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re: First time in Europe - things that may surprise the OT
Posted by eitek1 on 9/25/26 at 7:33 pm to Ramblin Wreck
I was in Rome at the end of June and had exactly the same experience you had, except it was really hot.
One thing I observed is that everyone was very nice also. We didn't have any issues at all.
One thing I observed is that everyone was very nice also. We didn't have any issues at all.
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This fricking idiot is destroying this country
Gas prices are “transitory”.
re: Has anyone here traveled to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia?
Posted by eitek1 on 9/22/26 at 11:35 am to The Silverback
I spent about 9 months over there in my youth. I can think of a million places that I'd rather be than anywhere in Saudi Arabia.
I'm a half glass full type guy so I'll tell you this, if you can go out into the far desert at night, the sight of the stars is breathtaking. I've never seen anything to compare anywhere else.
In general countries where Arabic is the primary language aren't great tourist locations. There may be some exceptions.
I'm a half glass full type guy so I'll tell you this, if you can go out into the far desert at night, the sight of the stars is breathtaking. I've never seen anything to compare anywhere else.
In general countries where Arabic is the primary language aren't great tourist locations. There may be some exceptions.
re: Looking to buy a new office chair today, need suggestions?!
Posted by eitek1 on 9/21/26 at 9:09 pm to LSU Coyote
I have the Lazyboy Arcadian and it’s super comfortable. I’ve had it probably a year. I’m very happy with it.
re: The older I get the more respect I lose for fat people
Posted by eitek1 on 9/21/26 at 12:36 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Your math doesn’t math
Tell me more. My logic is, if I eat diet "X" and lose roughly 1.5 pounds a week, and for 4 weeks, I eat diet X and add 1 cup of milk and 3 cookies and lose no weight, I've got to be close to my basal metabolic rate eating diet "X".
Are you talking about the cookies and milk not equaling 1.5 pounds? I agree they don't exactly but neither is my activity level exactly constant.
Still interested to hear your thoughts
re: The older I get the more respect I lose for fat people
Posted by eitek1 on 9/21/26 at 11:13 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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Well yeah, that’s like 400 calories
It's 260 calories. That's how close I am to my basal calorie rate.
re: The older I get the more respect I lose for fat people
Posted by eitek1 on 9/21/26 at 9:56 am to Mingo Was His NameO
You need to go to a doctor or you are eating way more than you think you are.
Either way, you’re probably crash dieting and fricking your hormones up
Just had a complete physical last week. Full blood work and everything. I couldn't be healthier. My cholesterol was below 150, my A1C is perfect, etc.
I tried an experiment. If I eat the diet or caloric intake I listed in my previous post, I lose ~1.5 pounds a week. In the evenings I added 3 chips ahoy cookies and a single cup of milk. With that same diet and the cookies and milk, my weight remained static for a month. As soon as I cut out the cookies and milk, I went back to the 1.5 lb weight loss.
I've got a significant history with "my fitness pal" tracking that stuff. At the suggested caloric intake, I don't lose anything. I think it suggested around 2k calories but I remain static there.
That's what I'm doing. I'm beating down the hunger pangs with little satsuma oranges. They seem to work really well, that and cherry tomatoes.
Great question, I'm just really efficient.
I read an article years ago about a guy that was a regular Ironman participant and was chubby. They found out while exercising, his metabolism was consistent with other athletes, when he stopped, he went into couch potato mode. I thought "that poor guy" and that guy was me.
That said while I'm "technically" obese due to my weight, if you saw me, you probably wouldn't consider me obese, or maybe you would...
Either way, you’re probably crash dieting and fricking your hormones up
Just had a complete physical last week. Full blood work and everything. I couldn't be healthier. My cholesterol was below 150, my A1C is perfect, etc.
I tried an experiment. If I eat the diet or caloric intake I listed in my previous post, I lose ~1.5 pounds a week. In the evenings I added 3 chips ahoy cookies and a single cup of milk. With that same diet and the cookies and milk, my weight remained static for a month. As soon as I cut out the cookies and milk, I went back to the 1.5 lb weight loss.
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Buy a food scale, get a calorie-tracking app, and use both consistently for a while.
I've got a significant history with "my fitness pal" tracking that stuff. At the suggested caloric intake, I don't lose anything. I think it suggested around 2k calories but I remain static there.
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Try Intermittent fasting, either two meals a day or one if you can tolerate
That's what I'm doing. I'm beating down the hunger pangs with little satsuma oranges. They seem to work really well, that and cherry tomatoes.
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Why are you 250 then
Great question, I'm just really efficient.
I read an article years ago about a guy that was a regular Ironman participant and was chubby. They found out while exercising, his metabolism was consistent with other athletes, when he stopped, he went into couch potato mode. I thought "that poor guy" and that guy was me.
That said while I'm "technically" obese due to my weight, if you saw me, you probably wouldn't consider me obese, or maybe you would...
re: The older I get the more respect I lose for fat people
Posted by eitek1 on 9/20/26 at 10:14 am to TechDawg2007
I'm a large guy. I've weighed 250-260 most of my life.
When I was doing 3 hours of training 4 days a week and more on the weekends when I was training for triathlons. I ran those triathlons at 250.
I do crossfit at 55 years old, 3x a week, I weigh 250. I drink no alcohol or soft drinks. I'm incredibly fit, but would be considered obese.
I have undertaken the effort to get slim. I got down to 207. To get there and stay there, my diet can only exist of baked chicken breast, steamed vegetables, egg whites and plain baked potatoes, nothing else. If I eat anything else, I gain weight.
While I understand that eat less, move more and weight loss is a math problem and thermodynamics, sometimes a regular diet is enough to sustain 250 lbs for some folks.
I'm trying to drop weight again because I know its healthier. I eat two small oranges for breakfast. If I bring my lunch to work, it's typically a cup and a half of gumbo or some similar. If I don't, its a 6" subway sandwich. For dinner, its a small bowl of chicken and vegetables. If hunger gets the best of me, I eat a satsuma. Doing that EVERY day, nets me 1.5 lb loss a week. This includes doing crossfit 3x a week and walking at least a mile at lunch daily.
Some of us are just more efficient with a calorie than others. Upside, I'm going to outlive everyone in the apocalypse.
When I was doing 3 hours of training 4 days a week and more on the weekends when I was training for triathlons. I ran those triathlons at 250.
I do crossfit at 55 years old, 3x a week, I weigh 250. I drink no alcohol or soft drinks. I'm incredibly fit, but would be considered obese.
I have undertaken the effort to get slim. I got down to 207. To get there and stay there, my diet can only exist of baked chicken breast, steamed vegetables, egg whites and plain baked potatoes, nothing else. If I eat anything else, I gain weight.
While I understand that eat less, move more and weight loss is a math problem and thermodynamics, sometimes a regular diet is enough to sustain 250 lbs for some folks.
I'm trying to drop weight again because I know its healthier. I eat two small oranges for breakfast. If I bring my lunch to work, it's typically a cup and a half of gumbo or some similar. If I don't, its a 6" subway sandwich. For dinner, its a small bowl of chicken and vegetables. If hunger gets the best of me, I eat a satsuma. Doing that EVERY day, nets me 1.5 lb loss a week. This includes doing crossfit 3x a week and walking at least a mile at lunch daily.
Some of us are just more efficient with a calorie than others. Upside, I'm going to outlive everyone in the apocalypse.
re: Refineries Are Now the Main Chokepoint for Global Energy Supplies
Posted by eitek1 on 9/20/26 at 9:12 am to ragincajun03
What isn’t helping the situation is the European countries being outright hostile to anything having to do with gas and oil production.
Now, they are going to be dealing with the consequences of those policies. This was shortsightedness on their part but they bought into the green promises that make sense to everyone without the capacity to do math.
This is seriously bad for everyone without native oil production and refining capacity and mildly bad for those that do have it.
Now, they are going to be dealing with the consequences of those policies. This was shortsightedness on their part but they bought into the green promises that make sense to everyone without the capacity to do math.
This is seriously bad for everyone without native oil production and refining capacity and mildly bad for those that do have it.
re: White House With Savage Takedown of CNN
Posted by eitek1 on 9/18/26 at 10:43 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Do you honestly believe they never reported something they KNEW to be false because it would hurt the current president?
There was zero evidence Hunter’s laptop wasn’t legit. All the evidence indicated it was, all of it. The left created the “50 experts” and they ran with that, not the evidence.
There was zero evidence Hunter’s laptop wasn’t legit. All the evidence indicated it was, all of it. The left created the “50 experts” and they ran with that, not the evidence.
re: Large group of fraudsters from India targeting senior citizens in gold scams nationwide
Posted by eitek1 on 9/17/26 at 2:03 pm to SloaneRanger
I had some call and act like spectrum internet trying to get access to my account. I knew what was up early on but I could see how someone could get scammed.
re: OT Watch Bros: thoughts on Seiko?
Posted by eitek1 on 9/16/26 at 8:17 pm to Yaboylsu63
I've got a Seiko "Pepsi" Diver on my wrist right now I bought as a solider in Saudi Arabia in 1990. Still runs perfectly and looks nice.
re: Jody Plauche on The Tim Butterly Show
Posted by eitek1 on 9/16/26 at 8:19 am to TigerChick2018
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I remember watching this shooting live.
Most people think that it was live when shown but it wasn’t. It was recorded and shown some time later.
re: Contracting while on payroll
Posted by eitek1 on 9/12/26 at 5:46 pm to DonJuanDaMiles
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Made an app that I just did proof of concept for today.
Technically for all intensive porpises, you don't really have an actual product. You have a wireframe... a concept but not an actual thing. Right, right???
One day you may have a product but currently it's an idea. Since it's not a real product, there is no itellectual property, just an idea and I'm pretty sure you didn't sign anything applying to relinquishing all of your ideas.
re: Is there a more useless military than the Saudis?
Posted by eitek1 on 9/12/26 at 5:41 pm to LemmyLives
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You understand this isn't exclusive to the Saudis, right? I've heard it from Arabs from all locales.
Oh, I'm completely aware. If you go to an primary muslim country it looks generally like a gigantic trash heap because let's be honest, if allah didn't want that giant trash pile there or the streams polluted with garbage, it wouldn't be there. Logically that trash there must be "gods" will.
Fill in the blank on the outcome. Inshallah...
re: Is there a more useless military than the Saudis?
Posted by eitek1 on 9/12/26 at 1:53 pm to TigersSEC2010
Having worked pretty closely with the Saudi military, they are functionally worthless in any offensive capacity. I remeber this exact phrase going to through my head...
"These folks couldn't defeat a motivated group of girl scouts."
They are shockingly lazy. If anything is demanded of them they say "Inshalla". Which means "Unless allah comes down here and makes me do it, I'm not doing it". It's an excuse to mean If I don't want to do it and god wants me to, I'd do it. Since I'm not doing it, I must be in line with gods will and it will remain undone.
"These folks couldn't defeat a motivated group of girl scouts."
They are shockingly lazy. If anything is demanded of them they say "Inshalla". Which means "Unless allah comes down here and makes me do it, I'm not doing it". It's an excuse to mean If I don't want to do it and god wants me to, I'd do it. Since I'm not doing it, I must be in line with gods will and it will remain undone.
re: Contracting while on payroll
Posted by eitek1 on 9/12/26 at 1:46 pm to DonJuanDaMiles
If you wanna chat... I can maybe steer you in the right direction or provide some advice. Shoot me an email at my TD Name at Hotmail dot com.
re: Contracting while on payroll
Posted by eitek1 on 9/12/26 at 8:52 am to DonJuanDaMiles
I did something very similar. Designed everything on my Christmas vacation. Never used any company time or resources, etc. A buddy from work eventually helped develop it but not on company time.
I wanted to go through the proper channels and did everything I was supposed to. The company I work for and the documents I signed basically say they own any patentable IP. Programs are generally not patentable. You can copyright the code but that’s about it.
They still said “umm, no… this belongs to us”. I used their own rule book to show it didn’t. They still didn’t want to give it up. It took a year and nine months of me knowing their rules better than they did to get “their rights” officially signed over.
Figure out if you signed anything first. The other guy that helped develop it never signed anything. They still said “but it’s implied”. Which is BS.
They will probably fight you for it because they can. DO NOT use it at work because this will bolster that claim.
As far as the product, use a subscription model. Roll out improvements, etc as part of the package. Our stuff is really very simple but powerful software. We’ve done pretty good but I think the next year or two is going to be great.
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You could do something like this, you could set up a free 3 year use license for your current employer for the release of ALL IP rights to you. Right now, all you have is a proof of concept. You will need customer feedback and user data to bake a bulletproof market ready product. We spent a year finding issues, etc.
I wanted to go through the proper channels and did everything I was supposed to. The company I work for and the documents I signed basically say they own any patentable IP. Programs are generally not patentable. You can copyright the code but that’s about it.
They still said “umm, no… this belongs to us”. I used their own rule book to show it didn’t. They still didn’t want to give it up. It took a year and nine months of me knowing their rules better than they did to get “their rights” officially signed over.
Figure out if you signed anything first. The other guy that helped develop it never signed anything. They still said “but it’s implied”. Which is BS.
They will probably fight you for it because they can. DO NOT use it at work because this will bolster that claim.
As far as the product, use a subscription model. Roll out improvements, etc as part of the package. Our stuff is really very simple but powerful software. We’ve done pretty good but I think the next year or two is going to be great.
Edit…
You could do something like this, you could set up a free 3 year use license for your current employer for the release of ALL IP rights to you. Right now, all you have is a proof of concept. You will need customer feedback and user data to bake a bulletproof market ready product. We spent a year finding issues, etc.
re: Fairfax County, VA school district does the Norm meme
Posted by eitek1 on 9/10/26 at 10:32 pm to Northshoretiger87
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How do you not associate the attacks with Islam?
The 9/11 attacks were motivated by Islam.
I guess using that logic, it’s ok to “not associate” the Nazi’s and the holocaust.
If you are one of these "Walls don't work" morons you are a special type of stupid.
Walls have worked to keep people "out" successfully throughout all of human history. To believe anything different is just denying reality.
Walls have worked to keep people "out" successfully throughout all of human history. To believe anything different is just denying reality.
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I'm a Desert Storm "veteran" that didn't even leave the states
I’m a Desert Shield/ Desert Storm veteran who was over there almost from day one, all the way until the end.
You should be as proud as anyone. You put on the uniform and you knew the risks. You’d have done whatever duty you were called on to do.
For what it’s worth, I don’t park in the veterans spots in businesses that offer them, etc. Everyone thinks they could have done more. It doesn’t diminish what they did.
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