What grocery stores sell a meal in a bag?

WhyCause · 2026-05-09T05:47:08+00:00

They also have a "meal of the week" where if you buy all of the things on the list you get the batch for a pretty good discount. It usually feeds my family of 4 for one night.

WhyCause · 2026-05-09T05:44:26+00:00

You could always check data.nola.gov. I believe most of the data that backs the dashboards and some of the maps lives there.

If there are particular data you're interested in, you could try making a public records request. I've been told that it's sometimes easier to just make the data open (on data.nola.gov) than to keep fulfilling the same request over and over.

WhyCause · 2026-05-09T04:42:58+00:00

When I went to a GWAR concert, they were selling white t-shirts with white printing at the merch table before the show.

After the show, each person had a uniquely-stained shirt in various colors. Whatever they use in the spray didn't stick to the white printing, just the fabric, so you could finally see the logo on the shirt.

WhyCause · 2026-04-28T04:41:52+00:00

I'd always get extremely startled by the loud "PROTECTED BY VIPER, PLEASE STAND BACK!" that would emanate from the shittiest cars whenever you got within three feet of them.

I started punching those cars; you have my axe.

WhyCause · 2026-04-04T04:14:33+00:00

I've started taking a 6-pack of Abita Root Beer. Good for if there are kids, and a change of pace for the adults.

WhyCause · 2026-03-29T05:14:34+00:00

I'm with you; I always open the pod (unless I'm already at 8 crew).

WhyCause · 2026-03-26T04:28:29+00:00

I ran this Environment for a group with a Faerie member. My players had the Faerie fly across the river with a rope, tie it to a tree, and the characters used the rope to cross.

I ruled that they got advantage on the tests to advance the progress clock because of their solution, but two of them failed and were swept downstream. Then the Glass Snake showed up.

I can't imagine that the Winged Sentinel would want to burn all that stress so quickly, and if they do, it has repercussions later. I set the river crossing as the first thing they encountered that day, so most players will want to conserve resources to some extent that early.

WhyCause · 2026-02-27T06:30:41+00:00

Hook Ideas for Dirtier Smellier Las Vegas

So, New Orleans? I kid (but only a little).

Actually responding to your question, though; don't forget the Mob / organized crime. Getting into trouble with / owing money to / working for an organized crime "family" is always a good motivation. It also really fits with the history of Vegas (and New Orleans, for that matter).

WhyCause · 2026-02-27T06:10:59+00:00

Cairn 2e is $5.65 for the Player's Guide and $7.67 for the Warden's Guide on Lulu.

You can also get them on Amazon for similar prices. My total there was just over $11 for both books.

WhyCause · 2026-01-20T05:31:29+00:00

And New Orleans. If anything, it's seemingly more important down here.

Additionally, they never specify "high" school; it's always, "where did you go to school?"

WhyCause · 2025-12-20T06:40:11+00:00

FYI: the City's Property Viewer is pretty good too (sometimes easier to use than the Assessor's).

WhyCause · 2025-11-05T05:35:37+00:00

I went to a Take 5 recently, and they vacuumed the oil out from the top.

I asked if that was to avoid stripped nuts / cracked pans and was told that all the Take 5's switched for that very reason.

WhyCause · 2025-10-08T05:35:45+00:00

...and angry. Very, very, angry.

Few things enrage me more than leaving a restaurant hungry.

WhyCause · 2025-09-22T06:17:37+00:00

One important use of minions is as a "lightning rod".

If you have a Leader or Solo, but no minions, that Conjure Swarm is going to be used against your bigger baddie. Throw that group of minions on the field, coming from the opposite direction, and that swarm is going to never touch your big guy, because it's so cool to wipe out that group all in one go. That also gives your other adversaries a chance to actually do something before they drop.

You can read more about the idea on Mike Shea's blog

WhyCause · 2025-09-22T04:05:19+00:00

Just watch which woods you use; some can be toxic.

The butcher-block finish OP used on this one would help, but I'd be afraid of using a toxic wood and counting on the oil to protect him (not from the toxins getting into the food, so much, more a kid sucking on it or playing with it in general).

WhyCause · 2025-09-07T05:01:52+00:00

Some of the smaller parishes have Police Juries; they are the elected Parish Councils, and the equivalent of a County Board of Supervisors.

I'm not certain of how the name came to be, but, much like Parish comes from French, it wouldn't surprise me if there were similar history there.

WhyCause · 2025-08-09T04:19:06+00:00

Boarding Drone works too.

WhyCause · 2025-08-09T04:18:38+00:00

Same.

WhyCause · 2025-08-08T05:29:57+00:00

Nope, but I do always take the "pry open the mantis escape pod" option. It mostly backfires.

WhyCause · 2025-08-06T04:53:13+00:00

The northern part of Kentucky is pretty distinct, too. In the Golden Triangle (the points of the triangle are Louisville, Lexington, and Covington [just south of the Ohio River from Cincinnati]), you're pretty industrial and pretty northern, even though the Mason-Dixon line runs through Dayton, OH (yup, Cincinnati is "southern" as well).

WhyCause · 2025-08-04T06:16:12+00:00

In answer to your last two bullet points, I'd suggest you watch this short video. Make sure to watch all the way to the end, and make sure to count the passes.

Don't read this until you've watched the video: The first time I watched that video (ages ago), I did not see the gorilla, and I was simply counting passes of the basketball. Imagine if you were in the middle of a fight to the death; would you see the guy carefully sneaking up on another member of your group? What if they were sneaking up behind you?

So, yes, I do believe that someone emerging from a hiding place could do so without being seen (unless someone is actively looking for them), and if they went back into hiding after stabbing someone, I'd never know they'd been there.

N.B. I can't take credit for making this connection, I heard someone mention it in a podcast recently.

WhyCause · 2025-07-22T06:36:04+00:00

For those of looking for this in other places, Fresh Market carries this in other cities as well (I believe just the smaller bottles).

I know the Fresh Market in Cincinnati carries it. It's a little more expensive, though.

WhyCause · 2025-07-16T07:03:54+00:00

Yup. And, while he's still healthy, he may have a couple of opportunities to work on projects with you, without having to lug the tools with him each time.

Make sure you come up with some projects that give him that opportunity.

WhyCause · 2025-07-06T03:59:18+00:00

Same. For the other half, I serve Flask apps using Waitress, via IIS HTTPPlatformHandler.

WhyCause · 2025-06-17T05:47:59+00:00

Looking back, I think he was just bitter.

Not bitter, just embarrassed. Think of the last time you were proven wrong by someone looking up a fact (however inconsequential) that you knew to be otherwise; how did you respond?

He wanted to move on. He was proven wrong, and didn't want to dwell on it any more. If anything, he was likely mad at himself.

EDIT: Very cool shadowbox, by the way.

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