She bought an adventure bike and didn’t do any adventuring on it. Then complained about how most riders that buy adventure bikes are essentially delusional. Its like telling Harley and super sport riders they own the bike for the cosplay. Might be true for some but lets not pretend that most adventure bikes aren’t…

Most home wind/water damage comes from a door failure, garage door failure and/or a roof uplift. Most people don’t realize that their roof is held in place by gravity. If the roof lifts off, the water damage can be immense.

IMO the three best upgrades are doors that open outward not inward. These are safer in storms…

Use baking soda. I mix a half cup of bone broth, teaspoon of baking soda, salt and any good fresh herbs I have laying around freshly minced. Put 12oz or so of chopped meat in the mixture for about a half hour in the fridge. Take out and pat dry. Stir fry, air fry, bake, smoke, etc until medium rare. The result will be…

The first several seasons of Game of Thrones (GoT) proves him completely wrong. Early GoT kept all the deep plot points, great world building and managed to not sideline their main characters while providing a more condensed story lines.

US audiences loved early GoT and only turned on the show in later seasons. The…

Total Commander is the best IMO. Adaptation from Norton Commander from back in the DOS days. There are several versions for *nix environments and pretty much any major platform has some variant with the same control scheme. Treats zip files like directories, built in FTP that acts like drive/directories, handles…

My favorite method is to salt, fridge for 24 hours, vac seal, sous vide for an hour at 130 and then freeze. I do a dozen or so at a time. When we are ready to eat a couple, I pull them from the freezer straight onto the smoker frozen at 180. Heat until the center is 100 degrees which is about 40-50 minutes. Then sear.…

Swamp coolers are only good in very low humidity. Even then it only marginally works until the room is humidified to about 50%. Outside in the desert, the idea can work pretty well in a specific area. Inside a somewhat sealed environment of a home, they might work for a few minutes but eventually adding humidity to a…

If mixing dough, buy a Bosch. For everything else, buy a Ankarsrum.

Kitchenaid comes with a crappy dough hook rather than a much better designed spiral. You aren’t supposed to run it above the minimum setting when dealing with dough. Even then it clunks around like a car with a flat tire.

$35 a week saved and invested can hit 100k or more over 30 years and a modest car purchase in 10 years. Buy a coffee pot and some coffee. $35 isn’t going to break most people but it is unlikely missing a latte is going to either.

Buying vs Renting is generally speaking more to do with how long someone is going to live…

Don’t do this on a sunny day otherwise the bleach becomes inert too quickly. Direct sunlight greatly reduces the efficacy of bleach.

Arcane is absurdly good. I seriously doubt The Last of Us can compete on virtually any front with Arcane. Arcane’s writing, visual style, directing, and character development are all next level IMO. Even the “villain” in Arcane has understandable motives and turns out to be almost Shakespearian in his complexity.

Also…

Take pictures of everything including furniture, valuables, important documents, etc and save in a secure folder online.

Fill up gas containers at the beginning of the season and use Stabil per instructions (marine edition). Keep enough gas in the cans to exit the state without having to stop for a fillup. At the end…

I would avoid a tankless water heater outright. Too many parts that can break. Too much maintenance including flushing, filter changes, etc. They kick out luke warm water when too many people are trying to use hot water. They are also just as likely to flood an area because what they make up for in not having stored…

It is difficult to beat Pillsbury Grands! frozen biscuits. They aren’t the best tasting biscuit but they are solid and ridiculously convenient.

The best I have found is Miko Brand Freeze Dried Authentic Miso Soup. Stuff is better than most restaurants. Can buy it on Amazon relatively cheap too.

The revelation for us wasn’t the salting but the buttering. We dry brine ours a few hours ahead of time as suggested. Sous vide then onto an absurdly hot steel plate on our grill with no further seasoning. That produces a great steak.

What really amped up our steaks was making a simple garlic, chive and black pepper…

Once the insurance pays, call up the billing office and tell them you cannot afford the balance (even if you can). Often they will settle for a much lower amount particularly for hospital based billing such as surgeons, anesthesiologists, radiologists, etc. that often come from different billing companies. They know…

The entire password and authentication systems built today are utter trash. One day hopefully the entire system will be redesigned and we won’t have to use 3rd party apps, texts, phone calls, emails and Facebook/Google just to log in to an Oculus, Switch, etc.

Wonder what happened to Blizzard then you find people like this on the executive payroll.

DOT’s standards are above lethal impact so a DOT sticker on a helmet is mostly worthless outside of helmet requirement laws. Double impact is great... in a car but functionally useless on a motorcycle.

The larger issue is to make a helmet better at the “double drop” (cars) it makes it worse in rotational forces…