NewsBlur does what an RSS reader should do, plus allows me to do some filtering of individual feeds. For example, I want local news without sports from my local newspaper, and I’m able to set this up easily in NewsBlur.

Many points for being among the last writers to know the difference between “less” and “fewer.”

Add Vivaldi to browsers. Add FastMail to mail services.

Sixty dollars for a haircut? Different worlds.

We “still” have a DVD-only plan. MUCH better selection than streaming. I think anyone who watches a lot of non-mainstream, non-comic-book movies would be sensible to make the same choice.

I use a lot of tomatoes and bell peppers, have never peeled a single one, and never intend to.

Thanks for the helpful article. Ignore those snarky responses.

I can sell the water that accumulates in my dehumidifier as “drawn from the air”! Nice.

Why not just get one of those Rubbermaid stepstools they sell at Walmart, undoubtedly for less money? When not being used for pooping, it can be used as, yes, a stepstool.

I’ve sometimes checked my phone to see if it’s cold outside, while standing next to the front door.

People talk about how burdensome it is to have thousands of physical books. How many books do we really benefit from owning after we’ve read them? No more than 100 I’d guess. The rest can be passed along for others to enjoy.

A while back I read a bio of George Washington Carver, a hero of mine, who traveled around the south giving presentations on better farming methods for poor farmers. He attracted interested audiences, both black and white: the southern white farmers called him the “peanut nigger” but came to hear what he had to teach.…

The two Aldi stores we’ve used (in OH and NY) have started accepting credit cards.

I’ve taken to using Bing just because I like the interface a bit better. Frankly, I don’t see much difference in the quality of results between Google and Bing. Debating them seems to me like the pickup truck stickers arguing about Ford vs. Chevy.

“Hundreds of years”? The ancient Greeks knew the earth was round, and Eratosthenes (~225 BC) even came up with a pretty accurate method of estimating its diameter.

When I read “When I played roller derby” my immediate thought was “forget the rest of the article; tell us about that instead!”

I'm waiting for My Dinner with Andre in space.

Isn't the gap between the proposal and "Yes" ominously long?

I've worked in psychiatric hospitals, and water intoxication can occasionally be a problem there (for patients).

With fusion, the real question is how much net energy is being produced. Even if the reactor is small, if output/input = 1%, it's not going to help us much. Still, I'm excited to see how this develops.