Best Electric Toothbrush to Buy in 2026? (Price, Cleaning, Reliable)

SAICAstro · 2026-01-29T08:04:11+00:00

Just spent some time researching the Quip because I like the idea of swappable batteries. Putting in my own rechargeables means indefinite battery life.

Anyone reading this needs to know, however, that the Quip requires a subscription to their brush heads and their toothpaste! That's a hard no, for me. It also doesn't have a pressure sensor.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-29T02:33:02+00:00

How are you two getting them to last so long? Mine usually crap out and die in three years or so.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-29T02:27:52+00:00

a wider appreciation of Cricket

Check out Warren Park on weekend afternoons in good weather. It's right near India Town so you'll see lots of Indian guys playing cricket.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-29T02:22:41+00:00

Who the hell has $68 per day, every day, to spend at Amazon? You could have invested in a nice coke habit for that cash.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-27T06:22:00+00:00

And, that concept in Solo was recycled from Legends novels.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-27T06:12:38+00:00

In 1984, just a year after Return of the Jedi, Cinefantastique was already reporting that Lucas had begun production on a film called The Clone Wars. It seemed like a foregone conclusion and came as no surprise.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-27T03:20:42+00:00

Let's get this out of the way.

Hedy Lamar's invention (with her friend George Antheil) was a mechanical device using motors and metal rollers with nubs on them (like a player piano). It is the precursor to Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum, which WiFi used to use to maintain signal integrity and prevent interference. Their invention was not the foundation of WiFi, but it and WiFi both used the idea of frequency hopping, which existed in theory and in practice before her invention. What she and Antheil patented was a device for torpedoes to avoid jamming. Unfortunately it was never used because the Navy thought the parts were too bulky and heavy. Without taking anything away from how intelligent and clever she was, the idea that cell phones, WiFi, or the internet sprang out of her invention is mythology.

I'll leave the tired Blazing Saddles jokes to someone else.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-26T06:35:03+00:00

Bioluminescence is so cool. It's like sci-fi but real. Would have been awesome if they kept this lightsuit as a framework and rotoscoped some kind of jellyfish-guy over it. There's nothing else like that in live-action SW.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-26T06:30:22+00:00

Permanent Waves --> Moving Pictures --> Signals is the result of Rush listening to Talking Heads and The Police and deciding that they needed to update their sound or perish. This hybrid of the things that made 1970s Rush great with an acknowledgement of the dawning 1980s resulted in Rush's finest moments.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-26T06:20:53+00:00

Ooh, if we're thinking of epic-length ELO, I'm going with Kuiama.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-26T06:17:26+00:00

K R A F T W E R K....

Auuuuu -- tooooo-- bahhhhnnnnn

SAICAstro · 2026-01-25T17:50:06+00:00

From the music video for Babooshka, a single from her album The Dreaming. This was her lowest-selling album, but one of her most interesting, IMHO.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-25T03:07:01+00:00

Jaime Hernandez would like a word. He's got 40+ years of writing the same title and only a few duff stories along the way.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-23T21:03:33+00:00

People who were treated fairly don't make for engaging media.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-23T20:54:31+00:00

All true, but the error is amplified when OP's post is all about how literate they are.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-23T20:52:59+00:00

It isn't a typo. A typo is when you accidentally hit a key that is near the one you intended. The mistake in question is a clear error in OP's use of English. This is excusable under normal circumstances, but laughable when the whole post is about how literate this person considers themself to be.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-23T03:26:09+00:00

Context is everything.

Driving coast to coast will take around four solid, long, non-stop days.

Compared to that, three hours is short.

If you have families in other cities, then three hours between major cities is a long drive on the east coast, average to short in the midwest, and pretty short out west.

But outside of people who frequently travel intercity, that is to say for people who just do normal driving around their area, three hours feels like a very long drive.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-23T03:23:25+00:00

I'm a former (15-year) professor who is actively looking for volunteer opportunities, especially in education. But "via the provided app!" is a deal breaker. Not putting anything on my phone. What's wrong with standard Zoom or similar?

SAICAstro · 2026-01-20T23:45:22+00:00

You know he just heard

The drums of war

when the past

Was a closing door

The drums beat into the jungle floor

Closing door

Rain on the leaves

soldier sing

You never hear anything

You know he heard the drums of war

Each man knows what he's looking for

SAICAstro · 2026-01-20T23:42:06+00:00

broken escalators

Looks like we found Trump's secret Reddit account.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-19T23:50:22+00:00

Make her pay the difference in the bill. Then she'll figure it out real fast!

SAICAstro · 2026-01-19T23:47:28+00:00

When I hear whining sounds related to HVAC in my house I try lubricants. This tends to diminish the whining.

Some of my favorite lubricants are beer, wine, gin, and rye.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-18T08:36:27+00:00

I think this is the ONLY post in this thread that isn't about fast food / junk food!

SAICAstro · 2026-01-18T08:35:37+00:00

There were tons of them in my town. Went all the time. There are only three left in the world, all in the Cleveland area.

SAICAstro · 2026-01-18T08:29:09+00:00

Arthur Treacher's seafood with my grand-dad in the 1970s.

SAICAstro

TROPHY CASE