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WARNING. GROSS ALERT.
DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVE HAD FOOD OR ARE JUST ABOUT TO HAVE IT -
This may come across as gross unless you have been brought up like one of us but millions of people in Asia (India for sure) just use water (from a 500 ml/1 litre mug or a jet spray) and a hand (middle 3 fingers) to get the

1. Resist the urge to watch a movie the same week it comes out. Wait for your local dollar theatres to show it after 8-10 weeks. Any movie is new UNTIL you watch it. You also get the advantage of having considerably more and balanced reviews and are less likely to regret your moviepick.

Try Llama. It’s got a million downloads with a 4.5/5 rating. Just ignore the fact that it hasn’t been updated since Oct’14 because me and my friends have used it on phones from Android 4.0 to 7.0 just fine. It’s a solidly built app. One of those rare apps where you have to say “If ain’t broken, don’t fix it.”

I have used IFTTT and found its offline capabilities quite limited. IFTTT expects you to have cellular data and GPS on which are still big battery drains in 2017.

I don’t think it is a linguistic mystery.

Across the Middle East, South and South-East Asia, ‘sherbet’ is what the natives refer to any type of flavoured water. The ‘t’ is neither a hard ‘t’ nor the soft ‘th’. It’s in between - a pronunciation that doesn’t exist in the English language.
I know the French have ‘sorbet’

Pizzeria Bianco is mentioned numerous times in the original thread. I suppose Nick didn’t include it here because of how notorious it can be to get a reservation there unless you are going there at odd hours.

1. I know no one visits a city to watch movies but Phoenix has a drive-in theatre (West Wind Drive-In in Glendale) which does double-features. That’s a novelty nowadays.
2. There is also a retro-themed dollar theatre (OK, $1.5 on Tuesdays, $3 on other days at 2015 rates) near Bell Rd and I-17 (called Super Saver

THIS. I got my pair in 2013. Didn’t use them for a couple of years. When I got around to wearing them the damn sole came off like wrapper off a slice of cheese. Every couple of months I have to use some new adhesive to stick them up. I’m too cheap to discard them because the rest of the shoe is just fine.

I had the pleasure of catching a few flicks at a drive-in in Glendale, AZ. I didn’t even know something like that existed and the first time I read about it I just wanted to go. It was quite interesting to see people pull out their chairs and sit next to an ice-box full of beer.
A drive-in is actually quite cheap

The ones that are interesting typically involve people not in the IT/software field and the ones that have people who are not the Chief What Ever at their workplace.


That does make sense.
I think there is some amount of subconscious empathy-related bias at play here.
The number of Americans who are now well-off but have worked as waiters (servers) at fastfood joints/restaurants at some point in their lives far exceed those who have worked as housekeeping.
Thus, people are more open

We are all creepers, some lying in the woodwork, some screaming from the rooftops! Unfortunately, from where I am, things are comparatively conservative and thus my Facebook feed was never as ‘colourful’ as yours.

That’s the second time I have caught that comment about bikini pics from you :)

I made a similar observation a couple of weeks ago when after an eternity I read about someone a Pixel XL in one of these “This Is How I Work” series.

I believe that since almost everyone interviewed in the “This Is How I Work” series tends to be American and financially well-off there is a disproportionately high

If people could just control their urge to watch a movie as soon as it came out they could save a ton of money by watching them at a local dollar theatre, provided there is one nearby.

I spent some time in Phoenix, AZ and a local theatre chain had something called Super Saver Tuesdays wherein 2-3 month old movies would

Over here in India we have 50% Reservations (i.e. Quotas) in education and government jobs decided on the basis of caste (which is a subset of race). The castes that do get to avail this constitute around 65% of our population and they have been historically discriminated against by the others. It is a polarizing

The first thing I check out in the This Is How I Work series is the answer to the question Current mobile device:

This does not fit the “life-hack” bill but I’ll share it anyways -

If I am expecting a reply I will make sure that my last or first statement (besides the customary “Hi XYZ”, “Regards, ABC”) is a question that ends with a question mark. To me that leaves no doubt in the recipient’s mind on whether he should reply or not.