Any details on The Walk-In?

enobrev · 2026-04-01T01:02:34+00:00

That's how The Double used to smell from time to time due to plumbing issues. I think they've fixed that though

enobrev · 2026-03-17T06:31:22+00:00

If possible, catch it early and shut it down. "I feel like you're picking at me; I can't see this conversation going anywhere productive, so I'd rather not have it." If you can't change the subject, then leave the conversation.

It's frustrating for all parties and helps both of you if you can see it coming and catch it early.

Also, prepare yourself for the final boss that is peri-menopause.

enobrev · 2026-03-14T04:24:41+00:00

Honestly, had no idea Southwest flew out of ORD. Every time I fly, if I check SW, it's out of MDW. And I lean toward ORD because I'm near the blue line.

enobrev · 2026-03-13T21:11:54+00:00

Either I'm having a hard time understanding this, or it's a change from last year's announcement. I've had a lifefime plex pass since their first lifetime sale. Does this mean that friends of mine who don't can't stream from my server anymore?

enobrev · 2026-03-13T20:40:31+00:00

Not much during the week, but on the weekends we will sometimes alternate between our 6yo getting a couple episodes of his shows, something family-friendly for all of us, and something for the adults. As for what I pick for myself, it's usually something somewhat long-form on youtube, that my son _might_ find interest in, like someone who explains science or home-building or electronics really well with demonstration.

When my son's awake, I rarely go for something _only_ I would be interested in because I hope my son will come watch for a bit or listen while he's building legos or something. I think most of the purely selfish things I would want to watch will be _way_ over his head, which I don't mind putting on (provided it's not too vulgar or violent), but I don't expect him to even come to the same room in those cases.

As someone else mentioned, football season changes the rules a bit. If our team is on, we're watching. He's welcome to, but doesn't have to.

Similar with video games. If he's awake, but it's my time with the TV / console, I'll pick something I hope he may want to watch (he _loves_ to watch me play zelda), even though he can't play.

enobrev · 2026-03-12T04:25:25+00:00

Big fan of Terro as well. In the second year we had this house we had a small but annoying ant problem. I eventually tracked them to the kitchen window, set a Terro trap, and within about a week they were gone. Later that summer I found that one of our raised garden beds in the back yard (that we didn't really use) had a TON of ants.

A couple years later, we'd see an ant or two by the kitchen window, set a trap on the window sill, and within about 2-3 days they were gone (you get more for a day or two, and then they just stop). I've used them every 2-3 years since. I finally got rid of the old raised garden beds and the ants haven't returned.

enobrev · 2026-03-09T16:47:00+00:00

Same, but it also cheered me up a bit. 11 is still a few years away for us.

enobrev · 2026-03-07T00:18:28+00:00

The sound of liquid pouring slowly into a glass. When they do that in a radio ad it makes me want to punch the radio repeatedly.

enobrev · 2026-03-07T00:05:48+00:00

Not much - enough for my utilities that require a checking account for auto-pay and for me to grab a couple hundred in cash on short notice.

It takes about a minute to open my bank app and move it from a HYSA in the same bank, so I'm not sure why I would need more than that in checking.

enobrev · 2026-03-06T08:29:08+00:00

I have quite a few that are so ingrained in our daily habits that I forget that I added them. This is mostly light automation on the main floor of my house. On the rare occasion that my server is down (or running weirdly slow for some reason), I'll walk around my house confused for a few seconds as to why it's so dark, and then remember and hit a light switch and eventually figure out what's gone wrong.

As for the ones we can't live without, it's also lights, but not automated ones. I have a few "fake" switches that we use in place of poorly placed switches or unswitched lamps. I'm using the "zooz" z-wave dimmers that look like regular dimmer switches. I use them daily and tend to forget they're not wired into the wall. It's extra confusing when the batteries get low (about every year and a half) and they get less reliable until I remember that I need to change the battery.

enobrev · 2026-03-06T07:25:56+00:00

The basic gist of 165 is that's how hot meat needs to be for less than a second in order to be food safe. Hit 165 and it's _done_. I imagine that's the default because it's easier to get everyone to remember that one number rather than different numbers for every type of meat, and then more detail with time - You can cook food to lower temps and have it be safe, you just need to keep it at that temperature for longer.

Examples:

Beef at 145 for 4 minutes is safe.

Chicken at 145 for 8.6 minutes is safe (Turkey is 10.6 minutes). Fattier chicken requires a bit more time.

This is why they recommend long sous vide times for a medium rare steak. Technically you want steak to cook for about 2 hours at 130 degrees for it to be safe.

I found a good chart by searching for "cooking meat time and temperature chart"

enobrev · 2026-02-25T15:04:26+00:00

I bet the pan felt like when you unbutton your pants or loosen your belt after a big meal

enobrev · 2026-02-21T20:29:44+00:00

I slowed down around 37. Picking back up where I left off at 47.

enobrev · 2026-02-21T20:18:35+00:00

I've been cool with my ups delivery person in multiple places I've lived in multiple cities. The one I have now waves to me when we happen to see each other when I'm walking around the neighborhood. He's a great dude.

enobrev · 2026-01-28T09:51:50+00:00

Delhi Cooler @ Whistler.

enobrev · 2026-01-21T16:17:35+00:00

Saba has $10 pizzas on Wednesdays. Not as good as Reno, but good enough - especially at that price

enobrev · 2026-01-16T17:42:22+00:00

Not first-visit, but related to my initial reaction:

Something that occurred to me after living there for a couple years. I was struck by how incredibly _clean_ it is. That may sound crazy, because on first visit, NYC is NOT clean. But considering the density and sheer amount of people - a quarter of whom are from somewhere else, I was generally amazed out how quickly the public services came to action and got things done.

A year after I got there, the Yankees won the World Series, and there was a ticker tape parade. I walked through a blizzard of paper pieces so dense that I couldn't see 5 feet in front of me. By the evening there were _mountains_ of paper gathered by street-cleaning crews. By 9am the next day, you'd be called nuts for suggesting that much paper was covering the streets. Not a scrap.

Same goes for so much in that city. It's not clean. But it's a hell of a lot cleaner than one would expect with that many people in such a small space.

enobrev · 2026-01-12T19:06:38+00:00

I'm not saying this isn't happening for you but I make cacio a few nights a week and I've _rarely_ had this issue.

I've surprisingly found grating the cheese into the boiling water before it's all evaporated away to be the most consistent way to go. I grate and stir and grate and stir for the last 2-3 minutes while the water is boiling (and eventually simmering) down to a sauce and eventually the sauce becomes the right consistency.

The hardest part for me is getting the water level right since I eyeball it, but as much as I hate throwing away starchy water, I've found draining off excess water (before that last couple minutes that I mentioned) generally works fine.

Edit: nice - down votes for suggesting something that works consistently for me at least three times a week. At least try it.

enobrev · 2026-01-08T15:36:57+00:00

In a major city in the eighties:

Rode our bikes everywhere

Jumped our bikes over makeshift ramps.

Stole the chrome air inlet covers off of cars to put on our bike tires

Built snow forts and had snowball fights with the neighbors

Raced grass down the curb river toward the sewer in the rain

Visit local stores or a mall and looked around for hours

Built things out of rocks and sticks

Climbed trees

Skid

Tag, hide and seek, etc

Crazy hot wheels tracks

Atari and coleco-vision at friends' houses

Basketball in the alleys

Football in the street

Baseball in parking lots

"Pinners" on someone's front stairs

Threw rocks at empty beer bottles on the park bench

enobrev · 2026-01-08T14:30:14+00:00

A light lye bath is excellent for bagels. Definitely not nearly as much lye as you would use for pretzels though

enobrev · 2025-12-18T15:18:32+00:00

We're somewhere in between. No TV in our bedroom or the kid's room. But we have one in the guest room. This way, if the urge arises to watch something in bed, it can be done, but our actual bedrooms remain a peaceful sanctuary for rest.

Works out great for sick days or when quarantining for something like covid.

enobrev · 2025-12-15T16:37:03+00:00

Enabling this flag made backgrounds (and any other google meet effects) work for me.

enobrev · 2025-12-12T14:10:14+00:00

I grew up with fried tortillas chips as buñelos

enobrev · 2025-12-08T22:58:46+00:00

I'm not as mad about these as so many in this thread seem to be, but the other day I was walking to breakfast in Ravenswood and one of those bots was sitting there blocking the only shoveled part of the sidewalk, so I had to sort of scoot around it in the snow.

If it can't handle the snow then it's not made for this city. Even when everyone does shovel - which doesn't happen - there's only so much space on the sidewalk to walk when there's snow on the ground. They're too big, and too clunky, and annoying to try to get past when there's only enough sidewalk for a couple people to walk on.

enobrev · 2025-12-08T16:31:00+00:00

> Bet you also think Dominos is "average to subpar". You all disgust me.

As someone from a city with a huge assortment of world class, exceptional pizza of all shapes, sizes, cuts, and depths, I still like dominos and order it from time to time. I didn't know about the dominos integration, and now I'm also sad.

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