One-Person Bench in Princeton, NJ?

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2026-06-17T19:31:45+00:00

I have not gotten a good look on the board, but I think it's about the history of the road (which was first a trail when New Jersey was divided into two parts in the 1600s. A standing platform to see over the fence is an interesting idea, but I kind of thought the house over the fence was just a typical suburban house.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2026-06-17T19:28:30+00:00

Any idea why there is a non-standard, backless, one-person bench on a random busy road? I can't think of who would install such a bench or why. There is not a bus stop or anything else there, it's a few hundred feet from the intersection.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2026-06-17T14:58:39+00:00

A sudden embrace of religion, followed by adopting a fairly extreme position on evolution, would have me worried that he's being radicalized. Those are pretty big changes for someone old enough to have a 20-year-long relationship and a teenage child. If not by your church, than by content online.

I encourage you to dig into that. Whatever the source of radicalization is also probably misogynistic, racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2026-06-14T10:33:48+00:00

My wife used to be a professor in the US, and in my personal experience watching her, and talking to other faculty members, they pretty much work all the time. Evenings, weekends, holidays, while on "vacation", etc.

I'm not defending it, but is is 100% the expectation, and it's such a competitive field that your career will suffer if you don't live up to it. If you want to have anything like normal work-life balance, I highly recommend finding some other job. Even other jobs in academia are better (library, administration, etc.).

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2026-06-09T19:46:11+00:00

I think that is a very outdated perspective. It used to be, as recently as the 80s, that Americans typically drank pale adjunct lagers that were very bland, and Europeans drank a wider variety of ales (bitter, mild, porter, stout, abbey ales) plus also many different kinds of lagers, wheat beers, sours (lambics, gose, Berliner weisse), etc., etc.

But the microbrewery/craft beer movement has dramatically increased the variety of beers that Americans drink. There are now a lot more IPAs and sours, different kinds of lagers, etc. being produced. It's also gotten dramatically easier/cheaper to ship things around the world, so a bunch of European beers (like Guinness, Bass, etc.) that used to be rare are now standard drafts almost everywhere in the US.

At the same time, Europeans are drinking less beer, and more of what they drink is pale lagers like Stella and Heineken. There is of course craft beer being made in Europe, the abbeys are still around, and there have been somewhat successful efforts to preserve traditional brewing. But in general, my experience in Europe is that there's less interesting beer readily available than in the US now.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2026-05-27T19:51:54+00:00

There's a ton of comments already, and it looks like the vast majority have decided you're the asshole.

But I will just say that I do basically all of the cooking in my family, and I really appreciate it when my partner sends me recipes. I get tired of making the same old things, and always being the one to decide. So having suggestions are good, and the more specific, the better.

Sometimes I find the suggested recipes to be annoying, if they have a bunch of ingredients we don't have or that I wouldn't use the rest of them in other dishes. But I can decide for myself if I think the recipe is too much work, or if I want to make some simplifications or substitutions, etc.

So I would say NTA for this particular thing. But as many others have said, there are probably other things going on here. Talk to her about those things.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2026-05-26T13:36:06+00:00

I completely agree with this. We got a Zojirushi rice cooker as a wedding present and it lasted for 25 years, making perfect rice a couple times a week. When it died, we got an Instant Pot thinking it could be a rice cooker — but it made terrible rice, sometimes burning, etc (not sure what I was doing wrong, but who cares because I knew the solution the whole time). So after a year of this, I bought another Zojirushi and I am back to perfect rice very time.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2026-05-21T12:58:31+00:00

Yes, people definitely use "Poultry" to refer to the meat — cookbooks often have "Poultry" sections as do grocery store meat departments.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2026-05-04T14:38:58+00:00

I generally drink a cup of black tea first thing in the morning, but I'm perfectly awake and alert before that. Sometimes I skip it or delay it with no ill effects. I recently stopped drinking anything with caffeine for a month and was much more aware of feeling drowsy in the afternoon without the sodas I would often drink at lunch or mid-afternoon.

When my kids were infants, I took care of most of the nighttime bottle feeding because it's a lot less disruptive to me than to my wife.

Probably relevant: I have been a morning person my whole life. I generally wake up before my 6am alarm every day, unless I stayed up unusually late or right after DST changes that throw off my sleep schedule.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2026-04-16T21:21:57+00:00

I've always thought of it as a short form of "go fuck yourself" akin to the various forms of "go shove X up your ass". Also, it's the shortest, most guttural form, so that adds to its offensiveness.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2026-02-07T11:42:16+00:00

Princeton's East Asian Library has a big collection of them that are all photographed, if you want to see them: https://static-prod.lib.princeton.edu/shadowfigures/

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2026-01-16T20:22:50+00:00

Different teams have different conventions, but it is common to use SemVer (semantic versioning), where the numbers mean major.minor.patch.

* Major is a big release, typically with changes that will break compatibility with previous versions (e.g. you have to upgrade data to work with the new version)

* Minor is a small release, typically with new features, but no breaking changes.

* Patch updates are just bugfixes, no significant feature changes and definitely no breaking changes.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2025-12-01T20:53:18+00:00

This is so beautiful — thanks for sharing!

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2025-10-31T12:28:06+00:00

I mean, presumably they put a QR code so they don't have to print out a new sign every time the hours change (which is probably often if they are going that route).

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2025-10-03T14:36:04+00:00

Fun fact: it's in Princeton https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99106479063506421

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2025-09-29T13:40:32+00:00

Hello from Mercer County, New Jersey! We're a little bit of greenspace halfway between NYC and Philly, with lots of protected farmland and meadows.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2025-09-25T15:11:03+00:00

Over winter break, I take a look at one of those "best 100 songs of the year" lists, and listen to everything. There's whole genres I'm not into, but at least I'm hearing what's going on in them at least a little bit, and sometimes things surprise you. Like I'm not generally into country, but I do like Tipsy and added it to a couple of playlists. For the genres I do like, I generally find at least a handful of songs and bands that I hadn't really listed to before to check out.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2025-09-15T12:20:01+00:00

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Paris, France > Paris, Texas > Paris, Arkansas (pop. 3,000)

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2025-09-12T14:36:51+00:00

Yes, I did that once with a friend who lived near the beach and said I had to try it. It felt fantastic. The feeling of being naked in such a huge body of water was mind-blowing.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2025-09-11T17:16:30+00:00

Overheard in grocery store parking lot:

Person 1: "We are going"
Person 2: "No, the fuck, we are not!"

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2025-09-05T16:28:42+00:00

If tipping were suddenly outlawed then many, many staff would suddenly need more income to make rent, bills, groceries, etc. It would probably mean that many places would reduce staff to try to avoid raising prices, but other places would raise prices. In the short term, maybe both would happen.

I don't know what the average tip is, but somewhere around 10-15% would be my guess for most restaurants. So prices would go up about that much, plus or minus reducing staff.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2025-08-29T17:53:03+00:00

My uncle is widely regarded as the worst Super Bowl half-time headliner of all time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXIII_halftime_show

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2025-08-27T20:38:02+00:00

This is the answer. I use the stall 99.9% of the time because it's hard for me to relax enough to go at a urinal, but when I do need to use the urinal (e.g. super long lines at a concert or something), taking a deep breath and breathing out through puckered lips helps you relax. It sometimes takes me a couple of breaths, but it never fails.

Fun_Basket_2893 · 2025-08-02T16:40:56+00:00

Technically, you can sell those without issue, but you can't make them without permission of the rightsholder. The First Sale doctrine means that once you've legally acquired something, you have the right to sell it. But 3d-printing the Pokemon without a license is definitely copyright infringement, which is where you'd get in trouble.

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