I know nothing.

Just 95-100 degrees? I feel like you could probably have gotten essentially the same result by simply letting it sit on the counter for an hour to come up to room temperature and then searing it. Which is not a bad way to cook a steak, really.

Mine, obviously. :) 2004 Dodge Neon SRT-4. I bought it new in 2003, and I’m still daily driving it 21 years and 246K+ miles later. It was and is a cheap economy car, but with a terrific engine. With a few judicious upgrades, at just 2800lbs mine puts right at 300hp to the ground according to my trap speed. None of the…

Heh. Hardee’s has Red Burrito, and they still do have the Tex-Mex menu items in a lot of the Midwest Hardee’s locations. I don’t remember there ever being a salsa bar, though.

I’m just going to continue to ignore them. They never respond to my texts anyway.

In 2017 US 51 in Southern Illinois was backed up for 50 miles north of Carbondale that morning. This is a road that probably normally has a traffic density of about 2 cars per mile. My daughter and I only needed to travel about 45 miles south of home to get in the path of totality, so we took a small state highway…

If you didn’t see it before, I highly highly highly recommend trying to see the totality. It’s a completely different experience, not comparable to even a 99% partial eclipse. 1% of the sun is still incredibly bright. Seeing the total eclipse in 2017 was so oddly, surprisingly emotional, and almost indescribable in…

Burger Chef! Our Hardee’s and Burger Chef were right next to each other for a couple of years. Somewhere in a box in the attic I’m pretty sure I still have my Burger Chef Star Wars posters from 1977.

It’s a rare show that can pull off this kind of terrific absurd comedy but also have so many great serious and moving scenes. My wife and I are currently rewatching the first two seasons before we start on S3.

Wow, are there really not any Hardee’s in the Chicago area? That seems strange. I worked at Hardee’s in high school, just after they introduced biscuits. Back then there were no Arby’s anywhere in the region, so Hardee’s was the only fast-food place where you could get a roast beef sandwich. Our local one was…

There was a local BBQ place that had a smoked cabbage side dish. It had hints of bacon and cider vinegar, and when it was on point, it was honestly one of the best things I’ve ever tasted. Unfortunately, the building was destroyed in a tornado a couple of years ago, and the owner hasn’t rebuilt or reopened. :(

And wife

FB notification: “Someone tried to log in, but we stopped them.”

Yeah, I’m curious what my password will be, since I tried to change it to a couple of different things this morning but just got error messages. Hopefully it will still be what it was before all this.

Pixels also have a setting (Settings/Display/Screen protector mode) that can help improve touch sensitivity with a screen protector installed. I’m not sure whether it also affects the fingerprint reader, but it’s worth a shot.

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Me, too. Especially galling, because I figure somewhere down the street they probably put them on, swore, then tossed them in the ditch. :(

I’m also very lucky, in that I’m close to the area of Southern Illinois where the 2017 and 2024 paths cross. I only had to drive about 45 miles in 2017, and this time I live in the path of totality. Just as you said, it’s impossible to describe in words. It’s a completely different experience than even a 99% eclipse,…

On the plus side, it probably is good for many of us running smallish fairly high-boost turbochargers!

I don’t eat cereal much, and when I do it’s often for a quick supper, but I have to mix them together. I’ll usually do something like Cheerios, Raisin Bran, and Grape Nuts together. The variety of textures improves it immensely.