As a professional engineer with several decades of experience your brief description of the purpose of building codes is spot on. While they can be frustrating to the folks financing, constructing and managing buildings for sometimes obtuse requirements, they provide a valuable service ensuring a standard level of…

This is the really important point that Scarjo is trying to make here. If you change the terms of my contract, for whatever reason, you must renegotiate my compensation. Disney’s failure to do this is wrong.

Toto. Primarily because the Toto Washlet is still the best bidet seat in the world and they fit their toilets perfectly. We’ve had one Washlet for almost 15 years and it still works exactly as it did when we installed it. I’d rather buy American butt we lag behind the Japanese in defecation automation.

Toto. Primarily because the Toto Washlet is still the best bidet seat in the world and they fit their toilets perfect…

What has Subaru-bashing got to do with this thread? I have an L1 Outback and I work the hell out of the the ACC. But I’m ALWAYS in control. Eyesight has saved my a$$ a couple of times when some idiot in front of me swerved into my lane or stopped on the freeway for no apparent reason. Most WRX don’t have Eyesight…

I wonder if the earlier detonations seen in the videos weren’t of the grain silos themselves blowing up. Combustible dusts are highly explosive when mixed with the right amount of air. Often, grain or sugar storage explosions start in one area and trigger a sequence of explosions as each explosion triggers the “aerosol…

https://www.familysearch.org/ is definitely the most useful of all the free sources of genealogical information. Even if you disagree (as I do) with LDS doctrine, this website is completely free of proselytizing. Their parametric search engine for their databases is extremely powerful.

Makes better martinis than the gel, too.

After struggling for a week to get my Macs and Orbi to work together, I returned them. There are lots of anecdotal postings on the internet from Mac users who’ve also had problems with Orbi.

After struggling for a week to get my Macs and Orbi to work together, I returned them. There are lots of anecdotal…

Trump waited until the day after he was inaugurated to run in 2020.

The time of year, type of grass, precipitation, breed and the sex of the dog also make a difference. Our male JR never spotted the lawn but our female Jackie...

My experience after three years of daily PNW Subaru EyeSight driving has been if the cameras can’t see, you probably can’t either and you should either slow down or get off the road. Seriously. It takes a lot to blind EyeSight.

Judging from the market share for Tesla in PDX, the LiveWire will sell well here, even at $30k. There are some great rides around Portland; well within range.

I suppose they could dump the watts into a huge fan-cooled resistor like a diesel-electric locomotive.

You get a star for the Camel reference.

I was able to upgrade my Windows 7 installation to Windows 10 this weekend (yes, you can still upgrade free) and this was the only issue I had. I followed your instructions and it worked perfectly. This is a iMac17,1 running Mojave and the latest version of Parallels, so this problem isn’t limited to older Macs or…

Please, don’t hang anything off the shower head piping! It can crack the thin wall chrome pipe inside the wall and will only leak when the shower is running. You’ll end up with stained, warped drywall and dry rot studs before you realize it was leaking. It happened to us...

Please, don’t hang anything off the shower head piping! It can crack the thin wall chrome pipe inside the wall and…

Personally, this is a PITA and I think it’s a stall tactic to keep your 401(k) funds in the hands of an institution with high service fees. I’ve only had to have a Medallion Signature once and I hope it never happens again.

Back to Baltimore?

That’s definitely a West Coast thing. I worked a college game once in Oregon as a vendor and not a spare dime came my way. But I was paid well for the day. On the other hand, I parked some very expensive cars for special events a few times at an exclusive club in Portland and received some very nice tips.  Some of the…

No question. In-N-Out fries are awful. Please stay in California.