But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does.

He’ll solve that too.

Yes they do and I do add my own tech but my experience with some of these devices has not been great.

I have LG TVs which I connected to the network and have been updated over the years to have really bad UX and are now polluted with ads.

I had an LG sound bar that was great for a while until it completely stopped working. Powers on, all functions seem to work, just no sound. Originally it worked as a Chromecast device too, but they stopped doing updates and Google stopped working with the old API.

My fear is that eventually there will be an update that bricks a device. Now I’ve taken them off the network, but how long before we have TVs that require Internet to even function.

These smart TVs have a lot more hardware and software than they need which means a lot more to break.

Miss the days when you could buy a dumb TV and add the tech you wanted.

Add to it that they evacuate their bowels and are alive long enough to suffer embarrassment.

I also suck at this. There is a lazy way though you’ll have to accept a certain look. My great grandmother had doilies everywhere. Every surface was covered. Most nearly completely, a few of the bigger tables just had a small one. Once a week she would collect them all and wash them. I didn’t realize till much later in life that the purpose they served was to collect dust to keep it off your surfaces.

I wonder if something more aesthetically passing to the modern eye would be as effective or if the intricate lace is important to the function.

The first Halo

Myst and Obsidian

I’ve been going to metal and adjacent shows and festivals for decades.

Metal fans are everything and everyone. There exists no stereotype that any one fan could fully fit.

• The lawyer with more money than sense.
• The family of 3 with their toddler wearing ear protection.
• The guy who looks like he just got done mucking a horse stall.
• The boomers who will tell you about the first time they saw Ozzy without it even being brought up.
• The smokers and the tokers.
• The guy who just escaped the office and doesn’t care what people think of his clothes.
• The visitors who are not really into the music but they love an opener or swore they would see the headliner if they ever got the chance.

For the most part, people are accepting of everyone. There are a few people who are less hospitable. Usually kids who have an idea of the culture that is not instep with reality. Typically they learn, one way or another.

And even those who legitimately are not have been convinced by those who are that talking about sex and the body is bad and leads to evil things.