When it comes to exercise, “every bit counts” is the truth, and the first bit counts disproportionately highly. So do whatever you can do — it’s always beneficial, no matter how far from the ideal you might be.

I guess the trick of ironing it on an incandescent bulb is as obsolete as incandescent bulbs.

Yeah, rice pastas are pretty good, and corn pasta is too. The protein pastas are indeed different and not necessarily in a good way, but I don’t mind them. (Any port in a storm; any pasta that won’t make you sick.)

To quote the movie Zola: “Pussy is worth thousands.”

Oh, gosh. That show.

My note/quibbles:

Most of this stuff should not be stored in the kitchen, because you would only occasionally use it in the kitchen.

I’m reminded of the restaurant food critic who got to the point where she couldn’t eat anything but chicken fingers at home. Eating while at work was—well—work, and she got so she couldn’t mentally deal with anything but bland food on her own time.

This is a good list to remind me of the odd ways I seem to judge these movies compared to other people.

Generally, if something you’re trying to brown is sticking, let it cook a little longer, because you’re trying to move it too soon. It will (often) pop off just fine once it’s sufficiently browned.

I’ve never had any trouble doing fasted workouts; that’s my standard.

Yeah, the main reason I exercise on a completely empty stomach is I’ll cramp otherwise.

Someone I knew was once the passenger in an old van that he and a fellow grad student were using to transport an extremely heavy piece of scientific equipment over the mountains to their lab.

The problem with the movie was mainly that the [spoiler] had no internally consistent rules to make you believe that’s actually what they were living in, and to a lesser degree, that the script/acting choices ran toward melodrama at the end.

I’m curious what skills Hank thinks the royals themselves have that require their spouses to be so impressively well-qualified.

This is a great, good-ol’-days-style Lifehacker article that actually provides useful hacks.

Nice to see Madonna’s original-recipe face again.

So do people who don’t use/eat animal products also avoid silk? I’ve not heard of that one, but it’d be consistent with the choice.

With condominiums, there’s also assessments, which are really just “unexpected repairs” for the building as a whole. And if your building votes in favour of getting that repair done, then you don’t get any wiggle room regarding paying the assessment on someone else’s schedule.

Regarding the fruit fly trap — yes, put fruit in the cup, but also put a few drops of wine or sherry in for extra luring power.