In Portuguese, it’s scuza (pardon me, as in do you mind if I cut through here) and sculpa (pardon me, as in sorry I stepped on your foot while I was cutting through).

I worked in a motorcycle shop ages ago. We used a standard kitchen oven to bake powdercoat onto small parts. Food never went into that oven, though...

BTW, if you at all care about this situation, check out ANERA. It’s a charity formed for helping Palestinian refugees. They’re legit. Check your charity navigator, or whatever you use to figure that out. I’ve been donating since the late 70s. 

or ones about portion size because I’m a hungry girl.

Assuming it was an honest review (sounds like it), why not just add an addendum that the owner had approached you and told you to take the review down? Include the date, maybe quote from his FB message, if that’s how he/she (guessing this is a guy, though) asked.

Politically, this is a major own-goal - and a gift to all of us who want them the hell out of power. So I should be happy.

They certainly are. But speaking out in protest of what’s happening with those particular semitic people - is anti-semitic.

This conflation of ‘actions of the government of Israel’ and ‘Jewish people in general’ has been going on for aaaaages.

I was resistant to html mail when it came out (knew too much about how it worked). MIME can be fairly secure, but in both HTML and MIME, none of the designers had concerns for security.

Not much to the story. Sloppy Joes on Duvall St is (or at least was) an open-front bar. Lots of people wandering in/out - in various states of inebriation.

Yeah, when used in the process of legitimate business. it’s probably fine - and likely better than return receipt requested. In a perfect world, avertisers who have a legit relationship with the recipient might want to notice when their email isn’t opened, and stop sending that kind of email.

Pretty sure it’s some part of html (e.g. image, font, style). If they’ve figured a way for it to work even if external images are blocked, they’re using some other element being loaded from a remote site with some kind of identifier in the tag.

If there are two of you traveling, why not check a single BIG bag? If you have organizing cubes, it’s pretty easy to keep everything separate. It’s what I do when I’m traveling with my wife (carry-on is pretty much all camera gear, plus a minimal amount of clothing in case that checked bag gets lost -  so bringing…

Next up: anti-vaxxers exposing their kids to smallpox - so they won’t get it later. Ditto polio.

In my MR2 (MKII) there was a fore-aft adjustment on the headrests. On my wife’s previous Prius, I flipped the headrests front-to-back. Her current Fiat is pretty hopeless this way (I just can’t sit comfprtably in that thing).

No love for Duluth Trading? Really?

No love for Duluth Trading? Really?

In Brazil? So Portuguese. Try learning ‘sculpa*, nao possa dizire muita coisa’ (Sorry, I can’t say much), then trying to order in Portuguese and pointing at the menu at the same time.

Heading to ABQ? Don’t miss breakfast at the Cucina Azul. 

Ages ago (I was about 18-20) I was heading home on my motorcycle. I’d usually cut the engine and glide down the hill and into the driveway, as it was quieter (quiet motorcycles weren’t something you could ‘just buy’ before Honda came along).

I’m pretty sure we’re talking about different things. The technique I learned was a hold-over from WWII. No soda or beer in cans then. Those things came in returnable bottles, which once returned, got sterilized and reused. IMO, that’s still a better way to do it than recycling