I’m down with the flu, and have been reading Reddit for entertainment. This AskReddit thread has been good: Frequent Flyers of Reddit: What are Your Airport “Life hacks?”

It’s possible to use a nice posture, combined with always being in the peripheral vision, to gently force an agent to do what you want, according to this article.

Point for mentioning Maangchi! If this were a post on making Korean food, then that’s the place to go!

My wife and I wear ‘nuisance dust’ masks when traveling by air. My excuse is that I am prone to nosebleeds, and need to keep humidity high, but it is also to reduce exposure to infectious aerosols.

They’ll have to pull a lot of graveyard shifts.

Well . . . yeah, he’d have the transponders on while in a harbor, etc. But when the shit hits the fan, he’ll have all the telemetry shut down, and he’ll hang out in the Great Pacific Garbage Gyre or something until things wind down.

A yacht is basically a “pirates and people desperate for food come and murder me and my loved ones” proposition.

Whew!

When I read that bicycles were being carried off by the wind, I thought of The Wizard of Oz.

In older books, the term ‘et cetera’ is often written “&c”

A mouse action that is not mentioned here, I think, is selecting text by double and triple clicking. Double-click a word to select the whole word. Triple click to select a paragraph.

22) Speed up the action: Apply a Force click to the fast-forward or rewind buttons in QuickTime or iMovie to increase the speed.

True. The tuatua lizard lives in burrows shared with the kiwi, and both are terribly vulnerable to rats and dogs.

What a relief!

waitaminnit!

Yeah, but they probably taste like chicken bad.

Note on voltage-gating.

There’s a company that raises poison-free fugu.

The fish is ugly, and it kills you.

Yes, if only to show the world that anti-ballistic missile systems can work in real life.