Well, GameStop does have experience running ThinkGeek into the ground.

If it makes you happy, go for it. If it doesn’t, skip it.

When I graduated from College, my family appreciated the pomp and circumstance. I won an academic award and my parents were very proud, so I was happy to go along with things. It was an hour or so and it wasn’t any kind of burden. Sometimes it’s important to do things for other people.

When I got married, my wife and I were already well established, so it was a break-even affair and people appreciated the party. We come from different traditions, so we picked the parts we liked and discarded the rest. Nobody left unhappy.

I found out some friends of mine who moved here from abroad had never had Dubble Bubble, so I bought some and we all had a piece when they came over for Christmas.

You might want to check if there’s someplace nearby that sells biltong. There’s a local butcher shop in my area that makes and sells it and it’s like the jerky you describe from when you were a kid.

Folding Ideas - In Search of a Flat Earth https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44

It was the first Folding Ideas video I watched. The pivot from the technical portion to the social commentary portion is masterful.

I’d recommend watching it on a large screen to get the full impact from the Lake Minnewanka experiment. It is very striking.

Dunno about you but where I live there are raccoons and they have already tried to make themselves at home on my balcony several times.

The only trash bins they have never figured out how to open are containers they can’t tip over and can’t physically reach the latch.

I saw a comment from a park ranger that the reason they don’t make trash bins bear-proof is that there is considerable overlap between the smartest bear and the dumbest human. There is considerably more overlap between the smartest raccoon and the dumbest human.

If I store food outside, it will be stolen by raccoons, especially in winter when food is scarce.

I watch Groundhog Day at least twice a year.

It’s on my list! Just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

To be honest, I recognized the screenshot and know the summary of the movie but I haven’t actually seen it.

The 1983 movie WarGames. This is the computer’s conclusion after simulating every possible outcome of Global Thermonuclear War.

Giant hogweed is pretty gnarly. If your skin comes in contact with its sap, exposure to sunlight will give you severe burns and scarring. The photosensitivity can last for days even after the sap itself has been washed away.

Mostly as a political prop but also for people like Vought to point to as evidence that their shared “burn down the government” philosophy is good for the economy.

Trump needs to prop up Milei until he’s no longer useful.

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It ends with a chop and the protagonist cashes out and walks away. Not exciting from a poker perspective but the protagonist develops as a person between the last bet and the reveal.

My wife decided the climax of her book would be a poker game and I was like “If you do this, DO NOT use the royal flush takes all trope. It is a tired cliché.”

She did something a little different and I’m very pleased with how she subverted that trope.

Some friends moved to Canada from abroad and their first Christmas here, we did every Christmas tradition we could think of with them, even ones we didn’t normally partake in ourselves. Introducing them to Christmas really brought back the joy of it for me.

Using warm water is unsafe. Cold water only.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/big-thaw-safe-defrosting-methods

I uninstalled Duolingo the day they started offering to restore your streak for money.

I live about 100km from my hometown. It’s where I was born and I lived there on and off for about half my life but I no longer think of it as home.