I bought a Chinese restaurant supply rice cooker a while back, but quickly realized that it was useless for making less than, say, 5 cups of rice at a time, because it would just burn smaller amounts.
As much as I like my iPad, I really hate trying to type any sort of substantive message board post or email on it. Thereâs just not enough screen space, the edit pane always is jumping around, selecting text is a PITA, and Siri sucks just enough at transcribing for me to rely on it for everything.
Well, the present is just tomorrows history, so they are just getting a head start on reporting the future past!
Came across this picture of Buster Keaton as Hamlet recently:
Now I canât stop imagining Keatonâs Hamlet being comically frightened by the appearance of his fatherâs ghost and jumping off that rampart. âTo thine own self be trueâ, indeed.
TIL the Ford Maverick was available in a variety of colors, including âAnti-Establish Mintâ and âFreudian Gilt.â
Today I learned that there is a cover of Radioheadâs âLet Downâ by ⌠Toots and the Maytals. With trombone and sax solos!
I am completely happy to be crushed like a bug in the ground if Toots gets to sing it.
This part was disturbing:
[quote]CENTURY I, QUATRAIN 86
When the great queen sees herself conquered,
she will show an excess of masculine courage.
Naked, on horseback, she will pass over the river
pursued by the sword: she will have outraged her faith [/quote]
Iâm a huge Radiohead fan, thanks for linking this! And thanks to the person who has this awesome troll account on youtube. I want to believe.:
Anyone remember the movie A Boy and His Dog? The dog was the dog from the Brady Bunch.
Nils was visited by soldiers from the Norwegian Kingâs Guard on 15 August 2008 and awarded a knighthood.[9] The honour was approved by King Harald V and Nils was the first penguin to receive such an honour in the Norwegian Army.[10]
I should hope so.
Happy and safe Thanksgiving all!
I did not know that. I remember that movie, Don Johnson in the future. The ending too⌠:)
Well, it is a Harlan Ellison storyâŚ
Whilst loading the washing machine, I thought âAm I overloading the washing machine?â
So I took to youtube to find a video explaining the correct load-amount. Instead I find hundreds of videos from a small number of accounts, all just videos of washing machines going round, and they all have washing machine avatars and comment on each otherâs videos!
I suspect itâs something sexual.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Blanky974/featured (check out related channels!)
https://www.youtube.com/user/washymachinefreak
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPiZYLf4P_Ll7Hc45efylEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLtWiTXplRM
(ps, the only videos I found explaining correct load sizes were from Aerial, which naturally I distrust as they are incentivised to sell detergent.)
Isnât it just supposed to be roughly half-full? The point is the front loaders push stuff up, and then the splash from gravity helps agitate more.
I find with HE detergent I get away with using very little detergent, and can wash with pure cold water even in winter. Thatâs the most efficient part, because heating water is very expensive. I fill the detergent cap to 1/4th at most, if I have a lot of stuff, it seems a tiny bit is good enough.
OHOH English question. I was rewatching love actually, you know the scene where the Prime Minister goes to find the girl? He starts at house #1, but I am not sure what numbering system they use for houses. It seems that sometimes they use a weird one, so if he ends up at house #100 it doesnât mean he looked at 100 houses.
I have a dim memory of my mom trying out those snake-oil, as-seen-on-TV âwasher ballsâ that claim to take the place of laundry detergent.
They worked for about a week. IIRC, the secret ingredient was actually the soap that hadnât been fully rinsed out of the clothes on the previous wash.
The numbering system used by the vast majority of roads in the UK are even numbers on one side of the road, odd on the other. And they both ascend/descend in the same direction. It gets a tiny bit confusing with cul de sacs. (or culs de sac). Each road has its own set of numbers.
So if he ends up at house #100 heâs probably looked at 50 houses.
(What other numbering systems are there? I know the US use a grid based one or something so all of their numbers are 5012 first and 98th streets or something crazy)
Nah, itâs about the same here. Blocks are on the hundreds. So one block may be 500-599, the next 600-699. In practice they rarely get past the 40âs. And the grid is separate north south and east west. For example I am in the >10000 south and >5000 west on the grid. But on my street it goes from xx48 to x(x+1)00.