The levels on this joke are wearing on me.

There are probably backpacking meetups near you who would be happy to help a beginner learn. Most important rule of backpacking: keep your feet happy.

I’d say start with shorter trips for backpacking and work up to larger ones as the kid grows. My first backpacking trip was only overnight and I carried my own food. As I got older, we’d go out for longer because I’d be able to handle more weight-wise and feet-wise.

SI is reporting that Washington walked back the entire “fake account” thing and the GM’s wife has apologized.

Check out the ChromeOS subreddit for people doing similar things. I remember a couple of posts about turning Linux machines to Chrome boxes via Chromium (?)

The “smile, nod, change the subject” waltz is how my parent’s and I get through holidays with my aunt and grandfather...both difficult for different (and yet suprisingly similar) reason.

I was *this* close to pulling the trigger on a Asus Flip (the 4gb version) and then I saw a deal for a refurb Dell Inspiron 11 2-in-1 for $250 once it was all said and done so I went with that. However, if I hadn’t found said deal, I would most likely be the happy owner of an Asus Flip.

They won’t repair it, they’ll send you a new one because when L.L. Bean means “lifetime warranty” they interpret that to mean their products will go into your grave in pristine condition.

Good work here. As a resident of Baltimore and former Raven’s fan, everything here is true but you did forget the purple camo pants (though I’m glad someone can).

Because karma. And because we didn’t take your Super Bowl trophy. That being said, I hate myself a little and we should just both hate Indianapolis for starting it all.

You are my spirit animal.

I have a Paderno too and that thing made me the star of picnics all summer. Zucchini spirals with bell pepper, tomatoes and some kind of vinaigrette = easy summer side dish

Best spiralizer cooking blog: inspiralized.com. While it’s a bit heavy on the raw food movement stuff, there’s a lot of really good ideas on how to use vegetables in *very* creative ways for meals.

Similar to what the link has. A bit of flour, egg, and baking powder to bind everything together and then either pan fry or waffle iron. I like vegetable pancakes because they give you a lot of room to play with flavor profiles when it’s a very bland vegetable like kohlrabi or potatoes. My last creation was chipotle…

I’ve done this with kohlrabi fritters (spiralize the vegetable, make batter, waffle iron) and they are AMAZING. The only thing I’d add to the recipe is a suggestion to use kitchen shears to cut up the noodles if they get longer than about 3” because then it gets hard to form cohesive pancakes.

Car and student loan debt are low interest and on auto pay until they’re gone in 18 months so next goals are:

Related question: will the D0D be going after service members who were dumb enough to put their work emails on the site since (I believe) adultery is a court martial offense?

I have no sympathy or explanation for TSA because they are indeed the assholist of the assholes, but the airline and airport staff I generally give some slack because at the end of the day, they probably deal with as much shit as waitstaff and retail staff do.

The only thing I could agree with in that review was that Midway is in fact waaaay better than O’Hare (cheaper to fly into, simpler layout, more laid back, etc).

These ghetto fat women walk past us with their children and go, “That’s disgusting. Put some clothes on.”