Makes sense to a degree, but it depends upon what state you live in. In my state, a lienholder can’t get at marital assets that easily.

The only discernable rationale I can imagine for this is that you don’t trust your spouse. That seems like more than a financial problem. Or am I missing something?

I was in my local Home Depot this weekend and they had the A19 GE Link bulbs for $11 ea. They work fine with my Hue Bridge and can be controlled by my Amazon Echo, but they aren’t multi-color, just soft white.

I was in my local Home Depot this weekend and they had the A19 GE Link bulbs for $11 ea. They work fine with my Hue…

Realized I should rephrase what I said—there are fixed and marginal costs that are class-specific, so the issue isn’t fixed v. marginal, it is really which costs are specifically attributable to a particular class versus costs that are common to all classes.

The point is that 3rd isn’t subsidizing First Class mail—if anything, First Class mail is subsidizing 3rd. The point of a Postal Rate Case and the Postal Rate Commission is to ensure that each class has to bear its own marginal costs and a representative proportion of the fixed costs. The 3rd class lobbyists and…

When I lived in Switzerland, their postal system had multiple deliveries a day, including weekends, so it was possible to mail a letter and get a response by mail the same day. Granted, that was cross-subsidized as part of the PTT, but our modern postal system isn’t that great if you have seen other first world…

Electrical is usually possible to work around, but opening a wall and finding ducting sucks. That said, it is usually easier to figure out where the ducting is routed.

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You’ll need to make a back for an inset cabinet as well, but that isn’t hard. If anyone is going to do this—and it is a good project—make sure you don’t pick a stud gap that has ventilation or electrical in it...

That said, if you are going to use PVC, I’d go with Sched. 80, since it has a bursting pressure that is probably 40% higher than Sched. 40. I know people use PVC for these cannons all the time, but it scares me. Sched. 80 is probably rated for 8x the pressure from a potato cannon, but that doesn’t seem like a huge…

I’d rather have ABS fail, which doesn’t produce shards, than PVC.

Well, as long as everyone is throwing out their favorite method for pre-cooking, I’ll put in a plug for sous vide. I cut up potatos, vacuum seal them into bags with a bit of olive oil and S&P, then sous vide them for an hour or so at 185F. Then I either freeze the bags or leave them in the fridge for the coming week.…

If you are intentionally not doing the right thing—moving your shit out of the way—on the grounds that someone didn’t say “excuse me” when you are the being inconsiderate of others by blocking the aisle, you probably ought to check your attitude.

BTW, I do not understand people in grocery aisles with carts. I manage to park mine on the side when I’m grabbing something so others can get by. And if it was in the middle of the aisle, I’d keep an eye on it and move it if it was blocking someone. But 99% of the twats in my grocery store seem absolutely oblivious to…

Probably not how I’d phrase it. I’d probably say no gloves in the metal shop except in the handtool or welding area and no gloves in the woodshop except in the finishing room.

This recipe made me think of the recipe I use for chateaubriand, where you create a powder by grinding up rosemary and dried porcini and rub the beef with it. I’m thinking that instead of mixing the mushrooms into the meat, I just dust the burgers with some ground porcini for some added earthiness and umami. Doesn’t…

“Welding” gloves covers a pretty broad range from the Dr. Horrible-style stiff cowhide numbers to calfskin TIG gloves. Personally I like the sensitivity of TIG gloves even for other welding tasks and just try to be careful about what I grab.

Dang. I thought you were paying waaay too much—when you say “nitrile” and “multipacks” I think of the nitrile exam gloves that I get that are disposables (I use them when I’m applying stains or other finishes in my woodshop). But the ones I buy are like $8 for 100. Google tells me, however, that there are a lot more…

Most things in a woodshop or machine shop. Any place where stuff can get caught and pulled into wicked blades or wrapped around something at high r.p.m.

On my install of Powerpoint, presentations default to standard US letter size. If you are presenting on a screen, however, you will usually be presenting in a 16:9 format, so change the page size appropriately...