What's everyone up to right now?

[Angrboda]

Trying out a food vacuum sealer that I just bought. This was one of the cheapest ones on Amazon, and I think it's going back. After initially creating a good vacuum, it relaxes and lets air back in before sealing the bag. There's better ones to be had, and after some thought, I think this is something that I'd get a lot of use from.

[onlinebiker]

Trying out a food vacuum sealer that I just bought.  This was one of the cheapest ones on Amazon, and I think it's going back.  After initially creating a good vacuum, it relaxes and lets air back in before sealing the bag.  There's better ones to be had, and after some thought, I think this is something that I'd get a lot of use from.

I have gone through a bunch if them in my years of packaging and freezing venison. I have had $100 units only last 1 season.

My.best luck to date is with a $10 unit I bought at a garage sale - a Kenmore V3250. An out of production unit. I found a second one on Ebay for $33 and got it. It too had worked perfectly. I would recommend one if you can find one.

[Angrboda]

Installing two 1 TB SSDs on my motherboard and setting up a RAID 0 array. Now I just need to put the system back in its case and hook up any remaining hardware, including a RAID 1 array which hopefully won't need rebuilding.

[Angrboda]

Trying out a food vacuum sealer that I just bought.  This was one of the cheapest ones on Amazon, and I think it's going back.  After initially creating a good vacuum, it relaxes and lets air back in before sealing the bag.  There's better ones to be had, and after some thought, I think this is something that I'd get a lot of use from.

I have gone through a bunch if them in my years of packaging and freezing venison. I have had $100 units only last 1 season.

My.best luck to date is with a $10 unit I bought at a garage sale - a Kenmore V3250. An out of production unit. I found a second one on Ebay for $33 and got it. It too had worked perfectly. I would recommend one if you can find one.

The Nesco deluxe model is well-reviewed, and despite being $120 in most places, was $100 at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and I had a 20% off coupon to make it $80.

[Rev. Rye]

Since I don't give a shit about the Super Bowl, I'm watching Matt Orchard's new video on the polygraph test:




And one shocking little factoid that I learned:

I legit did not know it was that easy to beat.

Warning: for the first seven minutes or so, he talks about the early history of the polygraph in the style of an old newsreel narrator from the 1930s. It's really kinda hard to pull that kind of mid-Atlantic accent off when your voice is so obviously Australian and your narration style is extremely deadpan.

[onlinebiker]

I have gone through a bunch if them in my years of packaging and freezing venison. I have had $100 units only last 1 season.

My.best luck to date is with a $10 unit I bought at a garage sale - a Kenmore V3250. An out of production unit. I found a second one on Ebay for $33 and got it. It too had worked perfectly. I would recommend one if you can find one.

The Nesco deluxe model is well-reviewed, and despite being $120 in most places, was $100 at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and I had a 20% off coupon to make it $80.

Good luck with it... Let us know how it holds up...

I expect mine to quit working - eventually (hopefully a long time from now). Good options are good to know.

[arewethereyet]

I am currently wondering why the dancers in the halftime show at the Super Bowl look like they are wear jock straps on their faces.

[Fireball]

Since I don't give a shit about the Super Bowl, I'm watching Matt Orchard's new video on the polygraph test:




And one shocking little factoid that I learned:

I legit did not know it was that easy to beat.

Warning: for the first seven minutes or so, he talks about the early history of the polygraph in the style of an old newsreel narrator from the 1930s. It's really kinda hard to pull that kind of mid-Atlantic accent off when your voice is so obviously Australian and your narration style is extremely deadpan.

Yeah, that doesn't work. There is a pad to sit on that detects this, and other things to detect other actions. You know who skates right through a poly? Pathological liars, and people who don't give a shit. Maybe they are the same, I dunno.

[Rev. Rye]

Yeah, that doesn't work. There is a pad to sit on that detects this, and other things to detect other actions. You know who skates right through a poly? Pathological liars, and people who don't give a shit. Maybe they are the same, I dunno.

Matt brings up that point in the video. And it turns out that the pad isn't actually all that effective at detecting that. And yes, it turns out Matt has interviewed Doug Williams, one of the most famous experts on the limitations of the polygraph, and part of said interview is in the video.And they even go over the time the Feds put him in jail.

For the record, they also mention that, even if the sphincter clenching thing becomes totally unworkable, the other technique involves thinking of something calming when a relevant question comes up and something scary when an irrelevant one comes up. It takes a bit of training to pull it off, but once you get the hang of it, well, there's no pressure-sensitive pad to detect that.

[Fireball]

Yeah, that doesn't work. There is a pad to sit on that detects this, and other things to detect other actions. You know who skates right through a poly? Pathological liars, and people who don't give a shit. Maybe they are the same, I dunno.

Matt brings up that point in the video. And it turns out that the pad isn't actually all that effective at detecting that. And yes, it turns out Matt has interviewed Doug Williams, one of the most famous experts on the limitations of the polygraph, and part of said interview is in the video.And they even go over the time the Feds put him in jail.

I guess that those of us who are truly honest with themselves have the worst of it (didn't watch the video, just based on my own experience). I've been poly'd 5 times and have had a hell of a time with all of them, though I held my clearances right up until I retired. One thing I heard is that technical types (engineers, physicists, etc.) have a hard time, since they are always analyzing the questions into oblivion.