My significant other, who is categorically opposed to eating any and all forms of eggs, calls them “chicken abortions”. Corrections to nomenclature by me was not appreciated, and didn’t make the eggs any more attractive, either.

Watching this video is bittersweet, because knowing that the good guys defeated McCarthy weighs against the anger and disappointment I feel that we haven’t learned a damned thing since 1954. Demagoguery endures.

Yeah, I forgot about exorbitant Westwood rents. I’m glad you had a good room situation. My roommates were OK, but I remember other people’s roommate drama. After the dorms, I lived in Brentwood off Bundy Drive, down the road from Nicole Brown Simpson’s condo. Early ‘90s LA was a weird time.

I was a freshman at UCLA in 1987-1988 when the rooms were doubles, and it was tolerable and fairly inexpensive at the time, I think (my parents paid for housing). Some lucky people even had singles for a time if their roommates move out mid-year. Apparently, the UC Regents finally realized that student housing in LA…

When I saw this twitpic of Steven Tyler, I scrolled down, saying, please don’t show his feet please don’t show his feet pleas- AHHHH. The tweet even has the word FEET in it, like bait.

Preach. I have a friend who has plenty of disposable income but is irredeemably frugal. His old SUV (which he has since replaced) had a broken fuel gauge which he was too cheap to fix, so you couldn’t know how much fuel remained in the tank. He kept a logbook and a pen and would log the miles traveled until he…

As I responded above to a comment about Pinnacles, I liked that it was relatively quiet and uncrowded for a National Park, but it’s fairly accessible if you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I love that people still ask the park rangers about the blue dye they put in the water. I’m sure they never get tired of answering that question.

I came down here to see if anyone mentioned Pinnacles. The first Google hit for “list of national parks” doesn’t even show it: http://parks.mapquest.com/national-parks…. I guess hardly anyone mentions it because it’s a recent upgrade to National Park status, and in comparison to other heavily-visited parks in…

Can confirm. We saw her at the Independence Beer Garden across from the Liberty Bell last weekend before the convention started and she handed out one of her “Mississippi 4 Hillary” buttons to a friend of mine. In addition to the outfits shown here, on the day we saw her, she was wearing a blue and red dress with…

Like other commenters noted, they do it for the attention. The news station cameras and photographers alone probably outnumber the WBC contingent. They publicize their plans and invite this, and how do you counter-troll a troll? Shouting at them doesn’t work, so maybe this positive energy is a better alternative.

You’re not wrong, but the animation is about how North America got its shape, not its beauty, and therefore focuses on tectonic processes, such as subduction, volcanism and uplift. It’s not really addressing glacial features such as Niagara Falls and the Great Lakes, or stable, flat areas like the plains. Which is a…

Thank you for responding. I did not know this. I knew of other examples, like San Francisco has different weather from Oakland, or some parts of Buffalo get hit with lake effect snow more than others.

All the cynical realistic Philadelphians who came here to say how briefly this installation is likely to last are voicing a self-fulfilling prophecy. Having said that, since I’ll be in that neighborhood tonight, I’m going to check it out before it disappears. Ooh, and a friend of mine got a shout-out in the original…

You may be right, and Alexandria’s nice enough, but who would consider “occasional flooding” a point in its favor?

This is a important question, but I’m curious how they rated Arlington and Alexandria’s weather average and Rockville and Silver Springs’ weather below average. Aren’t they only 10 miles apart? Is there some micro-climate variation on either side of the Potomac I’m unaware of?

How do you feel about butterflies, though? I once met someone who was genuinely afraid of butterflies. Not just recoiling in disgust, but actually afraid - like, would run away from them screaming. Maybe because of the spindly insect legs? I tried to explain that butterflies pollinate and don’t actually have teeth or…

One of the meanest college pranks I heard of was someone releasing a single cricket into another person’s dorm room. They hide, of course, and they stop chirping if you try to look for them. Then when you finally give up and begin enjoying the silence... chirp, chirp, chirp...

Everyone is entitled to his or her travel lodging preferences, but I don’t regret being an Airbnb host. I enjoy meeting travelers from across the globe, and I haven’t had any horrible experiences. I am a homeowner in Philadelphia (the same neighborhood as this story, in fact) and I rent out the second floor of my…

Not necessarily. I’m an Airbnb host in Philadelphia and last year the city council passed a bill regarding regulation and taxation of rentals, same as hotels. Airbnb levies the tax automatically and passes the revenue onto the city. The laws would vary from city to city, of course.