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Absolutely! But they're not, IME, 6x as great as a $50 Lodge dutch oven. They don't solve a categorically different problem or solve the same problem in an innovative new way. They…

A worthy predecessor to the Hydraulic Press channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcMDMoNu66_1Hwi5-MeiQgw

I had a doctor once recommend a temporary treatment that would be provided by a third party. I called the third party and asked how much it would cost; they had no idea. I called m…

I'm sure this gets recommended all the time, but "Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time" is a fascinating (to me anyway) story about the creation of tim…

Be right back, I'm starting a new search engine, AAAAA A Best Searches

I spent a summer working in a hardware store up in Fairbanks, and my host/landlord decided to take me up to the Arctic Circle in his CJsomething Jeep. We were only a few miles up f…

Just imagine if they had gone with "sombrero", how much more fun networking would be. Or smörgåsbord!

The only train I could find that goes anywhere near my mother's house would take approximately 12 hours, with a 5 hour layover in a small town with ~nothing to do. I can drive it i…

I tried it out on https://www.denverpost.com/2021/10/07/medina-alert-hit-run-c... , which I would think in general a group like Vision Zero would approve of, and it got a C (-1 poi…

I've done that occasionally, over a weekend when I left my phone at home or something. Doesn't happen often, obviously, but it does have some small number of days of local logging.…

I just visited my boss in a WeWork space in San Jose, and it is the closest thing I've found so far to my idea of hell. The offices there have a unique combination of feeling expos…

Chap-hop star Mr B, The Gentleman Rhymer, wrote "Hip-Hop Was To Blame, After All", specifically addressing this attitude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkES4anCYOw

In some (relatively limited, I believe) areas in the US, you can text 911: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/what-you-need-know-abou...

It's stressful enough trying to keep up with all the expectations society puts on new parents without the additional hassle of strangers on the Internet criticizing your parenting …

I'll have to see if I can adapt this to my somewhat idiosyncratic syntax: SELECT field, other_field FROM table WHERE some_thing IN ( SELECT id FROM other_table ) AND other_field IS…

Same. I bought a Tacoma a couple of years ago, and while there was technically a manual option available, nobody actually had one, or could tell me when I could get one.

I actually had no idea I could by from the brands directly. Nike's store seems fairly decent.

I'd hope they turn them on an hour or so before they return home; otherwise, it's likely to be uncomfortable.

I was having trouble sleeping for a while; at one point my doctor recommending I go on oxygen for a while until she could figure it out. I called the company that provided the oxyg…

Only in the 3rd Circuit; other jurisdictions aren't obliged to follow its precedent.

Not to mention, if you buy from a company that makes a quality, reliable fridge, you'll recommend it to friends who need a new one; if they intentionally sell you a barely-qualifie…

Look at the hair in the scene where they're in the ocean in Incredibles 1, and... pretty much any comparable scene in 2. The hair in 1 looks almost like plastic; in the sequel (or,…

Reading early '60s Marvel comics, I'm struck (and irritated) by their house style of using 'thru' everywhere, instead of 'through'.

Have you looked at public librarian salaries lately? A senior-- senior, mind you-- librarian at the Colorado Springs Library District is being offered $25/hr. I don't recall for ce…