A frozen custard shop in Chicago, Lickety Split, sells a large variety of local and small batch sodas. Its frozen custard isn’t anywhere near as good as Scooter’s, which is made daily with fully fresh ingredients. But the soda and retro-ish candy are fun.

I think you don’t get how prepositions work.

The Lego movies are really great in 3D too. All of them have gags in the background you don’t notice in 2D.

a game with four 15 minute quarters routinely lasts for three hours

My fridge doesn’t have fruit flies. Every other cubic millimeter of my kitchen can. And I know this site has published plenty of blog posts about controlling or eliminating fruit flies, but you know what’s better? Not getting them at all. 

To dissuade a cat from repeating unwanted behavior, gently blow in its face. The younger it is, and the closer you are to having adopted it, the more likely it is that this will work. Essentially, it’s the human take on how kittens train each other as they rumble. I saw it in the book Psycho Kitty, which I read before…

Use both. Neither feed shows you everything. I use the chronological URL that a couple of others have posted as my default. Then I switch to Top Posts and it shows me posts, often a few days old, that I missed. Then I switch back to the chronological feed and leave.

Neither index cards nor cookbooks devote much time to grandmothers — unless that’s the point of the cookbook, of course — and, as someone who subscribed to rec.food.recipes for a decade and still has a few hundred recipes from there in a Dropbox folder, I don’t remember much rambling about grandmothers there either.…

I only ever use it in a browser — desktop, laptop, tablet, phone (both of those using desktop view rather than mobile view). Has nothing to do with conspiracy theories. I prefer that it looks the same regardless of where I use it.

I tried both Gboard and SwiftKey and ran right back to Swype. While it’s been discontinued and will no longer receive updates, until Google actively does something to make it break, it still works just fine and installs right away on every new device. Frankly, I appreciate that it will never receive all the cruft…

I had already been making savory oatmeal with poached eggs on top for years when one of my poker buddies mentioned he had tried it and loved it. I saved the day by pointing out that it was time for him to level up by adding toaster oven hash brown patties under the whole thing. (If you have small ones, two; if you…

FWIW, if you’re the sort of person who makes ice cream and in the subset of persons who add cheddar to their apple pie ice cream, a cheddar bowl might be worth a shot.

If you like film noir, “Naked City” is a great series for that. The first season and first few episodes of the second season were meh, but it hit its stride quickly after it was rebooted for the second season. Plus it was shot on location around NYC and occasionally the boroughs in the early ’60s so you really get a…

So someone found a way to turn gnocchi into tater tots?

Moreso, the app is strikingly pointless. Just remove the icons. If they’re system icons, use System Preferences. If they’re app icons, use each app’s preferences. You can also drag them out, although I forget whether it’s an unmodified drag, a Command-drag, or an Option-drag, but it takes 10 seconds to figure out if…

I’m a copy editor, was graduated in 1980 so almost four full decades in the business, and every stupid little doofus who learned a rule in grade school and thinks it still applies or everyone who has a pet peeve yet is oblivious to all the other mistakes they’re making. The English language is hard, even for native…

Given that I’m phobic of dogs, having been mauled when I was 7, is there a way for me to see if there are any around me before boarding? Is the best approach to check in with the gate crew when I’m waiting to board, or would they even know?

If You Have Kids, Or a Sense of Humor, There Is Only One Way to Separate an Egg, and This Is It

I don’t know how (or whether) different plans might affect the ability to redeem their promotions. But I’m on the Simple Choice plan that was discontinued years ago and I can still use Pandora, Spotify, and MLB at home. 

T-Mobile occasionally gives away access to paid Pandora and Spotify levels through its T-Mobile Tuesdays app. Set a reminder to check for that. It also gives away a paid level of the MLB app every spring.