Costco used to (still does?) sell these tubs of chocolate covered caramel macadamia nut clusters. Literally food of the diabetic gods. I had to stop buying them because they were expensive AF and disappeared way too quickly.

Don’t you mean Annie Mail?

Mine are the remnants of a vacuum cleaner power cord. There’s a lot of copper there, and a lot of rubber between them.

Twice that I recall, both while at least mildly ill. Once, in law school, I was late to class and had an assigned seat in the middle of a row, so I was not keen to draw further attention to myself, but I had a rumbly tummy and the bowel wants what it wants. Eventually, despite what felt to me like truly heroic efforts, I did in fact excuse myself, only to find that floor’s bathroom was closed. going down a flight of stairs does things to your regular clenching pressure, and by the time I made it to the toilet, “slug of poo” had made its way into my boxers. Damage to the undies was surprisingly mild, but I went ahead and called it a day for the rest of my classes, as I had skipped many times for far less legitimate reasons.

The other time I was just home with the shits and didn’t quite make it once. Afterwards I moved my “I’m sick” nest a lot closer to the bathroom for the rest of the day.

Any tips on the offending glasses? I live in the path of totality, and I don’t want to blind my kid.

Because I can? LOL.

I do try to make to make boards with layouts that are slightly unique from anything I could buy, just to lie to myself and pretend that I “have to” make them. Latest kick, which simplifies construction in a couple of ways, is making boards that have no key wider than 1.75 “regular” ones. Means I have more real estate to play with and don’t need the notoriously noisy “stabilizer” hardware.

The kind of soldering you do with a handwire is also sort of relaxing, like tying fishing flies, except you burn your finger every once in a while.

Yes, that’s probably about perfect. There are a few human deaths, occasionally with a fair amount of blood, though it’s fairly stylized, and part of the lore involves the banal commonness of resurrection spells, so I doubt it would be too traumatizing for a teen. The rest of the gore is non-humans and often almost more like a particularly unflinching cooking show.

There’s only a little bit of “nudity,” and it’s thoroughly PG-13. Then the character interactions and themes are pretty gentle overall, though I guess there’s some realpolitik trouble brewing with some of the supporting characters.

Well put, and you have a well-chosen user name. :-)

Yes, it was in that exact sweet spot where it was good enough and popular enough that it got to tell its story, but not of such broad appeal that they got pressured to keep it going. I’m sure the theology and philsophy don’t hold up, but it was funny and smart and heartfelt and I loved the entire run.

ESPECIALLY being from Jacksonville. :-)

1. Delicious in Dungeon. It’s delightfully bonkers in a way that works for me as a very occasional anime viewer, and for all of the gore (actually middling to low for the genre, I guess), it’s damn near kid-friendly in its wholesomeness level.

2. On a brief break for the moment, but in the last year I’ve made 7 hand-wired computer keyboards.

Not really. I would be curious if other people immersed in SI only have similar issues to yours. Minutes and hours are based off of multiples of 12, and with feet and inches that’s already one we deal with regularly.

There’s also the very nerdy Shakespeare version of the same sentiment: “when troubles come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

In English, over time, “I could care less” has come to have the exact same meaning as “I couldn’t care less.”

Some people get wrapped around an axle (i.e. irrationally angry) about it, but i just mentally fill in some context myself: “I could care less… i suppose… if i really tried… but that’s not going to happen.”

There’s no governing body for English. If you communicate the meaning and social cues that you intended, then it’s “right.” Of course, communicating social cues is sometimes where you can get in trouble using newer linguistic constructions.

Kate and Notepad++

Why yes, I was an English major…

So it’s expensive, wears quickly, has QA issues, and they slow play warranty claims? Glad you ended up with a chair you like, but this is not inspiring confidence. :-)

I have a leap v1 I got about 5 or 6 years ago that was reupholstered by a local used office furniture place. I keep using cheap cylinders, so I’ve changed that out a couple of times, and I changed out the original armests about two years ago (bought from Crandall for that). All in, including the original purchase, I’m at maybe $350 over the entire time I’ve owned it, and the structural parts and new upholstery are holding up perfectly. The tag on the bottom says it is 22 years old.

The other side of my home office has a HM Mirra v1 I got for free when they shut down my employer’s local office, and my wife uses a Steelcase Gesture in the “study,” which is to say the nice home office that doesn’t have two 3D printers, a soldering station, half a dozen keyboards, a dog crate, and an elderly cockatiel. My 10yo uses a godawful “gaming chair,” but it’s pink and she’s ten, so ergonomics are barely a blip on her radar. She has a standing offer to take the Mirra.

I like Memmy well enough when I’m determined to use an app. Still holding out hope that a kbin one materializes.

Doom scrolling works fine, and discoverability is okayish. The search function mostly seems to bring up communities, so that’s kind of what you’d need.

That’s pretty cool, TBH. Not sure the GIJOE USS Flagg model was quite that seaworthy, LOL.

I can’t really imagine the appeal unless it was a standalone device. The tactility and self-contained nature is the only thing that would make it feel like something “real enough” to bother with.

Nah. a 2.5 meter aircraft carrier is not really any more practical today than it was in 1986.

I am a left-leaning suburbanite dog-loving dad who fancies himself a versatile and practical can-do type who prefers function to form, but also has a little disposable income and sometimes thinks jeeps look fun. Subaru marketing execs were damn near salivating.

Mostly (though not exclusively) Alt-country/Americana, because that’s what I always listen to. As long as I’ve already heard it a few times, I don’t typically find lyrics distracting. I’m a Contracting SME for a software company, because it’s better hours and fewer crazies than being lawyer.

Seems I’m an outlier in this gang, LOL.

Yellow mustard on corndogs, Yellow mixed with ketchup to make “orange sauce” for burgers and hot dogs , spicy brown on polish sausage or cold-cut sandwiches.

I’ll say this, Europeans know how to make a soup base that can accommodate any number of ingredients. Some of the best soup I’ve ever had was just from a big vat of pea soup at a university dining hall in Brussels.

No one knows.

I did once try to drop my largest book on my dad’s head from as high up as I could get, my logic being that since it wasn’t an anvil, which was clearly artistic license, he’d probably be fine.

Sorry about that. uBlock Origin knocks it all out for me. This should be better, and much more extensive anyway.

Jack Donaghy could supply your entire inventory, and I feel you should figure out a way to get the first part of your gif included.

“Ambition is the willingness to kill the things you love and eat them in order to stay alive. Haven’t you ever read my throw pillow?”

We’re verging on a being a theocratic petro-state, but (therefore?) we do invest in roads. Your average Farm-to-Market is nicer than the US highways in many places. Our crony-capitalist toll roads are mostly very nice to drive on too, smooth even up to 100mph, though you pay for the privilege.

I haven’t been on the road a ton in recent years, nor have I driven every state, but I have driven at least some in every state from Vermont to Florida, across the entire American southeast, and down I-10 to California. In my experience, Louisiana was the worst.

Too much gaming and The Expanse and arguing about Star Wars online to say I’m only doing productive nerdy things, but even back to high school and college, long before I ever heard the term, sometimes the urge to “just make somethin’” would become overwhelming.

Fair. I did spend a LOT more time thinking about Terms of Use and arguing with OnShape’s legal department when investigating CAD apps than a normal human would have. I checked out of actual practicing well over a decade ago, though.

Hello cousin. I feel where you’re coming from.

I’m not a “Senior Process Analyst” or even a lawyer.

I’m a dad and a maker and a nerd.

This is the answer. It’s only remarkable if you can’t quickly get tacos anywhere else. It’s kind of its own thing, though and it sort of hits the spot sometimes.

If I actually want Tex-Mex fast food, living in Texas I’d usually take any of the following before Taco Bell:

• Taco Bueno
• Taco Casa
• Taco Cabana
• Rosa’s Cantina
• Taco Delite

Diablo sauce is gross, though. It’s really no hotter than Fire (and neither is very hot) but it tries to do something smoky and citrusy or some shit, and being Taco Bell, they can’t pull it off. Better to just go with the tomato and vinegar and powdered jalapeno in whichever concentration level they can handle.

I’m in the “cyst” camp. We had a Sheltie who got kinda gross little sebum-filled protrusions a little like that.

Go to the vet. If its just aging skin, you need to know so you can manage and maybe get some proper ointment, and if it’s something weird like a botfly, that shit needs to be removed ASAP.

If you’re not opposed to looking in on a Reddit thread, askhistorians hsa it pop up now and again. They have “flaired users,” who, with few exceptions tend to be credentialed academics, typically younger Masters degree holders and/or PhD candidates (best I can tell), and with no love for the American right. Their general consensus is that the book is not “wrong,” but it lacks context and is not very useful as history, and particularly not as someone’s introduction to American history.

Do you mean Kevin Stroud’s linguistic history one? If so, I do listen to it and like it a lot. I didn’t include it because his degrees are in poli-sci and law, but he at least follows my main shibboleth for a thoughtful podcast by not shying away from “it depends” as an answer.

What I don’t like as much are the “well I need to make sure I tell a good story” types who read one secondary source, misinterpret one primary source, and then spend the rest of their time making sure they are awesome and dramatic. I don’t have time or motivation to keep up with the literature on Egyptology, but I’d prefer to get my survey of the subject from someone who does.

I tend to like history podcasts by academics, so here are three:

History of Egypt Podcast
Emperors of Rome
AskHistorians podcast, but I admit I pick and choose episodes with that one. I do wish they’d come over to the Fediverse, but I kind of get it, as their stated goals are broad outreach and getting warm&fuzzies for their mostly younger academics.

We only have the one, but it’s in the laundry room, close to, and roughly equidistant from, the garage with the woodshop and laser engraver, the office with the 3D printers, and the kitchen.