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[None]

Tortillas were freshly nuked and malleable, they were just a mite overstuffed (hard to fit a can's worth in two tortillas, plus all the fried vegetable goop I'd added in) and my plates are small and the burrito ends hang off like adult feet from a child's bed.

I had to teach a friend how to wrap burritos like that, and then remind him again later- still pretty sure it didn't stick, heh. In hindsight, I never did wrap the top end, which is there the spillage happened. I'm not really sure why I never considered doing that. It's really no fun picking beans off the ground every minute or worrying that you've kicked one behind your spare PC tower.

Thank you for putting the time in to add practical thoughts to my petty dinner outburst. I'll never be a foodie with how disastrous my digestive/immune system is, but here's to making better burritos, eh?

[Vector]

The Witcher books are so much better than the Witcher games and TV shows :/ Geralt ... I want to read your adventures all over again ...

Even The Wild Hunt is, relatively speaking, a huge disappointment...

I suppose I should have known better.

[Dunamisdeos]

I believe the usual internet argument is that since the games and show are good on their own, they don't have to live up to the books or respect the source material. Also, it's your fault for not liking them. Why don't you support artists.

(I like the books better, too)

[Jopax]

Firefox has somehow switched to auto updating again, no idea when, haven't even noticed that shit until the recent update which once again had to fuck with the visual style. This wouldn't be so bad as the changes are mostly minimal, except the tab one.

So now, instead of sensibly showing the little speaker icon on the tab that's making noise you have to mouse over the tab in question to get the icon, there's a bit of text at the bottom that says playing too but why the fuck would you forgo a perfectly readable and compact icon for a line of text that doesn't even fit the fucking tab properly if there's enough of them, and then still show the quick and easy to read icon once you mouse over it and know which tab is responsible.

Fucking browser dev teams and their fucking UI/UX gremlins who can't just leave a perfectly functional thing be but have to continuously fuck with it.

[Dunamisdeos]

Because somebody at the top got paid to make it harder so you have to listen to more ad audio

[Rolan7]

I hadn't noticed the audio notification change, ugh. Thanks for the warning. I'd only had time to notice that it looks and feels different, again. Not as bad as previous "updates" which I got a theme restorer for, but annoying.
[valid rant that I wrote *instead* of drinking, then I got a very much needed natural night's sleep and feel much better.  Moved to my personal journal because oversharing]

[None]

i left windows open after the sun went down and now there's so many gnats like holy cow it's grrrooooooossss

[Flying Teasets]

Reddit, StackOverflow, Kickstarter, etc. are down.

[methylatedspirit]

Strange. Are they all owned by the same company/hosted on the same server or something? It seems odd otherwise that these otherwise-unrelated websites would go down all at the same time.

[Flying Teasets]

Strange. Are they all owned by the same company/hosted on the same server or something? It seems odd otherwise that these otherwise-unrelated websites would go down all at the same time.

Allegedly problems at Fastly cloud services are the cause.

EDIT: It looks like the troubles have passed.

EDIT2: Maybe not.

[McTraveller]

I've got a tree in my yard that I'd estimate is 90 feet tall¹.  It has bark falling off around the trunk where it hits the ground, and what looks like a crack developing.  It's about 30 feet from the corner of our deck.  The top is green and lush, which means it's heavy.

I have two tree removal companies coming this week to give me quotes. I don't expect it to be cheap³.

Just praying it doesn't drop in storms before then, given it's now storm season².

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Fun with math! I took a sheet of paper and folded a corner over to get a 45 degree angle.  Then I used a ruler to draw a 3-4-5 triangle inside that 45 degree one.  I taped a straw to the 3-4-5 line, then sighted the top of the tree along the 45 line and put down a stake; then I walked toward the tree until the top of the tree sighted in the straw, put down another stake.  I did use a level to keep me within a couple degrees as best I could with my makeshift tool.  It was 22' between stakes, which works out to one "unit" since the difference between a 3-4-5 and 4-4-4*sqrt2 is 1 unit and my eyes are about 5 feet off the ground.  4 x 22' plus 5 feet is 93 feet, so even with error, that's a talltree.

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We had another tree in the yard fall just in a stiff breeze this weekend, but it was much shorter and very far from any structures.  It also had a lush top, but had a clearly decayed trunk where it broke.  So I'm not taking any chances with the behemoth.

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I'm mentally preparing myself for anything between $3000 and $5000.    Yes, thousands.

[Vector]

[valid rant that I wrote *instead* of drinking, then I got a very much needed natural night's sleep and feel much better.  Moved to my personal journal because oversharing]

proud of u

[martinuzz]

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I'm mentally preparing myself for anything between $3000 and $5000.    Yes, thousands.

For that price they'd better let you at least keep the log for yourself, turned into either planks or blocks.
A 93ft tall tree makes for a sizeable amount of wood, which can sell for decent cash if it's not in 93ft log form.

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

[heydude6]

Especially when you consider the lumber shortage that’s going on right now. You might as well just chop it down with an axe yourself and try to find a buyer.

Edit: Upon further consideration, especially with the size of the tree and things like power lines in the way, it probably isn’t possible to chop it with an axe. If I remember right, these tree removal companies often use stuff like cranes to get their work done.

I still believe a lot of those costs can be offset by selling the tree to a lumber company though.

[Frumple]

3k+ for a 90 ft tree looks like it's an accurate ballpark, eyeballing some stuff. It's pretty expensive to get trees that big removed, especially if it's anywhere near anything anyone cares about it falling on.

... that said, if it's a risk to a power line and you haven't already done it, checking with your power company might be in order? If not outright removal, they'll sometimes at least get the tree so it's not a line risk either gratis or at least at a discount or what have you. 3k for them can be cheaper than a service outage, ha.