absolutely and horrifically education-adjacent.

I work on a ski team helping set up the course and not even directly interacting with athletes (unless theirs an injury, we’re sort of the first responder to stabilize and radio to patrol if necessary). Just in order to do that job I have to spend 2-3 hours each season reviewing Safe Sport courses that train us to spot, report and prevent creeps like that from abusing children. And it’s not even difficult, if you have at least half a (non-perverted) brain, it’s mostly common sense.

Getting a letter like this as a parent would be calling national news worthy level of creepy.

Fucking insane Christian language makes it even creepier. This sounds like enabler bullshit and should get reported to authorities on its own.

No substances were involved, but when I was 16, my parents went out for the night and my buddy and I took my mom’s new Jeep Cherokee for a ride down a moderately serious fire trail near my house. It had rained and there were a few long puddles to ford, maybe axle deep at most.

Anyways we got it good and muddy and we were worried it got scratched on branches, so we took it to a 24 hour car wash, cleaned it, and everything looked great. Then while dropping off my buddy, I closed the back door and it didn’t latch all the way so I sorta hip checked it closed. The fucking thing caved in, and had a serious crease in just below the body line by the door handle. Like it was mad of cardboard.

Anyway I got in trouble and we mostly pulled the dent back, but never fully fixed it and had to hear shit about it for years after.

But they never knew that we had it on 3 wheels and possible airborne an hour or two before the door dent.

Nobody here thinks the dementia riddled fascist should have been president at any age.

Well there was the noose thing in the black guy’s garage that time.

NASCAR not Race City isn’t the relief, but I might have missed the sarcasm too.

It’s a spear thrower, like finding a smoking gun.

Wouldn’t he still be hovering if he’d missed the landing?

Take Doctorow’s advice and lobby your government to withdraw from or ignore the DMCA. If all of Europe did it, and Canada and China (if it isn’t already) it’ll have no power.

He’s not pulling any punches. Gonna have to explain some of what he said to my 8yo though.

Yup, but I never bother with separating the eggs, just make the batter before preheating the waffle iron, letting the batter sit for 5-10 minutes makes for fluffy waffles, though we’ve also switched to oat milk, which might behave differently too (I don’t recommend oat creamer though, made them too floppy, thought they did get a crispy layer after 30 seconds out of the iron.

F-350°F for F-150 minutes.

I think this could be an untapped cookbook market. Make it look like a shop manual and I’m in.

I’ve missed a plane (American Airlibes I think it was) and they basically said no problem and put me right on the next one a couple hours later. It was between 2 major hub airports though.

Also pro tip if you came tickets on a Friday before a holiday weekend: They overbook the shit out of those flights and offer vouchers for free tickets if you give up your seat to a standby. They sort of bid it up and I got $1000, a seat on an empty flight the next day, hotel, and meal vouchers for dinner and breakfast the next day. A retired couple who lived near the airport used to do it for all the major holidays for free flights. They explained it to me as we cashed out together. Ended up flying to the total eclipse for free with my brother later.

Just whichever NPR affiliate comes in clearest on a drive.

Building up massive credit card debt was always my dad’s plan at the end. But sudden heart failure got him before that.

These are ok tho

I have waffles memorized:

1.75 cups flour, 1tbsp baking powder, 0.25tsp salt, 2 eggs, 1.75 cups milk (creamy oat milk actually is even better), 0.5 cup canola oil.

We do fast for dinner once a week and this is my sons favorite, and my wife can’t eat dairy.

I accidentally flew with 4 inch long OLFA razor blade refills in the bottom of my laptop bag 4 times, twice around the Boston Marathon bombing, from and to Boston.

I didn’t find them until cleaning out my bag at home after the last flight. Basically some tape could make them into box cutters like the 9/11 guys supposedly used.

But I had to take off my shoes and belt every time, to feel safe.

I helped run a Kickstarter where one of our rewards was Mac and PC software on custom USB sticks.

We had a couple hubs set up and cloned the drives 20 at a time.

Actually our dog does sit that way. He looks broken when he does it too. The rest of that photo is whack though.

Of course I can’t find a good photo of it now, but if you look closely you can see it in this one.

He’s a Swedish Valhund btw, weird little dog.

Ellie dozing in the snow.

When I bought my Vanagon 8-9 years ago, the spare tire still said made in west Germany!

I replaced it along with the rest of the badly work truck tires that were on it.