The Hulk is in Florida though, right? I could see spending 2-3 days at Universal Florida. The California version is much smaller though.

Universal Studios is fine and all, but I can’t imagine wanting to spend 3 days there. You can hit almost everything in less than a day, even on a moderately busy day.

Yeah, black and tan clan! Sweet dogs. Give them some good ear scratches for me.

That’s my wife’s doing. She wanted “Russian Nesting Dogs”.

These are ours - all former foster dogs! Thanks for promoting adopting from rescues rather than buying from pet stores. Mutts are the same amazing animals as purebreds. And they tend to have fewer health issues too.

I was at Okunoshima (rabbit island) earlier this month! We brought pellets and fresh veggies to feed them. A lot of fun! We found a family with a baby rabbit and had a little picnic with them. They’re very friendly and will come right up to you if you shake a plastic bag.

If I treated my financial fitness like my physical fitness, I would be living under a bridge drinking vodka out of a paper bag within a year.

From personal experience, yeah - a lot of the time the bidet alone isn’t good enough. At least, the Japanese-style ones aren’t. Perhaps the european stand-alone bidets do a better job, haven’t tried one.

Long time fan of disney theme parks. Last week I got to go to Tokyo DisneySea for the first time. Incredible park, really loved the theme (sort of Jules Verne themed, with parts of the park reimagining Venice and mid-1800's New York City). Cast was outstanding, even by Disney standards. The rides are great and mostly…

Agreed! Just came back from Japan and loved the idea of “no tipping anyone ever”.

Funny(?) story. My flight to Denver got delayed so I ended up having to scramble to find a different flight.

Got a layover there on monday for a flight to Tokyo. Am I all clear?

If you’re ever in Japan, grab some seseri yakitori, which is neck meat. It’s my favorite kind of yakitori! 

I’ve heard a similar trick for overcoming writer’s block, which is to intentionally write badly. Overuse adverbs, use grandiose language, start every sentence with the same word, etc. Easy enough to fix that stuff during revision, and it can help you overcome the little voice in your head telling you that you’re…

A lot of baking recipes tell me something like “wait until dough has doubled”. Do they actually expect me to visually estimate the volume of a sphere? That’s hard! For example, a sphere with radius 3 inches has a volume of 113 inches cubed. A sphere with radius 4 inches has a volume of 268 inches cubed - more than…

Potato peels should have their own section in the article. I know 3 different people who’ve caused a clog or a flood or whatever from chucking potato peels down the disposal.

Definitely going to give this a try! I’m always disappointed by the cakes produced by following the instructions on the box. I only keep a yellow cake mix around in case I need to make a Gooey Butter Cake.

Watched Roma last night and was mostly bored by it. There are a few very memorable scenes, and it’s often beautiful to watch, but... I had a hard time feeling a connection with any of the characters, and the story felt meandering and pointless to me. Maybe I’m just too dumb to get it.

Thanks for the heads up on the American Opportunity Credit and Lifetime Learning Credit. We might be able to get some of that for a web development boot camp my wife did over the summer.

Ideally we’ll end up with price compare + review system, rather than just prices. That way you’ll be able to choose between the $2000 treatment with 5 stars and the $400 treatment with 4 stars (and can entirely ignore the $2000 treatment with 1 star).