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This is me. I sometimes catch myself complaining internally if my wife puts on a few pounds and then I realize what a hypocrite I am. (I'm currently 1/4 through losing 30 lbs., which sadly involves not eating aforementioned baked goods.) Other factors: Clothes stop fitting. Doctor starts...

Whipped egg whites are a definitional part of waffles, and is what makes them fluffy. Otherwise you've just made square pancakes.

You can't spike them, meaning inverting them and driving the top of their head straight down into the ground parallel to their spine. (No wrestling pile drivers.) They're worried about spinal compression. You can give them concussions all day as long as they're not perpendicular to the ground...

Super useful for cutting small things precisely and safely. It was the first thing I made when I started power woodworking. The miter gauge that came with my saw was dogshit.

Yeah, do yourself a favor and google image search "table saw injuries" so that you're suitably scared. There are a few things not obvious to newbies that are critical for keeping your hands connected to your body. DO NOT cheap out and buy an old saw without a riving knife, or one with a wobbly...

Mine are 7 and 4. Neither one ate much between 3.5 and 5. Once my son hit his second growth spurt he turned into a disposal unit. Seconds at every meal, plus he's asking to bring a snack to school. My daughter sometimes skips dinner voluntarily for lack of being hungry.

Where do you guys live? I pay $800/mo for my daughter to go full-time to a well-regarded local Montessori preschool in LA.

Hah. I didn't even notice that. Quite the Freudian slip.

I'm back on the wagon again. I had a catastrophic knee injury a couple years ago that basically eliminated my ability to do normal exercise outside of swimming and walking. My weight started creeping up. Last month I realized that I was 20-25 lbs over my previous healthy baseline, looked like a...

This selection bias has to be a big factor with the aggregate statistics. (No, I'm not saying that all divorced people are shitty. It seems obvious that shitty people are more likely to both get divorced and be lousy parents, though.)

This is not true in my case taking into account the difference in monthly premiums and tax deductibility of the HSA contributions (at least if you're maxing them, which you should). The HDHP is categorically cheaper as long as I can manage my own cash flow. Depending on your premium structure YMMV.

Apparently she has celiac's disease. If it's a real case and not "gluten sensitivity", that can seriously fuck you up, even aside from the perverse unhealthy Hollywood body issues. A friend of mine has it bad and she literally has to go to the hospital for a couple days of IVs if she eats food...

Just assume the condition was "exactly as they were except change things as to not make it a complete clusterfuck."

Be careful with the math on that. I preferentially use a HDHP PPO with HSA compared to a regular PPO. At least for the plans available to me, if you take into account the HSA tax deduction, the increased premiums for the traditional plan, and differential reimbursement rates for amounts...

I've done brazilian ju jitsu for many years. The most practical mileage I got was restraining my kids to administer medicine and trim their nails.

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Are the parents competent investment-wise? My grandfather had some money that he wanted to pass to the grandkids and he just wrote us a yearly check under the single-year gift limit. While we were minors our parents opened investment accounts in our name where they were the custodians. We took...

The impression I got was that the return point was dictated by the landing platform. That's why Ant-man didn't get back until the rat activated his van, and how as the team was collecting the gems they could all have missions of different lengths and return together. That expectation was also...

Possibly, but returning the stones was only fair in the spirit of not screwing over unrelated timelines. The main timeline had already lost its stones so that exposure didn't change.

Looked to me like they went through some kind of hexagonal wormhole, but w/e. Trying to rationalize magic technology is as silly as nit-picking about it.

Only after 1000's of years. That's what light-years mean. After 23 days the signal has only gone 23 light-days. (As long as we're pretending that practical reality matters in a comic book movie.)

I'm just ecstatic that they managed to produce a finale to this 10-year endeavor that had enough emotional punch to do justice to characters whom I've known in this form for longer than my kids have been alive.

Or, just, you know, don't fuck with the drive assignment? This is "You're holding it wrong" all over again.

Yeah. It's one thing to spend money you have; it's quite another to spend money you don't have without consulting your partner.

This was an informative read (though a bit dry) for anyone interested in neutrinos. It's more about the history of the theories, personalities, and historical episodes surrounding them than the science per se, although there's plenty of that. Neutrino - Frank Close

Glad to hear you're living your life. My mom died young and the biggest fear my sister and I had is that my dad would become a professional widower. Fortunately, he found someone that suits him well, and in different ways from my mother. It's amazing how much one's personality morphs based on...

Sounds like a win/win. Prospectively, whether an idea is good or not is not reliably predictable. The best ideas are often the most off-the-wall but somehow magically land in some kind of sweet spot. You need a metric fuckton of bad ideas in order to locate the good ones. Might as well outsource...

What model do you use? I have one but the filter consistently lets grounds around the edge no matter how gently I press. Coffee is always gritty.

As an added middle finger to the "$300 a month is reasonable" crowd, Kirkland house brand coffee is just relabeled Starbucks beans.

Buy whole beans, $12 spice grinder, drip brew. Done. Marginal coffee expenses are about $8-10 a month.

This is why people don't dig holes for a living unless they have to. I tried this once, only to discover that the soil in my back yard was full of rocks. Grab a couple day laborers at your local home depot and have a beer while you watch them work for an afternoon, IMO. I'm sure you've got more...

Did this. Can vouch it works.

Never mind the question of why in the fuck the rest of the ship isn't made out of the proton torpedo-immune material they used for the window of the blast door. "We have to close the door or we'll lose half of four decks!" What? That whole mini-arc was idiocy at its finest. Holy fuck how did...

How did I miss? I must have played hundreds of hours of Robosport as a kid. Pretty sure it was my first online game outside of chess. I need something like this as an asynchronous game so that I can play with friends and family outside my time zone.

Assuming they were done to code. I've got exposed wire in my back yard where a previous owner installed an off-the-books lighting system. He ran the wire MAYBE two inches underground and I didn't even know it was there until it was exposed when the grass died last summer and then rain washed...

I cut 6-8'' of PVC pipe and put them around all my sprinklers for this reason.

Might be worth seeing a doctor. I once had strep/tonsilitis so badly that I couldn't swallow to eat or drink for several days. Apparently it weakened my immune system enough that I got a secondary fungal infection on my tonsils. I finally went to the campus doctor (was in college) after I looked...

Mario Odyssey is great to play with smaller kids. You get simultaneous cooperative play, and the kid can bang into walls playing the hat without ruining the game while you control Mario. Genius design.