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Cake day: October 7th, 2025

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  • Yup! Pull down a torrent of a current season broadcast TV show and check out how long it isn’t.

    52 minutes was the length of shows in the 60s and 70’s. This is why it’s almost impossible to see uncut episodes of the original Star Trek on a cable channel, let alone a broadcast one…

    It was already all but impossible to find when I cut the cord in '99.

    Looking at the commercial TV cable channels - I have the first 8 seasons of The Walking Dead… they run from 43 to 51 minutes in length (though the longer ones appeared in the 8th season (?) - was that when the channels started overlaying ads during the credit rolls? I know that’s a thing.)


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    Well, when you get to the age where mom jeans are what you want, it’s a given that you’re also at the no fucks given age WRT fashion.

    It’s as liberating as hell.

    I blew past mom jeans and went straight to cargo shorts and a strap belt to hold them up (in spite of being fat, I still have no ass), flip flop sandals and leg warmers. And an oxblood woolrich winter flannel shirt.



  • Well, AI or not… I can vouch for cats bringing dead things into their owners beds.

    Why I twigged on it, was that my dads cat, Gandalf the Gray, used to bring him dead mice and leave them by his head when he was sleeping - or if it happened during the day, she’d just leave birds on his pillow.

    He would always thank her, give her scritches, then when she wasn’t looking, flush the carcasses…

    It was love.


  • I cut the cable TV cord in 1999. For whatever movies/TV we’ve wanted to watch, we’ve just gone to our public library to get DVDs and later on, streamed stuff.

    uBO in all the browsers as well.

    If you make a concerted effort, you can de-TV the household and it takes little time to find ways pick up on watching the things you like - w/o commercial interruption… I could not imagine watching an evening of broadcast TV.

    Given that the average show is now 40 minutes long - thats an hour of commercials between the 3 primetime hours of 8 and 11 pm.

    I’m not going to waste an hour every night looking at things I do not want or need in my life.

    Fuck that shit.







  • This was me with beer. Gave it up over 15 years ago, as what was making me feel shitty about it was putting out the recycling bin filled with beer bottles and cans… and realizing just how much money I was spending on something that was doing nothing good for me. Stopped drinking in 2009 and don’t miss it a bit. Saving a lot more money as well…











  • This is the way.

    It’s hard though, to just get liabilty on a car if you’re still making payments on it.

    It’s gotta be 100% yours with no payments or liens on it.

    Then you can go for a nice high liability policy. I’ve always bought older used and just gotten policies to cover OTHER people I may accidentally hit. No collision - If i’m not paying attention and slide off the road into a rock… that’s on me.

    I also would add glass and theft to that liability policy. The glass coverage saved my ass a few years ago when I caught a rock behind (what else?) a dump truck.