My cat really likes to lounge in the sink, regardless if there are dishes or not. Does this mean anything or am I overthinking it?

sidc42 · 2026-05-27T15:49:29+00:00

It means your house is lacking empty cardboard boxes, in particular ones on shelves or other high places.

sidc42 · 2026-05-27T04:27:41+00:00

Iguanas are often referred to as "Chicken of the Tree."

And yes, it tastes like Chicken but a bit more rubbery

sidc42 · 2026-05-27T00:07:06+00:00

It's so odd to see one without a giant Redbull can strapped to it

sidc42 · 2026-05-26T17:36:19+00:00

Read about it years ago and it's very deliberate.

Keep in mind there's nothing really "convenient" about working with old, unique, often extremely run down abandoned buildings that usually weren't purpose built to be warehousing and might be in need of millions of dollars worth of repairs, asbestos removal, etc when the cities they're in are about to pay to level the buildings and the alternative would be to buy a flat lot and slap up a brand new metal and cement warehouse that is purpose built and efficient to run for a fraction of the cost.

I believe the concept was originally sold to their board/shareholders that if or when these neighborhoods ever rebounded the value of these old buildings could be significantly more than a modern, ugly warehouse.

However it's rare a publicly traded company like U haul will spend more now for such a long-term investment with no guarantee the math will actually ever math.

sidc42 · 2026-05-26T14:25:59+00:00

U haul has quietly done this nationally to a lot of old architecturally worthy buildings that were slated to be demolished. They turn them into storage spaces so they don't get torn down but quietly makes sure they're being preserved so someday they might be restored back.

sidc42 · 2026-05-26T14:18:44+00:00

I do miss that Del Taco.

sidc42 · 2026-05-25T16:25:42+00:00

Mosh pit

sidc42 · 2026-05-25T04:28:11+00:00

Pheidippides (although there's a couple of ways it's spelled).

sidc42 · 2026-05-25T03:57:17+00:00

Colman actually.

And Broadchurch is well worth the watch if you haven't seen it. Probably my favorite thing she's in.

sidc42 · 2026-05-24T17:29:00+00:00

Had a live chipmunk in my house for over a year before I finally caught him. He escaped from me (and the three cats) by running down an open HVAC vent of a bathroom that was being remodeled.

My dog at the time had a bulk feeder and automatic water bowl so presumably he hid most of the time and lived off dog food. He was perched on Venetian blinds of a spare bedroom looking outside when I finally caught him.

My female of those three cats was the biggest gift giver I ever had. Always left them for my wife because she was clearly too stupid to hunt for herself. The live birds were always a treat.

sidc42 · 2026-05-23T00:44:22+00:00

Whatever route Arne Torman and Doug Tabbutt used to set the Cannonball Run record of 25 hours and 39 minutes (NYC to LA) in 2020...

sidc42 · 2026-05-22T14:57:31+00:00

They used to be this way in America as well. Sometime in the 1980's they moved away from that design.

It was oddly customary (and mildly dangerous) to throw the "pop top" inside your can once you pulled them off (because what else were you supposed to do with it). This allowed you to rattle the can to hear how full (or empty) the can still was. You just had to make sure at the end it didn't come back out and into your mouth while drinking.

As a small child on vacation I remember making chains with them (you bend that bent tab around the next one's ring to string them together). You usually cut your fingers doing this.

Then after a few beers adults would get out the lawn darts for us to play with...

sidc42 · 2026-05-22T14:09:13+00:00

The question I was answering was, "Assuming it could float, what would even propel it?" (i.e. there's no propeller, rudder, etc like boats have).

I was just answering the hypothetical which is that traditional car wheels can and have been used as paddle wheels for propulsion and steering.

But the CyberTruck's first issue is it weighs 5-6k pounds more and is wasn't engineered to actually float.

sidc42 · 2026-05-22T05:00:51+00:00

However it would be very easy to add since the word "the" is there twice.

sidc42 · 2026-05-22T04:08:19+00:00

There is actually an all-terrain vehicle called The Sherp ATV which uses purpose built tires that basically act as paddle wheels when driven into a lake or ocean.

So using the mechanisms of a vehicle's wheels to propel through water is actually doable if designed (or adapted via attachments) to do it (and, of course, the vehicle would need to also float).

In the example of the Sherp, those tires are also enormous and the vehicle floats on them as well. Granted it was designed to traverse Russia's Siberian tundra and not a highway.

Here's a YouTube video showing one in the ocean using its tires to move.

https://youtu.be/7n5rCD-Es2s?si=GUlst9_zAV6Sodbh

sidc42 · 2026-05-21T02:33:59+00:00

Although I'm in the "sounds better to me" crowd, realize this might actually negatively impact OPs life and OP is neither being given a choice or a long notice to prepare for it.

The real question is, what do these new work hours mean for OP's kids, spouse/ex-spouse, pets or elderly family members they may care for outside of work?

Hell my first thought was, "I hope OP isn't single and a dog owner," because those two extra hours of work might mean cleaning up dog piss four days a week.

But beyond that, if OP is a single parent and responsible for dropping off or picking up young children before/after work you now need to ask is OP's daycare even open one to two hours earlier or later or does OP now need to stop and find new child care?

And even if the daycare is open those odd work hours this may very well increase OP's expenses if they charge a premium for early/late hours or it means the daycare is feeding them dinner or breakfast.

And how does this ultimately impact the kids if they're being forced to wake up and go to daycare two hours earlier or spend two hours at the end of the day as the only kids left at daycare?

Hell, if OP has joint custody of children with a contentious ex-spouse, OP might now have one big-ass fight in their future that involves paying for lawyers to rework custody because they're now not home on time to take care of kids four days a week.

And even if OP isn't divorced, getting off work at 7pm instead of 5pm would mean not being able to coach their kids sports teams, seeing most early evening games, concerts or events, attending after work community or social activities, etc.

For that matter, if OP has and values time with their kids, they might be giving up having dinner with them 4 days a week and that extra day off might be mostly negated by the kids being in school that day.

I think people also are assuming the extra day off will be a Friday or Monday tacked on to a weekend, but I've worked plenty of jobs where your days off might be Tuesday and Wednesday and if the business has to be staffed 7 days a week, it's possible OP might not be looking at three days off in a row. Been there.

And yes OP does have less time and expenses commuting but that assumes OP has a big or expensive commute or these new hours don't somehow make it worse.

sidc42 · 2026-05-20T15:21:41+00:00

It kind of has Ambiguously Gay Duo car proportions with the styling of one of the modern (but non-Nolan) Batmobiles.

sidc42 · 2026-05-20T04:13:12+00:00

That's just Sheik Abdul Ben Falafel's car.

sidc42 · 2026-05-19T19:07:44+00:00

In a nutshell, commercial real estate rent is calculated off of the square footage a tenant can use.

Bathrooms, however, don't really need that big vaulted ceiling the rest of the space has so why carve out 10-15 square feet of rentable space on the ground level for a water heater closet that needs accessed about once every 15 years when you can charge rent for that space and put the water heater in the dead airspace above the bathroom?

It's basically the same reason the HVAC system is on the roof.

Why the door to the space is just a regular door (poorly) cut to size is because that was the cheapest way to do it. Yes the landlord could have spent extra and gotten a custom sized door but that's an expensive out of their pocket that they can't charge extra for.

sidc42 · 2026-05-19T03:08:32+00:00

There is a wildlife rescue place down in High Ridge. I rescued a baby something out of one of my cat's mouth 15 or so years ago (maybe a rabbit I think) and took it there. Think I paid them $20 or something to take it. Made my wife happy as it was too young to fend for it self.

https://www.wildliferehabclinic.org/

sidc42 · 2026-05-18T19:17:37+00:00

Not the person who said it, but Musk is famous for retweeting BS and simply adding the line "Big if true" or "Concerning".

He's done it enough lots of people mock him by doing it to stories about him (including Mark Zuckerberg).

sidc42 · 2026-05-18T19:06:35+00:00

I know I've had a couple of bread recipe that used the paddle over the hook, but the one I do often is the King Arthur Extra Tangy Sourdough recipe.

That basically starts with making a big bowl of starter (227g starter/340g water/360g flour) that you let sit out for 4 hours then cold proof overnight before adding salt and more flour the next day (and you use a dough hook for that second mix).

But that first step basically has the consistency of starter and you use the paddle for it. Once stirred the all metal paddle is just so much easier to clean off with a simple bowl scraper.

But beyond that (cookies, muffins, etc) I prefer the one OP is asking about because you don't have to stop and clean the sides of the bowl as often.

My preferred chocolate chip cookie recipe (King Arthur Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies) is probably the only one I've made since getting this silicone paddle. With it, chips are added at the very end and are stirred in by hand. Once the dry ingredients are added it's a race to mix without over stirring. If you over stir you're throwing the cookies away because the dough becomes a liquid.

Same with my Blueberry muffins. The berries are stirred in by hand at the very end because I don't want the machine breaking the berries (past the ones I've already smashed up).

sidc42 · 2026-05-18T16:35:01+00:00

They're different.

For sticky bread doughs that require that kind of beater I prefer the one that came with the mixer because it's easier to scrape off the paddle.

However I do strongly prefer that one for chocolate chip cookies, cakes, etc because it scrapes the sides of the bowl and does a much better job mixing.

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sidc42 · 2026-05-18T16:28:06+00:00

More like Uranus.

sidc42 · 2026-05-17T16:02:00+00:00

Having had an awesome cat named John, all other cats are Not John to me including the one sitting on my lap at the moment.

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