Also cold brew. The more bitter compounds are less soluble in colder water.

I worked as an engineer for international sales in my first job out of college. I was on pretty regular telephone calls between my boss and a representative in a South American country. Since they were both native Spanish speakers a lot of those calls were Spanish. Granted I had someone who was making sure I got the…

I suspect it depends on the seat and the sedan. The only place our rear facing Graco could be installed safely in our Honda Civic was the middle seat. Trying to put them behind the driver or passenger caused the seat to be outside of the safe installation angle because they leaned against the front seats.  Having to…

This year my company gave me a nice raise for my company and now that it is open enrollment they are reducing my benefits by more than I got. I feel for the folks who got little to no raise this year.
I got a letter from my company retirement broker yesterday about the “exciting” new changes coming to my 401k where…

I ended up with an extra 8 hours in ATL two weeks ago under similar circumstances with Delta.

I’ve been trying this. So far I’ve slept through two workout sessions and today I even managed to sleep until I was supposed to be leaving for work. Here’s hoping tomorrow works out better.

I’d like to hear from teachers and administrators “off the record” what is the appropriate level of inaction on violence my child should accept before defending themselves. It has been more than 20 years and my kids are dealing with the same crap we did when we were kids, if the adults see violence then it gets dealt…

My thoughts are that the wealthy are in financial positions that allow them to 1) pay experts to strategize protecting their wealth and 2) move wealth quicker than legislation moves. What you end up with are tax positions that don’t ever hit the mark and it makes a nasty barrier that prevents people from moving above…

How do people split out their grocery costs without going insane? The places we buy groceries are also where we buy cleaning supplies, household products, clothing articles, etc. If I tried to split out food by itself it would add hours to my budgeting process.

I’ve probably already spent more of my life than I should playing Daggerfall. Novel features for the time: Dungeon layouts were random. Skill progression worked on actually using the skill. Multiple possible story endings that they later had to resolve to continue the series.

Yeah. Very weird. I barely have a straw for upload bandwidth but I’d think it would handle authentication without trouble. It has been over a year since I’ve tried, maybe it got patched out or I was trying when there was a bug. I haven’t tried it again since it was unusable.

I’ve got crappy 20 year old DSL at my home. From my earlier experiments with remote play, it does (or did) something fairly data intensive out to the internet. If this is still the case, it is possible the problem is outside your home network.

A microbiome is a biome. Whether you are replenishing by a probiotic or a fecal transplant, you are going to have to feed your new healthy gut bacteria the things your new healthy gut bacteria need to stay in a healthy balance.  Otherwise you are going to eventually go back to where you were previously.

All conversations right now have the potential to escape your intimate circle into a constrained politeness circle. Thousands of people are waiting ready to try to destroy your life, associations, and career over something they don’t have the intimacy context to understand. The level of trust I have to have with a…

I don’t think the interesting questions about UBI get answered unless it is properly universal. I seriously don’t care about value judgements on the usage of UBI funds, in an economy of scarcity there is always going to be some vocal group that thinks however I choose to spend my money is immoral. I want to know what…

Essentially, the studies remind us that nutrition science is a lot more messy than drug science and can’t come to the same strength of conclusion. There is a chance that eating red meat is objectively bad, there is also a chance that nutritional studies have so much noise that we are avoiding red meat for reasons that…

We were forced to prepay all of our out of pocket costs for every subsequent visit and service for the entire year DURING THE FIRST OFFICE VISIT into essentially an escrow account. Insurance works this way: you pay all minus discounts for each visit until you reach your deductible... you don’t pay your entire annual…

About a year after being forced to switch to an HDHP, we found out we were pregnant. My wife’s OBGYN required that all patients on an HDHP prepay $3000 “to make sure that the patient could pay for the entire delivery”. Each visit drew from the account until we met our deductible at which time we were refunded what was…

Well it isn’t that I’m extravagant when we have some extra money in checking. Seeing a lower balance puts me in need mode, if we’ve a little more then I maybe buy the healthier more expensive fish over the cheaper beef.

My brother got in the habit of riding without one. One morning he (by his own words) just happened to think to stop to put on his helmet. He ended up suffering a life-altering TBI minutes later after being hit full speed by a drunk driver, but avoided what his doctors said would have been certain death. If you get on…