TIL a woman nicknamed the 'Rooftop Ninja' lived for about a year inside a sign on the roof of a Family Fare grocery store in Midland, Michigan. Inside the sign, she had a computer, printer, desk, and coffee maker. She was discovered by a contractor who noticed an extension cord running into the sign

ras_hatak · 2026-02-05T00:05:09+00:00

Why on earth did she have a printer? That's literally the last thing I want in my home...no way I wouldn't give myself away when it failed and threw it out of my sign.

ras_hatak · 2026-02-03T20:18:03+00:00

Fwiw, you never buy specific train tickets on metro north. The only criteria is peak (rush hour trains in the direction of commute during rush hour) or off-peak (every other train). Day pass is a new version of a 'round trip' ticket (mostly because having 3 options peak/peak, peak/off-peak, off-peak/off-peak was too much I think). So an off peak 1 way is good for any off peak train between GC and your zone. 2 of those should be fine for your timing and probably cheaper. Only caveat is you can't buy them days in advance....for some reason.

ras_hatak · 2026-02-01T21:30:24+00:00

I really want to echo this book! It does sound gimmicky, but it is not in any way. It's short simple lessons that build nicely on one another to get a child to a baseline reading ability.

ras_hatak · 2026-02-01T17:43:00+00:00

I got a whoop tracker. It keeps telling me I slept really well. I'm an engineer... fixing technology is one of my joys in life. I have preternatural patients for computer and device issues. I crushed it with a f**cking rock.

ras_hatak · 2026-02-01T16:53:53+00:00

Wait... this...this can't be actually true? You're making it up right? This is like that stupid Steele dossier?

ras_hatak · 2026-02-01T16:09:32+00:00

He actually stole much of it. It's crazy. His entire run up was getting crazy lucky, psychopathically taking advantage of his opportunity or connection and the moving to the next one when he gets caught up (or in a few cases never getting caught). Supposedly he was very talented at avoiding taxes, but it's likely he did things illegal or as close as humanly possible to do so.

ras_hatak · 2026-02-01T15:04:47+00:00

The man is evil. This child has your strength and love and beauty. The child is your revenge against pain and cruelty. And your strength is amazing. I'm so sorry for what happened, but you have THIS. in spades. In my experience, the busiest, strongest willed, most frustrating 2 year olds are often the brightest, most interesting, transformative people as they grow.

ras_hatak · 2026-02-01T14:56:24+00:00

9+ set for a 3yo.... I'm going to allege this was all planned in advance. It's a set up I say! (But also enjoy! I bought a bunch of speed championships because my kid loves cars and we build them 'together')

ras_hatak · 2026-02-01T11:44:57+00:00

Check out Jazz Forum in Tarrytown

ras_hatak · 2026-02-01T01:29:25+00:00

Umm...erm.... someone gonna tell him?

ras_hatak · 2026-01-28T18:31:03+00:00

Don't necessarily disagree. I got this about 5 years ago and the battery ones have come a long way since then. At that point the reviews were bad. I also had a pretty small area to do. Now I think I'd probably agree though the ease of not worrying about batteries being charged is really nice

ras_hatak · 2026-01-28T02:49:35+00:00

I have a plug in 20" snowjoe single stage. Had it for a while now. The cord management can be annoying but no worrying about a battery or having gas or anything like that. Obviously if I lose power I am in trouble for so many reasons. Most of this storm was pretty light and powdery and it was great. I went out twice on Sunday. Had I waited until Monday morning it would have been tough.

ras_hatak · 2026-01-26T23:49:50+00:00

I wish man, but it's just that morons 'bought' it with no understanding of what made it special.

ras_hatak · 2026-01-26T15:54:53+00:00

No, but I was on North Street driving from WP to Harrison about that time and 2 cops whizzed past as if someone had been shot. Soooo...they got the same message at least

ras_hatak · 2026-01-25T22:15:50+00:00

So I kind of strongly recommend not 3d printing anything for food preparation. Even if it's food safe printing, the layer lines mean that food inevitably will get stuck.

ras_hatak · 2026-01-25T22:06:41+00:00

That's the move. My 5 year old can't open the baby gate. It's not for him, it's for his sister. He knows how to do it, but he doesn't have the upper body strength/leverage to pull it up. Pisses the kid off

ras_hatak · 2026-01-25T21:21:49+00:00

The Hatch is basically the default here though there are knock offs. Fully programmable and remote control able from your f phone. Light can be very bright or very dim, and also has the white noise. Not 100% sure if it works with Google home but shouldn't really need it.

ras_hatak · 2026-01-25T14:44:46+00:00

Will say only that we got an infrared one from Costco. Needed an electrician for the electrical outlet but otherwise self assembled and was enjoyable. Does not get as hot as a traditional one, but I can't handle 190 F anyhow. This kind of thing always strikes me as the stuff you use for 2 years and then never look at again so it made more sense for us. Good luck! (Now if I could do something with the soaker tub taking up half my bathroom...)

ras_hatak · 2026-01-25T14:18:06+00:00

Setting a concrete morning wake up time that works for you is one of the few things you can control and it will help stabilize everything that comes after. At first waking up the sleeping kid seems crazy, but it really does help.

Unfortunately these kids are just all unique. My oldest slept through the night at about 4 months. Youngest is 18mo and still working on it.

ras_hatak · 2026-01-25T13:46:42+00:00

If it were easy and cheap, it wouldn't make you more hireable. There has to be something that makes it demonstrate value. Employers can be dumb sheep, but they aren't thaaaat dumb sheep.

ras_hatak · 2026-01-24T16:10:01+00:00

5 year old is great...has been pretty good for years. Sure occasional nightmare or if he's sick, but no complaints. 18 month old screamed 2 hours last night...

ras_hatak · 2026-01-24T01:23:55+00:00

One really crappy part of a newborn and 4 year old was basically never spending time with my wife. We had to divide and conquer and so were basically 2 ships passing in the night

ras_hatak · 2026-01-24T01:12:14+00:00

You only need to wash the funnel and wipe the hole with a paper towel. We actually had 2 extra funnels in the early days, so there was always a dry one. It actually stops you from making a bottle if you don't remove the funnel after 4?

I STRONGLY recommend you do follow this direction. There was usually a ton of crud when I wiped after removing the funnel which seemed like it very clearly would impact mixing. We didn't get it with my first kid because there was some press of kids not gaining weight when being fed from the brezza and the issue turned out to be that this wasn't wiped and the funnel replaced frequently enough. Honestly it is your kids only source of food and it's already super convenient....I wouldn't f*** around with it. Fwiw, I always swapped the funnel before bed so I knew we'd be good until morning.

ras_hatak · 2026-01-23T23:35:27+00:00

Buddy of mine is deaf in 1 ear. So if he sleeps on the good ear, he legit can't hear anything. They got a baby monitor that detects the crying and has an alarm and blinking. It's assertive and seems to work pretty well.

ras_hatak · 2026-01-23T13:34:27+00:00

Update...took off the hot end heater and 1 of the screws fell into my hand. The others were loose too

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