I own both, and I adore the Metro (and bought a second) while the Lamy has drifted off to my desk drawer somewhere. I might have gotten a bad nib on the Lamy, I’ve heard they have worse quality control on their nibs, but the Lamy was scratchy and skipped a lot. Both of my Metros, both medium and fine, are buttery…

I’m closing on a house on Monday, and during the inspection, the inspector ran the dishwasher. It was SO QUIET I kept forgetting it was on. Fucking magical. I’m so psyched. (I’m used to a very loud dishwasher. Add to that a 4 month old gas range after 3 years of terrible apartment stoves and I’m gonna be in appliance…

I believe what is actually the case here is that the material added to steel to make it stainless (chromium) also makes it softer. Good knives have less chromium, more carbon, which makes them harder and better for holding an edge, but more prone to rusting. I think that’s right, but I’m going by memory of a subject I…

Hey, cool, thanks for the response! Unfortunately, I checked, and none of my suspect products have any glycols on the label. The funny thing is, the lube that has been the absolute worst for me is one of those fancy supposed to be great for women’s bodies lubes, Pink’s water based. Guess I should just request free…

I have really, really sensitive skin (I’ve been having a horrible flare up of contact dermatitis on my hands I’ve been trying to track down. I _really_ wish I knew what I was allergic to, but it’s probably just random fragrance chemicals. I have a suspicion I’ve developed a sensitivity to something in my conditioner)…

I definitely expected it’d vary between dogs. There are always breed tendencies, but never breed guarantees. :) I’m closing on a house in a few weeks, and it has plenty of yard for zooming around in. A fenced yard for a dog was one of our must haves!

Somebody around here recommended the Boomerang tags, and since I’ve been obsessing over getting a dog for the past year or so, I’ve been amassing a wishlist. Haha

LOL at the clicker and the iPod. My friend’s dog went absolutely nuts at a laser pointer, but she also understood where the light came from. It got to the point where if she saw you pick up a laser pointer, or a pen that looked too much like a laser pointer, or heard it roll on the table, she’d turn up to 11 and start…

Yeah? Any insight or advice? I’ve only owned small dogs in the past, but my understanding is that most greyhounds are really chill dogs, and chill is what I’m after.

And then there’s Martingale collars, which I hadn’t heard of before I started looking into rescuing a retired racing greyhound. They’re like flat collars, with an extra loop connecting the ends that the leash hooks onto, so it tightens when they pull, but not for correction. Just to keep the collar on wide necked,…

I bought my backup battery on a road trip, where my GPS was eating my battery faster than my car’s crappy USB port could charge it (it’s for data, it’s barely a trickle of power) but we were in a new city and didn’t know where anything was. I keep it around for events and things, where I’ll be outside for a long time…

I bought my backup battery on a road trip, where my GPS was eating my battery faster than my car’s crappy USB port…

I put all my lemon and lime rinds/leftover bits in the garbage disposal when I’m done squeezing the juice out of them. I’ve seen that specifically recommended before. Lemon rinds and ice cubes = clean, fresh smelling disposal.

I think it was when we were entertaining the idea of moving in together that I asked the boy, very carefully, “so ... which way does the toilet paper roll go?” If he’d answered wrong, that might have been the end of things right there. :)

I really just find stuff from what other people recommend online, sometimes on comic posts on io9. If I have a character I’m interested in, I’ll google for their best runs. Or if there’s a new run I’ve heard about, I’ll see what people have to say about recommended reading first. Honestly, I only just got into comics…

I subscribe for a month or two here and there and use it to binge-read series I don’t plan to buy, or to catch up on a story arc before I buy a trade I really want. The UI -is- garbage, and it tends to forget I’m logged in between issues and tells me after 4 pages or something that I have to subscribe, but it’s a cost…

I believe it’s actually just as effective to rub your hands with a spoon or against a stainless steel sink while you wash your hands. I’m not 100% sure how it works, but it’s a chemistry thing.

Yep. This product is hilarious to me, but I’ll stick with the bathroom nightlight.

Yep. This product is hilarious to me, but I’ll stick with the bathroom nightlight.

It seems to be surprisingly common around here, and I hate it. I’ve seen it in a lot of houses we’ve looked at.

One of the houses we were looking at recently had the same cooktop it did when it was built 32 years ago. If we’d gotten the place I planned to immediately replace it (electric coils, much less OLD electric coils, no thank you), but I was surprised it lasted so long, and that these estimates are so much shorter.

Depends on space, my first apartment had one of those stacked units in the kitchen. My current apartment has the washer/dryer in a laundry closet (I hesitate to call it a room) attached to the kitchen. Shrug. I prefer it to laundry in a bathroom.