And those glass ashtrays were always full of dust and dead bugs. A dome would cut down on most of that.

Over the course of Steven Brust’s Draegaera series, it reveals why the world moves as slowly as it does, but that would be spoilers.

My brother’s restaurant shuts down on holidays, including Black Friday. If you want to have a nice cocktail after laying siege to a mall, you’re out of luck. It probably makes a difference that he worked his way up from the bottom tier of restaurant jobs.

F#7b9/Db - Jazz chord or password?

When that happened to me the bank let me change the userid (fortunately it wasn’t locked in to using your email) and I used the xkcd horse-battery-staple trick of tacking a couple of words onto the name. 

French cut is the only way to do green beans. Any other cut and your experience is entirely the tough squeaky outside.

Cooks Illustrated had an article that recommended molding your homemade cranberry sauce in a can, for the ultimate combination of nostalgia and taste.

One side of my family had a tradition of a “stuffing” that was baked with canned oysters. And the liquid from the can. It was a soppy disgusting mess.

He’s maybe one bad movie away from a career-killing “too difficult to work with”.

Some of us were hating the Burton Alice by the time the credits rolled. It put me off 3D movies for years.

The first books came out when Usenet was pretty much the only place to talk about SF on the ’net. Every time a new book came out the SF forums would be flooded with “Ooh, the book added so many new questions for us to think about. But it didn’t answer any of the questions from the previous book.”

It was huge in the 90s, back when the books came out every year or so. 

There’s also an SOS cover by Canadian punk band The Headstones

I gave it a try on a bus too, and that was the downfall - the moves you needed to make were more complex than a Pokemon swipe-up, and a bus is just not a smooth enough ride to manage it.

“the natural slowness of early subscriber buy-in”

I’d always heard you put the vanilla bean in to keep the sugar from clumping.

I’m curious to see how this works out with apps that have enough menubar items to fill the screen.

Where are you finding powder? It’s all liquid and pods in my local stores.

I’ve never heard of anyone cutting directly on a counter. Isn’t it bad for the knives?

I’ve never heard of anyone cutting directly on a counter. Isn’t it bad for the knives?

Or Carmina Burana.