I had VT100s in university and it was all green or amber monitors until Windows 3.0. It was a relief to the eyes to have something that looked like regular print on white paper. I find the default colors of dark mode syntax highlighting distractingly bright. The colors against white (or rather, light grey) seem less contrasty.
I've been into raptors for 25+ years, and at age 54 saw my first California condor. We were driving back from the North Rim and I saw this massive bird, then caught sight of the white underwing. Pulled the car over, into a couple small shrubs (I was excited, ok) and grabbed my camera. I didn't have my good binos (vintage Leica) but the camera had decent zoom. It was blasting wind and the condor was riding it like a roller coaster, sometimes straight over me, then seconds later a half mile north, then back, high, low. In the zoo, they just sit; here, it was in its element and full of life.
There's been a citizen science study at UC Davis going on for many years now called the California Roadkill Observation System (CROS) http://www.wildlifecrossing.net/california/ It has maps of roadkill sightings, makes for interesting viewing. It used to allow you to select by species but unfortunately no longer.
I'm currently on Project Fi and I like it quite a lot. Travelling through Europe was seamless (these were countries that Fi has an agreement with; I assume otherwise I would have to purchase a local SIM, as I had had to do before Fi.) My biggest complaint is a 5-to-25 second delay between pressing the "call this" button and the line being picked up and actually dialed. Very occasionally I'll have a call that doesn't ring, but I had had this with previous providers and with greater frequency. Costs less than Straight Talk and you pay only for what data you use. I'm on WiFi most of the time so my data costs are pretty minimal.
From when I worked in restaurant: when your hands are full and a customer asks for something, you tell them you'll get to it "right away." It sounds satisfying to the customer, but actually means you'll do it when you are done with whatever you're doing. This seems very much in line with "ahorita."
The Food Lab is a great resource that also delves into the science behind the recipes and experiments to see what works, e.g. taller popovers, best taste and texture for chocolate chip cookies, etc.
Trump said a lot of things and flipflopped on several. And quite often when one votes for a candidate, you don't agree with them 100% on every issue anyway. It's pretty clear from #trumpregrets that a lot of people voted for him based on some stuff and hoped that he wouldn't follow through on other stuff.
> I missed ice cream, chocolate squares, Chinese restaurants and cocktails.
I'm a bit mystified how "Chinese restaurants" fits in to this list -- could someone explain? Did the author at some other point in time give up Chinese food for a month, or is he suggesting that Chinese food all has added sugar? (Personally, I can think of only a few Chinese dishes that typically have sugar added, and it's maybe a tablespoon at most for a dish that would serve 2-4 people.)
I was thoroughly impressed by the precise manipulation with the forklifts, particularly the rotation while they were punching the hole in the center. One guy pushes it at an offset angle, which rotates it, then the other repositions it to center. It's almost like a dance.
> insurance agencies wouldn't cover you if you came into their plan with an existing condition.
Before ACA I went through a period of unemployment and had to buy my own health coverage. I had been on Kaiser previously through my employer, so they had my health records. And they rejected me for a pre-existing condition -- eczema. Seriously. A decidedly non-fatal skin condition, in my case a minor annoyance, and they won't cover me at all.
The problem is that even if Trump creates no actual anti-Muslim policies, his supporters have been given the green light to do whatever hate crimes they want.
I love good food as well, both cooking and going to restaurants. But Soylent is fast and convenient for light meals. If I had a big lunch late in the day I might have it for dinner. But I definitely prefer "real" food for dinner with my loved ones. As for the taste, I think it's fine, kind of oatmealy, not oversweetened. If you don't like the flavor, fine, but that's your taste and not other peoples'.
American born Chinese checking in. I don't like to leave my little cushion called the Bay Area for this reason. In grade school I had my share of being called "Jap" and adults complimenting my English skills, but as an adult, the only racist remarks and behaviors (i.e. microaggressions) I've encountered in the past 20 years come from Facebookers in Idaho or thereabouts.
I consider myself an American, not hyphenated, who possesses more knowledge of Chinese culture than average. My close friends come in a variety of colors and as far as I can tell, we are just ourselves. That's not to say racism doesn't happen at all in the Bay Area, but we do have the luxury of being considered "nothing unusual" most of the time.
My mom (Cantonese) once told me at least part of the reason many restaurants have "garden" in their name is because the sound of the word is pleasant to the Chinese ear. "gar-den" means nothing in Chinese (or at least Canto) but it just sounds good, and in the English language it means a pleasant place, making it a good choice for a restaurant name.
Status-symbol names aside, I wonder how many of these names get chosen based on the pleasant sound aspect?
Every so often FB asks me to add my mobile number and pre-fills the field with some number I'm not familiar with. Not mine, nor anyone I know. Perhaps I should celebrate. ;)
(I haven't paid attention to whether it's the same number every time I've been asked, though; I probably should, and perhaps do a reverse search on it to see if I can find out who it belongs to.)
> some of the images are positive and some are negative
It depends on the color of the rock underneath. When white dust is blown on a dark surface one might get the impression of a handprint rather than the outline.
It was made much easier by the fact that neither of us strongly wanted children. There's an assumption (social and perhaps hormonal as well) that women will be the primary caregiver, which is a huge wrench in the works of having a career. I think more women would give it a try if the roles were fully discussed and agreed upon.
Same here. I supported a partner for some 20 years until he passed. He took care of the household and the cooking, I worked, and neither of us was uncomfortable with the arrangement.
I don't like how the article starts out with the qualification "most women X" but that gets dropped early on, leaving the default implication "all women X." And the title presumes to speak for all of us. Trust me, it does not.
If I had to give up meat, south Indian would be a lifesaver. It's so flavorful, you come out feeling filled and sated, and yet your stomach doesn't have the heaviness you get from a steak dinner.
As someone who works closely with birds of prey, I really wish this idea would go away. To me it's really not about whether or not it's dangerous to the raptor. It is, sure. But it is incredibly easy for a drone to evade a raptor by going straight up. No bird can climb that fast, not even a peregrine falcon, which is the fastest raptor going down. Any drone operator who's got half an eye on his/her drone will see that eagle coming and just get the heck out of there.
Wikipedia: "researchers have asserted that not all of the communications infrastructure, such as the bridges, was targeted, nor were the extensive industrial areas outside the city centre. Critics of the bombing argue that Dresden was a cultural landmark of little or no military significance, and that the attacks were indiscriminate area bombing and not proportionate to the commensurate military gains."
Being a woman in technology (late 80s-2012ish) was always incidental to the job, something others pointed out to me ("You know you're a role model for other women, right?" "Uhhhh..."), or something that occurred to me for ten minutes on a weekend once every few years. I don't share the author's belief that "gender blindness" is a bad thing -- IMO all genders need to realize and believe that gender is simply irrelevant to the work, neither a benefit nor a disadvantage.
> People conflate authentic with good, but you can also be authentically bad.
I do agree that conflation is inappropriate. In fact, I was just in a Pakistani restaurant the other night and had one of the most dull biryanis I've ever had. Yet the customers were primarily desi. And on a tour of China I was fed nearly the worst Chinese food I've ever had.
But authentic is still authentic if you take the best food you've ever had "over there" and bring it over here.