meh, it’s time we had the trackr talk.

@medz only ONE box? You ARE deprived.

@spitfire6006006 ah man…I didn’t even think about the batteries. Just toss them in trash everytime.

@robpete @spitfire6006006 Most of the trackrs have dead batteries.

@spitfire6006006 I received a huge amount of these little disc batteries in a recent IRK & had no idea what they fit, but then Mrs. H. suggested me to check if they fit in the Track’r & BINGO(!!!) that’s what they were for. I’m not sure which I have more of though…batteries or Track’rs… #ThirdWorldProblems

@spitfire6006006 @tohar1 If you are short some trackers for your battery supply I can send you some as I just got yet more of them. Wouldn’t want those batteries to go to waste.

@spitfire6006006 But without a refrigerator, what good are those batteries?!?

@capnjb me too… Had to get some off someone else on Meh to make sure I had enough despite having a bunch somewhere.

@OnionSoup And FWIW, this weekend I was going to make French Onion soup but didn’t have any cheese so I just made Onion Soup. So… enjoy your tribute

@capnjb @OnionSoup How is it possible to not have cheese? I don’t understand…this is America, right? PS: Do you put beef in your onion soup? I recently did & it was a game changer. Just a small sirloin (3-4 ounces, I’m guessing) finely chopped added a killer textural element that I didn’t know I was missing.

@OnionSoup @tohar1 I should clarify. I have a lot of cheese. I’ve got two different very good parmesans, manchego, a variety of cheddar. But no provolone… which I typically use. It turns out hot onion soup is still pretty great without cheese. And I didn’t add beef, but I did use stock I made from the two standing rib roasts I made last month.

@capnjb @OnionSoup @tohar1

two standing rib roasts I made last month

Cripes I need to live at your house. I can’t even remember when I last had a standing rib roast.

@capnjb @OnionSoup Whew! You definitely had me worried with the “no cheese” part…The rest & especially the rib roast looks & sounds amazeballs!!

@Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @tohar1 They were practice runs for Christmas dinner’s NY strip roast The local supermarket had a stupid sale that if you added a digital coupon to, brought a $90 roast down to under $30. Hard to pass on that.

@Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @tohar1 Yeah, December was full of protein. Three roasts and a smoked turkey. I’ve been known to go overboard, and when my wife says she’d like steak for dinner I come home with something like this. God bless the Amish market around the corner

@capnjb @OnionSoup @tohar1 Oh my gosh. $30???!!! I am full out envious.

@Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @tohar1 Yeah, that’s why we did it twice Wish I had room in my freezer. Might have been worth it to buy a chest freezer.

@capnjb @Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @tohar1
bought a bunch of 1-1.25 inch thick T-bones and some boneless NY strips last weekend for $5.99/lb from the WD locally. Vacuum packed and ready to go into the sous vide thanks to the foodsaver from ‘you know where’.

@chienfou I have not yet tried steak in the sous vide system, but it’s easily my favorite for pork and chicken so that I can have “ready to add to other things” protein available. Roast pork flavor ramen with a diced pork chop and some frozen veg makes a fast real meal from what’s otherwise just gut spackle.

@chienfou @werehatrack If you have a cast iron skillet that you can get stupid hot, sous vide beef is a special kind of terrific

@capnjb @Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @tohar1 Ooooof I would have been all over that, and the dogs would have eaten like royalty (which they do anyway, but even more so).

@capnjb @Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @tohar1 I will say, tomahawk chops seem like clever rebranding of “hey, pay the same amount for inedible bone that you’re paying for a prime cut”. They appeal aesthetically, and I can always use more bones, but I’m not paying fr something I can find in the woods.

@brainmist @Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @tohar1 Yeah, I’ll agree with you on that. But my brain has a tiny switch that tells me ‘That looks like something we have to do… LET’S GO!!’ And then… there we are.

edit - lots of fire was also fun.

@capnjb @Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @tohar1 I mean, I am happy to try someone else’s dramatically undercarved beef. But I’m too cheap to buy bones.

@brainmist @capnjb @OnionSoup @tohar1 You and me both on buying bones. The price would have to be really, really low to do that.

@brainmist @capnjb @Kidsandliz @tohar1 I’ve never been a “beef person”… But pork chops, absolutely bone in is much better than boneless so I assume the same is true for cows.

That said, I’m cheap, and don’t normally buy “the good stuff”.

@brainmist @Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @tohar1 Pork and poultry are definitely better bone in in my opinion. Beef…? It’s hit or miss on the same scale. But there are days when I hear the voice in my head say ‘it’s a good day to be absurd’ and then I come home with a five-pound tomahawk

@EdgarAllenPope I do really wonder WHY someone hasn’t done that??? They have all these tech-savvy people working for Meh; why couldn’t one of them just create a functional app for these for iPhone users? Is it because of the Apple monopoly?

@EdgarAllenPope @Kyeh I suspect that it’s because devs like getting paid, and users want apps with support. Given that this has to do things like use at least Bluetooth for communication, the coding may not be simple, and might require the use of dev platforms that cost Real Money. (I don’t do web apps, so I’m clueless about that.)

@EdgarAllenPope wait, they’re actually still functional with android?

@Kessilari So they say.

@Kessilari Yeppers, using the Swiftfinder app. It doesn’t work with them on the iPhone, however. I don’t know why.

@OnionSoup You know this means you would get a pallet just… because… Right?

@Kidsandliz @OnionSoup Not just any pallet, but THE pallet, the one with the dimensional portal that keeps belching out more and more of the cursed devices.

@Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @werehatrack Sounds like a volunteer to me!

@blaineg @Kidsandliz @werehatrack you’re referring to werehatrack right. A special bonus for volunteering on the forum.

/giphy sorry

@blaineg @OnionSoup @werehatrack

you’re referring to werehatrack right.

Nice try. My comment was:

@OnionSoup You know this means you would get a pallet just… because… Right?

We have you covered (in trackers).

@OnionSoup

We have you covered (in trackers).

Or you will be, soon enough.

Be afraid. Or keep a backhoe handy.

@brainmist (This took way too many edits to get the right gif)

@brainmist It’s perfect, though.

@mehcuda67

If meh wanted to be really REALLY evil, they
could include candy corn and trackrs in the same
shipment. bag.

FIFY.

@werehatrack Thanks. Of course we know that meh would never go so low as to ship them without a bag.

@mehcuda67 @werehatrack right… That whole no bag thing was a fever dream.

@mehcuda67 @unksol And the whole point is that the trackRs and candy corn need to be in a single semi-melted mass. Extra credit if that’s shipped with a hammer.

@mehcuda67 @werehatrack how else would you keep track of your precious candy corn? Someone might steal it

@ybmuG Those look more like mushrooms.

@Kyeh maybe the bot thought i meant “truffles”

@ybmuG
Oh, that makes sense, kind of!

@Kyeh maybe it’s the order that matters

@OnionSoup They would actually kind of, sort of work as scale mail if sewn on properly. And they do have that little loop at the top. I can see how it could be done, but it would sure as hell be bulky.

@OnionSoup @werehatrack at least you would never get lost. Well, at least until the batteries wear out…

Oh wait…

@mediocrebot Now that, is a stylish use of trackrs… not sure the safety of resting one’s foot on the caterpillar track however.

@mediocrebot @OnionSoup It’s not a giphy so it’s obviously very safe - at least at this moment as it is frozen in time.

@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot @OnionSoup Look at the rows ahead and behind; either this tractor was placed there by a crane for the photoshoot, or the visible part of the field was groomed to obliterate the tracks made by its arrival. But either way, that dude is clearly just there to pose photogenically for the picture. The farmer is probably a fifty-something guy who thinks he knows how to fix his own equipment, which is why the mess of hose spaghetti on this side of the engine (and below it) has become such a Gothic horror.

(Yes, I know, AI-generated image, but hey, why not engage in a little pseudoSherlockian dissecftion just for Eric. You know Eric. He’s an halibut.)

@mediocrebot @OnionSoup @werehatrack It’s a trackr robot tractor. There are probably jet lift engines under that tractor so you can fly it in and set it down.

you’re an all-star