I like the idea of this match, but I’m cautious about the article. All they say about the gas-powered boat is that it’s a similar size; they don’t mention the actual type of boat the chase boat was, and I didn’t see it in a brief skim of the video. I suspect that a notable percentage of the electric boat’s efficiency is due to its being a hydrofoil. If the gas boat is the standard hull-in-the-water, it would naturally be less efficient.

That there was a disembodied head that lived in the toilet at night.

I think that only applies to Texans.

Maybe French ketchup is different than American ketchup?

Pros: high protein food

Cons: makes a spoon dirty

Suggested improvements to recipe: note to thoroughly lick spoon clean, or use a finger to swipe up the peanut butter.

This is for people who might not have pasta sauce in their pantry, but most people will have ketchup in the fridge.

I got a Brother INKvestment Tank MFC-J4335DW. I think it was a Wirecutter pick. The ink is supposed to last for up to a year, it’s a Brother so there’s no fuckery, it does color and b+w, prints, copies, scans and faxes. Since my PC is old (Win7), I had a little difficulty setting it up, but it’s worked perfectly ever since.

Pricing on that unit: you can find used and refurbished ones for about $120, but I hate buying used printers. After poking around the Internet a bit, I bought a new one online from Staples for $179.99 (which is MSRP). It’s over the minimum limit, so I got free shipping; it showed up at my door the next day.

I have a Staples rewards account; they had an offer where you got 30% of your purchase price back in rewards points (you need to activate the offer first) [this offer is still available]. So they gave me 10680 points for that 30% reward, plus another 178 points for the purchase. I took the ink cartridges out of the old printer and gave them to Staples Recycling for another 100 points each. I also gave them my old printer to recycle (easier than taking it to the towns e-waste event every spring); they gave me another 500 points for that, plus 1000 points because it was my first time recycling tech with them.

In total, I got 12858 points, worth about $64 in store credit. Since I actually do use office supplies, I know I’ll use the credit: for example, yesterday, I picked up 4 reams of printer paper for $3.74 each (though I do miss their back-to-school penny-paper week!).

Anyway, that’s what I went with: the Brother MFC-J4335DW from Staples. YMMV.

Those are structural couches, providing a basin for more contents.

Finn is gorgeous!

Did they somehow not see the camera blatantly on the desk, feeding an image to the monitor, directly of the couch? Did they not see the butt imprint on the couch? Even if they didn’t recognize the set it was based on, it was pretty blatant.

This is from that same Time/Life article as the earlier one. The full caption is

Appalachia, eastern Kentucky, 1964. John Dominis/Life Pictures/Shutterstock

This is from a 2014 Time article called “War on Poverty in the Pages of LIFE: Portraits From an Appalachian Battleground, 1964” which (as you would expect from an article focusing on LIFE magazine) has a number of interesting photographs. This particular one has the description:

Caption from LIFE. “On a wintry afternoon in Line Fork Creek a family trudges across a rickety suspension bridge over a sewage-polluted stream to its two-room shack.” John Dominis—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Typical Kennedy, leaving dead bodies all over the place.

Good point!