My mom and I had a conversation about the Eagles last weekend. She was 27 when this greatest hits album came out and she’s 69 now, and I just found out she can’t stand them. But I could swear that I saw this album cover on her record shelf when I was a kid. So either she just changed her mind over lo, these many years,…

It’s largely public sector, retail and agriculture, according to Wikipedia:

During the 2016 Democratic Convention, Joanna Rothkopf and some of her colleagues wasted their time and money at Panera Bread, instead of walking right across the street to Reading Terminal Market, and wrote about it on this site. I gave her a hard time about it then, and I will do the same to Tim Marchman, even as he…

She’s been ready a long time. I remember watching her in the late 1990s when she hosted a show on MSNBC and one of the contributors, maybe the proto-tech-bro voicing that Dev Null cartoon character, referred to her on air as a “tech chick”. She stopped him right there and objected to being called a “chick”. This was…

I went to lunch at one of Yan’s restaurants in Silicon Valley in 2004 or so, and he was actually there at one of the tables with a small group. They were done eating and just conversing casually. I interrupted only to say hello and thank you, then excused myself, and he could not have been more gracious.

“famed rock formations El Capitan and Half Down”?

To your point, it’s worth remembering that black Americans, particularly but not only in the Jim Crow South, were largely excluded from the benefits of both the New Deal and the GI Bill because the federal programs were usually administered by local officials, who often discriminated against blacks in favor of whites.…

A heuristic already exists for this.

I agree with your enthusiasm for these chips, and appreciate your progression from enjoying to sharing to hoarding, which is my approach to most treats in my life.

+1 Maginot Line

Thank you for taking the time to reply! Full disclosure, I am partly of Cantonese descent as well but I didn’t want that fact to color your answer, which is richly detailed in a way that any reader might find useful. I am used to taking from the communal food plates on the Lazy Susan and eating from your bowl, but I…

I’m Cantonese Chinese and my spouse is Filipino and the ways we handle rice and dishes are so different from what we encountered in Tokyo. It was a stimulating experience.

Seriously. I can get all the Philly hot taeks I didn’t really want around the office water cooler, sitting at a bar, or waiting in line at any Wawa. Why would I listen to the radio for that?

I just ate a “red” Starburst that I thought was cherry but was actually “fiery watermelon” and my only question is why does this exist?

I have a similar story from a previous job. Back in the late 1990s, before mobile phones were ubiquitous, we had pagers when we were out of the office on assignments, and one project manager would page us with his callback number followed by “911”, as in “it’s an emergency”.

Every reply to my comment has offered a legitimate reason for not going out, including yours. I originally dismissed the cost aspect because my friends can afford to go out; but I’m realizing there are other factors, such as the diminishing appeal you mention. You shouldn’t have to suffer obnoxious drunks and bad…

All of you are making excellent arguments for staying home. I don’t smoke or have to fight off aggressive guys, but I am coming to the conclusion that it’s not really about the bars; I just need better friends with taste.

This is the correct take.

Oh, I get that and agree. Have you been to or heard of Tired Hands Fermentaria? It’s close to me. On those occasions when I do go out with these friends, it’s to the same one or two bars, and we leave when happy hour ends at 7 pm, because they won’t pay full price (which is understandable). They continue drinking at…

Gen X here, too, and I am genuinely confused by my 40-something friends with disposable income and no kids at home who prefer to drink at home rather than walk, at most, 10 minutes to a bar. I guess it’s mostly laziness + cost of drinks, because while a few have a nice selection like yours, some are just drinking…