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I'm posting this to inspire you, not to shame you. 360 nuggets in an hour and 15 minutes.

A lot of people would say that if you're outlining your story then it's not an artistic pursuit. That's not to say that you can't go "I'm going to write this" and then write it and the result would have some value, and I'm sure a large percentage of genre books are produced this way, but that's...

I like Wentz. I kind of hope he winds up somewhere that can straighten out whatever apparent mental problems he's having because he was obviously very talented at one point and he's young enough that he could play for a long time if he can get his head straight.

King gets pigeonholed as a horror writer but he's pretty legit and he has some great books that aren't horror at all.

Looks like the "unlimited" plan throttles you after 35 gigs and doesn't let you watch video in hd. I don't know how that compares to the TMobile unlimited plan but the price is pretty compelling.

My grandfather used to tell a story of when he was in Air Force boot camp in San Antonio and it snowed. He said you could stand on any street corner and hear the cars smacking into each other every time the light changed.

Even in places that have winter every year the first day or two of icy roads is always a shit show. You kind of lose your muscle memory for it over the summer.

I know there's some good MVNOs on T-Mobile. I looked into google fi but it seems like it's only a good deal if you don't use much data.

I once jumped up and down on the end of a 6 foot cheater trying to get a lug nut loose on a truck until I actually sheared off a ¾" extension. Didn't budge the nut either. Had to go get the acetylene torch after that.

Maybe the tv show was exactly how he was planning on ending it so now he's shitting his pants trying to write an ending where Jon and Dany live happily ever after ruling the world and making beautiful babies together.

Also the jaws stay parallel unlike channel locks. Channel locks will damage the nut/bolt head. These will not. They're not for the same jobs.

Because a 1st and a 3rd didn't get it done presumably.

Speaking of nice tools, I recently became aware of these: They call it a "pliers wrench" and it's basically a replacement for a crescent wrench except that once you set the size, it actually stays that size unlike every crescent wrench I've ever owned so you don't have to keep adjusting it...

I haven't had much cell coverage at my house either but there is a new T-Mobile tower that was installed in my general area but hasn't been turned on yet that I think might be an option. Once I hear that it's activated (it was built like 9 months ago, I don't know what they're waiting for) I...

That's true. It's been a race to the bottom for all the power tools at least. You can still buy really nice hand tools from Germany and Japan if you're willing to pay for them but power tools are increasingly all crap with a few exceptions of really outrageously priced stuff like Festool.

It's our own fault. We buy based on price so the best way to increase your profits is to shave pennies off of it by continuously making every part of it just a little bit lighter and cheaper so we will buy things we don't need because they're cheap and we don't feel bad about replacing them...

I'm on Viasat, but I've had HughesNet in the past and my family uses it now. I would say it's slightly worse than ViaSat but in the same ballpark. I will say that both are much better than they were when I first started using satellite internet but they still leave a lot to be desired. How...

If you bought a new one it would be made in china and you'd have to replace it every 2 years.

I'm guessing they were being conservative about the bid because they couldn't come look at it and didn't know what they would run into. They also wanted to send two guys so there's 4 hours of whatever they bill their guys out at before they even start the job. I think there's a good chance...

When you take the filter off all the water in your pipes in the house will drain back out of the filter.

I can tell I'm getting old because whenever people mention actors and pop stars I have to google to see who they are.

Uber thinks you should have paid a plumber $1800 to put that in. You do need a valve on the other side of your filter though. My well pumps a ton of sand and would clog up the filter in a month so I swapped out my whole house filter for this one: I love it. I just go down there every...

Yeah, this guy is a perfectionist and I'm not. Probably the more likely scenario is that he'll be trying to make it perfect and I'll be trying to speed him up.

SN8 seemed like it almost successfully landed. This one wasn't even close.

Fortune has smiled upon me. Last night my sister texted and said that she and her husband are coming to visit for the weekend. Her husband just happens to be a plumber. He's going to bring some tools and fittings and we'll run the line on Saturday and hopefully have my new stove in place to...

Starlink uses low earth orbit satellites. They are like 2-400 miles away. Hughesnet and Viasat have a single satellite in geostationary orbit which is like 25000 miles away so they are pretty much limited by physics to a shitty latency. LEO means you need way more satellites and a much more...

Yeah, for a small project the money you save on the sharkbite connectors won't even pay for a decent crimping tool. I love sharkbite stuff but it wouldn't be practical to do them for a whole house. Some people don't seal sharkbites up behind walls and such either just because they do have an...

Beta testers are getting 100MB down, 20MB up and 30ish mS pings. That blows hughesnet out of the water. So far there's no data cap either where Hughesnet caps you at 10-50 GB depending on your plan. Hughesnet and Viasat claim to be 25MB but you never actually get that. A lot of times it's...

Trading the entire team and their future for Watson is a move that would make old Al proud. What's Carr's stock these days? I only watched one Raiders game this year and he looked great but I can't even remember which one it was.

The house has these little truss like things instead of regular joists so no drilling required. You probably don't even need hangers. When I ran my water lines I just snaked the pex through the ceiling. Totally trivial.

You're tempting me. I'm going to call a couple more plumbers in the morning and see what they say. I might call back the $1600 guys too. I actually have a pretty good relationship with them and maybe if I offer to run the line they would do it for less.

I'm afraid of burning my house down. Maybe this is unfounded fear but I've never fucked with gas lines before.

It does to me too. They replaced the furnace in my old house like a year ago (2 miles down the road) and the labor was only $2k. It's a drop ceiling with the tiles already taken out of it so running the line seems like it should take about 7 minutes to me but maybe there's something I don't...

Got a quote to run a propane line for a gas stove that I already bought at my house. $1600 to run a line ~50 feet in a basement with a drop ceiling. $400 in material and $1200 in labor. That includes an hour of driving to get here and another one to get back but I'm still sort of shocked at...

I agree. If Bosa comes back 100% he is a game changer. The only player on the 49ers that I would be more sad to lose is Kittle. That said, even trading Bosa probably makes sense to get an actual top 5 quarterback. I haven't watched enough Houston games to know that much about Watson but...

That's interesting. Unfortunately it's a very hilly area.

It's hard to think about this year as a miracle in terms of injury hehe. He did have some nice plays though.

Yeah, it only makes sense if the Vikes have their eye on some other QB. Maybe they want Cam Newton!

I don't either really, but if it happens Kyle Shanahan must think so, and I have a lot of faith in him.