Our dog used to love grapes. It was super funny, because for the first couple of years, it would take him a long time to eat each grape. He’d act like he couldn’t bite through the skin. Weirdest thing to watch. So I’d bite them in half first, and then he’d lunge for them. I used to give him pills by pushing it into a…

And if you find it difficult to lift out because of a vacuum has been created, then tape an empty wrapping paper tube to the side of the can from the top to about an inch from the bottom. This allows air to get underneath the bag and you can lift it out easily.

You are right, @TheDiscordian is incorrect. It’s the difference between biology and chemistry. An antibiotic works at the level of biology, fitting into a receptor on the bacteria. Bacteria can evolve to change the receptor so the antibiotic doesn’t fit anymore. Alcohol breaks down the chemical bonds. It doesn’t…

Quick reminder from the first Jezebel story about this murder... That she was a gun nut.

Funny or Die did a great parody of the video at the top:

What I appreciate, is that he doesn’t make it a focus of what he is doing. He puts a psalm reference at the end of the videos. I have no problem with that. It drives me nuts when it becomes a focus of the video or an interruption. I remember a really interesting interview with Tara Strong, where they just bust into…

A majority of kids grow out of naps, until they get old enough to have children and then start having them regularly with a child on laying on them. However, the down side is that these mid-life-naps often end before the child’s nap, and then the parent is stuck under a sleeping baby/toddler unable to move for fear of…

Laundry detergent is used as “currency” for some transactions. Just like baby formula.

That all depends on initial ages. I knew a women who had an aunt 20 years younger than her. Do that a couple of times, and a twice removed cousin could be the same age. I was just looking at my family tree this week, and it’s interesting how walking back a few generations, the difference in birth years. 50-60 years…

That percentage is the maximum percentage, because of how chromosomes are divided into the gametes. I had an interesting (to me) discussion with a biologist recently about that topic.

Even though Pete Sessions is wrong, (the website for Pulse, clearly said it was a gay club before the attack), I’m leaning towards “pro not referring to Pulse as a gay club” . It shouldn’t matter that some of the people there were gay. Do we know that every person injured or killed was gay? I don’t think so, and it…

5 to 10 minutes of flushing? That’s 5 to 10x as long as it currently takes me. And since you need water, you can really only manage this in a home setting.

I find it more disturbing that she seems to exist in some sort of alternate dimension, where time runs more slowly. She narrates from our dimension, but making dinner, driving, exercising are all super slow.

I love that as soon as I read “Dan Ariely”, I read the rest of the post with his voice in my head.

Yes, you can get staph infection in the eye. http://www.cnib.ca/en/your-eyes/e… Thanks for the info.

Edward: Man, I see kids everywhere with those stock hoops lately.

I’d be interested if someone with a Criminal Justice background could follow up on this. Some initial digging looks like there are restrictions in some situations on contacts in jail/prison. As well as jail/prison being less sanitary, so more likely to get eye infections if you are allowed. To wrap up, this might not…

I never drank the Roubo kool-aid. :) I built this one: http://www.popularwoodworking.com/projects/toms-… which you could probably drive a car into and do more damage to the car. The torsion boxes make it incredibly stable and solid.

I’ll admit that this video is more convincing, yes. I never claimed video expertise. I was just pointing out that I thought there were aspects of the first video that made it not a slam dunk. I still think the first video (probably unintentionally) uses some things (lighting, and lack of identifiable distance marker)…

I questioned the first video, because of a “shine” around the gator, and the perspective. It looked like the juggling rubik’s cube video which I assumed (correctly) was a fake. The first video was also much farther away, with a lot of green in between the camera and the gator. This makes it harder to determine a size…