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  1. Not to make the waters muddier, but if you see a review from Musl Lvr it is written by neither of the above gentlemen. It is written by me. wrote my first couple of reviews prior to joining the Forum and there is/was yet another gent who went by "Musl Lvr" on the Forum when I joined. Back to the topic, both men are beautiful.
  2. Very damn musky when I met him. That said, I have missed texts because they get lost in the shuffle of alerts and notifications and other texts. Sending a follow-up is not that hard.
  3. Apple refused to acknowledge that the keyboard design or a design defect caused the keyboards to stick and would charge the customer hundreds of dollars to replace the keyboard. Here's an excerpt from an article that appeared on SlashGear: "...Different strokes for different folks Were it just a matter of personal taste, the butterfly keyboard probably wouldn’t have so many detractors. Unfortunately, along with that frustration came some reliability concerns. Reports of sticky keys, keys that wouldn’t respond to presses, or keys that produced multiple letters even though only tapped once began to circulate. The nature of the new mechanism, though, meant that fixing those issues was tougher than with most notebook keyboards. Unlike the old scissor keys, the butterfly mechanism couldn’t be easily pried up so that dust, trumps, and other detritus could be cleaned out. Trying to do so, indeed, could leave you with a completely broken key. Apple’s advice was the judicious application of some compressed air, but even that wasn’t enough in many cases. Worse still, the company refused to acknowledge any part its design might have played in its temperamental ‘boards. Repairs could escalate to the hundreds of dollars, because the whole keyboard assembly needed to be replaced..." I call that "where bad design meets hubris."
  4. The problem was Apple refused to admit the keyboards were defective. Good news that they are going back to the old-style keyboards.
  5. Then you mean meat-like, meat-free products are the fad which (like @LivingnLA) I do not believe are a fad. Impossible is but one company that produces such products. Beyond is another. Being soy intolerant, I have not tried Impossible burgers, but I have tried Beyond Meat burgers and liked them. By the way, unless the party was catered by a restaurant, you did not have Impossible meatballs. They are not sold directly to consumers. You probably had a product that was made by Beyond Meat. Whoever called it an Impossible meatball was wrong. On second thought, they were right. It is impossible to buy Impossible burgers and meatballs in a retail store or wholesale club.
  6. It isn't a fad. It is the name of a company that makes meat-like products that are not made of meat. Here's a link to their website. Their competitor is called Beyond Meat. I don't find either brand name to be an over-used or empty word, but I'm wondering whether the Forum gets the same visceral reaction to "Beyond Meat" as it does to "Impossible Burger." By the way, Impossible does not make veggie burgers. The primary ingredients are water, soy protein concentrate, and various types of oil. Here's a list of ingredients from an article in Cooking Light: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors, 2% or less of: Potato Protein, Methylcellulose, Yeast Extract, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Soy Protein Isolate, Mixed Tocopherols (Vitamin E), Zinc Gluconate, Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Sodium Ascorbate (Vitamin C), Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12. On the other hand, Gardenburger (which markets itself as a veggie burger) is made of actual vegetables as well as other ingredients: Cooked Brown Rice (long Grain Brown Rice, Water), Button Mushrooms, Rolled Oats, Mozzarella Cheese (pasteurized Part-skim Milk, Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Onions, Water, Hydrated Wheat Bulgur (water, Bulgur Wheat), Crimini Mushrooms, Spices, Portabella Mushrooms, Cheddar Cheese (pasteurized Milk, Salt, Enzymes, Cultures, Annatto Color), Contains Two Percent Or Less Of Salt, Natural Flavors, Modified Vegetable Gum, Garlic Powder, Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Whey, Malted Barley, Annatto Color, Malted Barley Flour, Onion Powder, Mushroom Powder, Guar Gum, Annatto Extract (color), Turmeric Extract (color), Soy Lecithin.
  7. Have to agree with you there. Tampa is not as bad as Orlando and environs, but that bar is set very low.
  8. And Michael Vincenzo. Don't forget about him! You took the words right out of my mou, er, keyboard.
  9. He advertised under a different name, which escapes me at the moment. I like the last line in his ad: "My nipples are sensitive; don't call them names."
  10. In the same vein, "hand-crafted"sandwiches How the hell else would one make a sandwich?
  11. I loved every one of the 185,000 miles I drove in my Plymouth Horizon between 1988 and 1997. Thanks, Lee Iacocca! RIP.
  12. He now lists kissing as an interest.
  13. Class-action lawsuits have a way of prompting change. I LOVED my iMac right up to the day when it fell over as I was moving it and the screen shattered. Having purchased it from Apple before the AppleCare warranty covered accidental damage, I was looking at a $1,200 repair bill. That's when I bought the MacBook Pro. Should have repaired the iMac.
  14. Count Scott Charmin d'Cottonelle of the Northern Coronet
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  16. A very close friend who is the same age as me had an annoying colleague who kept saying "back in the day." The colleague was, at the time, 35 and my friend was 37 or 38. One day my friend heard "back in the day" one too many times and said "honey, we are both too young to say 'back in the day.' THIS is the day we will be back to in 20 years!" The colleague stopped saying "back in the day."
  17. Until the keyboard stops working due to the design flaw that Apple refused to address until after the third class-action lawsuit was filed. They were great computers prior to about 2014/2015. Now, not so much.
  18. In my experience, there is so much going on that guys have an understandably hard time committing to an appointment. When I have been able to make an appointment, the guy squeezed me in between commitments with friends. Additionally, I've been in the position when I've been on a schedule because of other plans.
  19. I've learned not to hire anyone during Prided weekend.
  20. Notice the absence of cake.
  21. True that! Then there's the touch bar. Another feature nobody asked for. The root of all this is computers have come a long way and aside from better, more powerful chips (which Apple does not make standard in their computers) there's not a whole lot of innovation to be done. So Apple did dumb things. Like the keyboard nonsense. Oh, and the new touchpads that you have to strike hard to do something. Meanwhile, on my new HP I can touch the touchpad, nit hit it with a mallet. (OK, I am exaggerating - but it's fun!) I've tried using my iPad (which I REALLY like) as a laptop replacement. It was OK for a few days, but it just wasn't the same. Problem is many sites that have a mobile and desktop site recognize it as a mobile device and serve up the mobile version of a website. That might be addressed with the iPad-centric OS.
  22. Do you have the receipt? It would have the associate number printed somewhere on it. I was asked to provide the name of the person who told me my photo would be on the back of the card, because that is no longer done. I didn't know that either. She told me it's not uncommon for breaks to be given by associates who aren't aware of all of the brand new changes in membership policies, such as no photos on the new cards, as this is quite new. So does the membership card work now?
  23. Scottish Folds are so named because their ears are folded down, like this: However, about 30% - 50% of the cats do not have folded ears. They are referred to as "peak-eared" or "straight-eared" and look like this: They have the same pushed-in round face, but their ears don't fold. When breeding, you always have to breed a peak- and folded-ear or two peak-eared cats. Two folded-ear cats can yield kittens that have spine issues and brittle bones. I haven't migrated all of my photos off my Mac to my PC yet, else I'd post a pic of Willy and his sister, Hillary. Once I do, I'll post it.
  24. No, but he was a sneaky escape artist. His cuteness and sweet nature (peaked ear Scottish Fold) made up for it.
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