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I bought my daughter a shirt I saw in a Facebook ad, from Chalk & Stone. The shirt arrived and is great.

I do know how to load arbitrary PDFs onto the kindle, you can do it now with a specific email address that's assigned to each kindle. It's allow-listed for coming from your amazon …

I could not figure out a way to extract a pdf of the textbook to send to her kindle. I would have liked that solution, since she has one of the large format kindles.

My 11 year old daughter uses the open dyslexic font in her kindle. She has dyslexia, and also had to do some vision therapy when she was younger. She thinks she is able to read for…

In the US, I usually show up about an hour before. A little less if I'm traveling alone, but holiday are a disaster at American airports. Once, I showed up two hours before a fligh…

We pack lunch for our three kids because the free lunch at school is low quality and they don't like it. I'm not claiming it's an overwhelming amount of work, and if we just packed…

I have an M2 Max now, and it's incredible. But it still can't handle running xcode's Instruments. I'd upgrade if the M4s could run the leaks tool seamlessly, but I doubt any comput…

I wouldn't mind paying to sit next to my kids so much if the middle seats were free to select, so I just had to pay for the aisle or window. It seems like blatant greed, and also e…

Mathacademy.com will curate an adaptive course for 4th grade math thru college

I have the cheapest kaiser plan available, with a 10k deductible. It is 1900/month for my family.

The California academy of sciences membership was cheaper for one visit for a family of 5.

My obgyn didn’t remember me when I went in pregnant for the third time. I’d seen her at least 20 times in the previous 5 years.

We had kaiser for years, and it was fine. I was able to receive care for pregnancy, stitches, vaccinations, etc with little hassle and mostly reasonable billing. Then we moved. Omg…

My university had versions of courses that engineering majors were not allowed to take. Chem 160 for most students, chem 167 for engineers, chem 177 for chemistry majors.

We did. It’s a private school and they sweep everything under the rug. The other parents know she’s not a great teacher, but she was making an example of my kid in particular.

My son had a cartoonishly mean 4th grade teacher this year. Saccharine sweet to the parents, but berated my son daily. We pulled him out of the school over winter break, and he is …

I just found two weeks of emails from my kids new teacher in my spam folder.

Esri does not provide free access to their tile sets for offline caching.

I have a directory with a restricted hosts file and an empty one, and two aliases that just copy one of them to /etc I can turn it off whenever I want with one commandline, but it’…

I don’t like getting Knickknacks, but my favorite kitchen accessories make good gifts for many people. Instant read thermometers, silicone oven mits, etc

I just went to cancel my daughter's literati subscription because the books aren't a good fit right now. I was going to keep my son's, but they made me do an online chat to cancel,…

I mean, I have two kids. One never touches her iPad. The other would do nothing but ipad if we let him. Kids are different.

Our support and marketing teams wont switch to Google Docs from quip because they hate Google Docs organization. But the engineers hate quip.

Fwiw, I attended a nearly identical recruiting event at Microsoft for women and minorities.

I recommend fertility friend, from their privacy policy “ FertilityFriend.com is fully funded by its VIP service fees and has been so since we started. It does not rely on any type…