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Pedro, it looks like it's a matter of opinion and what you're looking for.

Here's one of the places I've looked at. It has the ThermoPop first, and the Javelin second, not quite as fast, but similar. And I'll be honest--I really like the display of the ThermoPop better than any, large, can angle it sideways with a button click, doesn't have an annoying decimal point number I don't want to see. Little things like that.

http://thesweethome.com/reviews/the-...d-thermometer/

Your Javelin Pro Duo is faster than both, but I won't be spending that. Heck, I may not be spending anything. I really don't particularly like to use them, but my wife does.

I'm not sure you guys appreciate just how bad this themometer is. I stick it in the meat, and it crawls up to the temperature. It's not that the temperature is rising, it's just interminably slow in determining it. I need to do a test, but it wouldn't surprise me if it didn't take a full 60 seconds or more to get to the correct temperature reading. I mean, awful.

Thermapen--2 seconds.

Some of the really good backup ones-- 4 or 5 seconds.

I can live with that.

60+ seconds....no. 30 seconds....no. 15 seconds...no, but at least getting a little closer.

10 seconds? I dunno. That's still a pretty long time.

Under 10? Ok.

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Pedro, it looks like it's a matter of opinion and what you're looking for.

Here's one of the places I've looked at. It has the ThermoPop first, and the Javelin second, not quite as fast, but similar. And I'll be honest--I really like the display of the ThermoPop better than any, large, can angle it sideways with a button click, doesn't have an annoying decimal point number I don't want to see. Little things like that.

http://thesweethome.com/reviews/the-...d-thermometer/

Your Javelin Pro Duo is faster than both, but I won't be spending that. Heck, I may not be spending anything. I really don't particularly like to use them, but my wife does.

I'm not sure you guys appreciate just how bad this themometer is. I stick it in the meat, and it crawls up to the temperature. It's not that the temperature is rising, it's just interminably slow in determining it. I need to do a test, but it wouldn't surprise me if it didn't take a full 60 seconds or more to get to the correct temperature reading. I mean, awful.

Thermapen--2 seconds.

Some of the really good backup ones-- 4 or 5 seconds.

I can live with that.

60+ seconds....no. 30 seconds....no. 15 seconds...no, but at least getting a little closer.

10 seconds? I dunno. That's still a pretty long time.

Under 10? Ok.

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That's a really good article with a fair and honest breakdown. They, TheSweetHome, have been doing a solid job, kinda like a kitchen focused Consumer Reports. They often bring up points that I don't consider.

Honestly, either the Javelin or the ThermoPop will serve you well. Heck even my Pro Duo is a bit overkill for me. I actually use the thermometer more in cooking/baking than I do for meat. In cooking and baking, the decimal is really helpful because it helps you get an idea of how fast the temperature is rising. For example, when I make my bourbon vanilla caramel sauce, it is critical that I don't overheat it and burn it. This means not just knowing how far away from my desired temp I am but how fast the temp is rising. If you are only using the thermometer to spot check meat, the decimal place is entirely, as you put it, unnecessary.

Great points about the other aspects of cooking besides just a quick test for meat, Pedro. Plus, you scientists know how to use precise measurements and calculations a whole lot better than the rest of us, me included especially!

Heck, sixty seconds can take my hunk of beef from almost walking to the flavor cooked out of it; I do tend to like my steaks a tad on the rare side.

knock the horns off of it, wipe its' nasty old tail, chuck it on a plate and walk it through a warm room...

Nice long weekend... except we're trading a Saturday for a Monday and I drew the short stick and got stuck with being MOD


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3 days and 6 hours this time.

13 minutes this time.

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3 days and 6 hours this time.

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Couldn't leave it alone, could you?


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Great. Discover card unauthorized charges being made this morning....

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Great. Discover card unauthorized charges being made this morning....

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I went and bought fireworks on Monday and pulled out my debit/ credit card to pay with and there was a flag came up for unusual purchase. Had to call the bank and confirm it was me.

July 3rd buying fireworks came up flagged as an unusual purchase?? I guess I'm glad they do that, but come on... fireworks on 7-3.

I told the bank girl I was leaving the fireworks store and going to buy a surf board.... she asked that I call before I made the purchase.


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Great. Discover card unauthorized charges being made this morning....

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Ouch, that is not a fun thing to wake up to.

Electronic charges made to Motorola Mobility in the Chicago area....

Account closed, new cards to be issued. I like the little "freeze account" button on my app, although it really didn't do anything.

Air you can wear today.

Stupid insomnia. Days like today I wish I had made early appointments so I could do them, then come home and lunch and take a 3 hour nap...

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Stupid insomnia. Days like today I wish I had made early appointments so I could do them, then come home and lunch and take a 3 hour nap...

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I woke up at 1:30 and then fell asleep in the recliner watching news... back in bed at 3:00....


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Woke up twice already after falling asleep at 1 a.m. my time. Stinks, but at least I should be able to sleep late when I get back to sleep.

After 6. Looking like a 2-hour sleep night....

I don't sleep much these days either. 3-4 hours usually, then lay there and toss around a couple more.

It was a bad night. Usually it's more like 5 hours. I'd like to get 7, and I almost always posture it where I could get a maximum of 8, if everything worked well. Just seems like 5 is the standard.

Does anyone else commute to their job 60 minutes on a good day, 120+ on a bad day?

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Does anyone else commute to their job 60 minutes on a good day, 120+ on a bad day?

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My commute is 10 minutes on a good day and 15 on a bad day.


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8 minutes now. It's 2.5 miles through my neighborhood, or else it would be less.

Not anymore. My commute is normally about 65 steps to my office these days. This scenario has a ton of pluses but also a few minuses. Like the phone call during a UK ball game or right as I am about to start in on a desert of hot apple pie ala mode where the callers starts the conversation with , I hate to call so late, BUT

About 3 miles from the house to the gallery. 10 minutes or so would be the max.

3:40 am


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6 days and a few hours this time

And yet yours didn't last nearly that long!

Kill'n me!


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So...it's summer, and hot. And I'm freezing again. I don't understand why buildings have to be so cold during the summer.....

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So...it's summer, and hot. And I'm freezing again. I don't understand why buildings have to be so cold during the summer.....

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Are you in Texas? Seriously, those folks love their AC like no one else I've ever known.

You'd think so.

This building has new management, too. So cheap they turn off a fountain in the middle of the "lake" next to the building at 5 p.m. So why run the A/C at 44°?

Hot today... hotter tomorrow.


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Went downtown today for a meeting that last 5½ hours. Their A/C was as cold as ours. I made up an excuse to go to my car just so I could go outside and warm up. I'm going to have to start wearing parkas in July.

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Went downtown today for a meeting that last 5½ hours. Their A/C was as cold as ours. I made up an excuse to go to my car just so I could go outside and warm up. I'm going to have to start wearing parkas in July.

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I work most of my day in an un-conditioned warehouse. Trade ya. :)

I will say the warehouse is more comfortable than I feared. it's pretty well insulated and block wall construction, so it doesn't turn into a heat box like a thinly insulated all metal building will do. But it's still 80 plus in there right now. there's air in the front where we hold the actual auctions, but the warehouse in the back is where we do all the actual work.

You can layer up. If I take off any more clothes I'll need a different license from the city.

I actually tolerate hot weather better than most, I guess. "Ran" 3.5 miles Sunday in 106° heat index. Didn't start to bother me until I passed out.

;)

I think the problem is I long ago started dressing for hot weather. Dri-fit polo type shirts and light khaki or navy dress pants, for the most part, that are cool. You're right, just layering a bit, or dressing as I should would remedy it. The buildings seem to contemplate that. Maybe they know better than I do.

Go Dodgers!!!


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in preparation for my rotator cuff surgery, I am trying out my Dragon naturally speaking dictation software and headphone here. It seems to be working pretty well. In fact, this is faster than I can type it, since I am dictating this as fast as I can. it is keeping up, in batches rather than Word for Word immediately when I say it. That seems to be fine with me. I noticed some capitalization issues, and other matters, but it is not bad at all. This looks like it will work for me.

Even the paragraph settings work fine, along with deletion, and other commands such as telling it to go to the
. Except it is not typing n EW L I NE.

I am pretty sure I can work with this. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. I can't believe there will be a more boring post in the history of this website than this one. If you have read to this point, kudos to you, or, more accurately, get a life.

My previous post was the first time in probably 20 wins that the I've even mentioned the boys in blue. I think the jinx is in, Dodgers down 3-1 in the top of the 4th. I really was hoping they'd extend the 31-4 streak.


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in preparation for my rotator cuff surgery, I am trying out my Dragon naturally speaking dictation software and headphone here. It seems to be working pretty well. In fact, this is faster than I can type it, since I am dictating this as fast as I can. it is keeping up, in batches rather than Word for Word immediately when I say it. That seems to be fine with me. I noticed some capitalization issues, and other matters, but it is not bad at all. This looks like it will work for me.

Even the paragraph settings work fine, along with deletion, and other commands such as telling it to go to the
. Except it is not typing n EW L I NE.

I am pretty sure I can work with this. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. I can't believe there will be a more boring post in the history of this website than this one. If you have read to this point, kudos to you, or, more accurately, get a life.

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You know, I find this VERY interesting.

Im' examining ways to speed up my inventory process, and one possibility is voice dictation. I bought a copy of Dragon, have tested it a bit, but found that it needed a pretty powerful laptop.

I need to get back to seeing if and how it could help us. I also tested the voice on my phone, it worked pretty dang well.

I wonder if there's a Dragon for a pad. We're pretty mobile when we catalog, if we could do it right from a pad, that may speed things up too.

Test


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