Or a Prius - which I have. I’d consider a plug-in one, or a Volt. Do you have a Volt? How are they in the snow? One road I take is sometimes pretty bad. I’ve described it as “pretty much a snowmobile trail that someone scattered a bit of sand on”, and the Prius, even with snows all ‘round isn’t all that great a snow…

Straight up electric won’t work for me until range is 450-500 miles. We’ve got a place out in the sticks 220 mi away. Beautiful lake - but power’s iffy, so I have to make it there and back.

Same here. Gas price hikes aren’t all that awful at 50mpg...

I make something similar, but other than spaghetti, I use fettuccine, and if you want it like you get in Chinese restaurants, you have to seriously overcook it and put a quarter cup of baking soda in the cooking water to make it more alkali (soba is alkali, pasta is not)

My dad told me a story about MPs in WWII. He was a scout/forward observer. One time he and another guy from his unit were transporting crypto machines between HQs. They were delivering to Patton’s HQ. Got stopped because they had no neckties on. MPs being assholes. Other guy levels his submachine gun at the MPs and…

Nice composition with the canoes!

I haven’t been to Yellowstone for 15 years, but then (and maybe now) if you got a few feet off the paved trails there were very few other people. If you got as far as a half mile it went to near zero. But maybe people are willing to walk more now...

and then tired to run away the two people on bicycles yelled at him to stop

Though you can find instant dashi granules, there’s really no good reason to purchase them, as it can be made very easily with just three ingredients.

You get that trout is a salmonid? Not a lot of difference between wild trout and wild salmon, excepting their diet. Salmon is pink from crustaceans in their diet. My family has a place on a lake with ‘landlocked’ salmon. They’re not pink..

Cadet bone spurs.

Went to school in France, lived for a bit in Lebanon. The pronunciations in that guide on French and Arabic items aren’t exactly right, but close enough for ordering in a restaurant. BTW, hummus is levantine (Eastern Mediterranean shoreline). Plenty of languages spoken there. I’m sure the pronunciation varies with the…

Whiny? Really? Seemed more like a question about leaving before ordering because of noise being rude - or not.

I’m with Seeker. If a restaurant is uncomfortably noisy, and it’s not a place where I’d expect it to be noisy, and we haven’t ordered, the easiest thing is to just go elsewhere.

I’m not disabled, but I don’t like the idea of disposable chopsticks, so I bring my own. If I was disabled, needed a straw, I’d bring a silicone straw with me.

From the Rachael Maddow show, it didn’t sound like a ‘great deal’ of them. Guess Cohen dumps his shredder every so often...

You can sidestep all the work around removing skins by using chana dal, a smaller chickpea that comes with the skins removed. You can find it in any South Asian grocery. If anything, it’s tastier than the large ones.

If you get to the Maori village at Rotarua (New Zealand North Island) there’s a lady who steams sweet corn by lowering baskets of them into a steam vent. It’s pretty good.

I think the point of the silicone molds is that you don’t have to peel the egg afterwards. But here’s the thing: if you hot-start eggs or steam cook them the peels are very easy. Easy enough for someone with CP? Not sure, but very easy for someone with both hands and no palsy.

Stainless Steel Sink specific:I used to use an orbital buffer, foam pad, and BonAmi. Sink looked brand new when I was done, but splatter all over the place. Barkeeper’s Friend and a simple sponge or no-scratch scrubby works nearly as well. If you let it sit on stainless for a bit, you can see it taking the oxidized…