What are these tax refunds you speak of?

I think there are options for doing this more easily and creating a more comfortable bed. Most bed frames don’t have a solid base, like the plywood he is using. Box springs are typically supported on the sides, or maybe on flexible slats. Provides the bed with some give that this bed won’t have. And if there isn’t…

I have a few of these—needed to address a strange issue with smart lights, which is that if the lights are also controlled by a wall switch, as most lights are, someone will turn off the light switch, rendering your smart light useless until you re-energize the light from the wall switch. Which kind of defeats the…

Getting all literal about the terms of a consent order when it is pretty plain that the actual application is outside what either party to the consent order was contemplating is stupid. Not having looked at it, I also kind of wonder whether “Joe” has any private right to sue under the consent order at all—it may be…

It was at a discounted price, seems like the deals on both are over...

It was at a discounted price, seems like the deals on both are over...

I’m sure you are well meaning. But if you said that to me, honestly, it would not be well received. I might not show it, which is why you might be under the belief it is universally well received, but I’ll tell you right now there’s a part of me that would want to punch you.

“Platitudes like ‘He’s in a better place now’ or ‘There’s a reason for everything” are easy to fall back on’”—add to that list any comments about God’s plans or God’s will.

I did Kenji’s deconstructed green bean cassarole for Thanksgiving, which involves combining cippolini onions caramelized in butter with blanched green beans and a bunch of browned mushrooms. Seemed a pity to waste the little brown bits in the bottom of the pan from cooking the onions and mushrooms in the pans, so I…

There’s a little voice in the back of my head that hears things about registering/interning Muslims and the comeback in my brain is “but... but... this is America, while we may end up doing irrational things here and there, the People wouldn’t let that happen.” And then I remember Japanese internment. And…

I wonder if you misheard what he said—I’m wondering if he may have said that that there is usually one street that is a meridian (rather than “is Meridian”), dividing N/S or E/W.

The comparison isn’t with getting paintball tanks refilled, it is the convenience of swapping out Sodastream branded tanks at a bunch of different locations. I use Airgas for my welding gases. The ones around me don’t have weekend or evening hours. I find that rather inconvenient.

Does Spotify not include The Avengers? Surely “The American In Me” ought to be on any such list.

Not sure what your point is. If you are starting with a stud at the end of the top/bottom plates and sticking to true 16" OC, your studs are centered—measuring from the end of the top/bottom plates—at 3/4", 16 3/4", 32 3/4", 48 3/4". So the last stud goes from 48" to 49 1/2". That means a 4' sheet of drywall butted up…

This is odd to me—I do all the cooking in the house, and prefer to do the dishes. Those are my tools and I’m picky about how they get treated. Easier to just do it myself than trying to explain to someone else. Regardless, the idea that I’d choose to dirty dishes differently based on viewing cleaning as a free good…

That example is based on buying in 1l bottles. The economics change if your consumption is based on 12 or 16 oz cans, whatever the standard size is, which is what my wife was consuming. It is also a convenience thing, since I had to tote the things from the store. It also seemed like a wasteful purchase in terms of…

Because 2l bottles go flat. And because the payback, when the alternative is 12 oz cans, isn’t too bad.

As someone who buys welding gas on a regular basis, it is a PITA. None of the very few shops around me that sell commercial gases are open late night or on weekends. Which means I’ve got to hit them first thing in the AM and then be late to the office. As opposed to the multitude of Staples and BB&Bs that I can walk…

There is--at least according to what I’d consider more reliable sources than an anonymous LH commenter. See

Doing the math, based on $5 refills for the 24 oz bottles (Dick’s) and $16 for the 10 lb bottles, means breakeven at 230+ liters of soda for the $66 set up and 385 liters for the $119 set up. It is an interesting project, but I’m not sure the savings are worth it to me—potentially sketchy, non-food safe CO2, lack of…

Overall, pretty nicely done for a quickie light duty set of storage. Personally, I hate MDF--in addition to the nasty dust it generates and the fact it splits easily, it seems really flex-ey to me, so I always wonder how long it will hold up. I’d probably use another material, like baltic birch plywood. That all said,…