Not enough stars in the sky for this comment. (Actually, as soon as I saw the words “mimosa bar” my general reaction was “you had it coming.”)

Or maybe “Naan naan naan naan na naan... gettin’ jiggy with it...”

Great post. And yes - Utz’s crab chips are better than Herr’s. But any crab chips are better than no crab chips, especially since I went and moved to the midwest. (Also, Utz’s Carolina BBQ chips perfect both the salt-and-vinegar chip and the BBQ chip, at the same beautiful time.)

I believe firmly that mac and cheese comes out of a blue box from the Kraft corporation. But... I think there are some entries on this list which could make me change my mind. (In part because I think I believe mac and cheese should be massively salty and “cheese”/yeasty, and some of these toppings might get me back…

Do it! I’ve got a friend who is commuting weekly to her fencing lessons an hour away in the big city. I mean, you might discover “that was fun, but not worth the drive”... but what if you discover “that’s SO MUCH fun that it IS worth the drive”?

I won’t bore you with the obvious long-term savings realized by replacing paper bills that last a year and a half with coins that last generations.

Well, if it’s about beauty, let’s just put another statue up there. Problem solved.

Let’s start with General Sherman. There oughta be statues of the great man who fought to preserve his country all over the southland.

Yeah - you can see this already with the tariffs on imported goods, where huge lobbyist and lawyer bills are run up trying to get goods into the most advantageous categories.

Except you can’t see it, because it’s pretty darn opaque to the end consumer.

There’s an old Buddy Hackett story that points out it works both ways. Hackett was working in the motor pool when a phone call came in:

If that’s a scan of the actual order with 3 Ls in Mr. Williams’ name, I’ll lay 5 bucks they’re going to make a big deal about how that’s his corporate strawman name, not his Natural Citizen name, and file something with lots of Capitalized and all-caps WORDS and written in RED INK denying the validity of the judgment…

“world’s most obvious Oberlin alum Lena Dunham”

Chargebacks are supposed to protect account holders from fraud - either by vendors, or through account theft. So a more complicated (but fairer) process might be to write a specific, actionable claim - something that could go to court. If the vendor took money and never delivered, they should pay the fees. (And maybe…

I agree strongly that I’d love to see urban-rural data analyzed. (Or state trooper vs. county vs local PD.) Living in a pretty darn rural small town in Ohio, though, I reserve judgment on where you’d be more likely to be stopped. Our local cops don’t seem too afraid to pull the “y’all ain’t from around here” act.…

I mostly share this stunned question. But I will say that I paid the Reading Rainbow subscription fee at least once because I didn’t get around to talking to my kid about how much he actually used it. Sometimes you’re paying for the right to imagine you’ll use the service - like a gym membership.

The other thing I can…

It probably has to do with the kind of potatoes you like. Microwaving waxy potatoes (reds and golds) works pretty OK. Microwaved russets, I just completely disagree - the texture is mealy, not fluffy, and you lose all that lovely crisp skin. This is, admittedly, a very close cousin to what you get when a restaurant…

There’s a particular kind of “NOT A QUESTION” which can be summarized as “I’d like your presentation more if it were my presentation.” It masquerades as questions like “have you considered a completely different theoretical basis for your argument” or “why aren’t you using a tech stack I’m more interested in” or “what…

What do you think the FBI’s hold music is? Montovani Strings perform “Bad Boys”? The Four Freshmen singing “I Fought The Law (And The Law Won)“?

You know, this sounds like a really good example of where video won’t help. Call the PD and say “hey, your officers run a speed trap in this location, and they litter, can you get them to cut it out?” And when they say “you don’t know it’s our guys,” you say “well, they’re there a lot, can you at least talk to them…

One of the interesting problems with Nosek’s reproducibility project, of course, is that it forces the question of whether it’s the original research or the reproduction which is wrong. It might be more accurate to say that “only 30-40% of them were reproduced” than “were reproducible.” This isn’t to minimize the…

Depends on how they’re tracking. Over a whole mall, they’d be able to at least get a sense of where you are from which access point you’re connected to (and how long you’ve been there, and which one you hit last, and probably strength of connection to any other close access points). That’s just about using their…