I laughed out loud at this. Not hard, mind you, but a definite chuckle. Totally unhelpful comment, and yet, here we are, me laughing out loud. Thanks for that.

If I ever meet you in person, I want to shake your hand, buy you a beverage of your choice, and then wash my hands so I don’t get the flu. That last part is just a joke, but the rest I’m serious about. Thanks for posting this. For fuck’s sake, everyone, everywhere, get the damned flu shot if you’re medically okay to…

I’ll do you one better: I don’t like beer. There, I said THAT. The shit I get when at a happy hour with coworkers drinking cider is through the roof. And I just shoot back with, “The only beer I like is distilled.” After a blank stare, I just say, “Whiskey.”

“nothing can be written so sarcastically as to be immediately recognizable as such”
Pretty much....
At any rate, it’s really tough to decouple bare fear from cogent thought, but when one learns to do so, it immediately becomes apparent that most of what we think “keeps us safe” is not only doing nothing for our safety,…

A dishwasher doesn’t record video of the inside of your home, nor can you use it as a conduit to talk to someone inside. There’s an inherent trade-off in installing an internet-connected camera inside your home that just isn’t there in a dishwasher, or any other major appliance, even those connected to the internet…

While I’m fluent in sarcasm, I try not to assume everything I read that looks like it actually is, so, in all sincerity: are you joking? Because if you are, yeah, the idea that a gun is “more deadly” than another because of its color or basic features is silly, but that’s how lawmakers tend to work - on both sides of…

Samorost! Yes. Also: Machinarium is awesome, from the same person/people. The music in Machinarium is also really cool.

This is a good start. I would agree that starting with an advocacy group is probably the place to start, too. As a gun owner, though, they may not be totally forthcoming about all the things you may need to know - they tend to focus on things that are “out front” so to speak. In California, you can also find a wealth…

Because I’ve been the fool who thought it would be a good idea to take someone to small claims. My lesson: small claims is never worth it for a one-to-one attempt to recover anything. Even when I made bupkis and thought that I could recover something. Seriously, unless you coordinate with several people to overwhelm a…

And you forgot the worst part of going to court - once a judge or commissioner hears your case, it’s literally out of your hands. You should be very, very sure that you have done all you can do, and then some, if you want the court to be sympathetic to you in any way. Even if you’ve followed the law, and the other…

There are still so many parts to a gun that need to be bought for all but the most dedicated DIYers to make a functioning weapon. You’re right - it is getting easier to make at home the part of a gun that the government considers the actual gun, but it doesn’t make a barrel, it doesn’t make the links, triggers, fit…

I really hate to say this to you, Leigh, because I’m a fan of your work, but this article isn’t really about how to talk to kids about much - it just vilifies gun owners. We know next to nothing about the motives, so any reasonable human being would be speculating when talking to anyone about the Why? As for school…

First of all, I’m now a big fan of yours, as of this article. Secondly, Luc Montagnier, since his Nobel award, has become a font of dubious scientific hypotheses, including the implication that DNA can teleport and an unethical-by-any-standards long term study of “treatment” for autism with antibiotics. He is not…

Another way that I learned from somewhere (that I can’t remember now, of course) is to put your nose in the glass, but breathe through your mouth (outside of the glass). This has the effect of drawing just a tiny amount of air from the glass through your nose. The big thing to try to avoid when nosing high proof…

We had a trisomy 9 miscarriage after about a month of knowing about the pregnancy. We hadn’t even had the chance to see the OB/GYN yet when my wife felt really wrong, and rushed in to see her. By then it was too late, and she luckily had the care of her doctor and her staff to help her. When I arrived, it was all…

I’m sure my mom would love to hear that my kid is drinking... wait for it... Ripple. *snicker*

Can’t remember where I read this, but years ago I started putting my luggage in the tub or a tiled bathroom when I arrive in a hotel room, then going and checking the mattress for signs of bugs with a bright light. If I don’t see any signs of them, then I’ll put my luggage on the rack or up in a closet. I hang my…

You probably have no idea how many of us are thinking the same things about ourselves. I’m doing it, too. I have a modest earthquake survival kit, but ever since Trump ascended the throne - er, I mean, was fairly elected by the electoral process - I’ve been thinking a bit more to the dire side of things. G’head,…

I never dug too deeply into it, but I use Google’s Project Fi, and get scam alerts from time to time, too. So I’m guessing that the monster of data warehousing is doing something similar....

Hey, thanks for the info. I usually would just chalk it up to kids being hard on shoes, but seriously, the kid seems to eat them when we’re not looking.