There is a song that pops in my head regularly because it seems relevant to what I’m doing at the time, and I’m pretty sure it is from Galavant. Can’t remember it right now though. sigh

Slings and Arrows

The Way of the House Husband:

If you believe that spouses don’t give each other cutting feedback and aren’t invested in each other’s professional success, then I have a bridge to sell you.

If you don’t like the writing style, that is fine. It is not for everyone. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t resonate with others because, obviously, it has.

Forward facing eyes are indicative of a predator.

Sweet monitor frame! Where can I get one of those.

I did this with a remote.

Immediately found the old one the day the new one arrived. In the same place I’d been looking for weeks…

In my house, the tagline is “I put it in a safe place.”

I need a microwave that emits a continuous tone until I empty it…

That was my favorite clay pot!

Windows 11 ended support for vertical taskbars and the default setting is along the bottom with the tasks centered. You can change the “taskbar alignment” setting to “left” but that just aligns the tasks to the left side of the bar. There apparently was a registry hack that allowed you to move the taskbar, but that got patched out by the time my work updated my workstation

Hey Windows, set my taskbar to run vertically along the left side of my screen. 🖕

What is it good for?

Boring everyday stuff like reading notifications without pulling out your phone, watching videos on public transit, watching a tutorial while working on a project, reading a recipe while cooking, navigation, watching whatever people watch when they get high, text magnification for folks who need it…

Those seas in particular? Because they are bounded by narrow straights.

A gulf has a more specific definition. A sea has a very broad one.

A gulf is mostly enveloped (engulfed) by land, but fairly open to its parent waters relative to its size on one side. Like a reverse peninsula.

A sea can be just about any large, salty, body of water that is between bits of land. They can have very finite bounds such as narrow straights and rivers mouths, more porous bounds like an archipelago, or broadly open to the ocean / other seas between islands or other land masses.

The question for me is “why is the Persian Gulf not a sea, but the Adriatic Sea is not a gulf?”

I guess part of it is that language changes over time, these things got named by different people over the millennia before they were well mapped. Some are translations from other languages, some are political decisions.

The idiom “a lemon in the hand is worth the boat you rode in on” conveys a similar meaning to the idiom “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”. It emphasizes that it’s better to appreciate what you have and avoid unnecessary risks or changes, as a loss of a current advantage may not be compensated by a potential future gain. The “lemon” represents something undesirable or less valuable, but the “boat” represents something that could potentially be better but is not guaranteed.

In Japan, they are selling a Japanese language only model that is cheaper than the international version. Any Americans that don’t understand that and try to get around the tariffs are likely to be disappointed.

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There is something similar but not quite. Masa is made from nixtamalized corn, but the process to make fresh masa means pulverizing the moist kernels into a dough. Then, to store for later use, the dough can be dried and ground into a flour: masa harina (literally “dough flour”).