Ace-Garageguy

Boiled the turkey carcass half the day, then strained the broth and picked the meat off the bones. Made soup from the broth and leftover potatoes, stuffing, and gravy, and there was enough meat for a fat sandwich today, one for lunch tomorrow. The thick soup will be tomorrow's dinner with warm buttered crusty brown bread. Warming up the last piece of mince pie as I type this, to have drenched in heavy cream, and one more cup of strong black coffee. Yeah, baby. Old school, no waste, pretty fine chow.

Well, sorry to hear that then. Plastic, even high-quality plastic CAN get brittle as it ages, as the 'plasticizers' leach out. But it's pretty common for "offshore-made" plastic items to fail totally in a few months or less, sometimes even turning to powder, or getting sticky, or turning to goo... etc. etc. etc.

"Jaybird" was the nickname of a cute little fluffy blonde girlfriend I haven't thought of in many years.

Interesting how eBay, like so many others, has a generation of IT doofuses taking something that worked just fine for many years and making it into useless garbage. Good job, little fellas. Get in line for your participation trophies. Oh so mo better.

Extra special Chinese plastic that gets so brittle when it's cold... I have some US-made scrapers that are decades old, heavy material correctly speced for the job, still going strong.

I see a lot more people in the YT comments praising AI slop "documentaries" full of misrepresentations, inaccuracies, distortions, and outright lies (plus mismatched photos that have nothing to do with the narration) than I see people calling them out for being useless gibberish. This is why a dumbed-down society that's lacking vast amounts of what used to be considered "general knowledge" or "common knowledge", and who have become complacent about accepting whatever garbage Google vomits up first, with rarely any fact-checking or critical-thinking skills applied, will be easily led to places they probably don't really want to go...if only they stopped to think about it. Sometimes I just have to wonder if that's been the plan all along...

What I find so interesting is that in 1942, Isaac Asimov foresaw this, and proposed the Three Laws of Robotics that were deeply imbedded in the programming code, so integral that they could not be overridden. Unfortunately, AI systems based on LLMs don't actually understand context, so these behavioral limitations don't work as Asimov envisioned. More's the pity. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws

I'll check. I got a bunch of sectional track in a mystery box not too long ago, but I'm not sure what it is without digging it out.

Came across two HO scale resin Funaro & Camerlengo P-202 Erie Stillwell Combine kits, complete, NIB, for $10 each. These retailed new for $59.99, and are sometimes available online for about the same money. They're beautiful kits (like all F&C products I've seen), including everything but appropriate scale 36" wheels.

I have several copies of each different version, including the engine house. I wasn't aware it was designed by John Allen. I'll have to look into that, as he was one of the significant influences in my life, and I have a small fleet of HO rolling stock carrying the Gorre & Daphetid road name.

This has been discussed at length within the AI community, and there's already evidence to support the likelihood of such an event happening in reality.

Hours and hours of paperwork to do, but it's cold, gray, and generally miserable outside...perfect day to sit in front of the heat and and the window and get it done.