As a former teacher, and husband to a current high school teacher, I respond with a sarcastic “Good Luck.” I’m betting on an increase in standardized testing in an effort to “remotely gauge learning.” If there’s a way for the educational system to jump the wrong way, it will.

I want to watch this episode again, because my brain kept waiting for the Construction Foreman to tell Saul to “Bite my shiny metal ass!”

An HVAC system should only have one filter in series. So either a filter on the return vents, or one at the furnace/air handler. If your return air filter is doing its job (sized properly, changed regularly, and isn’t too restrictive), a supply side filter will not benefit you.

I’m reading it as a lack of a noun (proper or pro-) in the original text and was inserted for clarity. But they should be square brackets. 

I have been saying for years that we should have a new Clue remake about once every ten years. All new cast, all new writers, and same basic “strangers together in a mansion” setup. Let each remake play to the strengths of the actors and the time while still obviously set in the world of the board game.

I have used the exact same Tupperware egg separator for my entire 40+ years of life. It came with me when I moved out of my parents house as part of a box of random kitchen supplies. I use it the few times a year when I separate eggs, and it just goes in the utensil rack of the dishwasher. No part of its use can…

“My bucket analogy does not use heat or heat transfer at all. It’s a much more abstract analogy than that.”

Yeah, so you’re clearly struggling with complex systems. You’re only focusing on convective heat transfer and not on conductive.

The example I always use is a bathtub. If you take a long bath, are you more likely to add a little bit of warm water occasionally, or wait for it to cool off completely before refilling it with warm water? Which one uses more water?

As a third-generation HVAC technician, I will admit to getting touchy when people throw around the old “Techs just turn a wrench” trope. So, I apologize for the fact that it was way more aggressive than it should have been.

Hi! AC pro here, and F you. I work in a field of applied Chemistry and Physics, and any HVAC professional worth his or her salt studies thermodynamics, enthalpy, and a whole host of other hard science to truly understand the field. I will completely grant you that there are techs out there who just turn a wrench, but…

To be fair, with the introduction of companies like Uber, the medallion costs have plummeted. So far in fact, some taxi drivers are committing suicide because they find themselves with crushing debt and no way out.

If she’s in every other teamup comic, I think there’s something particularly heroic/amusing/poignant about a cancer survivor taking the place of the guy who couldn’t get hurt.  

One you can use to make Guacamuerte.

The only thing that really annoys me about these sort of comparisons from both sides, is no one wants to talk about scale. As the father of three children who made sure health care was a big factor in my professional life, I was really lucky to be able to afford the 3 C-sections my wife had. Overall, our birthing…

Is this movie even worth doing now that we can’t have Ricky Jay as a technical consultant?

This is the correct take. By a country mile. If frozen, by even more.

So is this official confirmation that there will be a Batman & Robin/Frozen rom-com in the near future?

You’ve made my inner film geek conflicted. I now want to start an online hate group just so I can have them rally around some sort of Fritz Lang reference.

One of my frequent haunts is nestled right near a bunch of high density housing, and they stay open come hell or high water. But they’ve also gotten chummy with a hotel that’s nearby, and for a few catered meals bartered over the year, are able to get a room or two during the crappy weather for they employees that…