neopenguin

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[–] neopenguin 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a great tip about the "undercover fancy pen!" I hadn't even thought about that, but I'll definitely be doing it now!

[–] neopenguin 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

A decent pen and/or pencil. I have several nice fountain pens that I use for journaling, but I use my Zebra F-301 ballpoint daily for general notes/etc. -- ~$10 for a 4 pack on Amazon. If you prefer a pencil, you can pick up a Pentel Sharp Kerry for under $20 on Amazon.

[–] neopenguin 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fwiw, if anyone is interested, this is available on R&S Records Bandcamp.

[–] neopenguin 40 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Can't take the risk of getting in the middle of something, losing track of time, and being late to/missing the appointment.

[–] neopenguin 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To refuel your car, first flip down the license plate.

[–] neopenguin 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Red shirt, nooooo!

[–] neopenguin 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When he was a little boy, Sam Vimes had thought that the very rich ate off gold plates and lived in marble houses.

He’d learned something new: the very very rich could afford to be poor. Sybil Ramkin lived in the kind of poverty that was only available to the very rich, a poverty approached from the other side. Women who were merely well-off saved up and bought dresses made of silk edged with lace and pearls, but Lady Ramkin was so rich she could afford to stomp around the place in rubber boots and a tweed skirt that had belonged to her mother. She was so rich she could afford to live on biscuits and cheese sandwiches. She was so rich she lived in three rooms in a thirty-four-roomed mansion; the rest of them were full of very expensive and very old furniture, covered in dust sheets.

From Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett

[–] neopenguin 2 points 1 year ago

There are websockets.

[–] neopenguin 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

www is not a protocol, it's just a common subdomain. I think you meant http.

[–] neopenguin 4 points 1 year ago

Came here for this. The whole field is ~1 1/3 acres, so if you think of the whole field as 4, 1/3 acre sections, an acre is ~ 3/4 of a football field.

[–] neopenguin 12 points 1 year ago

Buying a bubble wrap de-bubbler just seemed like a good idea...at 2am, while drunk scrolling on Amazon.

[–] neopenguin 3 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I think one thing to keep in mind is how absolutely MASSIVE the US is -- even the smallest state in the US is larger than a handful of European countries.

It's very common for people to live a 30+ minute drive from cities and/or their workplace, and in these more rural areas, it can be unsustainable to open small shops, because of reduced traffic...and people are shopping at the "super centers" in the city.

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