The key did not kill — stupid did. If you are not aware that your car’s engine is running you should certainly not be behind the wheel. In any case, anybody could just as easily leave the car running with a key-operated ignition as with keyless.
Odd. I’ve always figured that ‘good’ debt is the one you never had or at least is the one you paid off quickly. I’ve been managing to live debt-free (except for a single credit card bill which is paid in full monthly) for five+ years now and it is quite empowering although getting there was painful at times.
It reminds me of my old original Suzuki Brute — right-hand drive and 360cc of raw roaring power (if you never wanted to go over 45mph). It had the benefit of being street-legal and was even registered in anal-retentive California.
Alprazolam, 1mg, works better and will later diminish the aggravation of crowding, bad service, uncomfortable seats, screaming kids, obnoxious passengers, boring ‘entertainment’ and a number of other annoyances. As a bonus, taken 1 hour before entering the security line, even the TSA security theater is less bad.…
I notice that the fire extinguisher looks to be a Kidde. It would probably be worthwhile to find out if it and any other similar ones in your possession are on their recall list — the company was forced to admit that many of their models simply fail to work (or sometimes turn into missiles). If incinerating vehicles…
After having experienced the ‘Guinness’ beef stew at the brewery in Dublin I’d have to say that there is one beer that belongs in stew. I haven’t made it at home yet but they do provide a good recipe for the divine stuff online.
Black widow spiders are relatively common in my area. Twice now I’ve actually (and quite accidentally) laid hands on one while at the top of a tall ladder while doing repairs on the house. In neither case was I bitten. Had I been, I’m sure that an unplanned departure from the top of the ladder would have had far worse…
I have what I believe to be the oldest version of this product, purchased ~23 years ago at Costco. The sets (I bought 2) included two sizes of rectangular containers, small bowls, and two sizes of small round, all with blue lids. The have held up perfectly with only the replacement of two lids on the larger bowls.…
He isn’t touching the hardware - in his world it is called ‘the laying upon of hands’. No doubt he is trying to exorcise the science demons.
For flights that are long enough to matter, trans-Atlantic for example, I always try to schedule the flight so that arrival is early-to-mid morning. That way I have motivation to stay active for the rest of the day and that seems to speed the acclimatization. This can lead to some departure times which are a bit…
I hope that little car in the clip is electric. Otherwise leaving the hatch open is a sure way to load the inside of the vehicle with carbon monoxide. Invariably the owner’s manual will warn agains such exploits.
Hint: if you are so wasted that you can’t find your church key then you don’t really need that beer. Put it down and back away slowly...
That one didn’t bite me but there were enough other bugs introduced in the new version that I had to roll it back on my daily driver. Imagine how hard MS had to work to break sticky notes.
Yeah, I have one. Don’t know if the back room in my basement rates as a ‘data center’ or not but that is where the stainless rolling bakery rack housing my home server and two BOINC client machines live. Having a single monitor at stand-up height, keyboard, and trackball (mice - ugh!) seemed the only rational…
If 50% works for you, fine, but that is not necessarily the magic number. Everything depends on the amount of oats and water and the size and shape of the bowl. I use 3/4c of ‘old fashioned’ oats and 1-1/3c of water plus a bit of salt in a rather large bowl (8" X 3") that flares out quite a bit. For my combination I…
Linseed oil is fine and is even used as a nutritional supplement (flax seed oil) but one needs to watch out for ‘boiled’ linseed oil sold for woodworking purposes since it has a dryer/hardener chemical added to speed polymerization which contains heavy metals. In theory once the oil has polymerized this dangerous…
Two, schmoo. I find that seven accounts serve my needs best. The main checking account is where all incoming money goes automatically but, just as automatically, it is disbursed to external interest-bearing accounts: savings, escrow (which pays for taxes and home insurance and minor repairs), cars (which is accruing…
It certainly does not work for me — it takes me to my ‘home’ page every time which is exactly what I didn’t need.
It seems excessive. Whipping in half-and-half instead of milk and gently cooking in butter (and knowing when to stop cooking) will produce flavorful perfectly moist (but not runny) scrambled eggs. Just remember that, if the eggs seem perfectly cooked in the pan, they will be overcooked on the plate and on the palate.
I went a bit further. You can buy small dial probe thermometers at any HVAC parts shop for a few dollars each. I drilled perfectly-sized holes in both my return duct and supply plenum right at the furnace and inserted the probes of the thermometers into the holes. Now I can see the temperature delta at the furnace at…