Nope, not ripe yet. I’ve been growing pineapples in my window at work for about 15 years now. A new plant takes about 3 years from rooting the previous pineapple crown to producing a new ripe fruit. They’re small but delicious!

Oh, the insurance company is totaling it. But in Illinois you can retain the title instead of automatically getting a salvage title if the car is over 10 years old. I’m fixing it. I’m just haggling with the insurance company over the value.

Here’s my 2004 Dodge SRT-4, which I bought new way back then. Mechanically it’s fine; it runs great. But after a freaking tree fall on it in March, it needs:

There’s also the issue of the non-easily-replaceable lithium batteries used in almost all phones these days. If a lithium battery lasts 3 years, you’re extremely lucky. Most phones are not going to have a useful battery life after 3 years.

Google has already said they will be supporting the Pixel 6 line with 5 years of security updates.

I don’t know. I drove a friend’s once, and I really felt disconnected, I think because of the drive-by-wire throttle. Although from what I can find it does have a clutch cable, the clutch felt weird, almost like it was electronic or something, too. Maybe I’m spoiled from driving higher hp turbo fours, but it just felt…

Heh-heh-heh-HEHHHH-heh.

I have a theory that whatever we had when we were in high school we think of as the best. Pizza from that place we hung out on Friday nights? Those greasy burgers from the diner across the street from campus? That concert we went to at the stadium? Best ever! Maybe it’s something that gets chemically fixed in our…

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!