I think the only time I’ve ever really made a dumb joke to a server was when my daughter was a senior in HS, and we were driving home from a college visit in Chicago. We stopped at a Buffalo Wild Wings, and it was almost completely empty, with only one table occupied in the whole place. When the server said, “Sit…

I looked up pictures of Patrick Stewart where you can see his hands clearly, and yes, that is definitely his left hand. The pattern of veins is a perfect match.

A dust cover! I don’t know why it never occurred to me to look for one, but it would be very useful. Off to search for one now! I bought a KitchenAid used about 10 years ago for around $180, and that thing is a tank, made to last. I recently built some shelves in our pantry that are strong enough to support it, so we…

Dunno. There is also tabbouleh without cucumbers, but the first recipe I came across when looking it up to double check was titled, “My Mother’s Lebanese Tabbouleh,” and it has cucumber in it. I was first introduced to tabbouleh by my daughter when she was living in the Middle East. Very refreshing dish, as long as…

Put potato chips on any sandwich, veggie or not. They can really help any kind of cold cut sandwich be tastier.

There are cucs in tabbouleh, FWIW.

It looks like the figure was 17.x million per year in the U.S. from all manufacturers for the years from 2015 to 2018. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, that declined to 14.7 million in 2021 due to the pandemic.

Not sure where you’re getting 15%. The numbers I see say Ford sold 3.9 million vehicles worldwide last year.

I’ve had a bunch fail. I’m using almost all LED in our house, with just a smattering of older CFLs. Two years ago I put new fixtures in our master bath during a minor remodel. Six new LED bulbs, and in two years three of them have failed. They weren’t name brand bulbs, and I suppose the warm, damp environment of a…

There are stainless steel alloys that do allow magnets to stick. It depends on the amount of nickel in the alloy and other factors. Our current stainless steel refrigerator and our previous one both allow magnets to stick to them without trouble.

There are some others I can drink if I need to in a social situation, but Guinness is the only beer I actively like. I wonder if it would tend not to oxidize as badly, since it famously uses nitrogen instead of CO2?

Also binder style so it lays open flat on the counter!

I’m getting to the age where I feel like my body is starting to compost before I’m even dead!

I had to check and make sure this wasn’t a previously published article.

At work I often have a kind of sushi bowl with stuff actually available (usually) from the Walmart across the street. Minute Rice makes brown and wild rice cups that you just pop in the microwave for 60 seconds, so I have one of those with 3-4 oz of cold smoked salmon, and half an avocado. I drizzle a little good…

I think a lot of combinations that hit multiple taste categories like that can be pretty good. My wife and I typically get sushi on Friday nights. (Somehow we have a restaurant with reasonably good sushi here in a small town in the Midwest; it probably won’t last.) I’ve been pouring the leftover super-acidic dressing…

I can tell you one thing the deer *love* is hostas. They usually munch our hostas down to the ground. I'm surprised they keep coming back up.

I dated my high school crush, married her, and we celebrate our 37th anniversary next month.

Not only is the fatality rate above 99%, but only one person ever is known to have survived rabies without being vaccinated, and that was fairly recent, in 2004. At least they don’t give the shots in your stomach like they once did. When I was a kid in the 70s, my dad worked in a veterinary diagnostic lab and had to…

Big John was a discount grocery chain here in the Midwest back then. We had one in our town, complete with giant statue of Big John carrying grocery bags. The building was still there until about 10 years ago. There’s a Dollar General there now. It looks like there are still a few Big John stores around, but maybe not…