If so, you cooked it waaay too long. I live in the middle of Illinois, so we know corn.

Doh! T850, not 350. Man, I’ve been searching like crazy, and no sites list the model number for the diesel minivan manuals. They have the various automatic model numbers, but then just say, “5-speed manual transmission.”

My first association of “gaiter” is with legwear.

That could be a distressingly high number of the people I know. :(

A real techie would be drinking Jolt.

I taught myself to juggle when my kids were little, just for the heck of it. I think it took about a year of practicing 10 minutes or so a day to get reasonably comfortable with 3 balls, and *able* to do three clubs, although I never got very good with the clubs. If anybody does want to try juggling, I recommend Koosh…

For a few years now we’ve been using the microwave method. It’s just so easy and quick. Throw the whole ears in there, still in the husk, and microwave for 2 minutes per ear (could be 2-4 minutes, depending on your microwave and how cooked you like your corn). Then the magic comes when you take a cooked ear-in-husk,…

I 3D printed a cradle that fits around my wireless charger, so the phone is always in the optimal charging position. (3D files, if you also have an old Nexus wireless charger: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3176387)

Ha! Probably still roughly the same ratio of insect parts. :) Well, we know where we’re each from now, huh?

Imagine how frustrating it is watching it happen from the inside. :(

Yep, I instantly thought of...

And I have the UPS plugged into my disk server, which is set up to email me if the battery level drops below 80%.

I’m in downstate IL, so the pizza of my youth is Monical’s, a smallish Midwest chain. Much like with music, we probably all love the pizza we ate when we were in high school. Monical’s is still my favorite, and it’s the crispiness of the crust, the really flavorful sauce, and not too much cheese that make it great.…

Wow, we seem to have a lot in common. I still have my first computer, a VIC 20. It’s been 10 years since I last dug it out of the attic and fired it up. I should do it again, and make sure it still works! Let’s see...yes I do still have a couple of tube TVs I can hook the modulator up to.

Yep, I’m in one of those rural areas. The ZIP Code where I work had zero cases a month ago, and now there are 30. Just yesterday there were 10 new cases in my county, which I’m pretty sure is a new daily high. I predict the schools here will be open for less than 3 weeks before they’re shut down again.

Ah, I like Paydays, but they make me sad. From 1938 to 1980, Paydays were made in my little hometown in Southern Illinois. When I was in high school the factory burned. Since the maker, then Hollywood Candies, had been one of the biggest employers around, it was the first blow in a series of them from which the town…

At least they won’t be a problem once we move to Mars.

And not the ones in the U.S. All the scientists and governments in the entire world are somehow in on it! It’s just mind-boggling watching such a large number of people be so stupid.

I leave spoons in bowls of food in the microwave all the time, and it’s perfectly fine. A fork would be bad news, and even more so with acidic foods.

Ooo! Does this have a T350? Because I’m going to eventually need some parts for the one in my SRT-4, and they’re getting really hard to source these days. I always heard that this transaxle was sourced from a European diesel minivan.