For a while growing up, we ate avocados with soy sauce every morning, because we were a Chinese family with an avocado tree in the back yard. I know my mother came up with the idea on her own, because at first we didn’t even know what avocados were, much less what to do with them (these days they’re very common where…

For some reason the Brits do travel shows really well. The hosts have very likeable on-screen personalities, and the shows have great premises. They might be harder to find Stateside, but they’re truly entertaining to watch.

^This is what I came to say. People: Look at that lint you’re cleaning out of the lint filter after each run of the dryer - it’s made of clothes. It only takes a few times hang drying to get a system down, and then it’s not any more of a hassle than using the dryer when you take into account wrinkled clothes left in…

Foil balls will probably shred your clothes in the dryer. I’m not even going to try it to find out, because if you like your clothes or the environment, don’t use a friggin’ dryer. All that lint in the lint filter you have to clean out after each use - IT’S MADE OF CLOTHES.

Claudette Hill and Lamb’s Invisible Reweaving used to be in Koreatown, Los Angeles, but yeah she’s probably retired. I went to her five years ago and she was already getting up there in age, a little absent-minded, just sitting alone in a little windowless closet of a room in a nondescript office building, completely…

French-reweaving your own clothes is probably a tall order for most people. I say go pay your hard-earned money to the people keeping the art alive. They are magicians preserving some secret arcana handed down master to apprentice, who can’t even charge you enough to feed themselves because you would just say f-it and…

I think the real challenge with these projects is, how to deal with the creepy subtext to the interviewee that we’re doing this because hey it’s any day now. A lot of families have a problem talking about death. Otherwise, we’d all do this, write our wills, leave funeral instructions, etc.

Star if you had a Police Quest II flashback.

I vouch for this. This stuff actually reduces bites down to nearly nothing, and relieves itching fast. You should apply it pretty soon after getting bitten though. Amazing stuff. Better than hydrocortisone. 

Something that works 100% of the time doesn’t sound like a statistically valid method; it’s more likely to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. She doesn’t want to feel like a narrow-minded shallow person, so she goes out with them, but she’s not really giving them a chance. So much shitty behavior can hide behind “going by…

You might use that feature, like, once, but you’ll probably be really glad you have it.

You might use that feature, like, once, but you’ll probably be really glad you have it.

I’m so sick of Hedy Lamarr being trotted out every three months as some kind of underappreciated wonder woman. She was a prolific inventor and great mind among bona fide movie stars. There must be thousands of people who invented more important things and numerous things than she did in the 20th Century. She also had…

So ... this, but in real life:

This one’s a winner.

You’re so far down, but you should win. 

I think I saw this movie and walked out on it.

Finland is culturally Nordic. It puts itself there for reasons of history, culture, and affinity. But the Finnish language is nearly a linguistic isolate. It’s related to Estonian and maybe Hungarian, and that’s it. There are more similarities between English and Hindi (both Indo-European languages) than between…

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People who actually hand-write for a living, like Jerry Seinfeld, know that the Bic Cristal is the best pen in the world: