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NPR: 50 Years After Apollo 11, Here’s What (And How) Astronauts Are Eating.

That reminds me: don’t think I’ve ever actually tasted Tang, nor have I ever really felt the need drink that stuff.

Over the years though, I’ve generally come to the conclusion that astronauts don’t get the gift of good food. I’d like to think that life for the ISS crew sucks less than shuttle and Apollo crews suffered in terms of food stuffs but I’m pretty sure the day when space food is really great food rather than just the best we can do, is still quite far off.

The 20th century kind of brought a lot of advancements to storing, packing, and preserving food. But some problems remain unsolved, lol.

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Being a human bit of shade while walking the dogs, I’m not sure what I find more concerning. That the translation of my thought would be: “Ahh, that feels good!”; or that the thought wasn’t in my native language.

Somehow, I blame it on growing up in south Florida :P.

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Passing Thoughts: if I could be a monster, I’d probably want to be made out of coffee. Some kind of coffee monster. But then I’d be in danger of a Pizza the Hut locked in his own stretched limo kind of end.

Actually now that I think of it being a slime wouldn’t be so bad if being like Rimuru was an option. And I bet absorbing tons of coffee would be easy 😂.

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https://photos.app.goo.gl/6G2R5yc1MA1RYZ2Q7

Two years ago and still comfy.

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Coin flip: you may be drowsy or crazy if you imagine your dog being very Juno and explaining there is a special place in hell for those who don’t share their midnight snacks.

Yes, I’m pretty sure that is what Misty wants to tell me about the lack of sharing going on….

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Cheapskate Handy repurposing of old stuff: turning my multimedia dock into a spare tablet stand.

After writing this the other day, I was a bit tempted to get another stand similar to the Anker I use in my living room or just transition one of my Breffo Spider Podiums to my desk.

Rooting around in the closet to see if I had any spare Spider podiums to use as a headphone stand, I foumd my old Samsung multimedia dock. Sadly it became a paper weight when I upgraded from the Tab S2 to the Tab S3, much as I traded external monitor support for S-Pen capability when I did. Without Samsung’s old 11-pin MHL/MicroUSB and driver support the ports are basically useless. Shame because it was a great one cable and done docking station when I used my tablet as my workstation.

But the little fellow still remains physically useful as a stand since my Tab S3 still fits in the slot. Thus one problem solved by recycling, and not having to spend a dime; this makes me happy even if the poor dock is no longer able to fulfil its original purpose. It is still useful for more than keeping makkuro kurosuke from settling in /dev/closet.

It also puts my tablet at a fairly convenient angle, hehe.

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Seen “Hi Score Girl” on Netflix yet?

Reminder seeing this listed a good while ago and filling it under “Watch later, maybe.”

Many of the games depicted flash my brain back to my childhood. There’s more than a few, probably most of the ones shown that either landed American Genesis and SNES releases. Not to mention the reoccurring bits of Street Fighter II; which probably was the fighting game my brother and I played the most of in the early ’90s.

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Wccftech: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Benchmark Leaks Out, Almost Titan V Tier Performance For $699 US.

This reminds me: my hand me down GTX 780 fell into that price range when it was young, back in ’13. Far from New the old ‘780 still kicks more than a little ass at plowing through games. I’m also inclined to believe most of my issues with FVXV’s performance are due to my processor not aging equally as well, since the stutters revolved around my Core i5 spiking to 100% usage.

And that’s exactly why you would pay such a fortune for a top dog GPU: because you won’t have to buy a new one for quite a freaking while. 2019 – 2013 = 6 years and only now showing signs of age.

Personally, I’m more interested in what follows the GTX 16 / RTX 20 thing. But cards at that level have very long service lives to match the ludicrous price tags. Pretty much regardless of generation. By the time such cards age out it is because the mid ranged cards have finally caught up quite a few years later or because of more Direct 3D and driver level advancements leaving you in the dust; which isn’t so often.

Catching up on Fruits Basket

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Fruits Basket – s01e14 – Thats a Secret.
Fruits Basket – s01e13 – How Have You Been, My Brother?

Catching up on the last several weeks, I find episodes 13 and 14 both remarkably great and strongly contrasting. These are both episodes I’d clip if Crunchyroll had something like Hulu’s “My Episodes” feature.

13 is a fairly light hearted episode fueled by twisted humor, in a sense of twisted. While rather endears it to my funny bone thanks to the antics of the senior generation. I’m pretty sure that Ayame, Hatori, and Shigure would have been an entertaining handful in their youth.

14 on the other hand if painted in a totally different, more somber shade. The story of Momiji and his family is one that I think serves well to bring out his statement in the end. Humanity would do well to remember Momiji’s view about memories; Tohru’s reactions being both very human and very Tohru, IMHO. The visit to her mother’s grave also stands in contrast to the rest of the episode while keeping the somber attitude despite some rather fun “Crimson Butterfly” highlights along the way. We can but conclude as usual that Tohru’s mother was quite a person.

Both are great episodes, but for different reasons.

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Recurring problems: when your brain tells you not to make coffee after dark.

Is there such a thing as too much coffee? I doubt it.

There are weekends where my coffee consumption approximates my weekday consumption, and there are weekends where I hardly down a drop of coffee. :/.