v for frequency?

It is the single blinking light that can fool some. Friend of mine would always ask if someone was with him, stop if alone as he could not tell the difference.

I thought they shrunk to donut hole too.

They might have shrunk it, but it's not gone. The last time I dropped $900 at the pharmacy (on a single prescription), my credit card company texted me over suspicious behavior.

My ex is a Type 1 diabetic so I assume she isn't yawning. Back in the '70s I don't even remember what insulin cost; in other words it was a trivial expense in the greater scheme. My jaw dropped a couple of years ago when a co-worker mentioned what his monthly outlay was.

The technology has advanced in 50 years but the price increases seem to be out of proportion.

I'm fortunate that the only prescription drug I take is lisinopril. Even that is optional but at about $10 for a 90 day supply I figure why not. This spring my doctor left it up to me. In her words 'I don't have a crystal ball and don't know how long you'll live but if it offers a little protection against a stroke you might want to try a low dosage.'

So says the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. Of course the US isn't a signatory. The US does have a national standard but some states have their own version. Red on the left of a horizontal light probably is safe unless the local DPW drone is dyslexic.

A friend pointed out an oddity from his years in Japan. Japanese certainly can see green but for historical reasons the word for it means blue. Japan follows the convention but uses the bluest shade of green they can get away with to satisfy the 'green' convention while not going against the language usage so in Japan they go on blue.

I think that fits in with the fallacy that ancient Greeks were colorblind because Homer and the boys named colors differently. Then there was the 'white' statues thing. Better surface analysis showed they were originally painted in rather garish colors.

I saw something different last weekend. The intersection has the blinking light but the side road had a blinking stop sign. By that I mean the standard octagonal stop sign had what looked like flashing red Christmas tree lights around the perimeter. It has to be homegrown.

Apropos: I went to CostCo yesterday and they had artificial Christmas trees and blinking reindeer. Shoot me now.

"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." Jim Mattis

True. Pan makes it easy to drop people into the bozo bin but the default sentence is a month. When some idiot like peeler reappears I'm careful to select the 'until hell freezes over' option instead of the default.

I maintain my slrn killfile manually, the way Larry Wall intended.

Seriously? You actually move the mat back and forth for each use? Are you so tight you won't buy an extra mat?

I didn't know he had anything to do with slrn. S-Lang was John Davis. Wall unleashed Perl on an unsuspecting world. Perl 6 was such an cluster they had to change its name to protect the innocent.

Yes, the cheap tat shops here have Christmas now. Desperation. Normally the seasons follow chronologically: Back To School, which started about two weeks before the schools closed this year, then Halloween, then Christmas.

Well, Larry Wall wrote rn, and slrn appears to be a descendent. slrn has a way to add stuff to your killfile from its interface, but it seems limited. Just easier to open the Score file in vi and have at it.

There's a new channell on t'tellybox called 'Great!Christmas. Wall to wall Christmas movies. Yuk. Almost as wet as Great!Romance.

I believe the 'sl' part comes from Davis' S-Lang.

We have a GUI for editing the various configuration files in the system. It's the same deal. it isn't bad if you want to add a new resource but for serious changes most of the sysadmins quickly realize opening the file in an editor is a lot easier.

That's a defeatist attitude. You guys claim to be the richest most powerful nation and you still have trouble populating difficult areas. This isn't the middle ages anymore.

Low value targets. I did find a cache where the first finder got a $5 gift certificate for the Great Harvest Bread Company. For the ones that do have trade goods it's usually trinkets from the Dollar Store.

No, only a paper log. The confirmation code is used when logging the cache on the website.

Precise is relative. On good days you might have 3 meter precision. That's a lot of digging. Part of it is to prevent destruction of the site.

Particularly when I'm traveling the caches often are in a interesting site you wouldn't stumble over by yourself. Some times it's an excuse for a walk in the woods.

It comes from the same animals, it cannot be different. Perhaps you cook it differently, you do realise you can ask the cook to do it your way? Rare, medium, well done, etc.

I don't understand engines, but a simple clasp, come on.