This computer outsmarting thingy is why my Impreza is a manual. I can control torque with the clutch and gear selection. With studded Hankooks six months of the year here on an Alaskan mountainside (and the winter driving experience Donner Pass tourists generally lack), I have never been stuck nor gone off the road.…

Covered in dark chocolate . . . 

You mean to tell me that a (likely) demented narcissist who spent most of his life in Queens, and whose major hobby is watching TV (and we’re not talking PBS), doesn’t know as much about forestry as forest professionals do?? Does this means his advice about my bone spurs is also suspect???

So do headlines with numbers: “Five ways to save energy and water around the house.”

“I’ll send you an invite.”

Looks like September — May driving here in AK. Where we use studded winter tires on our AWD Subarus, and merely laugh at slightly greasy conditions like this.

How many times do I have to remind the writers and editors here that my state, Alaska, is part of the nation? That means when you use the term “nationwide” in a story, but the “facts” you are reporting don’t apply to AK, or your graphics only show the contiguous/Lower 48 states, you are using the WRONG WORD.

And that’s how it’s done every single day in the 49th and 50th states (and parts of Europe). Why hasn’t the rest of the USA caught up yet?

I wear a night guard and I also need to descale my coffee maker and electric kettle frequently because our well water is pretty hard. For a while I was using generic grocery store denture tabs for the night guard, but then I read the ingredients. I also took a closer look at the ingredients of the expensive coffee…

I think this article, and your comment, may be conflating introversion and shyness. I consider myself to be an extreme introvert in that I love solitary pursuits and require a lot of down time to myself when traveling, attending conferences, etc. with lots of other people. E.g. I hate sharing hotel rooms (unless I’m…

There’s no sales tax where I live.  So that makes it easy.

My addiction to dubbel zout caused premature loss of a crown and the need for an $8000 tooth implant. Now I chew my Dutch licorice on the other side.

Come live with me at 61.5 N.

Here in Anchorage Alaska, we go to work in the dark and come home in the dark for about five months a year. DST only makes it that much harder to get up on weekdays, starting in early September, when sunrise is already coming after the start of an early-normal working day. Without DST, the sun does not come up until…

You have to click off the auto throttle, too. I have a feeling Lion Air flight crew are trained to be operators rather than actual stick and rudder pilots. Automation is great until it isn’t, and the pilots may have been so focused on going down checklists and trying to out-wit the flight systems that they failed to…

My mother adores circus peanuts (she’s 91). They are getting harder to find. And I will take anyone’s Neccos off their undeserving hands! There’s nothing like a fresh roll to consume at the movies. The clove, chocolate and licorice flavors are the bast.

I was in grad school with an Icelandic student in the late 1970s. He said the prohibition was an effort to reduce problem drinking. Spirits were more expensive and you apparently had to buy the whole bottle at the bar. Of course, people still drank to excess and you can get blotto pretty fast on Akvaviti if your…

I am liking Turkey more and more lately.  Who knew?

When someone touches you without your consent it’s called assault.

Take it from a resident of the state with more earthquakes than the rest of the states combined, and 75% of all earthquakes over magnitude 5 in the USA: you are a complete idiot if your bed is under a skylight or if you hang anything heavy or hard on the wall over the head of your bed. I have nothing on the wall above…