California Olive Ranch.

California Olive Ranch.

“Fire up your Start menu or Dock and think carefully for a moment: Out of all your aging desktop apps, how many do you really rely on these days—or even better, how many of them don’t already have very capable web app alternatives you could use instead?”

It’s not really “incorrect” for its time—the book is from 1963, so it predates the notion of traversable wormholes which were first noted as a theoretical possibility in 1973, see here. The notion of taking a shortcut via a higher spatial dimension is a long tradition in science fiction, and some recent popular…

I am so, so wary, and I am going to be so heartbroken if it’s bad.

Ok, I admit I’m clueless - can you say what that is in layman’s terms, i.e. example?

Any indications as to how it’s getting in? Email attachment? Google Docs? Locusts?

When I make roux, I’ll usually make between one and two cups at a time, and stick it in a sealed container in the fridge so that I have it available for dishes. Typically, when I make a pot of stew — about a gallon in overall volume — I’ll use three or four tablespoons of roux to thicken it. The advantage of having…

First month without my mom, first mother’s day too. I’m so lost and in pain. Crying without noticing until the tears wet my cheeks. I feel your pain, some commenters feel the same even after 10 years so not too much solace in time, but I’m sure this one is going to be the worst for us first timers.

My mother passed away a couple of months ago, and it feels so weird, not pouring over kitchen supplies and tote bags, trying to find her the perfect gift. My dad died fairly recently also, so there’s no having him fill in. It’s going to be sad, I think. I guess the first year after anyone’s death is hard, getting past…

It’s no longer a favorite since Mother’s day and my mother’s birthday are just a week or so apart. Now that she’s gone, I honor other mothers in my life. My one remaining grandmother, my mother-in-law who I love dearly, my husband’s ex-wife, her mother, and a few “Mutha’s” as well.

Because it’s the only approved word processing software at my employer.

There’s no (good) excuse to be lonely. I live by myself. I am a bachelor. I would say a confirmed bachelor, but I know the connotation associated with that term and it’s nothing like that. Sometimes people will ask “don’t you get lonely?”, well, actually no. I’m not housebound, nor am I Agoraphobic. I get out and do…

My club, Misanthropes United, would beg to differ with the conclusions in this article. You can hear all about our perspectives at our next meeting, which will be taking place never.

We now go live to Claire in the kitchen who is struggling to identify a utensil, which may or may not be a jam server!

Claire? How would you describe something like that and can you offer any explanation as to how it got into your home?

Right now? At this particular time and place in history? It has to be Captain Malcolm Reynolds:

“I aim to misbehave.”

For me, it’s the fact that the menu you can pull up from the bottom (the control center?) keeps popping up when I hit the space bar while typing something. It is driving me nuts. [1 minute later] Okay, I found out how to turn it off while using apps:

Absolutely lock screen! Also the redesigned music player is shit for anybody who actually owns music rather than just streaming it. I feel like the wifi and the battery have gotten noticeably worse on my 6 too, but that might just be my frustration with everything else projecting...

The stupid brightness slider in Control Center. Every time I try to change the brightness it tries to slide over to the music section. Drives me nuts!