This is what I come here for. This. Thank you.

I just cancelled the service - not because of this or anything specific, really - I wasn’t using it enough to make it worthwhile. They also just yanked the one theater that I’d usually go to, so that sorta ruined the mood. While I was at the other theater near me recently, I learned about Cinemark’s club-thingy (I…

I care, because it’s a paid service. If it were free, a la Facebook, I’d be right there with you. But if I’m paying, even a dollar, for them to track my location as often as they like, then I’m getting royally screwed over. Especially if that data is as important as they say it is. (In aggregate, I know, but still.)

I may just try this. Except it will be at 5 or 6 instead of 7, so not too great a change, because I can’t get the kid from day care until at least then.

It’s true.

This presupposes that I would want to wear this.

I always thought Bill Conti would be good for Star Wars. I loved his The Right Stuff soundtrack.

I’m gonna be the grouch here, but PTA is essentially pointless at my kid’s school. It doesn’t do anything obvious to help the school do what the school should already be doing but doesn’t do well (read: communicating items of interest in a timely manner to parents), it doesn’t noticeably improve the school grounds or…

I didn’t see this addressed in the comments, Claire, but do you mean to repeat steps 3 and 4? Or did you mean 4 and 5? I would normally salt the onions only once, and while the pan was heating up, so that they start to sweat before I put them in the pan.

Sunnyvale is SF Bay, but a half-day drive to SoCal wouldn’t be a bad idea for the reasons stated. I’d pass on that Suburban, though and go with the Delica or the FJ.

I think Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood is okay, but my kid really likes it. We did watch Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood yesterday, though, and she sat in rapt attention through the whole thing. I think she’ll like it as we move forward, but she’ll probably wonder why Lady Elaine is a janky old puppet instead of a slick-looking…

I had the same fears you did when I first tried to show my then-four-year-old Mr. Rogers. After having watched a few episodes of Daniel Tiger, I had to show her the source material. She wanted to go back to DT, so I let her after one show.

Your secret is safe with me. I don’t care how people drink, so long as they’re not making me drink their swill or using my stuff to throw away.

Why do my 1-star reviews look like my kid wrote them?

I have an older cocktail recipe book that claims the Old Fashioned (the previous incarnation before the archeo-mixologists resurrected this one, with the muddled orange and maraschino cherry and... water) was invented by a Civil War colonel or general or something so that he could drink whiskey (because that’s what…

Oh, HELL yes. How did I not think of this before? Great, Claire. Great!

Can you even imagine such a thing? I don’t think that’s what the tone of this article is implying, though, do you?

Oh my God, this had me dying laughing. Your brother is awesome. Awesome.

Question: Does this not prove that you’re onto something, and that crypto is for chumps? The gubmint doesn’t try to regulate things that don’t hurt it’s feelings.

But Blade was also safely within the realm of “general audience” movies - sure, the lead character was black, but that was fine because he was mentored by Kris Kristofferson.