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Sausage and cheese omelet.

Remember it well, since I ordered one too. I pulled a major Karen when they wanted to charge me return shipping. I got someone pretty high up and vented. To his credit he took it well, apologized again, and offered me some small token discount on my next purchase. I told him no thanks, and that I and some others stopping purchasing won't make a dent in their bottom line; so why do they have any impetus to change. But I also mentioned that token gestures AFTER the fact don't make up for ugly business practices and nasty consumer experiences, and they should really focus on improving that piece of customer sat. I'm sure he had as much as 15-20 seconds of troubling thought that evening....but I haven't shopped there since.

I'm boycotting Newegg over their absurd and predatory behavior since hardware, GPUs in particular, became scarce. I would recommend others not to shop with them if possible.

red beans

Neighborhood over the hill. Different type of kitty. Here kitty kitty. The poster is mistaken though, I see no 40+ year old divorcees returning from nightclubbing in the picture.

There’s now a part 2, if you feel like spending some more time: There’s pure insanity going on surrounding this on various forums. The pro-MQA crowd is now engaged in trench-warfare trying to discredit the guy who posted these videos. Changed its tune to “well we never said it was lossless — it’s lossy but BETTER than lame old lossless!”. There’s an edit war going on in the Wikipedia MQA article.

I read that a long time ago, pretty sure I was still in school; don't remember all the details but I remember quite enjoying it, insofar as one can enjoy a book about such a dark event.

Connie Willis - Doomsday Book I had the hardest time getting traction with this one. It starts slow. The characters and setting are unfamiliar. I wondered where it was going. Then it picks up… and… it is devastating. Especially after the events of the last year or so. “Apocalyptic,” as one of the characters would say. It is very deserving of all the awards it has won.

Remember that NAS/TV mount debacle from however many years ago? Some ...Synology? model shared the same # as a TV wall mount and NewEgg handled the situation in a spectacularly poor fashion.

I think I’m jumping ship to (cr)Apple music soon. Once lossless is ubiquitous, Tidal loses a lot of its draw. Edit: OK, just watched the video. Goodbye, Tidal. That video is so damning.

Always a simple favorite of my family. Potatoes, onions and sausage.

RIP to Maurice “Mo” Pinel, bowling ball revolutionary, of COVID-19 https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-amazing-journey-to-the-center-of-the-bowling-ball/

In the light of the moon, holding on to a good star, a painter of rainbows is now traveling across the night sky... Eric Carle was 91...