Sorry but I have to:

Sorry but I have to:

Relatedly, what does anyone know about the various junk removal services that claim that they do all this for you? I’ve often wondered if the cost of that service would let me get on with things without guilt that it just went to the landfill.

I find it interesting that I see a ton of pushback against the “Konmari” method coming from people who either haven’t tried it, don’t believe they need to declutter in the first place, or have some gripe with her beliefs about things (or all three). Not a knock on you, Nick, at least not specifically, this being a…

The Volvo parts were... out of place... but regardless, I found this to be a well-written piece. Thanks, Mack.

I miss the Morgenthaler Method videos on Small Screen Network. The guy is funny, and knows how to make a drink.

You can find it in Prayers to Broken Stones... a compilation of short stories from earlier in his career. It's a great collection, and is what hooked me on his writing.

Expanding a bit, NASA had three missions in which personnel were lost, to include Apollo 1. The Challenger commission report summed up the pervasive (at the time) lackadaisical attitude to human safety, and it seems that they’ve only learned a partial lesson.

Two things to do about curling bacon:

Oh, OSH, how we’ll miss you. :(

Just another system to which hackers will gain access and send disturbing messages to the masses.

I can’t listen to this right now, but thanks for this Nick. I’m curious and interested, and now I know something I did not before.

Who?

“Busy, busy, busy...”

Stars for Sergeant Hulka.

This is what I do, too. So far, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong, and counting.

Break your tunnel vision. You’ll see something that you just can’t unsee, and you need to sort that out, later, but now, break your tunnel vision and take in the scene. Shake your head, deliberately turn around, look at something far away, whatever.

I was one of these guys, and didn’t notice it for about 4 months. I would startle awake about every 45 minutes, which isn’t enough continuous sleep for most people and definitely not for me. For four months I did this, getting more and more irritable, angry at stupid things, and also, yeah, there was almost none of…

Or Thermos. I bought my kid a steel lunchbox that looked like the stuff I had used, and was dismayed to find that the steel used is about half as thick as the stuff they used in my youth. It was so flimsy! The ones I used to have were like tanks. You could almost stand on them (indeed, several of my friends tried this…

Same issue but for us it’s smoothies. I’m the only one who ever makes smoothies, and I use bananas in them, but my wife is the only one that eats bananas fresh. I throw away six or seven frozen, black, black, BLACK bananas every few months, and we still have enough stock to make smoothies every week.

I don’t know about anyone else, but in the SF Bay Area, not a rural backwater burg, the local PO is blisteringly incompetent to deliver mail and packages to my address without first putting it elsewhere (sometimes for as long as 6 months!). And I’ve had a package that was clearly marked with the correct postage go to…