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They freeze well. I get the loin chops and vacuum pack then freeze
them. They\'ll last 8-12 months in a properly cold frezzer.
Same deal with the italian sausages and fresh salmon filets (after
slicing into 3oz portions).
There is that. They just enlarged and reorganized ours. It took me two
months to find the dried blueberries again. Then there are the products
that make one appearance and then are gone forever.
One of those... I was familiar with Fred Meyer from the \'90s and they were
a decent grocery store with a few extras. A couple of years ago I stopped
On 2023-04-23, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> writes:
On 2023-04-23, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> writes:
On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 17:46:32 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
Safeway is for bulk shopping, milk and paper towels. Their rotesserie
chickens are OK and make great broth.
Safeway is not good for anything other than extracting dollars
from suckers. Their meat department is sub-par. Nob Hill has
better meats and produce and they don\'t require membership for
deals.
Costco is far better for bulk shopping, milk and paper towels. Half
the price of Safeway for higher quality goods.
The Costco rotisserie chickens are almost twice the size
of the Safeway/Nob Hill/Raleys version and still $4.99 vs. $7.99.
I\'ll have to take your word for it; we don\'t have Safeway here.
We have Kroger, which appears to be comparable. I don\'t shop
at the local Kroger because their meat and produce aren\'t very
good. My regular store (Meijer, a Midwestern regional chain
similar to Walmart) has good prices, very good produce, and
decent meat. If I catch stuff on sale, the price is as good
as Costco; they\'re close to my house; and I don\'t need a paid
membership. I have their affinity card. I consider it a fair
trade: my buying information for lower prices on things I buy
regularly.
As for membership costs, my executive card at costco
returns 2% annually, which more than covers my membership
costs. I\'m fortunate that I have one 10 minutes away,
with a gas station (20-40% less expensive than the brand-name
filling stations) and pharmacy.
I\'m also a shareholder, so I get a quarterly dividend check.
That\'s great. I used to be a Costco member, but I never got enough use
out of the membership to make it worthwhile. And I _hate_ shopping
there. It\'s like a casino.
Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> writes:
On 2023-04-23, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> writes:
On 2023-04-23, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> writes:
On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 17:46:32 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
Safeway is for bulk shopping, milk and paper towels. Their rotesserie
chickens are OK and make great broth.
Safeway is not good for anything other than extracting dollars
from suckers. Their meat department is sub-par. Nob Hill has
better meats and produce and they don\'t require membership for
deals.
Costco is far better for bulk shopping, milk and paper towels. Half
the price of Safeway for higher quality goods.
The Costco rotisserie chickens are almost twice the size
of the Safeway/Nob Hill/Raleys version and still $4.99 vs. $7.99.
I\'ll have to take your word for it; we don\'t have Safeway here.
We have Kroger, which appears to be comparable. I don\'t shop
at the local Kroger because their meat and produce aren\'t very
good. My regular store (Meijer, a Midwestern regional chain
similar to Walmart) has good prices, very good produce, and
decent meat. If I catch stuff on sale, the price is as good
as Costco; they\'re close to my house; and I don\'t need a paid
membership. I have their affinity card. I consider it a fair
trade: my buying information for lower prices on things I buy
regularly.
As for membership costs, my executive card at costco
returns 2% annually, which more than covers my membership
costs. I\'m fortunate that I have one 10 minutes away,
with a gas station (20-40% less expensive than the brand-name
filling stations) and pharmacy.
I\'m also a shareholder, so I get a quarterly dividend check.
That\'s great. I used to be a Costco member, but I never got enough use
out of the membership to make it worthwhile. And I _hate_ shopping
there. It\'s like a casino.
I\'m not sure what you mean? Too much cigarette smoke? One-armed
bandits singing?
On 2023-04-24, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> writes:
On 2023-04-23, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> writes:
On 2023-04-23, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> writes:
On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 17:46:32 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
Safeway is for bulk shopping, milk and paper towels. Their rotesserie
chickens are OK and make great broth.
Safeway is not good for anything other than extracting dollars
from suckers. Their meat department is sub-par. Nob Hill has
better meats and produce and they don\'t require membership for
deals.
Costco is far better for bulk shopping, milk and paper towels. Half
the price of Safeway for higher quality goods.
The Costco rotisserie chickens are almost twice the size
of the Safeway/Nob Hill/Raleys version and still $4.99 vs. $7.99.
I\'ll have to take your word for it; we don\'t have Safeway here.
We have Kroger, which appears to be comparable. I don\'t shop
at the local Kroger because their meat and produce aren\'t very
good. My regular store (Meijer, a Midwestern regional chain
similar to Walmart) has good prices, very good produce, and
decent meat. If I catch stuff on sale, the price is as good
as Costco; they\'re close to my house; and I don\'t need a paid
membership. I have their affinity card. I consider it a fair
trade: my buying information for lower prices on things I buy
regularly.
As for membership costs, my executive card at costco
returns 2% annually, which more than covers my membership
costs. I\'m fortunate that I have one 10 minutes away,
with a gas station (20-40% less expensive than the brand-name
filling stations) and pharmacy.
I\'m also a shareholder, so I get a quarterly dividend check.
That\'s great. I used to be a Costco member, but I never got enough use
out of the membership to make it worthwhile. And I _hate_ shopping
there. It\'s like a casino.
I\'m not sure what you mean? Too much cigarette smoke? One-armed
bandits singing?
Crowds. Noise. Sensory overload.
I have no inclination to put myself
through that for dubious savings.
Most of their merchandise is stuff
I don\'t want or need.
That\'s great. I used to be a Costco member, but I never got enough use
out of the membership to make it worthwhile. And I _hate_ shopping
there. It\'s like a casino.
I\'m not sure what you mean? Too much cigarette smoke? One-armed
bandits singing?
Crowds. Noise. Sensory overload. I have no inclination to put myself
through that for dubious savings. Most of their merchandise is stuff
I don\'t want or need.
I save several hundre dollars a year on just groceries shopping
there. Take Bread, for instance. The stuff I like costs $6.00
for a 1.5 pound loaf at the grocery store, and $8.00 for -two-
2.0 pound loaves (freeze one) at costco. Call it about $48/year savings
just on bread, which almost covers the basic membership fee.
Then there is the fresh fruit (blueberrys, cherries in season,
grapes) all of which are higher quality than the grocery store
and cheaper.
Toilet paper is far cheaper and much
higher quality (and costco hasn\'t reduced the width or number
of sheets per roll like most of the store brands have).
Paper towels. Printer ink. Batteries. Asparagus.
Bell Peppers.
Most of their merchandise is stuff
I don\'t want or need.
YMMV.
Toilet paper is far cheaper and much higher quality (and costco hasn\'t
reduced the width or number of sheets per roll like most of the store
brands have).
On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:07:18 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
After my last eye surgery, my eyes wouldn\'t coordinate. One image was
horribly twisted and zoomed and offset from the other. I could barely
walk. I thought I was doomed. After about a week, things suddenly
snapped into perfect alignment. My brain adjusted.
I remember an experiment where the subject wore inverting lenses. After a
few days his brain adapted. I think George Stratton was the first
experimental psychologist to try it.
Experimental psychology is quite a bit different to the pap in \'Psychology
Today\'. The Frankfurt School and its descendants have no use for it in
their Critical Theory since it depends on sound scientific technique and
not woo-woo.
I\'ve imagined two separate 3D images somehow scattered around inside two
gooey masses of brain cells. The two jello bags are in effect constantly
distorted to adjust for each eye\'s inherent geometry and distance and
lens fl and viewing angles. And then they are cross-correlated to merge
the images to a 3D moving picture with higher resolution than either had
alone. With both eyes constantly jerking around. For moving objects. In
milliseconds. With chemical logic elements.
How can people hit baseballs? Or read?
On 26 Apr 2023 15:18:53 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:07:18 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
After my last eye surgery, my eyes wouldn\'t coordinate. One image was
horribly twisted and zoomed and offset from the other. I could barely
walk. I thought I was doomed. After about a week, things suddenly
snapped into perfect alignment. My brain adjusted.
I remember an experiment where the subject wore inverting lenses. After a
few days his brain adapted. I think George Stratton was the first
experimental psychologist to try it.
Experimental psychology is quite a bit different to the pap in \'Psychology
Today\'. The Frankfurt School and its descendants have no use for it in
their Critical Theory since it depends on sound scientific technique and
not woo-woo.
I\'ve imagined two separate 3D images somehow scattered around inside
two gooey masses of brain cells. The two jello bags are in effect
constantly distorted to adjust for each eye\'s inherent geometry and
distance and lens fl and viewing angles. And then they are
cross-correlated to merge the images to a 3D moving picture with
higher resolution than either had alone. With both eyes constantly
jerking around. For moving objects. In milliseconds. With chemical
logic elements.
On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 09:04:57 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
I\'ve imagined two separate 3D images somehow scattered around inside two
gooey masses of brain cells. The two jello bags are in effect constantly
distorted to adjust for each eye\'s inherent geometry and distance and
lens fl and viewing angles. And then they are cross-correlated to merge
the images to a 3D moving picture with higher resolution than either had
alone. With both eyes constantly jerking around. For moving objects. In
milliseconds. With chemical logic elements.
How can people hit baseballs? Or read?
Magic. I\'m not a creationist by any means, but there are questions I
prefer not to ponder, starting with Heidegger\'s \'why is there something
rather than nothing?\' People have been chewing on that since Parmenides.
On 26/04/2023 17:04, John Larkin wrote:
On 26 Apr 2023 15:18:53 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:07:18 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
After my last eye surgery, my eyes wouldn\'t coordinate. One image was
horribly twisted and zoomed and offset from the other. I could barely
walk. I thought I was doomed. After about a week, things suddenly
snapped into perfect alignment. My brain adjusted.
I remember an experiment where the subject wore inverting lenses.
After a
few days his brain adapted. I think George Stratton was the first
experimental psychologist to try it.
I had a chance to try such goggles once. It was seriously disorienting
and very hard after you put them on and almost as hard when you took
them off again at the end of a session. Also an experiment trying to
sign your name on paper where you were looking at it through a periscope
thing that flipped the directions that your hand moved.
I recall banks in the UK once had silly anti forgery pens with a wide
skirt that were almost impossible to hold comfortably and prevented you
from seeing the point of contact with the paper. Must have been
someone\'s acid trip brainwave. The result was that nobodies signature
looked anything like correct or in the right place on the form.
ASCII art doesn\'t quite convey how ugly they were
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   \'
It was quickly abandoned. Anyone in the UK remember them?
Did it happen in the US too?
Experimental psychology is quite a bit different to the pap in
\'Psychology
Today\'. The Frankfurt School and its descendants have no use for it in
their Critical Theory since it depends on sound scientific technique and
not woo-woo.
I\'ve imagined two separate 3D images somehow scattered around inside
two gooey masses of brain cells. The two jello bags are in effect
constantly distorted to adjust for each eye\'s inherent geometry and
distance and lens fl and viewing angles. And then they are
cross-correlated to merge the images to a 3D moving picture with
higher resolution than either had alone. With both eyes constantly
jerking around. For moving objects. In milliseconds. With chemical
logic elements.
It is more like we keep an updated model of the world around us in some
sort of 3D memory network and are forever looking for threats or things
to eat. Our eyes and brain evolved to handle an ancient world of eat or
be eaten where food had to be found or caught before you could eat it.
We can be quite easily fooled by well aimed misdirection. Most close up
magic tricks rely on misdirection and the brain filling in any gaps with
plausible \"data\". The internal world model we have is remarkably good.
In many ways a fly\'s eye and brain processing power touse it is even
more impressive. Imagine having to sort out the mish mash of convolved
overlapping images that come from a compound eye lens into stereo vision.
Dragon flies are truly impressive top insect predators and have been so
for a *very* long time.
How can people hit baseballs? Or read?
We can learn some remarkable skills given practice. Basic pattern
matching is one of the things that boot straps written languages. Some
people struggle with mirror writing and either end up dyslexic or able
to read text in any orientation on a desk (bad news for their managers).
The ability to anticipate and plan for what someone else is about to do
is half the battle in returning a fast serve or saving a penalty. It is
an application of the skill that once allowed us to catch live prey.
It would be quite handy to be able to dodge bullets - particularly in
the USA.
I had a chance to try such goggles once. It was seriously disorienting
and very hard after you put them on and almost as hard when you took
them off again at the end of a session. Also an experiment trying to
sign your name on paper where you were looking at it through a periscope
thing that flipped the directions that your hand moved.
You should be able to dodge sniper bullets if you see the flash and
duck. Flight time is a bit transonic so say 1200mph, so a 1 mile shot
takes 3 seconds to hit.
In fact most people with a hand gun cant hit a stationary target at 6
feet. So moving fast is a very good option
Which way do you duck? Gunny Hathcock talked about trying to sight in a .
50 BMG by watching the hits on a clay bank about 1000 yards away. Then a
hapless VC wandered into position right where his shots had been hitting.