# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=476 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 477 --- ## [Want a silver florescent X-Filey guitar pick that is money in Canada?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-a-silver-florescent-x-filey-guitar-pick-that-is-money-in-canada/811825)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-a-silver-florescent-x-filey-guitar-pick-that-is-money-in-canada/811825 "2018-04-06T03:09:27Z")
Well, today is your lucky day. --- ## [Can I install an SSD drive on my laptop and move everything to that drive, or do I have to reset it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-install-an-ssd-drive-on-my-laptop-and-move-everything-to-that-drive-or-do-i-have-to-reset-it/811531)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-install-an-ssd-drive-on-my-laptop-and-move-everything-to-that-drive-or-do-i-have-to-reset-it/811531 "2018-04-06T01:49:55Z")
I recently bought a new laptop because mine is constantly freezing and not working right. It has a 1TB hard drive with 8GB of flash memory, so it is a hybrid drive. My understanding is hybrid drives are mostly as quick … --- ## [Stephon Clark autopsy disputes police account (wounds indicate he was shot in the back)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephon-clark-autopsy-disputes-police-account-wounds-indicate-he-was-shot-in-the-back/811490)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephon-clark-autopsy-disputes-police-account-wounds-indicate-he-was-shot-in-the-back/811490 "2018-04-05T22:59:40Z")
I think it’s reasonable to be as skeptical of police accounts for shootings of young black men as of a renovation contractor’s estimate. Sad, and sickening, and not likely to get better any time soon; at least not with… --- ## [Oh, where is my happy little roadside zoo?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-where-is-my-happy-little-roadside-zoo/811798)
**Author:** [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-where-is-my-happy-little-roadside-zoo/811798 "2018-04-05T17:05:13Z")
Those are real honest to bubastis bobcats? And they’re tame like kittehs, or something approaching it? Oh wow, they really are! This person in the movie has got pet bobcats! And they’re all happy-like! And so pretty w… --- ## [50 years after MLK's death](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-after-mlks-death/811806)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-after-mlks-death/811806 "2018-04-05T14:19:29Z")
CNN has an interesting but bittersweet piece on what Dr. King might have done, had he lived: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/03/us/mlk-memphis-what-if/index.html And here’s a beautiful song for the occasion: Up to the Mount… --- ## [Africa's crack problem getting worse.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/africas-crack-problem-getting-worse/811868)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/africas-crack-problem-getting-worse/811868 "2018-04-05T14:18:37Z")
A big-ass new crack in the rift valley has opened up practically overnight. (Including running through the house of a guy named Eliud Njoroge Mbugua, which reminds me of Dionisio Pulido–after reading about that as a kid,… --- ## [Active shooter at Youtube, says Twitter and Snapchat.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/active-shooter-at-youtube-says-twitter-and-snapchat/811753)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/active-shooter-at-youtube-says-twitter-and-snapchat/811753 "2018-04-05T11:16:04Z")
Active shooter at Youtube headquarters. Details breaking. (Sorry for the flippant title, but the story really brings home how much we are in the future now, with news stories that would have been gibberish a generation … --- ## [Not having the best week of my life](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-having-the-best-week-of-my-life/811310)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-having-the-best-week-of-my-life/811310 "2018-04-05T02:54:10Z")
Some of you may remember that I moved my mother from San Diego to an assisted living facility in Texas almost three years ago. About a month ago, she started fading, nothing wrong with her, no cancer, no broken bones, bu… --- ## [OK, so what have I missed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-have-i-missed/811320)
**Author:** [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-what-have-i-missed/811320 "2018-04-05T02:45:38Z")
So some of you may remember me from back when I was a prolific poster who could also see. The second is no longer true (if you want to be picky, I am only LEGALLY blind, but you still don’t want me anywhere near the whe… --- ## [What's Chinese for "Incoming!" ?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-chinese-for-incoming/811465)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-chinese-for-incoming/811465 "2018-04-04T13:56:44Z")
Chinese space lab, Tiangong-1, is expected to fall sometime this weekend. The Chinese space agency lost control of it a couple of years ago, so it’s not a controlled re-entry. Best estimates are that it’s going to come… --- ## [What food makes your cat crazy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-makes-your-cat-crazy/811666)
**Author:** [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2018, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-makes-your-cat-crazy/811666 "2018-04-04T05:04:54Z")
Spinoff of this thread I have three critters–Marbles loves ANY people food he can get his grubby little (big) mitts on. If he doesn’t eat it, he licks it to death. Samhain is our picky eater. But there’s one room in th… --- ## [Seagulls + Open window + Pepperoni = Hotel Ban](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seagulls-open-window-pepperoni-hotel-ban/811738)
**Author:** [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2018, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seagulls-open-window-pepperoni-hotel-ban/811738 "2018-04-04T02:12:48Z")
All he wanted to do was keep some pepperoni cool…oh, dear. --- ## [Traveling from the U.S. to Canada with a DUI - your experiences?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traveling-from-the-u-s-to-canada-with-a-dui-your-experiences/780407)
**Author:** [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traveling-from-the-u-s-to-canada-with-a-dui-your-experiences/780407 "2018-04-04T01:51:47Z")
So my husband got a DUI in September of last year. He was just told by one of the other people attending one of his mandatory classes that he’d be unable now to travel to Canada with this on his record. I’ve been Googl… --- ## [Winnie Mandela has died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnie-mandela-has-died/811674)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnie-mandela-has-died/811674 "2018-04-03T23:06:18Z")
Link --- ## [So who else has never seen a drone pick a guy up from his lawn and land him on the roof?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-else-has-never-seen-a-drone-pick-a-guy-up-from-his-lawn-and-land-him-on-the-roof/811695)
**Author:** [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-else-has-never-seen-a-drone-pick-a-guy-up-from-his-lawn-and-land-him-on-the-roof/811695 "2018-04-03T19:21:43Z")
Apparently this is a thing, but I’d never seen or heard of it before. Very cool! Looks like the Jetson’s era may almost be upon us, but noisier and with (thankfully) different clothes. On second thought, Yoga pants have… --- ## [Anyone else ever have a EL-620 talking calculator?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-ever-have-a-el-620-talking-calculator/811721)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-ever-have-a-el-620-talking-calculator/811721 "2018-04-03T16:18:12Z")
A couple of days ago I was looking through boxes for some button cell batteries and I opened a box full of old electronics that contained among other things 11 calculators. One of them was a Sharp Elsi Mate EL-620 talkin… --- ## [Muscle car mania! 1970 SS Chevelle LS-6. 1092 miles.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscle-car-mania-1970-ss-chevelle-ls-6-1092-miles/811685)
**Author:** [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscle-car-mania-1970-ss-chevelle-ls-6-1092-miles/811685 "2018-04-03T15:42:05Z")
Stumbled over this, thought I’d share. Almost forgot the link! 1970 LS-6 --- ## [Whats it like when the gender gap is broken?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-it-like-when-the-gender-gap-is-broken/811372)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-it-like-when-the-gender-gap-is-broken/811372 "2018-04-03T15:06:09Z")
Does anyone have any experience working someplace where it was all one gender. Then a person of the opposite gender starts working there. How does it change things? --- ## [New dimensions in spam attacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dimensions-in-spam-attacks/811501)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dimensions-in-spam-attacks/811501 "2018-04-03T05:09:17Z")
This just in (although I have received a few like this in the last month): --- ## [Where's Waldo, April Fools and Google Maps. An Easter egg!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-waldo-april-fools-and-google-maps-an-easter-egg/811585)
**Author:** [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-waldo-april-fools-and-google-maps-an-easter-egg/811585 "2018-04-03T02:05:03Z")
Easter Egg from Google. While looking at a Google map this morning, WALDO popped up, and of course, I clicked Waldo and got invited to play a game of finding Waldo in the world. From Palmyra Atoll to; Andes Mountains… --- ## [I want a men's short hem, long sleeve, lightweight, loose fit, open front sweater, no hood.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-mens-short-hem-long-sleeve-lightweight-loose-fit-open-front-sweater-no-hood/811539)
**Author:** [@zuer-coli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuer-coli)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-mens-short-hem-long-sleeve-lightweight-loose-fit-open-front-sweater-no-hood/811539 "2018-04-03T02:00:11Z")
\[SIZE=“5”\]Dopers all, greetings; Thank you to all that read this op, and special thanks to anyone who may choose to reply. Well the title says it all. However my preferred title would have been; Where can I find a… but … --- ## [Something I've never actually seen before…lizard related](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-ive-never-actually-seen-before-lizard-related/811503)
**Author:** [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-ive-never-actually-seen-before-lizard-related/811503 "2018-04-03T01:49:06Z")
So I live in a SoCal location which has encouraged gentle residents to rip out their turf lawns and replace them with water friendly gardens. Many neighbors and I have done so happily. Also got paid. But aren’t there alw… --- ## [What food makes your dog crazy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-makes-your-dog-crazy/811442)
**Author:** [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-makes-your-dog-crazy/811442 "2018-04-03T01:31:32Z")
Harry, my chihuahua, begs for just about anything my wife or I are eating. But he goes crazy when I cook Andouille. Much too spicy for the boy, so I can’t share. What food do your pups crave? --- ## [My wife is in a frenzy of throwing stuff (chametz) out in the kitchen for Passover](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-in-a-frenzy-of-throwing-stuff-chametz-out-in-the-kitchen-for-passover/686078)
**Author:** [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-in-a-frenzy-of-throwing-stuff-chametz-out-in-the-kitchen-for-passover/686078 "2018-04-02T23:19:50Z")
…where I have to start cooking, and from the freezer she’s throwing out pork products (long story) that have taken me all year to make/purchase. She’s in a frenzy, cursing and questioning as she plumbs the depths of anon… --- ## [Looking for critique on my first hypnotic audio file (NSFW!)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-critique-on-my-first-hypnotic-audio-file-nsfw/809977)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-critique-on-my-first-hypnotic-audio-file-nsfw/809977 "2018-04-02T20:12:22Z")
So, as I’ve brought up in the past, I am an amateur “recreational” hypnotist. Well, today I finished the first draft of my first file! WARNING: NSFW TEXT, AUDIO \[spoiler\]SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds The file … --- ## [Lockheed Fusion Reactor news making the rounds again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lockheed-fusion-reactor-news-making-the-rounds-again/811642)
**Author:** [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lockheed-fusion-reactor-news-making-the-rounds-again/811642 "2018-04-02T16:10:45Z")
We had a thread in 2013 and two threads in 2014. Story is making the rounds again because of a patent filing, but a patent is just a patent. Haven’t seen any reports of groundbreaking success yet. --- ## [It's raining and I can't walk my dog MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining-and-i-cant-walk-my-dog-mmp/811193)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 204\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining-and-i-cant-walk-my-dog-mmp/811193 "2018-04-02T05:44:59Z")
The title says it all. I’m about to set off for work. I’m going to have to trust Mauser. He has started learning about puppy pads though. --- ## [Rideable (flying) drone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rideable-flying-drone/811515)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rideable-flying-drone/811515 "2018-04-02T01:08:51Z")
You can see it at What The Future from CNET on Facebook. It’s called the Hoverbike Scorpion 3 by Hoversurf, and it will supposedly be for sale in a few months for $60K. Current model goes up to 43 mph and runs for 20 min… --- ## ["To the pure, all things are pure" -- and vice versa?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-pure-all-things-are-pure-and-vice-versa/811348)
**Author:** [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-pure-all-things-are-pure-and-vice-versa/811348 "2018-04-02T00:23:39Z")
Thoughts arising from a thread elsewhere on the board, which touches on the innocent / naive use in published prose, of words with a “non-innocent” – usually sexual – connotation. This tends throughout the English-speak… --- ## [Solid Dragon, £60](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solid-dragon-60/811292)
**Author:** [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solid-dragon-60/811292 "2018-04-01T18:10:51Z")
Solid Dragon, £60. That is the entire text of an advert on my town’s Facebook ‘for sale’ group. No picture. Would anyone care to provide a translation? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=475) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=477)