Chris K.
@ChrisK_Banded
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Compiler of knowledge and anecdotes. Overthinker in most circumstances. Seeker of practical truths in agriculture.
Missouri
Joined September 2014
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Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I
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While sitting through a web meeting today, I listened to the presenter spew all sorts of skewed information pertaining to soil nutrients. At one point, the presenter showed the classic Truog pH chart, and told the audience that it was "basically dreamed up" because "the guy
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I’ll add the other rooms soon. I think we’re up to about 22 trees inside.
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Dining room also contains the wife’s Snoop on a Stoop. (sigh) Oh, and his dog.
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Dining room has a Grateful Dead tree with Kurt Adler ornaments and bubble lights.
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Kitchen with lights out. We use 2 laser projectors for the star effect.
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Approximately 6,000 lights on this tree. 3k are the original incandescent lights that we’ve replaced, plus 3k LED rice lights.
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Christmas lights 2025 are 99% complete. Still have outside ornaments to hang in trees and some LEDs to replace in some inflatables. Here’s a thread of our lights:
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PSA: If you’re looking for unique gift ideas for anyone over 40, consider old catalogs. Ebay has tons of them from the “old days” when we’d get these in the mail or in stores. I just ordered my MIL a 1959 Sears Wish Book. My wife & I were telling my daughter about the
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Still need to put up the light tunnel, but it’s mostly finished otherwise. Had to beat the wintry mix and rain tomorrow.
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1 hour into this process… of course I only needed a few minutes to pull a file off for a project.
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Behold the CSX 4602—one of only two full-copper Shelby Cobras ever built. Hand-formed from 17 polished copper panels, this 1997 continuation 427 S/C is a rolling masterpiece. 550 HP from a 468ci side-oiler V8. 218 original miles. Sold for $990,000 at Mecum Indy 2025. No paint.
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