Alan Wilson

Today I realized I present boxes of mac & cheese to our picky 4yo like a sommelier presents a bottle of wine. "Note the color of the cheese is yellow and the shape is shells...." "That will be fine," she responds with half-attention and a dismissive wave.

@neil_adavies @tracedominguez @jeffcannata The door orientation cannot be changed for many washers, including mine and that one, by the looks of it. Notice there are no lower screw holes for mounting the hinge on the right.

@tracedominguez @jeffcannata You know you can switch those around, right? I've done it multiple times on my set, depending on where they need to go in my house.

Oops, du jour.

The topic de jour is like Schrodinger's cat. Working from home simultaneously works and doesn't work. Also, it works and doesn't work twice as much as before.

@DanielBZhao That is totally a subsector the BLS would have! Meanwhile most of Internet, IT, and technology is rolled into some "other" category.

Labor shortages affecting the gold mine & mill museum subsector (Incidentally, the McDonald's down the street in this small Colorado tourist town was paying $15-18/hr)

@KyleCranmer Did that for my daughter just yesterday. After creating two new email addresses and reviewing something like 24 different permission settings (that all sound the same) she still couldn't visit her brothers' Minecraft farm.

Trying to set the privacy settings for my child’s Microsoft Xbox live account via a parental account so they can play Minecraft with another friend. 1 hour into this and I think this is some secret screening for the NSA

What is the American English translation of stroopwafel?

washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/… brought me to tears, then my daughter came up behind me wrapped in a leash and barked until I had to laugh out loud. What a world.

@DanielBZhao The whole toilet paper thing never concerned me, but this... ! Grass jelly is a fine alternative, with more flavor and less chew, but the mention of it as an alternative doesn't make sense. Isn't that also made in Asia and in particular in Taiwan, just like the boba?

Does boba show up in the BLS's CPI basket? sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

@AyalChenZion From now on he will collapse in hysterics whenever you forget and ruin his eggo with heat. You will not be allowed to provide an alternate frozen eggo. The only solution will be to refreeze "his eggo". He will cry until freezing is complete.

My son (2) was crying cause the eggo was taking too long in the toaster, as he does often. I finally snapped and said “fine have it, you won’t like it” after 5 sec in the toaster.... He is now eating a lightly thawed eggo with joy in his eyes. Should I be concerned?

This is some seriously big-brain larvae action! v.redd.it/0jwa22jlawf61

I don't know what it is about eel scientists, but they do have a way with a pithy quote

My son, just now, inventing Twitch: "Imagine if we watched a video while it was still being recorded!"

This thread is awesome! Like How It's Made, but less machine and more human.

Sprawled out atop a pillow in the window... Dogs, sometimes I *do* understand you weirdos.

95% of my parse errors in SQL are because of commas

@DanielBZhao Love them, especially the first one!

Sunrise & sunset in Joshua Tree National Park

It's been dim day. Solar radiation data for my area of Marin County, California:

Simple pleasures: the moment after I submit an authenticator token just as it expires. Will it be accepted or or do I have to try again? ... Accepted! 🥳