It might be more correct to note that her “crazy ghost house” kept an entire town employed for 36 years — starting in the depression. She kept 16 man crews working 24 hours per day — AND paid almost double the standard rate of pay

99% Invisible has a historian who posits that she was an obscenely wealthy amateur architect, experimenting on her own property, in an era when women weren’t allowed to be architects. I personally love this explanation.

Plus it can be helpful rying to figure out what works for you as a person and is still clean. I have a totally different system from my folks because I’m super visual and need to see things or risk forgetting they exist. So I can’t just put things away in a cabinet or drawer (unless it’s a drawer I literally open…

An NPR story about his 9 year old neighbor making Comey cookies after he was fired mentioned she handed the cookies to Comey’s 6'10" body guard. 6'10". I like how as tall as Comey is they still find someone taller then him to protect him

Shoulda tried under his desk.

Look, this is why we had drive-ins for fucks sake. You got there a little early and the kids came wearing their pajamas. You lined up at the concession building and let your kids run wild on the playground next to the parking lot. Then when the previews started you rounded up your spawn and put them in your station…

Pokemon Go uses a surprisingly low amount of data. It eats through battery though

That’s a good point; it isn’t a full-fledged Pokemon game, so we probably shouldn’t expect all the features of a “regular” game. I think my argument involved longevity: had they released trading, at the very least, at launch/close to launch, I don’t think they would’ve had the dropoff in player base that they have.

I feel like there’s too much expectation on the player’s side from this. I don’t understand how anybody could not realize that the update would have taken quite a bit of time to punch through. Not to mention, when they did the “Babies” update all I saw were complaints that they should have just released everything all…

If you’re willing to be the back half of a moose, I’ve got a plan...

Hella — (you’ve adapted to NorCal well. ;)

To be fair, I think we’re supposed to disagree with that line and totally see it as rape. Still super squicky.

I just bought my first non-drugstore lipstick (I was feeling some ennui, and my friend dragged me into a boutique and said lipstick would fix it - this turned out to be correct) and oh my god, I can’t believe the difference in quality. I’ve bought everything CVS has, from Wet n’ Wild to Revlon, and none of them match…

I’m a straight man, but my secret desire to be Matt Damon’s husband just deepened.

This is neither food-related, nor Matt Damon-related, but Mr. T related. About 7-8 years ago, a friend, M, ran into him at a hotel down in Springfield, IL (Mr. T was there lobbying a bill during Veto Session, I believe; and my friend is also a lobbyist). It just so happened to be another friend, J’s, birthday that…

So my cousin is an astronaut and was the NASA consultant for The Martian. He is now friends with Matt Damon. I watched this press conference for the movie that my cousin participated in, and Damon is so humble and says how we really need to applaud NASA, not actors. I thought it was pretty neat!

I did this for DAYS after getting this submission.

Oh dear. I just know I’m going to be randomly blurting out “KAZOOOOOS!” for the rest of the day. Well played. Well played.

KAZOOOOOS!

I imagine this is what it’s like to work at Snopes.