“All of the brightest boys to play with the biggest toys. More than they bargained for..”

Checked the pantry after reading this and sure enough, out of the four or five containers of vinegar (my wife does a lot of canning), one was marked 4%. Fortunately, it was never used for preserving and has now been removed for window cleaning duty...

Because the shrink costs all of us! I’m getting sick and tired of scofflaws who steal from stores, cross the Columbia to cheat on their sales taxes, refuse to pay the registration fees for their cars and fly Trump flags from the back of their coal rolling pickups. Those are the assholes. As for the Executive…

While Moxie is readily available in upper New England, it’s hard to find elsewhere. Thank goodness for Orca Beverage in Mukilteo, Washington that bottles it here in Cascadia.

And, if you present a membership card with a picture that doesn’t look quite like you, they can and will ask for your driver’s license or other photo ID. As a long-time Executive member, it’s about damn time they ended membership “sharing”. Now, if only Kroger would crack down on obvious, blatant shoplifting maybe our…

Don’t assume the receptacle is installed with the round ground hole down. Some people feel that the ground hole should be above the two slots and install the receptacle “upside down”. In some parts of the US the receptacles are installed “sideways” with the outlets side by side. The National Electrical Code does not…

I won’t buy a new iMac until they bring back 27" models. My late-2015 runs Monterey just fine and I need the bigger display. As far as Windows is concerned, Parallels works fine for me...

I’m not surprised to see Portland on the list but Vancouver, Washington is in the Portland metro area and Washington has no income tax while Oregon has no sales tax. Vancouver might be my kind of town...

Barely enough for a Cheeseburger meal at McDonalds...

Don’t the lagrange points attract bits of passing space debris and hold them in orbits around the point? Wouldn’t this tend to increase the risk of impact with JWST?

It can be really expensive and even dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t prepare properly, don’t watch the weather and get lost or stuck in the forest looking for that tree. Happens every year here in Oregon and sometimes it costs a life. There are lots of Christmas Tree farms here with a great…

“...Cygnus only managed to deploy one of its solar arrays while the other one remained unfurled.”

North of the 45th, the sun wouldn’t rise until nearly 9:00 am DST or later on Dec 21. No thanks. Stupidly, the Oregon and Washington legislatures have already signed on to year ‘round DST. Daylight savings time does not “save” daylight:

It’s true. Gary is scary!

Normal Bates? Pretty sure Norm wasn’t normal.

How can Seattle NOT be on any of these lists? Portland, definitely, but Seattle is worse.

Easy on us boomers. We’re not all dinosaurs or dead (yet). And many of us have worked for many, many years to help wean the world off their petrocoal addiction. Sadly, it has only been in the last few years that global warming has gotten to the point where it is blatantly obvious the planet is in trouble. 

Your refrigerator compressor removes heat from the freezer compartment and pumps it into your house through the condenser coils behind or underneath the refrigerator. So using your freezer to create ice that you’ll melt in a DIY “air conditioner” is a giant waste of time and money as it won’t even cover the heat…

Sudden death lies inside your electrical panel! Even with the main breaker open, the utility service conductors from your meter to the line side of the breaker are still energized and are often not protected by any insulating barriers.

Portland one of the best for seasonal allergies!? With the grass seed industry in the southern Willamette Valley, the only thing good about Portland in the spring is that it isn’t Eugene which should be the number one worst city in the world for hay fever. Trust me. Portland should not be on that list. If the grasses…