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  1. Posted

    3 hours ago, SamKD said:

    For me it started when I got the Chase Sapphire Reserve card that came with a sign-up bonus of 100,000 points after spending a minimum amount over a certain time period.  Basically I fulfilled the offer minimum by installing some hardwood floors.  That in turn paid for roundtrip tickets to Peru and back in first class ~ all for the equivalent of about $350 each way.

    By the way, the Sapphire layers pretty well with the two Freedom cards. They both also earn Ultimate Rewards points which are combinable. One gives 1.5/dollar on everything and the other gives 5/dollar but on quarterly rotating categories. Neither has an annual fee, so they're easy to keep around. I think both also come with a modest sign-up bonus.

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    9 hours ago, Lynch is a Misogynist said:

     

    Brilliant deduction, what gave it away? Cooper handing Mike his hair after asking him if he still had the seed and expressly asking him to "make another"?

     

    If you can't contribute constructively to the discussion, please find yourself another forum. You won't be warned again.

     

    Edit: oh nevermind it was that feelintoblivion guy again. Banned again.

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    Yeah fixed the dark gray, but not it's offensively bright. When I get home tonight I'll try rebuilding the themes from scratch starting from the new version's stock theme.

     

    Didn't expect 4.1 -> 4.2 to contain such big theme changes :/

  10. Posted

    2 hours ago, fellintooblivion said:

    Man, the mental gymnastics some of you go to in an attempt to validate a pet theory are hilarious. 

     

    Audrey is in a coma and gave birth after being raped by Cooper and she is just incorporating things people are for some reason talking about in her hospital room into her coma dreams where she is in a terrible marriage with a midget accountant?

     

    Holy Christ. 

     

    Also, this weeks episode of the podcast felt incredibly phoned in. Either you liked this episode a lot less than you let on or you couldn't be bothered to do any independent thinking about it and just regurgitated forum/Reddit posts for an hour. 

     

    Since you seem to post every week about how much you didn't like the podcast or Twin Peaks, may I suggest you stop watching, stop listening, or at least keep it to yourself?

     

    I think the whole forum could live without your weekly dose of negativity and general insulting tone. Go do something constructive with your time.

  12. Posted

    5 hours ago, scmoviegirl said:

    Created an account just to chime in about feed errors because that's how much I love my idle podcasts!

     

    I have been having issues for about the last week with the Beyond Pod app.  Every time I try to download any Idle Podcast, I get an error message "Reason to fail: SSLPeerUnverifiedException.  No peer certificate."

     

    I've been using this app to download Idle Thumbs and its various podcasts for years without any issues. 

     

    Can you share what version of Android you're using? 

     

    As a workaround, can you change the feed url from https: to http:?

     

    I've reverted the change we made to serve secure enclosures when requesting the feed over https, since it seems like a few clients have TLS issues (My money's on old CA bundles).

     

    @scmoviegirl @Xealot42 Let me know if it works for you now?

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    36 minutes ago, Gormongous said:

     

    Actually, it's the other way around. The original Old French word, erbe, had no initial H when it was borrowed into Middle English in the twelfth century, and the H was added by analogy with the Latin root in the fifteenth century, though it remained mute until prescriptive grammarists in Britain during the nineteenth century campaigned for a voiced H to make English less French and more Latinate. Much like "ain't," dropping the G from "-ing," and virtually every other feature that American English gets "wrong," it's a lexical rule that Britain used for centuries, then changed its mind on and blasted ignorant colonials for continuing to use.

     

    Actually, that reminds me that Catullus, a Roman poet who was contemporary with (and a vocal critic of) Julius Caesar, wrote a poem mocking an anonymous acquaintance for putting an H before every word that could take one (Latin seldom voiced an initial H, but the Greek that most educated Romans knew did, so it was a fairly common affectation among the elite). This sort of thing has been a bone of contention for millennia, I guess!

     

    'oisted.

  20. Posted

    25 minutes ago, Professor Video Games said:

    If we are plugging Andy Daly stuff, I will mention his insanely good (and also just insane) job as L. Ron Hubbard on the now defunct Dead Authors Podcast. The first part being so bananas they ended up having to bring him back for a second episode to wrap things up.

     

    http://thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/chapter-45-part-1-l-ron-hubbard-featuring-andrew-daly

    http://thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/chapter-45-part-2-l-ron-hubbard-featuring-andy-daly

     

    I miss that podcast a lot.

  21. Posted

    12 hours ago, osmosisch said:

    I'm going to endorse baking your own bread. It's both enormously simple and enormously satisfying. You start with a flour and water porridge, let it develop into a starter over a week and then you're set. We've not bought bread for several months now and we're very smug about it.

     

    I've mostly been using Dutch language resources so I can't help you much there but there's a crapton of resources out there. A lot of the joy is in the experimentation anyway. Go!

     

    Only caveat is that if your starter turns a funny color (which is basically any color) you should definitely throw it out and start over.

  23. Posted

    9 hours ago, Chris said:

    Learn to make miso soup. It doesn't take very long and unless it's something you grew up with, it feels like one of those things that is reserved for a restaurant experience--but it totally doesn't have to be! It's fun, inexpensive, and not difficult to make. It's a great hot comfort food.

     

    Bonus: Try red miso paste. It's a different flavor from what you generally get in restaurants, and a little stronger.