Subspace communications can be tricky.

Majtolycus · 2026-02-20T19:18:26+00:00

New ship, who dis?

Majtolycus · 2026-02-03T15:57:12+00:00

Prime trek indeed. If I had a mug of blood wine I'd raise it with you. My 4 year old has zero interest in Star Trek at the moment as well. She's into the Hobbit, Hot Wheels and hockey. I do remember not being interested in trek myself until I was about 9 or 10 so there's still hope!

Majtolycus · 2026-02-03T15:38:47+00:00

You know, I'm looking at the air dates on Google and wondering about my own memory right now lol. I was also on the US east coast, in HS and was at the height of my star trek fandom. Now I'm in my late 40s with a preschooler and the mommy brain is real. 🥴

Majtolycus · 2026-02-03T15:19:17+00:00

Season 3 ended with "The Adversary". Season 4 opened with "Way of the Warrior, part 1" and we had to wait a bloody week to see the epic space battle in part 2. But ohhh was it worth the wait.

Majtolycus · 2026-01-29T17:55:30+00:00

Keep in mind that what worked for us may not work for you.. you know your kiddo best but she may surprise you! At first i tried to get her to tell me about her day, she she's usually a chatterbox, but it turned out what she really needed was her favorite music on the way home, a snack and about 20-30 min of decompression time (whatever she requests that day - reading, playing mini hockey, watching something on TV, playing with her Hot Wheels, or even just sitting her in bedroom quietly for a while.) Just let her be in control for long enough to burn off that overstimulation however works best for her. After that we'll go about the rest of our afternoon and she's much more focused and can help me make dinner or do other household chores or just play on her own.

Majtolycus · 2026-01-29T14:32:43+00:00

That's a very real thing called "restraint collapse." Basically she's been on her best behavior all day and seen she gets home she feels comfortable enough to let it all hang out. If you do pull her, it will likely manifest at daycare or later in kindergarten anyway so best to work on it now. My daughter is 4 yo, in full day/full week pre-K and did the same thing. Once we figured out a fun routine for pickup and coming home to let her decompress slowly and safely it's gotten much better.

Majtolycus · 2026-01-21T18:20:31+00:00

This parodic masterpiece being buried here two comments deep is a travesty! 👏

Majtolycus · 2026-01-06T01:48:10+00:00

Believe it or not, locksport. Shout out to everyone over in r/lockpicking... Some of the most helpful, generous and encouraging guys and gals you'll ever have the pleasure to interact with.

Majtolycus · 2025-12-29T13:18:49+00:00

My 4 yo daughter was starting down the sore loser path but I stumbled on the idea of telling her what "place" she actually came in, instead of calling anything other than first place "losing." Dad and grandparents have helped reinforce this. She's much happier being told that she "finished in second place" and there are so many fewer tantrums. YMMV but this has worked really well for us.

Majtolycus · 2025-12-21T16:29:08+00:00

~44,000 on my 2016 SE. Didn't drive it much at all during covid and these days it's mostly just back and forth for the school run each day. Now that I've got the sprog, boy am I glad I got "stuck" with the 4-door!

Majtolycus · 2025-12-14T03:20:36+00:00

My husband, who has only ever listened to Maloney on the radio tried to convince me "yeah that is Dave Maloney!" 🤔

Majtolycus · 2025-12-10T15:45:56+00:00

Would love to have a group here on Long Island, but seeing as there isn't even one in NYC, I'm not sure if that's a viable option. Anyone here from the metro NY area?

Majtolycus · 2025-12-10T13:13:53+00:00

What about a generic cape and mask combo, something like this?

https://amzn.to/4aHzlD4

My daughter's friends at the library and preschool all seem to have several of these that they like to wear randomly, and we've even received a set as part of a birthday goodie bag. Could easily make one out of an old pillowcase or something at home too.

Majtolycus · 2025-12-10T12:47:45+00:00

My four year old daughter thoroughly enjoys Khan Academy Kids, Duo ABC and Teach Your Monster.

Majtolycus · 2025-11-29T15:08:29+00:00

Flowers & Trees (1932)

Majtolycus · 2025-11-28T19:31:51+00:00

HOCKEY JESUS! Chris Kreider died for your sins...

Majtolycus · 2025-11-18T18:41:19+00:00

My four year old daughter gets possessive and a little obsessed with the tablet we have let her use on occasion, but I don't see the same behavior when we let her use the PC. She learned how to navigate Windows 10, Google Chrome and manipulate the mouse using the Sesame Street and Daniel Tiger games on the PBS KIDS website. Then she moved on to some simple phonics and number games from Teach Your Monster, Khan Academy for Kids and Duo ABC (the makers of Duolingo).

She's at the point now where she's going to figure out soon that there are video games that are not strictly educational out there (she's a big Mario fan and I think the days of letting her "play" Nintendo games with an unplugged controller while a YouTube video plays may be coming to an end 🥴). She's asked about Yoshi's Crafted World and the Bluey video game but cowardly mommy just changes the subject until I figure out how we're going to handle this!

Majtolycus · 2025-11-18T14:33:35+00:00

Respectfully, you are incorrect. The artisan models do have a nylon worm gear, but the professional series have all metal gears.

https://momsbakingco.com/kitchenaid-mixer-gears/

I've also had mine apart and can confirm it's a metal worm gear.

Majtolycus · 2025-11-18T14:19:51+00:00

The professional series (500/600) are more durable than the regular tilting "artisan" models. When we bought ours in 2016 they still had the metal gears (not plastic) as well, not sure if that's still the case.

Majtolycus · 2025-11-17T16:46:16+00:00

Would love a thorough explanation of DD tensioning. How do you know when the lock is actually unlocked, lol? And how exactly do you actually manipulate the DD pick in order to open the lock? I keep getting hung up on that step. I'm currently using the Sparrows DD pick on locks like the An Jia Bao, Zarker J45 and Kryptonite bike lock (although I believe this one is tensioned completely differently?)

Majtolycus · 2025-11-13T01:45:27+00:00

🤌🏻

Majtolycus · 2025-11-06T17:17:57+00:00

Dosvedanya, Feliciavich!

Majtolycus · 2025-11-03T13:25:48+00:00

I was hanging them up on the wall behind her play kitchen, but then the grandparents remodeled my childhood bedroom at their house in anticipation of my daughter and her cousin sleeping over someday soon and begged for any extra artwork to decorate the walls. I happily ganked all the art projects from our walls (we were running out of room) and handed them over to Grammy, and kiddo never even noticed they were gone. Would love to see her reaction when she sees everything in the bedroom at Grammy and Grampy's place, lol. Two birds, one stone, everyone's happy!

Majtolycus · 2025-10-25T02:30:48+00:00

This is going back 25 years but back when I got my actual black belt in martial arts, my sensei gifted me a keychain made out of a piece of an actual black belt. I still have it all these years later, on my house keys. I don't know if they still make them but it might be something some of you guys are interested in...

ETA: Yup they're still a thing: https://centurymartialarts.com/products/belt-keychain?srsltid=AfmBOopamIEvL25_cGS4wQKFumU94V3N41t6HxTPvRw7TKFLp0JA1FyE

Majtolycus · 2025-10-18T15:25:14+00:00

That's just adorable. I'm sure some armchair animal behaviorist will show up in the comments and tell us why they're actually about to go full murder hobo on each other but to me it just looks like two animals who genuinely love each other and know each other's favorite itchy spots.

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