I learned Ian’s Secure Knot because sometimes you get shoe laces that are slippery and never stay tied. The secure knot is way better than doing a double knot as you can easily untie it.

I also visit the site right after buying new shoes or boots and look up lacing patterns and pick something fun. I’m currently using Spider Web lacing.

Sorry for your loss.

I love how in Europe things are more efficient due to needing to figure out how to fit things into smaller spaces. Thanks for the info!

I’m in Canada and our dryers are basically ovens that spin the clothes and the moisture is exhausted out of the house. How do your dryers work? I’ve never had water buildup anywhere with my dryer so I very curious.

Just played the NES Contra yesterday for the first time in probably over a decade. Still can beat it first try although I did have to use a couple of continuous on stage 4. I’m so used to not dying that I forgot where to find the good weapons. But for stages 5-8 I still had all the muscle memory of where to shoot and when that I developed as a kid.

I drank the first half, you can drink the rest.

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I’ll vote for you if this is your platform!

I’m on 145 still. Maybe they are doing an A/B rollout for the UI. I’m not a big fan of all changes, but overall the aesthetic is nice.

Oh that’s interesting. About a week or maybe 2 ago I got a pretty big Firefox mobile update. The entire UI was overhauled. Have you experienced that yet?

Settings -> Customize -> App Icon was the first option on Android.

If I knew in grade school that Penner = Bum in German I would have been merciless to so many kids.

The exercise bit is so important. I’m mid 40s recently started working out with weights again after about 6 years of being somewhat sedentary other than running/walking dogs. Almost instantly I had worked out some pain my shoulder had been giving me that had been preventing me from sleeping well, and I don’t grunt when getting up from a crouched position anymore. Also just feeling better and more capable all around.

This is a really neat and well written list of games. It’s so interesting how different these games were from the console games at the time. So many live acted sequences with pre rendered backgrounds. The only game I knew of beforehand was Phantasmagoria, but Dark Seed was ringing a bell. Perhaps a friend had that one. I might have to try some of these games.

Probably because older phones are in maintance mode for the OS. Adding new features always carries some complexity and testing all models takes time. Limit the models to test to only the more recent ones and you save money.

That said, it would be so nice to have a more open system where I can decide that if that goes on my phone myself.

I think I’m just gonna block the word Hoekstra. Nothing good or worthy of attention is attached to that name.

Just wait for the repost!

No warranty? If you bought with a credit card they usually have a warranty extension feature and will extend the manufacturer’s warranty for you.

Did you read all of that? I can’t find any verdicts except for some (all?) of the plaintiffs being dismissed without prejudice. So many of the documents are sealed.

Don’t forget that it’s the only piece that can jump over other pieces.