Sometimes iffy electronics will work if you keep them cold. You might try keeping the microwave in a chest freezer—just run a fairly flat extension cord in.

A decade ago, I remember explaining to management why we still had Windows Server 2008 R2 running terminal services with Citrix. Ancient 16-bit applications that needed a 16-bit subsystem!

I spend a lot of time making biscuits. When that recipe gets old try making different versions. Try drop biscuits, use yogurt, add mix-ins. Make a fluffy southern biscuit. Pretend you’re on a cooking show and the challenge is time: make them without measuring. Eat a lot of biscuits!

Five years ago, I felt like ultra-liberal Portland Oregon was awfully vaccine hesitant. I believe it may have shifted as a reaction to Trump 2.0 and Covid, but a lot of what I think of as anti-science still exists. But at least democrats don’t put RFK in charge of vaccines.

I wish I could have gotten my new kettle with metric temps instead. Really jazz up my kitchen.

I just got this excellent cephalopod kettle that additionally heats water to specific temperatures. Saves me from having to add one medium size ice cube to my coffee.

I’ve been putting my tarp over wood directly—didn’t realize I was doing it wrong :)

You just changed how I think about virtual screens. I feel like Khan being unloaded on by Kirk.

I decided long ago that I liked the single monitor with multiple desktops. But in my head they have always been a line of desktops instead of a grid.

Somewhere there is a mathematician who uses a hyper cube array of desktops…

Link to report instead of awful Fortune link: Giving Pledge

My memory is that it was an ARM based laptop. This story seems to confirm that: arstechnica.com/…/linus-torvalds-uses-an-arm-powe…

I think it was the Asahi district.