Recent content by JKalchik

That's only partially true. Your browser IS a local application. The lags come when there's a JavaScript function running in the background that's trying to do something active with the backend, such as looking up user names when a '@' gets entered. A basic text entry is purely local. I have...

I stopped at Microcenter (electronics outlet) in the southwestern Twin Cities metro 10 days ago. There was a well behaved line of 50+ people waiting to get in, and only a couple of people every 5-10 minutes. That math ain't pretty. What I wanted to pick up was not an immediate priority...

Actually.... that is a huge question in the Internet age. There are a lot of people who do want to see websites held responsible for all content, and yet don't realize that their own Internet presence will potentially violate their own proposed rules & requirements. An even bigger issue is who...

Or Jimmy Dean sausage.....

Smoked meatloaf (ThermoWorks/Alton Brown's recipe) & mashed potatoes. Sent some around the corner to one of my coworkers for dinner, his wife is undergoing cancer treatment right now (she just got home this afternoon from a chemo treatment last week.)

Yoders are a good deal more expensive than RecTec, but do seem to have sturdier construction. My client manager has a Yoder pellet smoker and he's very happy with it.

Well.... if your job keeps you away from close proximity to other people, why NOT do it? Yeah, I know.... it's easier if the gummint just says "everybody stay home." Transmission is via a respiratory inhalation/exhalation particles primarily, along with pickup of said particles after...

I fixed whole live lobster for my g/f on her birthday. While it turned out awfully good, a lot of work, and claws aside, we both prefer the tails. I'll pick up frozen cold water tails and grill them off instead, 80-90% of the lobster for about 5-10% of the work. Ray, those do look awfully...

TMI, Brad, TMI... :) I've finally cleared off a space on my desk for the client laptop and a wired connection to my guest network. Finally broke down and bought a 27" 4k monitor, new KVM switch (6 out of 8 ports used) and a new keyboard & mouse. Finally have to give up my 20+ Micron keyboard...

Knowing it's coming doesn't make it easier. If my employer decides to cut me loose (I do not work cheap,) I'm fairly sure that my client will scream bloody murder (I keep pulling rabbits out of the hat.) I hope this works out for you. Chris, et al, the only things that I'm fairly sure of is...

2 good friends of mine are officially unemployed as of tonight. One was sort of expected (mid to high end IT consultant,) the other one, we were hoping not. Me..... I'm finding it hard to not tell my employer to pound sand, but this is NOT the right time to do that without having an immediate...

Me likey, Bruno.

<shrug> I've been known to use a pit probe and 3 food probes in a single brisket. Bruno, what time is dinner? What kind of beer do ya like? :D

Market forces. "Lovely little empire ya got here. Shame if something happened to it.....'

Very cool. G/f & I went to Houston last fall, and took the Level 9 Space Center tour (2 days,) *INCLUDING*..... access into the refurbed Apollo mission control room. That room just screams history.