“...VOIP...”

Probably a spammer autodialer spoofing a set of phone numbers that just happen to be mostly on T-Mobile.

“...Which now reminds me that there used to actually be Gateway stores...”

But WHY were they all filming it?

“Who else is old enough to remember the chipper “Duck and Cover” films...”

Launch a cloud of relatively-dinky drones against the AC. Each drone has, say, a 5 kilo copper-enhanced cone charge. The only mission of the drone is to dive into the AC’s catapult areas.

This is New York Humongous Damn Skyscraper City, right?

I learned this decades ago watching Draba in the original Spartacus.

Let it dry into some filter paper and add a drop or two of glycerine.

The names are randomly picked and used to allow people to discuss “projects” without revealing anything about them.

Though that is what should happen, yes, the topic of this subthread is not that - it is, more or less, “personal responsibility” for where money is spent.

“Trump strikes me as the kind of guy who reads...”

I have no proof of it however the context of the situation (undescribed here) and the loudness of the ring and the specialist’s reaction to it made me think =at the time= that it was a fake call; I did not accuse nor joke with the specialist about it.

My wife and I met with a medical specialist (doctor). He was quite late for the appointment (because he was viewing the records/imaging for the first time that he was meeting us about). His “fake call” app/service went off after about 5 minutes because he forgot to reset it.

I have a workshop AND a storeroom full of things I simply couldn’t throw away. Most of the stuff is on the order of 30+ years old.

Yeah, bought before they changed the name to Eizo. I’m not really clear on why I bought that sucker - I think I was building a graphic board (my Masters is in image understanding/processing but, most importantly, I wrote a boatload of image manipulation software as a research assistant while getting that degree…

“Huh. Shoulda kept those old TVs in the basement after all.”

“...A CRT tube is very heavy, so shipping costs alone would be costly...”

Just noticed this is a two-year old article.

Or: