for IPv6.

    There were several different clients; one came with BSD (and
    most Unixes). `ytalk` was different; it also supported
    "multiway" chat between more than two parties.

    Almost none of this is used anymore. Kind of sad, in a way.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Newtype Len on Thu May 16 06:26:00 2024
    Newtype Len wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Hawaiian pizza? Pineapple on a pizza? I will meet you at a location of your choice to 1v1

    Pineapple and SPAM pizza. It's great, as long as you're in Hawaii.




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Avon on Thu May 16 06:29:00 2024
    Avon wrote to Blue White <=-

    this takes me back to the same days using Pine for email and Tin for Usenet etc... I recall using ytalk (I think) to chat with someone in
    the USA at a St Louis university using the Internet... this was circa 1994/1995 I think.

    I'll add to that - running Windows 3.11 and using tools that created a
    SLIP connection over a dial-up shell account, because a true PPP
    account was too expensive. I think I used slIRP, capitalized something
    like that.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to ogg on Thu May 16 06:36:00 2024
    ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    You're close. It's a sub like bun with sliced, spiced beef. They take the cooking juices (think aus jus) and pour it over the beef depending
    on how "soggy" you want it. They'll add cooked, long strips of sliced green peppers if you ask.

    OK, now it's 0632 local time and I'm jonesing for a cheese steak.
    Surprisingly, there are decent cheese steak places in California where
    they don't put sprouts or avocado on, or have a gluten-free bun or
    impossible beef. The key is the place has to have the words "cheese
    steak" in the name. Get a cheesesteak anywhere else and it's horrid.

    The CheeseSteak Shop in Oakland, CA had a great cheesesteak sandwich,
    steak fries seasoned with paprika, cokenotpepsi and those packaged
    TastyKake "twinkies" - which apparently are a Philly thing.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Blue White on Thu May 16 06:37:00 2024
    Blue White wrote to Warpslide <=-

    Mmmmmmm... back bacon.

    On grilled french bread in the morning, before skiing. Memories.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Blue White on Thu May 16 06:46:00 2024
    Blue White wrote to n2qfd <=-

    Neapolitan style... we had that very same thing right down to mopping
    up the oil!

    I did not realize that was what it was called. ;) They used to make
    it on huge rectangular cooking pans, like one might make cookies on but much larger.

    We just got a neopolitan-style pizza join in downtown Santa Cruz, CA.
    Sounds like what we in California call "flatbread". I'm looking forward
    to trying it out.



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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Dr. What on Thu May 16 12:23:39 2024
    Bringing us back to the "ketchup topic"....

    Back in college, I had a roommate who was... let's say "acted like he
    had had a frontal lobotomy", to be nice. I.e. he couldn't think ahead.

    Every week, I would get pizza fixings - just a crust/sauce combo, cheese and toppings - make a big pizza, eat a slice or 2 then put the rest in
    the fridge for later that week.

    He decided that he wanted to do the same thing. So he bought a crust
    mix. That's all.

    After the crust is made, oiled and spread out in the pan, and the oven pre-heating, he opens the fridge and says "there's no sauce". Like the fridge was a magic box like the Room of Requirement from Harry Potter.
    So he used ketchup (see what I did there?).

    Then he opens the fridge back up and says "there's no pizza cheese".
    Why he thought that pizza cheese would magically appear since the last time he looked, I have no idea. Now my grandma had given us some of
    that gov't cheese - which tastes great on grilled cheese. So he grated some of that on to his ketchup covered pizza dough.

    And third time's the charm, he opens the magic food box back up only to complain that there were no pizza toppings. No substitute here. He
    puts his processed american cheese topped, ketchup covered, pizza into
    the oven.

    Needless to say, it did **not** turn out to be a good pizza. And he complained how his pizza didn't turn out like mine.

    Was he high? :D

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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 16 11:39:49 2024
    The CheeseSteak Shop in Oakland, CA had a great cheesesteak sandwich, steak fries seasoned with paprika, cokenotpepsi and those packaged TastyKake "twinkies" - which apparently are a Philly thing.

    It's 11:32 am local time here and I am now officially hungry! Unfortunately, I'm on a grain free diet and had to give up the bread. It's done wonders for my diabetes but I still get those cravings! I would just have to eat the cheesesteak meat, no cokenotpepsi (I like that!) and make sure the fries weren't coated. Life's a bit?h when you get old!

    Scott

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Newtype Len on Thu May 16 09:50:55 2024
    Re: controversy!
    By: Newtype Len to Nightfox on Wed May 15 2024 06:47 pm

    Hawaiian pizza? Pineapple on a pizza? I will meet you at a location of your choice to 1v1

    Agreed. :P

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Dr. What on Thu May 16 09:56:49 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: Dr. What to Nightfox on Thu May 16 2024 07:18 am

    I've heard that in China, people often put ketchup on pasta, thinking
    that ketchup is pasta sauce (or close enough)..

    My grandma used to make "spaghetti like great-grandma" which consisted of elbow macaroni, tomato soup and bacon. Not Italian, but very tasty.

    That does sound good.

    Government cheese? What is that?

    Wow! That was a long time ago. So back in the 1980's, the gov't had "surplus" food (because of the usual gov't reasons) that they would give out to low income or other "needy" people.

    I was around in the 80s (just a kid), but I don't remember that.

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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Tiny on Thu May 16 12:42:40 2024
    Never have put Ketchup on Onion Rings, alway have ate them as served.
    Here, I put Mustard on Hot Dog(s), spouse uses ketchup on hers

    Ketchup goes well with French Fried Potatoes.
    Used to like Arby's Curly Fries but ate them without any toping(s), now I order the Crinkle Fries and of course place a dab of Ketchup on each portion as I eat it .

    WHAT! THIS ISN'T THE COOKING ECHO??????
    Ed
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to ogg on Thu May 16 10:17:06 2024
    Re: Re: your opinion of current w
    By: ogg to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 16 2024 11:39 am

    It's 11:32 am local time here and I am now officially hungry!
    Unfortunately, I'm on a grain free diet and had to give up the bread. It's


    I'm counting calories religiously - it's the first time I've tried that. I've had to manage my weight continually - lost 75 pounds on Weight Watchers back in 2000, then have tried plant only, Atkins, Keto, and WW again, with short-term success.

    This works pretty well, I don't limit what I eat, just limit portion sizes. I'm tracking in the FitBit software, which also tracks steps and facotrs exercize in to calorie counts.
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 16 12:52:46 2024
    I enjoy Thousand Island Salad Dressing on a Salad.
    Never thought to use it on anything else.
    I might have to try it on a Hamburger sandwich instead of getting the Mayonnaise Jar out of the refrigerator, I'll snub it and try TI to see if it pleases Me too.
    Thanks All, Ed
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Blue White on Thu May 16 13:45:54 2024
    I saw a family member sprinkling Franks Tobbasco Sauce on Scrambled Eggs
    I asked to try some of it too and was told that I wouldn't like it.
    I kept on asking and finally got ONE drop put on my Scrambled Eggs, I ate one bite and never again wanted anymore Franks Tobbasco Sauce on any food.

    Since the early 1990's when McDonald's began serving Breakfast Burritos w/ mild Picante Sauce, I have got a Jar of Mild Taco Sauce and use it on Scrambled Eggs.
    I tried Mild Taco Salsa but don't like that as well as Taco Sauce, even tho I see Salsa advertised .more often in places I frequent.

    Yes, I'm Opinionated as everyone else is.
    Ed
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Tiny on Thu May 16 13:46:19 2024
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  • From n2qfd@21:1/154 to Blue White on Thu May 16 15:17:28 2024
    I did not realize that was what it was called. ;) They used to make it on huge rectangular cooking pans, like one might make cookies on but much larger.

    Yeah,
    Weekends we used to make pizza too. We've get dough mix and we had a store selling the govt' cheese which was very orange and oily.
    Life in the 90's in rural NY!

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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 16 14:31:08 2024
    I'm counting calories religiously - it's the first time I've tried that. I've had to manage my weight continually - lost 75 pounds on Weight Watchers back in 2000, then have tried plant only, Atkins, Keto, and WW

    Know Weight Watchers! They helped me lose 25 pounds. 75 pounds is great! Did you get your pins?

    again, with short-term success.

    This works pretty well, I don't limit what I eat, just limit portion sizes. I'm tracking in the FitBit software, which also tracks steps and facotrs exercize in to calorie counts.

    Before covid, I was hiking/backpacking 40-50 miles per week in the Virginia mountains. We had to move due to wife losing her job. We ended up in
    eastern Texas where there aren't any mountains nor much in the way of hiking opportunities. I put on 20 pounds the first year so started running/walking
    on treadmills. Didn't help diabetes plus the boredom drove me crazy! Finally got hooked up with doctor who suggested the no grain diet. My testing
    numbers have since plummeted.:) Plus I've lost over half of the weight. It's really a mind game now.

    While in Virginia, I had a fitbit that I wore religiously. It got to the
    point that the battery died, wouldn't charge. I miss it.

    Scott

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Ed Vance on Thu May 16 15:09:52 2024
    I saw a family member sprinkling Franks Tobbasco Sauce on Scrambled Eggs I asked to try some of it too and was told that I wouldn't like it.
    I kept on asking and finally got ONE drop put on my Scrambled Eggs, I
    ate one bite and never again wanted anymore Franks Tobbasco Sauce on any food.

    Since the early 1990's when McDonald's began serving Breakfast Burritos
    w/ mild Picante Sauce, I have got a Jar of Mild Taco Sauce and use it on Scrambled Eggs.
    I tried Mild Taco Salsa but don't like that as well as Taco Sauce, even tho I see Salsa advertised .more often in places I frequent.

    I feel the same way about eggs. This has been part of my diet for 25 years. I eat eggs almost daily.

    I prefer a cooked egg on a english muffin with some ham and cheese. Toasted.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Ed Vance on Thu May 16 12:47:41 2024
    Re: your opinion of current w
    By: Ed Vance to Tiny on Thu May 16 2024 12:42 pm

    Never have put Ketchup on Onion Rings, alway have ate them as served.

    I think ketchup can be good on onion rings. I also like to eat them plain. There are some places that I've eaten at that offer other condiments that are pretty good on onion rings.

    Ketchup goes well with French Fried Potatoes. Used to like Arby's Curly Fries but ate them without any toping(s), now I order the Crinkle Fries and of course place a dab of Ketchup on each portion as I eat it .

    I think Arby's curly fries taste good enough to be eaten without ketchup, though sometimes I like ketchup on those too. If I order from Arby's and get fries, I pretty much always order their curly fries rather than the crinkle fries.

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 16 12:48:52 2024
    Re: Re: your opinion of current w
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to ogg on Thu May 16 2024 10:17 am

    I've had to manage my weight continually - lost 75 pounds on Weight Watchers back in 2000, then have tried plant only, Atkins, Keto, and WW again, with short-term success.

    I went to a Weight Watchers meeting years ago (2010) and I was the only guy there.. The rest were women. I felt a little out of place..

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Ed Vance on Thu May 16 12:50:36 2024
    Re: Re: your opinion of current w
    By: Ed Vance to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 16 2024 12:52 pm

    I enjoy Thousand Island Salad Dressing on a Salad. Never thought to use it on anything else.

    When I was a kid, I sometimes liked Thousand Island dressing on salad. I haven't done that in years though. I tend to prefer Thousand Island on other things now - either as a condiment for fries or as a spread on a hamburger.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to niter3 on Thu May 16 12:53:00 2024
    Re: controversy!
    By: niter3 to Ed Vance on Thu May 16 2024 03:09 pm

    I prefer a cooked egg on a english muffin with some ham and cheese. Toasted.

    There are toasters that have an egg poacher on the side that you can use to make English muffin egg sandwiches. Usually you can also heat a frozen sausage patty in the poacher if you like sausage on it.

    Nightfox
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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Nightfox on Thu May 16 16:22:47 2024
    I went to a Weight Watchers meeting years ago (2010) and I was the only guy there.. The rest were women. I felt a little out of place..

    I don't think going is necessary at all.

    There is more to this, but essentially for every 57 calories it's one point.

    Their new system is just confusing. I've stuck to this plan and I've been good over the years.

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Nightfox on Thu May 16 16:25:34 2024
    There are toasters that have an egg poacher on the side that you can use to make English muffin egg sandwiches. Usually you can also heat a
    frozen sausage patty in the poacher if you like sausage on it.

    Do you have a link to one?

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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to niter3 on Thu May 16 15:55:26 2024
    Madison York Microwave Omelette Maker.
    Bought one of those at Ollie's for abt $5 USD.
    Went back to buy more to give out but couldn't find anymore of them.

    In January I searched and noticed Wal-Mart has them only online for a few bucks more than I paid for mine.

    If You get one, place it on a microwave safe plate when using it because the halves will flip downward when handling it & causing the beaten eggs to spill out . (using the plate isn't mentioned on the paper included with the item)
    I learned that the hard way. And Yes I did follow the printed instructions.

    After preparing the eggs and separately preparing the filling(s).
    Cooking the omelette takes 3 minutes in the microwave.

    My wife thought I was stupid paying 5 Bucks for it.
    After I cooked the first one she saw doing that was a lot easier than making an omelette in the saucepan and loves making omelettes w/ it too.

    If the maker isn't on a plate /\ is the shape it unfolds to.
    Thought I would include. ^. a graphic of how it. looks unfolded.

    Know What I Mean?

    Disclaimer: I am only a purchaser of this item, not employed by Ollie's or the Madison York Company.

    Ed
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to n2qfd on Thu May 16 16:06:36 2024
    Once, we bought a box of Chef Boyarde(?sp?) Pizza Mix and all of the toppings we liked plus the Cheese.

    It costed a good deal to buy all that stuff.
    We prepared it and did enjoy it after we cooked it, but decided it was cheaper and easier to go to a Pizza Restaurant when we wanted to eat Pizza.
    We occasionally buy a frozen Rising Crust Pizza at the Grocery Store to cook in the oven, if we aren't wanting to go out for one

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to niter3 on Thu May 16 14:40:31 2024
    Re: your opinion of current w
    By: niter3 to Nightfox on Thu May 16 2024 04:22 pm

    I went to a Weight Watchers meeting years ago (2010) and I was the only
    guy there.. The rest were women. I felt a little out of place..

    I don't think going is necessary at all.

    There is more to this, but essentially for every 57 calories it's one point.

    Yeah, I figured I could probably do that on my own if I wanted to.

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to niter3 on Thu May 16 14:43:49 2024
    Re: controversy!
    By: niter3 to Nightfox on Thu May 16 2024 04:25 pm

    There are toasters that have an egg poacher on the side that you can use
    to make English muffin egg sandwiches. Usually you can also heat a
    frozen sausage patty in the poacher if you like sausage on it.

    Do you have a link to one?

    I currently have one of these: https://www.amazon.com/West-Bend-78500-Breakfast-Removable/dp/B07KMVKDSP

    Years ago (2008), I had one of these which I bought at my local Target (and was branded as a different brand): https://www.samstores.com/product-tefal-tt550015-toast-and-egg-two-slice-toaste r-and-egg-maker-27674.html
    Shortened link:
    https://shorturl.at/eCMRX
    However, that one might have been discontinued (hence the high price now).

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Ed Vance on Thu May 16 14:52:20 2024
    Re: controversy!
    By: Ed Vance to niter3 on Thu May 16 2024 03:55 pm

    Madison York Microwave Omelette Maker.
    Bought one of those at Ollie's for abt $5 USD. Went back to buy more to give out but couldn't find anymore of them.

    That would be interesting. I wonder how the omlettes come out in the microwave, and if that makes it easier to cook omlettes. I like cooking omlettes, and over the years I think I've gotten alright at cooking them in a pan, where I can flip the egg mixture in the pan without it falling apart.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Ed Vance on Thu May 16 14:55:47 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: Ed Vance to n2qfd on Thu May 16 2024 04:06 pm

    Once, we bought a box of Chef Boyarde(?sp?) Pizza Mix and all of the toppings we liked plus the Cheese.

    It costed a good deal to buy all that stuff. We prepared it and did enjoy it after we cooked it, but decided it was cheaper and easier to go to a Pizza Restaurant when we wanted to eat Pizza. We occasionally buy a frozen Rising Crust Pizza at the Grocery Store to cook in the oven, if we aren't wanting to go out for one

    I'd be surprised if it was cheaper to buy a pizza at a pizza restaurant compared to buying the ingredients and cooking your ownat home. For a while now, it seemed to me that pizza restaurants tend to charge a lot for their pizza, at least if you're buying a large one. For a large pizza, some pizza restaurants in my area charge about $25 to $30 or more, depending on the pizza. When I was growing up, I seem to remember it would often cost around $20 for a pizza that would feed our small family.

    Some are less expensive, especially bake-at-home pizza shops (such as Papa Murphy's). And of course, the frozen ones from the supermarket are fairly inexpensive.

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  • From n2qfd@21:1/154 to Nightfox on Thu May 16 18:16:03 2024
    I'd be surprised if it was cheaper to buy a pizza at a pizza restaurant compared to buying the ingredients and cooking your ownat home. For a

    Remember folks, this was like 1993... and it was more about the activity than the food at that point. it was a weekend thing to do, staying with a cousin who lived on a real back road, still had a party line for phone, you got the cheese at the deli part of the gas station and rented a movie on the other end of the store. There was no cable, there was no antenna even in that hollow.
    Modernity and at a rapid pace but for a while it was pretty isolated.

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 16 18:06:56 2024
    On Wed, 15 May 2024 12:17:00 -0700, you wrote:

    In their condiment bar, they have 3 or 4 mustards with a little
    artisanal description ("A german variety made with xxy mustard seeds, coarsely stone ground, with hints of vinegar and white pepper...")

    I never knew Germany took mustard so seriously until I watched an episode of 'The Amazing Race' some years ago and they did a mustard tasting of like 9 different varieties on one of the legs of the race.

    For Ketchup, the description was

    "Smooshed-up tomatoes. It's really GOOD!"

    That about sums it up!

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Nightfox on Thu May 16 18:16:42 2024
    On Thu, 16 May 2024 14:56:48 -0700, you wrote:

    Government cheese? What is that?

    Wow! That was a long time ago. So back in the 1980's, the gov't had
    "surplus" food (because of the usual gov't reasons) that they
    would give out to low income or other "needy" people.

    I was around in the 80s (just a kid), but I don't remember that.

    Guessing you didn't grow up anywhere near a ghetto, then. :)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Ed Vance on Thu May 16 18:20:48 2024
    On Thu, 16 May 2024 18:45:54 -0500, you wrote:

    I saw a family member sprinkling Franks Tobbasco Sauce on Scrambled Eggs
    I asked to try some of it too and was told that I wouldn't like it.
    I kept on asking and finally got ONE drop put on my Scrambled Eggs, I
    ate one bite and never again wanted anymore Franks Tobbasco Sauce on any food.

    Franks Red Hot? It's great on chicken wings, but I'd have to agree with you there. I wouldn't put it on eggs. Mild Salsa works wonders on eggs, though.

    I tried Mild Taco Salsa but don't like that as well as Taco Sauce, even tho I see Salsa advertised .more often in places I frequent.

    Is it the chunks in the salsa that sways you more towards taco sauce?

    Yes, I'm Opinionated as everyone else is.

    As you should be!

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Nightfox on Thu May 16 18:22:40 2024
    On Thu, 16 May 2024 17:48:52 -0700, you wrote:

    I went to a Weight Watchers meeting years ago (2010) and I was the only
    guy there.. The rest were women. I felt a little out of place..

    Should have turned on the charm and tried to see how many numbers you could get. ;)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Blue White on Thu May 16 18:39:58 2024
    Hello Blue,

    On Thu, May 16 2024 12:37:24 -0500, you wrote:

    Tin! That is the name of the news reader that I couldn't remember. I don't remember using ytalk, but I do remember using finger to figure out if someone was on, and then using talk (which could have been ytalk) to chat for a bit.

    Psst. Take a look at the tearline. :)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Uber-Geek@21:1/161 to Newtype Len on Thu May 16 19:42:35 2024
    Hawaiian pizza? Pineapple on a pizza? I will meet you at a location of your choice to 1v1

    1v1 split a Hawaiian pizza? I'm in! Lemme grab a four-pack of IBC Cream Soda!

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Accession on Thu May 16 16:50:30 2024
    Re: your opinion of current w
    By: Accession to Nightfox on Thu May 16 2024 06:22 pm

    I went to a Weight Watchers meeting years ago (2010) and I was the only
    guy there.. The rest were women. I felt a little out of place..

    Should have turned on the charm and tried to see how many numbers you could get. ;)

    I was already taken at the time. :)

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  • From fusion@21:1/616 to Blue White on Thu May 16 20:17:26 2024
    On 16 May 2024, Blue White said the following...

    Tin! That is the name of the news reader that I couldn't remember. I don't remember using ytalk, but I do remember using finger to figure out if someone was on, and then using talk (which could have been ytalk) to chat for a bit.

    it's kind of weird, there was a whole sort of parallel bbs community on the "freenets" back then. with the added benefit of being able to actually use
    the shell account to do "work" if you were into that sort of thing.

    of course if you were in university you'd probably have access to their servers instead (and in fact some of the docs for pine on the internet still include help for accessing email at specific schools)

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  • From fusion@21:1/616 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 16 20:30:48 2024
    On 16 May 2024, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

    I'll add to that - running Windows 3.11 and using tools that created a
    SLIP connection over a dial-up shell account, because a true PPP
    account was too expensive. I think I used slIRP, capitalized something
    like that.

    my first actual internet access at home was via a local bbs that had a ppp door. worked pretty decent technically but was slow as could be.

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Nightfox on Thu May 16 19:30:36 2024
    On Thu, 16 May 2024 21:50:30 -0700, you wrote:

    Should have turned on the charm and tried to see how many numbers you
    could get.

    I was already taken at the time. :)

    Welp, any fun there just went right out the window. :)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Avon on Fri May 17 11:24:00 2024
    this takes me back to the same days using Pine for email and Tin for Usenet etc... I recall using ytalk (I think) to chat with someone in the USA at a St Louis university using the Internet... this was circa 1994/1995 I think.

    ytalk... we had the Apple User club BBS back then, weirdly running on a 486 with an early Slak install. We had a 4 way ytalk chat with the admin guys that really new what they were doing. While the GF of the time and myself, still had training wheels on, we just happened to be hosting the hardware.
    Probably a few years earlier though, 92/93 maybe.

    Back then there was no way to host a multiline dialup system on a Mac. AU/X didn't support PPP. Apple was dropping, and there was no software for MacOS
    of the age either.

    Spec


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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Ed Vance on Thu May 16 21:51:17 2024
    Madison York Microwave Omelette Maker.
    Bought one of those at Ollie's for abt $5 USD.
    Went back to buy more to give out but couldn't find anymore of them.

    In January I searched and noticed Wal-Mart has them only online for a
    few bucks more than I paid for mine.

    If You get one, place it on a microwave safe plate when using it
    because the halves will flip downward when handling it & causing the beaten eggs to spill out . (using the plate isn't mentioned on the
    paper included with the item) I learned that the hard way. And Yes I
    did follow the printed instructions.

    Nice... This looks interesting... However to do an omelette, you would still need to cut up all the vegetables and anything else you toss in it.

    The cooking part on the pan I don't mind, it's the prep work for it.

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Nightfox on Thu May 16 21:54:05 2024
    I currently have one of these: https://www.amazon.com/West-Bend-78500-Breakfast-Removable/dp/B07KMVKDSP

    Wow! I've never seen these before. Very interesting...

    I usually just toss an egg in the microwave, toast my english muffins and melt cheese and ham on top of the cooked egg afterwards.

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Nightfox on Thu May 16 21:54:55 2024
    That would be interesting. I wonder how the omlettes come out in the microwave, and if that makes it easier to cook omlettes. I like cooking omlettes, and over the years I think I've gotten alright at cooking them in a pan, where I can flip the egg mixture in the pan without it falling apart.

    One thing I cannot stand about omelettes is when you overcook it slightly. That taste grosses me out.

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Nightfox on Thu May 16 21:55:48 2024
    I'd be surprised if it was cheaper to buy a pizza at a pizza restaurant compared to buying the ingredients and cooking your ownat home. For a while now, it seemed to me that pizza restaurants tend to charge a lot
    for their pizza, at least if you're buying a large one. For a large pizza, some pizza restaurants in my area charge about $25 to $30 or
    more, depending on the pizza. When I was growing up, I seem to remember
    it would often cost around $20 for a pizza that would feed our small family.

    Some are less expensive, especially bake-at-home pizza shops (such as
    Papa Murphy's). And of course, the frozen ones from the supermarket are fairly inexpensive.

    I heard you can buy Costco pizza and bring it home and cook it?

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Blue White on Fri May 17 14:35:21 2024
    On 16 May 2024 at 07:37a, Blue White pondered and said...

    Tin! That is the name of the news reader that I couldn't remember. I don't remember using ytalk, but I do remember using finger to figure out if someone was on, and then using talk (which could have been ytalk) to chat for a bit.

    I was talking to my wife last night about this and mentioned Finger also... it's hard not to giggle when you say that...sorry... but hey yeah good times..

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to tenser on Fri May 17 14:37:06 2024
    On 17 May 2024 at 02:56a, tenser pondered and said...

    There were several different clients; one came with BSD (and
    most Unixes). `ytalk` was different; it also supported
    "multiway" chat between more than two parties.

    Almost none of this is used anymore. Kind of sad, in a way.


    I'm glad my memory is good enough to recall it.

    Say (speaking of not in use now) do you follow the Serial Port YouTube channel and their efforts to resurrect old software. Archie just came back from the brink :)

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri May 17 14:37:50 2024
    On 16 May 2024 at 06:29a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

    I'll add to that - running Windows 3.11 and using tools that created a
    SLIP connection over a dial-up shell account, because a true PPP
    account was too expensive. I think I used slIRP, capitalized something
    like that.

    I have a couple of words that spring to mind.... Trumpet Winsock :)

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Spectre on Fri May 17 14:46:58 2024
    On 17 May 2024 at 11:24a, Spectre pondered and said...

    ytalk... we had the Apple User club BBS back then, weirdly running on a 486 with an early Slak install. We had a 4 way ytalk chat with the admin guys that really new what they were doing. While the GF of the time and myself, still had training wheels on, we just happened to be hosting the hardware. Probably a few years earlier though, 92/93 maybe.
    Back then there was no way to host a multiline dialup system on a Mac. AU/X didn't support PPP. Apple was dropping, and there was no software for MacOS of the age either.

    Nice to know there were all sorts of usage/uses of ytalk going on at the time.

    I'm starting to wonder if we can (in some way) bring it back?

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  • From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to Blue White on Thu May 16 23:24:53 2024
    I'm also in the "pineapple is delicious on pizza" camp. I also like a grilled pineapple ring & back bacon on a burger now & then.
    Mmmmmmm... back bacon.
    The rest sounds hideous. :D

    Yes bring back bacon. Also pineable on pizza... despite what most of my country thinks... just no!

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Avon on Fri May 17 17:19:08 2024
    Re: Re: Pine, TIN etc.
    By: Avon to tenser on Fri May 17 2024 02:37 pm

    Howdy,

    Say (speaking of not in use now) do you follow the Serial Port YouTube channel and their efforts to resurrect old software. Archie just came back from the brink :)

    I was curious about this as I dont think I ever heard of archie ... (Well I dont remember anyway...)


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  • From Dr. What@21:1/616 to niter3 on Fri May 17 07:30:50 2024
    niter3 wrote to Dr. What <=-

    Needless to say, it did **not** turn out to be a good pizza. And he complained how his pizza didn't turn out like mine.

    Was he high? :D

    I don't think so. At least I never saw him do any drugs. But he always did have a screw loose somewhere.

    Now, my other roommate liked to "study" with a bottle of Jim Beam on his desk.


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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to tenser on Fri May 17 08:36:19 2024
    Almost none of this is used anymore. Kind of sad, in a way.

    Indeed. I think they may have been eclipsed by the various chat clients
    like AIM, etc. The people I used to talk to over talk migrated to those,
    so we stopped using talk.

    I think it might be sort of neat to have something like talk so that
    users on one bbs could chat with users on another, but I guess that is
    what the irc is for. :)



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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri May 17 08:42:20 2024
    I did not realize that was what it was called. ;) They used to
    make
    it on huge rectangular cooking pans, like one might make cookies
    on but
    much larger.

    We just got a neopolitan-style pizza join in downtown Santa Cruz, CA.
    Sounds like what we in California call "flatbread". I'm looking
    forward to trying it out.

    Let us know how good it is. The school pizza was not really like
    flatbread in that the crust underneath was not thick at all.




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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Ed Vance on Fri May 17 08:56:19 2024
    Since the early 1990's when McDonald's began serving Breakfast
    Burritos w/ mild
    Picante Sauce, I have got a Jar of Mild Taco Sauce and use it on
    Scrambled Eggs.

    Many moons ago, when I was in college and a friend of mine was back on
    leave, he scrambled some eggs along with some of what I think was
    spaghetti sauce... meat, onions, peppers in a tomato sauce. I didn't
    think it was going to be good at all but it was.

    A little later, we were outdoors and I realized there were some buzzards circling overhead. He said they were circling because they knew we "ate
    them eggs."

    I still get a small chuckle out of that.


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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to n2qfd on Fri May 17 09:00:00 2024
    staying with a cousin who lived on a real back road, still had a party
    line for phone, you got the cheese at the deli part of the gas station
    and rented a movie on the other end of the store. There was no cable,
    there was no antenna even in that hollow.
    Modernity and at a rapid pace but for a while it was pretty isolated.

    Sounds like Eastern Kentucky. ;)



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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Accession on Fri May 17 09:02:12 2024
    Government cheese? What is that?

    I was around in the 80s (just a kid), but I don't remember that.

    Guessing you didn't grow up anywhere near a ghetto, then. :)

    Or near a small town in Appalachia, either.



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  • From fusion@21:1/616 to Blue White on Fri May 17 10:04:50 2024
    On 17 May 2024, Blue White said the following...

    I think it might be sort of neat to have something like talk so that
    users on one bbs could chat with users on another, but I guess that is what the irc is for. :)

    should check out wiki.synchro.net/module:sbbsimsg

    it uses some oldschool unix stuff to fetch active users and send messages

    for example, "telnet vert.synchro.net 11" (that is, port 11) will dump the currently active users, and a program made to use MSP could send messages to them..

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Accession on Fri May 17 09:03:27 2024
    Tin! That is the name of the news reader that I couldn't
    remember. I

    Psst. Take a look at the tearline. :)

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    Nice!

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Avon on Fri May 17 09:06:09 2024
    don't remember using ytalk, but I do remember using finger to
    figure out
    if someone was on, and then using talk (which could have been
    ytalk) to
    chat for a bit.

    I was talking to my wife last night about this and mentioned Finger
    also... it's hard not to giggle when you say that...sorry... but hey
    yeah good times..

    The person I used to talk to was female so we got a whole lot of giggles
    out of that, too. :D



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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to kirkspragg on Fri May 17 09:10:12 2024
    Yes bring back bacon. Also pineable on pizza... despite what most of
    my country thinks... just no!


    Agreed although, to be fair, I really don't like pineapple on much of
    anything. Back in the 1970s, or maybe early 80s, there were some orange
    juices that included pineapple or grapefruit juice in them because,
    presumably, those were cheaper at that time. I used to drink OJ all the
    time but not when it had one of those in it. I didn't like those fruits
    that much to begin with, and the thought of that adultered, sour orange
    juice put me off of either for good.

    The one time I don't mind pineapple flavoring is when a ham has been
    baked with pineapple. I won't eat the pineapple, but the juices don't
    taste bad on a ham. ;)



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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri May 17 09:18:36 2024

    In the 1960's I remember there were restaurants called "YOGI'S" in Alameda. Several varieties of toppings were already on their hamburgers and all of them were lined up in order for customers to select.

    Does that Chain still exist in Your area?

    Ed
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Nightfox on Fri May 17 09:45:13 2024
    Wonderful that You can flip an omelette perfectly!

    This microwave thingy is first cooked with the halfs opened flat.
    Next Cheese and other fillings are placed on to each half and cooked.
    Then snap the maker's half together (there isn't any Click noise, just flipping one side over the other).
    After the third time cooking is done, you have a half round omelette ready to go on the dish.
    3 minutes of cooking time, Total.
    Ed
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Nightfox on Fri May 17 09:52:08 2024
    Some friends recently told us about a Pizza Buffet that a nearby place had from 10AM to 2PM for $10 USD/per person.
    UMMMMMM GOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!
    Ed
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Accession on Fri May 17 09:59:54 2024
    CHUNKS? YEP! That was the 'added ingredient's I didn't care for.
    Ed
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to niter3 on Fri May 17 10:10:50 2024
    You're Correct!

    The Prep work does require time but the finished products results is well worth it
    We only add Sharp Cheddar Cheese to the ones we make.
    A Pinch of Cheese from the bag on to each half, cook a bit, close the halfs together, cook and ENJOY.
    Ed
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Dr. What on Fri May 17 10:21:00 2024
    "I" can identify with that Loose Screw phrase.
    Ed
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to niter3 on Fri May 17 09:26:10 2024
    Re: controversy!
    By: niter3 to Nightfox on Thu May 16 2024 09:55 pm

    Some are less expensive, especially bake-at-home pizza shops (such as
    Papa Murphy's). And of course, the frozen ones from the supermarket are
    fairly inexpensive.

    I heard you can buy Costco pizza and bring it home and cook it?

    Yep, that's true.. Sounds like you haven't tried it?

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to ogg on Fri May 17 06:31:00 2024
    ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Know Weight Watchers! They helped me lose 25 pounds. 75 pounds is
    great! Did you get your pins?

    I have the 75 pound one somewhere around here...

    While in Virginia, I had a fitbit that I wore religiously. It got to
    the point that the battery died, wouldn't charge. I miss it.


    I have an old Fitbit, the Flex 2. It's one that only has LEDs, no
    display. It's inconspicuous, which I like - it doesn't demand your
    attention, it'll only vibrate occasionally - when you get a call, a
    text message, or to remind you to get up and move around.

    When it dies, I don't know what I'll do - probably pay way too much for
    a replacement instead of a full-blown smart watch or fitness band with
    a display.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Fri May 17 06:32:00 2024
    Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I went to a Weight Watchers meeting years ago (2010) and I was the only guy there.. The rest were women. I felt a little out of place..

    If you like curvy women, you're in a dating paradise - ask one of your
    fellow members out for a salad or a walk on the beach... :)



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to n2qfd on Fri May 17 06:52:00 2024
    n2qfd wrote to Blue White <=-

    Weekends we used to make pizza too. We've get dough mix and we had a
    store selling the govt' cheese which was very orange and oily.
    Life in the 90's in rural NY!

    Boboli was big in the 90s, if memory serves - store-bought premade pizza crusts. Now, backyard pizza ovens are all the rage, and our local stores
    sell pizza dough. Pillsbury sells a passable dough in a canister, along
    with the crescent rolls, pie crusts, biscuits and cinnamon rolls.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to niter3 on Fri May 17 06:54:00 2024
    niter3 wrote to Ed Vance <=-

    I feel the same way about eggs. This has been part of my diet for 25 years. I eat eggs almost daily.

    I love watching history cooking videos on YouTube; one series was a man
    who ate on a UK rationed WW II diet. Part of the ration for the week was
    2 pounds (!) of powdered eggs, about the size of a gallon ZipLoc bag. No
    wonder omelettes are such a thing around there... :)



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Fri May 17 06:58:00 2024
    Nightfox wrote to niter3 <=-

    There are toasters that have an egg poacher on the side that you can
    use to make English muffin egg sandwiches. Usually you can also heat a frozen sausage patty in the poacher if you like sausage on it.

    I was always enamored with those "retro" kitchen appliances - they're a
    small toaster oven with a griddle above the toaster and a coffee maker
    slapped on the side. Perfect for a dorm room if you're not a huge coffee drinker.

    My son is in his third year of college, and for this generation it's all
    about the microwave. I had a 10 cup coffee maker and a toaster oven when
    I was in school, and although some foods took longer, being able to make
    a quick piece of toast or grilled cheese made it worth it.

    Oh, and one of those old cheap tin pots with the immersion heater in it
    - great for tea, soups and ramen.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to niter3 on Fri May 17 07:00:00 2024
    niter3 wrote to Nightfox <=-


    There is more to this, but essentially for every 57 calories it's one point.

    Their new system is just confusing. I've stuck to this plan and I've
    been good over the years.

    I still have the old docs from the 2000s, back when it was
    fat/fiber/protein that determined points. It was a lot simpler than the
    3 or 4 plans they have now. The "eat as many zero point foods as you'd
    like until you feel full" didn't really work as well for me.

    Now, apparently, they're prescribing weight loss drugs as well.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to niter3 on Fri May 17 07:05:00 2024
    niter3 wrote to Nightfox <=-

    There are toasters that have an egg poacher on the side that you can use to make English muffin egg sandwiches. Usually you can also heat a
    frozen sausage patty in the poacher if you like sausage on it.

    Do you have a link to one?

    If you do a web search for "Breakfast Station" you'll see what I was
    talking about.

    Aside: Another piece of kitsch I would love is a Teasmade. It's an old
    bakelite looking nightstand alarm clock with a built in kettle and
    light. Put it on your nightstand, the alarm goes off, the light goes on
    and it starts brewing a pot of tea. I wondered about the milk/sugar,
    apparently people buy those little UHP cream pots that don't need
    refrigeration and put them in the drawer.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Fri May 17 07:07:00 2024
    Nightfox wrote to Ed Vance <=-

    cooking them in a pan, where I can flip the egg mixture in the pan
    without it falling apart.

    Then, it becomes a scramblette.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Accession on Fri May 17 07:08:00 2024
    Accession wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Should have turned on the charm and tried to see how many numbers you could get. ;)

    Telephone numbers, or weights?

    <I'm outta here!>



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to fusion on Fri May 17 07:11:00 2024
    fusion wrote to Blue White <=-

    of course if you were in university you'd probably have access to their servers instead (and in fact some of the docs for pine on the internet still include help for accessing email at specific schools)

    In the east bay (San Francisco) in the early 90s, you were cool if you
    had a "soda" email address. soda.berkeley.edu was an eecs
    building/school at UC Berkeley, and they apparently never deleted
    accounts, even after graduation. This was back before people could go
    out and get a free account somewhere.



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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri May 17 13:15:28 2024
    When it dies, I don't know what I'll do - probably pay way too much for
    a replacement instead of a full-blown smart watch or fitness band with
    a display.

    I decided to try my iPhone. I didn't trust the numbers for steps I was getting. I just started tracking mileage and time. That was more consistent than steps on the phone.

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Blue White on Fri May 17 14:02:09 2024
    Let us know how good it is. The school pizza was not really like flatbread in that the crust underneath was not thick at all.

    Throw this one off a bit. :) How about the high school chocolate chip baked cookies. :)

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Ed Vance on Fri May 17 14:06:04 2024
    You're Correct!

    The Prep work does require time but the finished products results is
    well worth it
    We only add Sharp Cheddar Cheese to the ones we make.
    A Pinch of Cheese from the bag on to each half, cook a bit, close the halfs together, cook and ENJOY.

    In that case, it would be much faster using this over a pan.

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Nightfox on Fri May 17 14:06:47 2024
    I heard you can buy Costco pizza and bring it home and cook it?

    Yep, that's true.. Sounds like you haven't tried it?

    No, there is another big chain here in Canada called "Zehrs" which you can buy pizzas they make to cook.

    Very good pizzas.

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri May 17 14:08:08 2024
    I feel the same way about eggs. This has been part of my diet for 25 years. I eat eggs almost daily.

    I love watching history cooking videos on YouTube; one series was a man who ate on a UK rationed WW II diet. Part of the ration for the week was
    2 pounds (!) of powdered eggs, about the size of a gallon ZipLoc bag. No wonder omelettes are such a thing around there... :)


    Good point! These sound gross however. :D

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri May 17 14:13:27 2024
    I still have the old docs from the 2000s, back when it was fat/fiber/protein that determined points. It was a lot simpler than the
    3 or 4 plans they have now. The "eat as many zero point foods as you'd like until you feel full" didn't really work as well for me.

    Now, apparently, they're prescribing weight loss drugs as well.

    One thing that has always worked is counting calories and eating quality food. Essentially that's what I do with point counting.

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri May 17 14:49:16 2024
    I went to a Weight Watchers meeting years ago (2010) and I was
    the only
    guy there.. The rest were women. I felt a little out of place..

    If you like curvy women, you're in a dating paradise - ask one of your fellow members out for a salad or a walk on the beach... :)

    Hmmmm, weight watchers, eh? :D



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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to niter3 on Fri May 17 14:53:07 2024
    Let us know how good it is. The school pizza was not really like flatbread in that the crust underneath was not thick at all.

    Throw this one off a bit. :) How about the high school chocolate chip
    baked cookies. :)

    I don't remember them making us any cookies at lunch. The probably did
    and I have forgotten them. I do remember making giant chocolate chip
    cookes on round pizza pans in home-ec in jr high, though!



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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri May 17 13:08:26 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri May 17 2024 06:58 am

    My son is in his third year of college, and for this generation it's all about the microwave. I had a 10 cup coffee maker and a toaster oven when I was in school, and although some foods took longer, being able to make a quick piece of toast or grilled cheese made it worth it.

    Oh, and one of those old cheap tin pots with the immersion heater in it - great for tea, soups and ramen.

    I lived with my mom when I was in college, but if I had lived in a dorm or something, something like that would definitely be convenient.

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to niter3 on Fri May 17 13:10:00 2024
    Re: controversy!
    By: niter3 to Nightfox on Fri May 17 2024 02:06 pm

    I heard you can buy Costco pizza and bring it home and cook it?

    Yep, that's true.. Sounds like you haven't tried it?

    No, there is another big chain here in Canada called "Zehrs" which you can buy pizzas they make to cook.

    Very good pizzas.

    I like a good pizza, and I tend to like pretty much anything from Costco. One thing about their pizzas is that they're almost too big for some home ovens. I remember buying one years ago and it was so big that it touched the glass window on the oven door when it was in the oven, and it had to be squished in just slightly.

    Nightfox
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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Blue White on Fri May 17 17:22:52 2024
    On Fri, 17 May 2024 14:02:12 -0500, you wrote:

    Guessing you didn't grow up anywhere near a ghetto, then. :)

    Or near a small town in Appalachia, either.

    Or in a van, down by the river?

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Blue White on Fri May 17 17:24:32 2024
    On Fri, 17 May 2024 14:03:26 -0500, you wrote:

    --- tin/2.6.3-20231224 ("Banff") (Linux/6.8.9-arch1-1 (x86_64))

    Nice!

    I keep a copy of that, as well as slrn installed in the console for testing purposes. :)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Ed Vance on Fri May 17 17:27:02 2024
    On Fri, 17 May 2024 14:59:54 -0500, you wrote:

    CHUNKS? YEP! That was the 'added ingredient's I didn't care for.
    Ed

    There was 54 new messages so far today, and 70 or more yesterday. I don't remember what you're replying to. Would you be so kind as to quote the text you're replying to, please?

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri May 17 17:30:38 2024
    On Fri, 17 May 2024 12:08:00 -0700, you wrote:

    Should have turned on the charm and tried to see how many numbers you
    could get. ;)

    Telephone numbers, or weights?

    Are there any weights at a weight watchers meeting? I figured they just talked you into buying their diet food that tastes, or at least used to taste like rubber and cardboard (my mom tried that crap when I was a kid, so the food is probably a lot better decades later).

    <I'm outta here!>

    Don't let the door hit you on the way out! Good day, sir.

    I SAID GOOD DAY! :D

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From tenser@21:1/101 to fusion on Sat May 18 10:49:06 2024
    On 17 May 2024 at 10:04a, fusion pondered and said...


    On 17 May 2024, Blue White said the following...

    I think it might be sort of neat to have something like talk so that users on one bbs could chat with users on another, but I guess that i what the irc is for. :)

    should check out wiki.synchro.net/module:sbbsimsg

    it uses some oldschool unix stuff to fetch active users and send messages

    for example, "telnet vert.synchro.net 11" (that is, port 11) will dump
    the currently active users, and a program made to use MSP could send messages to them..

    Ah....The Internet Message Send Protocol.

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  • From tenser@21:1/101 to Avon on Sat May 18 10:50:11 2024
    On 17 May 2024 at 02:37p, Avon pondered and said...

    I'm glad my memory is good enough to recall it.

    Say (speaking of not in use now) do you follow the Serial Port YouTube channel and their efforts to resurrect old software. Archie just came
    back from the brink :)

    Yes! I heard about that; I'm surprised the source code
    was that hard to find, actually.

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  • From tenser@21:1/101 to Avon on Sat May 18 10:51:07 2024
    On 17 May 2024 at 02:46p, Avon pondered and said...

    I'm starting to wonder if we can (in some way) bring it back?

    It's still there! One can install it on most Unix-y systems,
    Linux distributions, etc.

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to tenser on Fri May 17 18:26:00 2024
    tenser wrote to Avon <=-

    On 17 May 2024 at 02:46p, Avon pondered and said...

    I'm starting to wonder if we can (in some way) bring it back?

    It's still there! One can install it on most Unix-y systems,
    Linux distributions, etc.

    It's installed by default on my Slackware Linux systems. Haven't used it,
    and don't know how to, but it is present and functional.

    danc@palantir:~$ ytalk
    Usage: ytalk [options] user[@host][#tty]...
    Options: -i -- no auto-invite port
    -Y -- require caps on all y/n answers
    -E -- require <esc> before y/n answers
    -s -- start a shell
    -q -- prompt before quitting
    -v -- print program version
    -h host_or_ip -- select interface or virtual host danc@palantir:~$

    ;-)



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  • From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to Blue White on Fri May 17 15:58:57 2024
    Agreed although, to be fair, I really don't like pineapple on much of anything. Back in the 1970s, or maybe early 80s, there were some orange juices that included pineapple or grapefruit juice in them because, presumably, those were cheaper at that time. I used to drink OJ all the time but not when it had one of those in it. I didn't like those fruits

    Over here in NZ they used to sell fruit "flavored" drinks with an apple
    base. Mostly they all tasted like cheap apple juice with a hint of whatever fruit it was advertised as tasting like.

    Much like yourself, I avoided them. I find apple juice just too
    overpoweringly sweet - its ok mixed with other stuff (and a lot of water)
    but by itself and some rather fake tasting fruit flavour, no thanks.

    Also not a fan of pineapple in any of it's forms.

    The one time I don't mind pineapple flavoring is when a ham has been
    baked with pineapple. I won't eat the pineapple, but the juices don't taste bad on a ham. ;)

    My only exception to the pineapple rule is pineapple lumps... they don't really taste like pineapple after all. Pineapple baked on ham is OK I guess, not a great fan personally, each to their own.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to kirkspragg on Fri May 17 17:34:33 2024
    Re: controversy!
    By: kirkspragg to Blue White on Fri May 17 2024 03:58 pm

    My only exception to the pineapple rule is pineapple lumps... they don't really taste like pineapple after all.

    What is a pineapple lump? o.O

    Nightfox
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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to tenser on Sat May 18 14:00:27 2024
    On 18 May 2024 at 10:50a, tenser pondered and said...

    Yes! I heard about that; I'm surprised the source code
    was that hard to find, actually.

    I'm just glad they found a copy, and to be honest I hope if others want to spin up their own instance of an Archie server then they are able to obtain a copy to do that also.

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to tenser on Sat May 18 14:00:59 2024
    On 18 May 2024 at 10:51a, tenser pondered and said...

    On 17 May 2024 at 02:46p, Avon pondered and said...

    I'm starting to wonder if we can (in some way) bring it back?

    It's still there! One can install it on most Unix-y systems,
    Linux distributions, etc.

    Cool, OK then... [starts to hatch a plan]

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Accession on Fri May 17 22:53:19 2024
    Re: your opinion of current w
    By: Accession to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri May 17 2024 05:30 pm

    Should have turned on the charm and tried to see how many numbers you
    could get. ;)

    Telephone numbers, or weights?

    Are there any weights at a weight watchers meeting? I figured they just

    I meant the ladies' weights. Not free weights.

    swingandamissss....

    I'll let myself out.
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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Avon on Sat May 18 17:45:00 2024
    I'm starting to wonder if we can (in some way) bring it back?

    Shrug, I don't recall it requiring any kind of server, it was just point to point, only ever saw console implementations of it too... might not be very prctical.

    Spec


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Blue White on Sat May 18 18:03:00 2024
    The one time I don't mind pineapple flavoring is when a ham has been
    baked with pineapple. I won't eat the pineapple, but the juices don't taste bad on a ham. ;)

    On its way to our semi-regular christmas ham. Scored with cloves punched
    into it. Pineapple and glace cherries pinned to the top, and heated for an
    hour and a half or so. So long as the pineapple has had a chance to
    caramalise and not got burnt to a crisp, it goes well with the ham in question... a bit of flavour goes both ways..

    Spec


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Ed Vance on Sat May 18 18:07:00 2024
    "I" can identify with that Loose Screw phrase.

    Sandwich short of a picnic?

    Stubby short of slab?

    A roo loose in the top paddock?

    Spec


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to kirkspragg on Sat May 18 18:30:00 2024
    Over here in NZ they used to sell fruit "flavored" drinks with an apple base. Mostly they all tasted like cheap apple juice with a hint of whatever fruit it was advertised as tasting like.

    Much like yourself, I avoided them. I find apple juice just too overpoweringly sweet - its ok mixed with other stuff (and a lot of water) but by itself and some rather fake tasting fruit flavour, no thanks.

    If'n you've got the facility to juice your own, the real stuff tends to be
    more tart than the supermket varietals. You can just do something like
    Grannys or a blend of Grannys and something else if grannys are to much on their own.

    One year, we had Apples coming out of our Wazoo.. bought a 2.5acre block that was covered in Apple trees. Was also a good year for blackberries. After
    that we put steers in there to keep the grass down, and they ate the trees
    too. But there were red and gold delicious as well as Grannys in there.

    Spent the next few years poisoning the blackberries, horribly persistant
    things they are. Those and the Scotch Thistles...

    Spec


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Nightfox on Sat May 18 18:33:00 2024

    What is a pineapple lump? o.O

    A pineaapple lump is to pineapples what a chocolate coated banana is to bananas...

    Just for a bit of context...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np-gqrLTfQA

    Spec


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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Blue White on Sat May 18 05:29:35 2024

    I don't remember them making us any cookies at lunch. The probably did and I have forgotten them. I do remember making giant chocolate chip cookes on round pizza pans in home-ec in jr high, though!

    !! ;)

    My go to with me and my buddies in my teens was a fries tossed into a deep fryer, then melted a as much cheese as we could on top of it..

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Nightfox on Sat May 18 05:31:30 2024
    I like a good pizza, and I tend to like pretty much anything from
    Costco. One thing about their pizzas is that they're almost too big for some home ovens. I remember buying one years ago and it was so big that it touched the glass window on the oven door when it was in the oven,
    and it had to be squished in just slightly.

    I'm going to have to grab one. We use to have a Costco card... To apparently save money, but we ended up always spending more money when we had it. So I let it lapse and haven't been there in years.

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Accession on Sat May 18 05:32:48 2024
    Or near a small town in Appalachia, either.

    Or in a van, down by the river?

    Matt Foley. :>

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  • From Dr. What@21:1/616 to Blue White on Sat May 18 08:01:38 2024
    Blue White wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Let us know how good it is. The school pizza was not really like flatbread in that the crust underneath was not thick at all.

    When I was in elementary school, Wednesday was pizza day in the cafeteria and that pizza was GOOD. It wasn't a regular pizza, though. It was baked on a large sheet, covered in what looked like sloppy joe with big slices of mozzarella cheese on it.

    My dad, who was a teacher in that district, told me why the pizza was so good. Tuesday was chili day and the chili was also really good. What I thought was sloppy joe on the pizza was really the left over chili.


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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat May 18 07:22:24 2024
    On Sat, 18 May 2024 03:53:18 -0700, you wrote:

    Telephone numbers, or weights?

    Are there any weights at a weight watchers meeting? I figured they just

    I meant the ladies' weights. Not free weights.

    swingandamissss....

    I'll let myself out.

    Eyyyyoooooo! :)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Dr. What on Sat May 18 08:23:03 2024
    My dad, who was a teacher in that district, told me why the pizza was
    so good.
    Tuesday was chili day and the chili was also really good. What I
    thought was
    sloppy joe on the pizza was really the left over chili.

    That could be what happened here, too, and yes the chili was also good!

    There were many things I found ineddible but the pizza, chili, grilled
    cheeses, and (once I realized I liked them) tacos were not them. I also
    liked the pork patties... not the ones in mystery sauce but the ones with
    a breading that had some spices in it. They used to serve those with a
    roll and I'd make a sandwich out of them.

    The most ineddible things were the stewed tomatoes and the creamed corn.



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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Gamgee on Sat May 18 11:18:18 2024
    Re: Re: Pine, TIN etc.
    By: Gamgee to tenser on Fri May 17 2024 06:26 pm

    It's installed by default on my Slackware Linux systems. Haven't used it, and don't know how to, but it is present and functional.

    It is also included on OpenBSD. I can see it working for something like a shared Unix shell, but the system is very primitive by today's standards, specially when there are things like IRC to use instead.

    That said, t is great the system comes with such a chat mechanism out of the box.
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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Arelor on Sat May 18 12:23:00 2024
    Arelor wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: Pine, TIN etc.
    By: Gamgee to tenser on Fri May 17 2024 06:26 pm

    It's installed by default on my Slackware Linux systems. Haven't used it, and don't know how to, but it is present and functional.

    It is also included on OpenBSD. I can see it working for
    something like a shared Unix shell, but the system is very
    primitive by today's standards, specially when there are things
    like IRC to use instead.

    Yes, I looked into it a little more and it is indeed a product from 'yesteryear'. Very cool (and useful!) a while ago, I'm sure.

    That said, t is great the system comes with such a chat mechanism
    out of the box.

    Agreed!



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  • From Tiny@21:1/700 to NITER3 on Sat May 18 08:40:00 2024
    Quoting Niter3 to Nightfox <=-

    I'm going to have to grab one. We use to have a Costco card... To apparently save money, but we ended up always spending more money when
    we had it. So I let it lapse and haven't been there in years.

    Andrea pays for our cards. There is no way we save the membership money
    in a year. I get gas there but only because I pass by 2 costco's on my
    way to work so it's not out of the way.

    I know she gets honey from costco because it has the kirkland label on it
    other then that...

    Shawn

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  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to ACCESSION on Sat May 18 13:57:00 2024
    CHUNKS? YEP! That was the 'added ingredient's I didn't care for.
    Ed

    There was 54 new messages so far today, and 70 or more yesterday. I don't remember what you're replying to. Would you be so kind as to quote the text you're replying to, please?

    Ed is a user here that interfaces via the ecweb interface. My (lacking) experience using it is that it does not automatically quote stuff like the older interface.

    Do you know how to make ecweb quote the message being replied to? Thanks!


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  • From mary4@21:1/166 to Dr. What on Sun May 19 04:25:51 2024
    Is a detroit style pizza made of steel?

    You remember how people would try to smuggle files into prison in cakes? Detroit pizza comes with a gun. Ammo on the side.


    lol xD

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Dumas Walker on Sat May 18 16:02:10 2024
    On Sat, 18 May 2024 18:57:00 -0500, you wrote:

    There was 54 new messages so far today, and 70 or more yesterday. I don't
    remember what you're replying to. Would you be so kind as to quote the
    text you're replying to, please?

    Ed is a user here that interfaces via the ecweb interface. My (lacking) experience using it is that it does not automatically quote stuff like the older interface.

    Do you know how to make ecweb quote the message being replied to? Thanks!

    I wish I did, but I don't at the moment. Is there not a quote button (or reply with quote) on the web interface? If not, I would suggest making a feature request while echicken works on the next latest and greatest web interface!

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Spectre on Sat May 18 07:14:00 2024
    Spectre wrote to kirkspragg <=-

    If'n you've got the facility to juice your own, the real stuff tends to
    be more tart than the supermket varietals. You can just do something
    like Grannys or a blend of Grannys and something else if grannys are to much on their own.

    I had a friend who couldn't cook to save her life. Dinner parties were
    the worst, and I recall going to an all-night diner after one of them.

    She could, however, bake. I had a Braeburn apple tree in my back yard,
    and after a harvest one year, she took a ton of them with her. She came
    back a couple of days later with a couple of the best apple pies I'd
    ever had for us. Crusts from scratch, just the right amount of flakey
    and sweet.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to niter3 on Sat May 18 07:15:00 2024
    niter3 wrote to Nightfox <=-

    I'm going to have to grab one. We use to have a Costco card... To apparently save money, but we ended up always spending more money when
    we had it. So I let it lapse and haven't been there in years.

    I never had room for 48 rolls of toilet paper or a gallon of mayonnaise.
    If I had a proper pantry, I'd do most of my shopping there.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to niter3 on Sat May 18 07:17:00 2024
    niter3 wrote to Accession <=-

    Or near a small town in Appalachia, either.

    Or in a van, down by the river?

    Matt Foley. :>

    The original #vanlife guy! Him and Uncle Rico. They peaked too soon,
    could have been YouTube Influencers and made a fortune.



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  • From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to Nightfox on Sat May 18 16:40:13 2024
    What is a pineapple lump? o.O

    I think they might be unique to New Zealand and Australia. They are chocolate covered soft & chewy centered confectionery.

    The center is supposed to be pineapple flavored but I'd say it's more pineapple inspired that flavored. I quite like them.

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  • From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to Spectre on Sat May 18 16:49:25 2024
    If'n you've got the facility to juice your own, the real stuff tends to
    be more tart than the supermket varietals. You can just do something
    like Grannys or a blend of Grannys and something else if grannys are to much on their own.

    Got a local supplier of decent apples and apple juice that attends one of the local farmer's markets. Can get all sorts of interesting apple & apple juice varieties. Not a big apple fan myself (though my partner is) but their Cox's Orange Pippin apple juice is quite nice, goes well with soda water on a hot day.

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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Dumas Walker on Sat May 18 20:39:34 2024
    Thanks for explaining why I don't quote.
    BBSing on a Android phone fer five months and I am still a beginner at it. Ain't like a REAL keyboard but I make TYPOs on REAL keyboards too.

    Still researching for the Bluetooth device I saw in my searching months ago that had a cat5 Ethernet socket on it.
    Life would be much easier here if I could talk to this phone from my XP PC.
    Ed.
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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat May 18 21:29:30 2024
    On Sat, 18 May 2024 12:15:00 -0700, you wrote:

    I never had room for 48 rolls of toilet paper or a gallon of mayonnaise. If I had a proper pantry, I'd do most of my shopping there.

    We love Costco. However, I don't care for a gallon of mayonnaise, so I have plenty of room for 48 rolls of toilet paper. :)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Ed Vance on Sat May 18 21:37:06 2024
    On Sun, 19 May 2024 01:39:34 -0500, you wrote:

    Thanks for explaining why I don't quote.
    BBSing on a Android phone fer five months and I am still a beginner at it. Ain't like a REAL keyboard but I make TYPOs on REAL keyboards too.

    Still researching for the Bluetooth device I saw in my searching months ago
    that had a cat5 Ethernet socket on it.
    Life would be much easier here if I could talk to this phone from my XP PC.
    Ed.

    No worries, Ed. But if you can, try to find the "reply with quote" button, or really, anything to do with quoting. You don't even have to trim the quote down if it's hard, just so long as we know what you're replying to.

    Your conversation is wonderful, it's just hard to know what you're replying to sometimes when 100s of messages go by.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun May 19 17:57:00 2024
    She could, however, bake. I had a Braeburn apple tree in my back yard,
    and after a harvest one year, she took a ton of them with her. She came back a couple of days later with a couple of the best apple pies I'd
    ever had for us. Crusts from scratch, just the right amount of flakey
    and sweet.

    Drool...


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun May 19 18:03:00 2024
    I'm going to have to grab one. We use to have a Costco card... To apparently save money, but we ended up always spending more money
    when we had it. So I let it lapse and haven't been there in years.

    Some of the kids joined when they first arrived here. The missus went a few times, using the same card. Dragged me along once or twice, but there's
    nothing to my mind that is a "compelling" buy there, and nothing appears to
    be any cheaper. Can't see how you'd ever cover the cost of the card.

    I have much the same problem with ALDI. Can't get everything I want there,
    not enough to make it a need to go back again.. have ended up sticking with whatever major supermarket is near by.

    Spec


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to kirkspragg on Sun May 19 18:05:00 2024
    I think they might be unique to New Zealand and Australia. They are chocolate covered soft & chewy centered confectionery.

    I disown them, NZ can have them. Although the pacific islanders seem to have
    a thing for them, probably because they all get here via NZ :)

    Spec


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  • From tenser@21:1/101 to Gamgee on Mon May 20 01:14:51 2024
    On 17 May 2024 at 06:26p, Gamgee pondered and said...

    tenser wrote to Avon <=-

    On 17 May 2024 at 02:46p, Avon pondered and said...

    I'm starting to wonder if we can (in some way) bring it back?

    It's still there! One can install it on most Unix-y systems,
    Linux distributions, etc.

    It's installed by default on my Slackware Linux systems. Haven't used
    it, and don't know how to, but it is present and functional.

    So there are two components:

    * The talk server, which is actually just kind of a little,
    in-memory database of talk _requests_, and
    * The talk client, of which `ytalk` is one but so are `talk`
    and `ntalk`.

    The way the protocol works, in a nutshell, is that you send
    a talk "request" to a distant host by running the client.
    E.g.,

    ytalk tenser@fat-dragon.org

    This does a couple of things: 1, sends a message to the `talkd`
    server _on your local machine_ saying that you want to talk to
    the remote user. If there's no existing request _from_ the remote
    user, it creates a listening socket and posts it's address locally
    _and_ sends a request to the `talkd` on the remote machine saying
    you want to talk. The `talkd` on the remote machine then writes
    a message to the remote user (provided the user is logged in and
    has configured their terminal to answer talk requests). If they
    chose to answer you, they then run talk locally in a similar manner
    to how you did:

    ytalk you@your.host.com

    Their local talk client talks to their local talk server, which
    has a record of your chat request and the socket your request is
    listening on. Your talk client then makes a TCP connection to
    that socket; at which point, both clients send a message to their
    local talk servers that acknowledges that the connection has been
    established, and they're done. You then proceed to talk to the
    other user via the TCP connection; the UI is usually a split
    screen affair.

    So in order for it to work, you have to have both the client
    installed, _and_ the talk server installed and configured to
    accept requests from the larger Internet. Most folks don't have
    the latter part set up (for good reasons; the protocol is totally
    insecure, and doesn't play well with firewalls and NAT'ing, etc).

    The "standard" talk daemon from Berkeley was run from `inetd`.

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to kirkspragg on Sun May 19 08:29:14 2024
    I think they might be unique to New Zealand and Australia. They are chocolate covered soft & chewy centered confectionery.

    There are a lot of things that don't taste too good that will if you
    cover them in enough chocolate. :D



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  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to ACCESSION on Sun May 19 09:05:00 2024
    Do you know how to make ecweb quote the message being replied to? Thanks

    I wish I did, but I don't at the moment. Is there not a quote button (or reply
    with quote) on the web interface? If not, I would suggest making a feature request while echicken works on the next latest and greatest web interface!

    Looks like it does have a quote button that shows up in firefox on a pc. Hopefully, it shows up on an android phone, too. ;)


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  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to ED VANCE on Sun May 19 09:07:00 2024
    Life would be much easier here if I could talk to this phone from my XP PC.

    Life would probably still be much easier if we were all using XT computers, too. :D


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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to tenser on Sun May 19 09:28:00 2024
    tenser wrote to Gamgee <=-

    I'm starting to wonder if we can (in some way) bring it back?

    It's still there! One can install it on most Unix-y systems,
    Linux distributions, etc.

    It's installed by default on my Slackware Linux systems. Haven't used
    it, and don't know how to, but it is present and functional.

    So there are two components:

    * The talk server, which is actually just kind of a little,
    in-memory database of talk _requests_, and
    * The talk client, of which `ytalk` is one but so are `talk`
    and `ntalk`.

    The way the protocol works, in a nutshell, is that you send
    a talk "request" to a distant host by running the client.
    E.g.,

    <SNIPPED for brevity>

    Great info, thanks! Saved for future reference, and may try to set this
    up eventually. Appreciate the time you spent on explaining it!



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  • From tenser@21:1/101 to Gamgee on Mon May 20 04:07:45 2024
    On 19 May 2024 at 09:28a, Gamgee pondered and said...

    <SNIPPED for brevity>

    Great info, thanks! Saved for future reference, and may try to set this up eventually. Appreciate the time you spent on explaining it!

    Sure thing! Here's another handy reference:

    https://cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/internet/talk.html

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Dumas Walker on Sun May 19 09:11:00 2024
    Dumas Walker wrote to ED VANCE <=-

    Life would be much easier here if I could talk to this phone from my XP PC.

    Life would probably still be much easier if we were all using XT computers, too.

    I miss the single-taskedness of DOS. When you were writing a story, you
    were writing a story. When you were BBSing, you were BBSing. Now, I've
    got 3 windows in the background open, and it's slow morning.

    I've upgraded myself into a hole. With a 16:9 monitor, I could run
    DOSBOX and fill the screen with a nice proportional font. With an
    ultrawide monitor, I get two big black bars on either side, which ruins
    the full screen experience for me.

    No sympathy expected. :)




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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Blue White on Mon May 20 02:56:00 2024
    I think they might be unique to New Zealand and Australia. They are chocolate covered soft & chewy centered confectionery.

    There are a lot of things that don't taste too good that will if you
    cover them in enough chocolate. :D

    Its not a great chocolate either. I'm certain that they make it out of the scrapings off the floor.

    Spec


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  • From AKAcastor@21:1/162 to Poindexter Fortran on Sun May 19 11:59:14 2024
    I've upgraded myself into a hole. With a 16:9 monitor, I could run
    DOSBOX and fill the screen with a nice proportional font. With an
    ultrawide monitor, I get two big black bars on either side, which ruins
    the full screen experience for me.

    No sympathy expected. :)

    No sympathy found - DOS at 16:9 is already doing it wrong, anything wider than 4:3 is incorrect.

    :)


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  • From fusion@21:1/616 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon May 20 00:55:53 2024
    On 19 May 2024, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

    I've upgraded myself into a hole. With a 16:9 monitor, I could run
    DOSBOX and fill the screen with a nice proportional font. With an
    ultrawide monitor, I get two big black bars on either side, which ruins
    the full screen experience for me.

    i've been thinking about this recently:

    most of the dos text experience was with an 8x16 font .. 640x400 for 80x25 cols/rows. this exactly matches a 1920x1200 monitor (which you can actually get)

    for a 1080p screen to match you could BBS at 22 rows.. 12 pixels top and bottom isn't as bad of a loss.. you'd lop off the top of most menu ansis but the message reader and all that would be fine. for the authentic bbs experience you can pretend your monitor is partially broken ;)

    buuuuut since you'd have viewed it on a monitor that forces 4:3 onto an 8:5 resolution back then anyways, i guess it's not really relevant. a modern monitor simply can't do what a crt does.

    i think personally if i was going to be picky i'd like to try out a nice 8x19 font.. that's pretty close to what dosbox might stretch a 4:3 text mode session to on a 1440p 16:9 screen.. you'd still have the bars on the side and lose 15 pixels (so maybe 7 on top 8 on bottom), but you could have the graphics library show the pixels 1:1 instead:
    https://learnopengl.com/img/getting-started/texture_filtering.png
    where at exactly 2x, and specifically 3x for 1440p (57 pixels tall) it would have no, i duno, "smart" scaling done to it.

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  • From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to Spectre on Sun May 19 22:02:23 2024
    I disown them, NZ can have them. Although the pacific islanders seem to have a thing for them, probably because they all get here via NZ :)

    You don't know what your missing. Though my Canadian colleague (my manger in fact) tells me that Whittaker's chocolate is worth buying up in bulk here in NZ before returning home, which he then proceeded to do.

    Need to ask him which flavor it was...

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  • From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to Blue White on Sun May 19 22:06:54 2024
    There are a lot of things that don't taste too good that will if you
    cover them in enough chocolate. :D

    Yup!

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  • From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to Dumas Walker on Sun May 19 22:11:50 2024
    Life would probably still be much easier if we were all using XT computers, too. :D

    It would be a lot slower though... maybe that's not a bad thing, but still XT class machines are rather limited. I moved away from my NECv20 clone build to the current 286 build due to how slow & occasionally frustrating it was.....

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  • From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to Dumas Walker on Sun May 19 22:19:01 2024
    Life would probably still be much easier if we were all using XT computers, too. :D

    Maybe, it would definitely be a lot slower, thats for sure. I switched from my previous NECv20 based retro PC build to the current 286 based one because of it.

    ... It said "Don't Panic" in big friendly letters.

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Spectre on Mon May 20 21:53:16 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: Spectre to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun May 19 2024 06:03 pm

    Howdy,

    Some of the kids joined when they first arrived here. The missus went a few times, using the same card. Dragged me along once or twice, but there's nothing to my mind that is a "compelling" buy there, and nothing appears to be any cheaper. Can't see how you'd ever cover the cost of the card.

    I reckon I've covered the cost of the membership by fuel alone.

    On average the fuel is 10-15c/litre cheaper, which translates to around $6/fill savings. Filling up 2x month, I probably breaks even on the membership fee.

    The goes there 2-3 month to buy food, but only specific items (meat, seafood) comes to mind and she says its a lot cheaper...

    All in all, I dont save that much I guess, but its convenient, only a couple of k's away.


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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Spectre on Mon May 20 08:32:28 2024
    There are a lot of things that don't taste too good that will if
    you
    cover them in enough chocolate. :D

    Its not a great chocolate either. I'm certain that they make it out of
    the scrapings off the floor.

    Even floor-scrapings chocolate beats many other things. :D



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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to kirkspragg on Tue May 21 01:15:00 2024
    You don't know what your missing. Though my Canadian colleague (my manger in fact) tells me that Whittaker's chocolate is worth buying up in bulk here in NZ before returning home, which he then proceeded to do.

    Unfortunately I do know what I'm missing :L TThe missus buys them from time
    to time when they're on sale. They are available at Woolworths. I don't
    know much about Whittaker's other than its the "poor relation" here, the kind of stuff you'd get as a present for someoen you don't like :) So if thats
    the standard of Canadian Chocky, they must live in ongoing despair.

    Spec


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to deon on Tue May 21 01:21:00 2024
    I reckon I've covered the cost of the membership by fuel alone.

    On average the fuel is 10-15c/litre cheaper, which translates to around $6/fill savings. Filling up 2x month, I probably breaks even on the membership fee.

    So that begs the question, how much you're paying roughly and where you're filling. I've no idea where you might be able to fill. Generally the cheap servo locally tends to be around the $1.90 mark pretty reliably, making it cheaper than the nominal 4c offering out of Woolworths.

    Spec


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Blue White on Tue May 21 01:26:00 2024
    Its not a great chocolate either. I'm certain that they make it out of the scrapings off the floor.

    Even floor-scrapings chocolate beats many other things. :D

    Maybe only possum poo...


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to deon on Tue May 21 01:31:00 2024
    The goes there 2-3 month to buy food, but only specific items (meat, seafood) comes to mind and she says its a lot cheaper...

    We tend to pickup odds and ends from the "reguular" supermarkets, but if
    you're looking to fill the freezer head over to Tasman Meats. And the prices were either better or the same. Probably depends to some degree what you're actually buying though.

    All in all, I dont save that much I guess, but its convenient, only a couple of k's away.

    Moorabbin? Its the closest for us too, not as convenient, although at least we've got the freeway these days.

    Spec


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to AKAcastor on Mon May 20 06:38:00 2024
    AKAcastor wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

    No sympathy found - DOS at 16:9 is already doing it wrong, anything
    wider than 4:3 is incorrect.

    I still have a 19" 4:3 monitor, but no room on my desk for it!



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to kirkspragg on Mon May 20 07:07:00 2024
    kirkspragg wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

    It would be a lot slower though... maybe that's not a bad thing, but
    still XT class machines are rather limited. I moved away from my
    NECv20 clone build to the current 286 build due to how slow &
    occasionally frustrating it was.....

    I remember when I was coding in college on an XT, using Microsoft C. My
    neighbor in the dorms had a 286 with a 287 math coprocessor and it
    compiled in a fraction of the time my system took. I bought a 286
    motherboard with a 287 and proceeded on my first time opening up a PC.
    Spent a couple of sleepless nights wondering what the heck I'd gotten
    myself into.

    AMD 386/40 was still the peak of DOS box evolution, IMO.


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon May 20 10:01:56 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Dumas Walker on Sun May 19 2024 09:11 am

    I've upgraded myself into a hole. With a 16:9 monitor, I could run DOSBOX and fill the screen with a nice proportional font.

    Weren't most DOS programs designed for a 4:3 aspect ratio? I'd think you'd have the black bars on either side running DOSBox in full screen on a 16:9 monitor.

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  • From Elf@21:1/194 to NIGHTFOX on Mon May 20 11:21:00 2024
    Quoting Nightfox to Warpslide <=-

    For a while, Carl's Jr. had a teriyaki burger which had teriyaki sauce
    and a grilled pineapple slice on it. I though tit was pretty good. I don't think they have that burger anymore.

    Not sure what part of the world you're in, but if you have access to a
    burger joint call "The Habit" they have a teriyaki burger on their
    regular menu. It's all I order when I go there. :-)


    ~Elf

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Elf on Mon May 20 10:53:41 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: Elf to NIGHTFOX on Mon May 20 2024 11:21 am

    Not sure what part of the world you're in, but if you have access to a burger joint call "The Habit" they have a teriyaki burger on their regular menu. It's all I order when I go there. :-)

    I'm in northwest Oregon. I haven't seen The Habit here.

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  • From AKAcastor@21:1/162 to Poindexter Fortran on Mon May 20 12:28:10 2024
    No sympathy found - DOS at 16:9 is already doing it wrong, anything
    wider than 4:3 is incorrect.

    I still have a 19" 4:3 monitor, but no room on my desk for it!

    This is very relatable - we need more desk space!! Not enough room for one 4:3 monitor, let alone the varied assortment that is really required. Sometimes it's hard to be us. :)


    Chris/akacastor

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Mon May 20 15:17:19 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon May 20 2024 10:01 am

    Weren't most DOS programs designed for a 4:3 aspect ratio? I'd think you'd have the black bars on either side running DOSBox in full screen on a 16:9 monitor.

    DOSBOX does text-mode stretching. I haven't tried playing a DOS game in DOSBOX, it'd probably pad a 4:3 screen.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon May 20 17:22:01 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Mon May 20 2024 03:17 pm

    Weren't most DOS programs designed for a 4:3 aspect ratio? I'd think you'd
    have the black bars on either side running DOSBox in full screen on a 16:9
    monitor.

    DOSBOX does text-mode stretching. I haven't tried playing a DOS game in DOSBOX, it'd probably pad a 4:3 screen.

    Ah. Still, I think text meant for 4:3 stretched to 16:9 looks a little weird.

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Spectre on Tue May 21 11:56:50 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: Spectre to deon on Tue May 21 2024 01:21 am

    Howdy,

    So that begs the question, how much you're paying roughly and where you're filling. I've no idea where you might be able to fill. Generally the cheap servo locally tends to be around the $1.90 mark pretty reliably, making it cheaper than the nominal 4c offering out of Woolworths.

    So I generally pass 2-3 survos before I get to costco. If they are advertising the $1.90/l rate (and they dont take the 4c from coles/woolies), then costco would generally be sub $1.80/l...


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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Elf on Tue May 21 10:17:09 2024
    I tried quoting but somehow "I" tapped somewhere on this phone and saw all kinds of other things on the screen, Clipboard came up cuz the phone thought it was what I needed, so I cancelled it, when all cleared up the section of Your post with the URL to the web page was no longer in existence.
    Anyway I was only wanting to mention seeing the GIF of someone typing made me wish I wasn't using this phone because IF I was on the XP box here I would have hovered the mouse cursor over that thar GIF and swiped it.
    Ed
    P.S. the text below is there because I was too lazy to tap the delete key hundreds of times to get rid of it.




    Not sure what part of the world you're in, but if you have access to a burger joint call "The Habit" they have a teriyaki burger on their
    regular menu. It's all I order when I go there. :-)

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  • From Elf@21:1/194 to NIGHTFOX on Tue May 21 06:54:00 2024
    Quoting Nightfox to Elf <=-


    Not sure what part of the world you're in, but if you have access to a burger joint call "The Habit" they have a teriyaki burger on their regular menu. It's all I order when I go there. :-)

    I'm in northwest Oregon. I haven't seen The Habit here.

    Yeah, I took a quick look at their site - looks like you would have to
    go to Washington or Idaho. I'm in Utah near the southern Idaho border.

    https://www.habitburger.com

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  • From Digital Man@21:1/183 to fusion on Fri May 24 20:55:59 2024
    Re: Re: Pine, TIN etc.
    By: fusion to Blue White on Fri May 17 2024 10:04 am

    for example, "telnet vert.synchro.net 11" (that is, port 11) will dump the currently active users, and a program made to use MSP could send messages to them..

    I suggest you use nc (or netcat) for that kind of thing instead of telnet though. :-)
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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to fusion on Wed Jun 5 14:26:14 2024
    ironically i almost didn't post that one (the text editor one was the other one) .. that and suggesting detroit style pizza is better than
    deep dish seems to ruffle some feathers :)

    I traveled to Chicago recently, and we made sure to get some Chicago-style pizza while in Chicago.

    And it was good, though really more like eating lasagna than eating pizza.

    But when asked if it was my favorite type of pizza, because of preferring it over various thin-crust versions, I said no, because I think Detroit-style is my favorite type.

    And _that's_ weird because I think Detroit-style barely registers as being a distinct style.

    But I guess the combo of being able to have lots of toppings with bread that can support it winds up being my preference.

    Though, really, I should probably eat less pizza. :)

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Adept on Wed Jun 5 18:23:38 2024
    ironically i almost didn't post that one (the text editor one was the other one) .. that and suggesting detroit style pizza is better than deep dish seems to ruffle some feathers :)

    I traveled to Chicago recently, and we made sure to get some
    Chicago-style pizza while in Chicago.

    And it was good, though really more like eating lasagna than eating

    You know, I just read an article that stated that Portland, Oregon pizza was in the top 10 in America - I have to take my GF out to try it sometime soon!!!



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  • From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to Adept on Wed Jun 5 20:57:57 2024
    Though, really, I should probably eat less pizza. :)

    Now there is a controversial opinion if ever there was one.... Maybe you just need to eat more of the right pizza.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to paulie420 on Thu Jun 6 09:51:38 2024
    Re: Re: Pizza!
    By: paulie420 to Adept on Wed Jun 05 2024 06:23 pm

    You know, I just read an article that stated that Portland, Oregon pizza was in the top 10 in America - I have to take my GF out to try it sometime soon!!!

    I saw that. I do like the variety of pizza in the area.

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to paulie420 on Thu Jun 6 20:31:05 2024
    You know, I just read an article that stated that Portland, Oregon pizza was in the top 10 in America - I have to take my GF out to try it
    sometime soon!!!

    I will, of course, assume that Portland-style pizza is a little bit weird.

    But so are you, and that's a positive, so hopefully you and your GF like it.

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to kirkspragg on Thu Jun 6 20:34:22 2024
    Though, really, I should probably eat less pizza. :)

    Now there is a controversial opinion if ever there was one.... Maybe you just need to eat more of the right pizza.

    Oh, the thought came mostly out of my mom trying to lower her cholesterol levels without taking a statin, so she's getting fairly close to a vegan diet, at this point, and that has meant less pizza.

    Or, well, it probably _should_, because for as many interesting fake options there are out there, cheese seems to be pretty darn hard.

    But, regardless, it would be good if I ate less pizza that didn't taste that great and wasn't great for me.

    Though pizza is hardly the worst-for-me thing I've eaten.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Adept on Thu Jun 6 15:47:46 2024
    Re: Re: Pizza!
    By: Adept to paulie420 on Thu Jun 06 2024 08:31 pm

    You know, I just read an article that stated that Portland, Oregon pizza
    was in the top 10 in America - I have to take my GF out to try it
    sometime soon!!!

    I will, of course, assume that Portland-style pizza is a little bit weird.

    Weird in what way? A lot of the pizza in the area here is probably fairly normal pizza, with the usual combination-style pizzas (usually with toppings like sausage, salami, onion, green pepper, olives, etc.), Hawaiian (Canadian bacon & pineapple), and other options, with thin or thick crust, etc.. I have my favorite places that I think make tasty pizza. There's also at least one chain (Pizza Schmizza) that makes some more unusual/weird pizzas (there's one with hickory smoked bacon, baby red potatoes, roma tomatoes, and sour cream; a steak & potato pizza; they also have another one that includes alligator sausage, and so on).

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Nightfox on Thu Jun 6 19:52:41 2024
    You know, I just read an article that stated that Portland, Oregon pi was in the top 10 in America - I have to take my GF out to try it som soon!!!

    I saw that. I do like the variety of pizza in the area.

    I know that one Portland place... Pizza Fifty??? Or something with 'fifty' in the name. I was suggested another one - do you know of any good ones in the city?



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  • From Tiny@21:1/162 to Nightfox on Fri Jun 7 06:45:20 2024
    Nightfox was heard saying....

    Weird in what way? A lot of the pizza in the area here is probably

    I wonder if you guys have "Brampton style" pizza anywhere? So Brampton
    is a city near Toronto with a large Indian population. The butter chicken pizza is amazing. (Butter chicken sauce as a base). They have various
    other's with indian spices. I believe "Popular Pizza" was the chain that started it.


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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Nightfox on Fri Jun 7 12:54:54 2024
    pizza. There's also at least one chain (Pizza Schmizza) that makes some more unusual/weird pizzas (there's one with hickory smoked bacon, baby
    red potatoes, roma tomatoes, and sour cream; a steak & potato pizza;
    they also have another one that includes alligator sausage, and so on).

    Given Portland's reputation for being a little weird, that does seem like about the sort of thing I was expecting, with my comment.

    I do appreciate unusual food options, generally, so it sounds like a neat place.

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Tiny on Fri Jun 7 05:44:30 2024
    On 07 Jun 2024, Tiny said the following...

    I wonder if you guys have "Brampton style" pizza anywhere? So Brampton
    is a city near Toronto with a large Indian population. The butter
    chicken pizza is amazing. (Butter chicken sauce as a base). They have various other's with indian spices. I believe "Popular Pizza" was the chain that started it.

    Reeeeealllllyyyyyy!! I've not heard of this yet, just went to their website and they have a location here in Hamilton. We have dinner plans tonight, but I know what we're having for dinner tomorrow! :)


    Jay

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to paulie420 on Fri Jun 7 10:05:29 2024
    Re: Re: Pizza!
    By: paulie420 to Nightfox on Thu Jun 06 2024 07:52 pm

    I saw that. I do like the variety of pizza in the area.

    I know that one Portland place... Pizza Fifty??? Or something with 'fifty' in the name. I was suggested another one - do you know of any good ones in the city?

    It looks like it's Lovely's Fifty Fifty? I haven't heard of it. It looks like there's one in north Portland. It might be interesting to check it out.

    I'm on the west side.. Probably the closest local pizza chain to me is Belaggio's Pizza (which I think is pretty good) and Pizza Schmizza (which I also like).

    One good pizza place I like in Portland is Pizza Baron. I think they only have one location. I haven't been there in a while; I should probably go there again some time. Their pizza kinda reminded me of Pietro's, if you're familiar with them.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Tiny on Fri Jun 7 10:06:36 2024
    Re: Re: Pizza!
    By: Tiny to Nightfox on Fri Jun 07 2024 06:45 am

    I wonder if you guys have "Brampton style" pizza anywhere? So Brampton is a city near Toronto with a large Indian population. The butter chicken pizza is amazing. (Butter chicken sauce as a base). They have various other's with indian spices. I believe "Popular Pizza" was the chain that started it.

    I'm not familiar with Brampton style pizza, but I have heard of similar pizzas. There is a population of Indian people here as well, and there's a restaurant (or at least there was) near me called Curry and Crust which made Indian food and Indian-style pizzas.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Adept on Fri Jun 7 10:07:29 2024
    Re: Re: Pizza!
    By: Adept to Nightfox on Fri Jun 07 2024 12:54 pm

    Given Portland's reputation for being a little weird, that does seem like about the sort of thing I was expecting, with my comment.

    I do appreciate unusual food options, generally, so it sounds like a neat place.

    I think the Portland area is weird in a good way. Fun quirks. :)

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  • From Tiny@21:1/162 to Warpslide on Sat Jun 8 06:33:46 2024
    Warpslide was heard saying....

    various other's with indian spices. I believe "Popular Pizza" was the
    Reeeeealllllyyyyyy!! I've not heard of this yet, just went to their website and they have a location here in Hamilton. We have dinner plans tonight, but I know what we're having for dinner tomorrow! :)

    Nice! Let me know what you think. I do really like the butter chicken
    base.



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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Ed Vance on Wed Jun 12 11:24:15 2024
    Yes, I'm Opinionated as everyone else is.

    This was on a food topic, and I've tended to like food for this.

    Because I think people should be able to passionately argue for why various foods are great/terrible, or that one should _always_ do one thing or another with a certain recipe.

    And, at the end of it, people can eat whatever food works for them, and even if that's coconut (which isn't food; it's just "edible" sawdust), my opinion on the person hasn't changed, because my arguments, while extremely serious, are not actually serious at all.

    People can eat whatever they like, and I'm not going to judge them, even if I'm totally going to judge them in the sense of one color being superior to another, when the difference is entirely subjective.

    But it's nice when people are passionate about the food choices, even if they're wrong.

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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Adept on Wed Jun 12 16:03:06 2024


    This was on a food topic, and I've tended to like food for this.

    Because I think people should be able to passionately argue for why various foods are great/terrible, or that one should _always_ do one thing or another with a certain recipe.

    And, at the end of it, people can eat whatever food works for them, and even if that's coconut (which isn't food; it's just "edible" sawdust), my opinion on the person hasn't changed, because my arguments, while extremely serious, are not actually serious at all.

    People can eat whatever they like, and I'm not going to judge them, even if I'm totally going to judge them in the sense of one color being superior to another, when the difference is entirely subjective.

    But it's nice when people are passionate about the food choices, even if they're wrong.

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    WOW!, That comment of mine was made on 16May24.
    It took me a long while scrolling upwards in this thread to see it.

    The opinion is in reference to my liking Taco Sauce instead of Taco Salsa because the latter product has chunks in it.
    While scrolling up through the posts I saw topics about ytalk server stuff, and there were other things talked about too!

    My not knowing how to 'find' a word in a thread on this phone is what caused me to hunt the post that I made the comment in.

    The word DIFFICULT doesn't explain fully my thoughts of how DIFFERENT using this cellphone compared to the computer(s) here in my room.

    At least quoting messages is easy now that I've been told how.

    On the subject of Food - I don't believe in Food Fights just because I use Taco Sauce on Scrambled Eggs.
    I like what I like, others like food that they like. No argument here.

    I told a manager at a Buffet my only complaint I had is that every time I walk in the place I waddle out.

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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to Ed Vance on Wed Jun 12 17:12:05 2024
    I told a manager at a Buffet my only complaint I had is that every time
    I walk in the place I waddle out.

    Boy, do I understand/agree with that!

    ogg
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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Adept on Thu Jun 13 18:16:00 2024
    And, at the end of it, people can eat whatever food works for them, and even if that's coconut (which isn't food; it's just "edible" sawdust), my

    Chuckle.

    Are you eating the Kapok portion of the coconut? While I'm no fan of coconut in general, sawdust seems a little harsh. Unless wherever you are gets only really dry shredded...

    Spec


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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to ogg on Thu Jun 13 10:22:23 2024


    Boy, do I understand/agree with that!

    ogg
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    The manager had a very serious look on his face until I said waddle out.
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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to Ed Vance on Thu Jun 13 13:18:30 2024

    Boy, do I understand/agree with that!

    ogg

    The manager had a very serious look on his face until I said waddle out. Ed
    I bet, LOL!
    Scott

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Spectre on Fri Jun 14 20:04:39 2024
    Are you eating the Kapok portion of the coconut? While I'm no fan of coconut in general, sawdust seems a little harsh. Unless wherever you
    are gets only really dry shredded...

    I mean the texture that you'd get in the candy bars that involve chocolate-covered coconut. So, yeah, it's not _really_ sawdust, but moistened sawdust covered in milk chocolate.

    I have oftentimes had a very strong sweet tooth, and I remember a time when I was interested in eating cake that a coworker had brought.

    Then I found that it was covered in coconut, and I no longer considered it food.

    That said, my mom's favorite candy bars are Mounds and Almond Joy, so whatever I _detest_ about it must be enjoyable for my mom.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Adept on Sat Jun 15 21:46:00 2024
    I mean the texture that you'd get in the candy bars that involve chocolate-covered coconut. So, yeah, it's not _really_ sawdust, but moistened sawdust covered in milk chocolate.

    That said, my mom's favorite candy bars are Mounds and Almond Joy, so whatever I _detest_ about it must be enjoyable for my mom.

    No idea what Mounds or Almond joy might be, they don't sound to joyful
    though. Only two things come to mind that I can look sideways at here with coconut in them, Cherry Ripe, and Bounty. Not big on Cherry Ripe but while there's a fair slab of coconut in there it doesn't seem to get in the way of the taste. Bounty on the other hand, near 95% coconut and I dunno what it is about that one, sometimes will get a hankering for it.

    Ahh by the image your Mounds is probably somewhat similar to aa Bounty.

    Spec


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Spectre on Sat Jun 15 14:29:12 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: Spectre to Adept on Sat Jun 15 2024 09:46 pm

    That said, my mom's favorite candy bars are Mounds and Almond Joy, so
    whatever I _detest_ about it must be enjoyable for my mom.

    No idea what Mounds or Almond joy might be, they don't sound to joyful though.

    They're candy bars - Mounds is sweetened coconut in dark chocolate, and Almond Joy is the same but with a couple of almonds added.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Nightfox on Sun Jun 16 19:16:00 2024
    They're candy bars - Mounds is sweetened coconut in dark chocolate, and Almond Joy is the same but with a couple of almonds added.

    Sounds better than a mouthful of Kapok. Also sounds more like the local "Bounty" bar.

    Spec


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Sun Jun 16 08:01:00 2024
    Nightfox wrote to Spectre <=-

    They're candy bars - Mounds is sweetened coconut in dark chocolate, and Almond Joy is the same but with a couple of almonds added.

    "Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't. Because - some times you feel like
    a nut, sometimes you don't!"

    BURNED INTO MY HEAD FROM CHILDHOOD.


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jun 16 17:06:41 2024
    Re: Re: controversy!
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sun Jun 16 2024 08:01 am

    "Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't. Because - some times you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't!"

    BURNED INTO MY HEAD FROM CHILDHOOD.

    Yep. :)

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  • From Dr. What@21:1/616 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jun 17 07:21:59 2024
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nightfox <=-

    They're candy bars - Mounds is sweetened coconut in dark chocolate, and Almond Joy is the same but with a couple of almonds added.

    "Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't. Because - some times you feel
    like a nut, sometimes you don't!"

    BURNED INTO MY HEAD FROM CHILDHOOD.

    So.... Does that mean that Almond Joys are boys and Mounds are girls?


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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Spectre on Wed Jun 19 19:53:04 2024
    Ahh by the image your Mounds is probably somewhat similar to aa Bounty.

    Yeah, I think it's called Bounty in Germany, too, but I'm pretty sure they're the same candy bar by the same company.

    I don't think there's a German equivalent of Almond Joy, but it's effectively a Bounty bar with an almond on top of it (if it's a tiny bar, or almonds spaced on top if it's larger), but covered in chocolate from there.

    And, yeah, I'm not sure I could even stand to lick them, as I'd probably get the occasional lick with coconut texture coming off of it.

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to fusion on Fri Jun 21 15:10:39 2024
    i think personally if i was going to be picky i'd like to try out a nice 8x19 font.. that's pretty close to what dosbox might stretch a 4:3 text mode session to on a 1440p 16:9 screen.. you'd still have the bars on

    ...I love this level of nerdiness, though, when confronted with (and horrified by):

    ultrawide monitor, I get two big black bars on either side, which ru
    the full screen experience for me.

    ...I'd probably just get another monitor.

    Or, well, have black bars, since I'm typing this in a window where there's some scanned-documents and icons behind the SyncTERM window.

    But I know I've absolutely been that level of particular, though oftentimes it's in waiting forever to buy something, because I want a very particular setup of things.

    Since the pleasure of things just working / being the right form factor / etc., is quite nice, at least if you remember to think about when it wasn't.

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