That’s insane! I pay a flat US$0.11/kWh, and if I wanted to go peak/off-peak it would be $0.15/0.06!

My go-to hot tea is Twining’s Irish Breakfast, stronger flavor than your typical English Breakfast. I prefer it with half-and-half and sugar, but can go with full cream or milk depending on what’s available.

As a southerner, I also like sweet iced tea (“sweet tea”) but was shocked to find what they serve at Chipotle is my favorite. It turns out the tea they use (S&D iced tea blend) comes from a provider in Concord, NC (just outside Charlotte) and they used to sell it for people to brew at home as well, but the company was bought out and don’t anymore. After some trial and error I discovered the secret was to put about half as much sugar in as I normally would. The tea blend itself is excellent, though, much better than you find in grocery stores.

It’s really worth playing and often available for a very reasonable price. I don’t think it’s a genre that ever seemed like something that would appeal to me but I’ve found it very enjoyable.

$0.51/kWh?! Where on earth is that?!

Why is digital Billie Eilish the picture?

That looks like a TJ generation. I’ve also seen these with the JK (usually compared with a cow). I’d be curious to see the JL/JT, though, because they did a very clever job of rounding it off while making it look like it’s still flat.

I think it depends on the price point, size of the market, and how much competition is in the market. If you’re selling 10 million of something you can probably get away with some slimmer margins than 1 million.

No, this was an actual comic he was drawing when they went to Comic Con

I don’t do a lot of the kind of gaming where refresh rate really matters (I don’t think Civilization needs to be 120hz) and for other things I do I’d much rather have the pixels, so 4k/60hz for me.

I recognize it but I would have to look up the title and assume that would be against the spirit of the game

If you just want to watch Sports™ and don’t particularly care what sport that is you’ll probably find at least one or two channels on the weekends that will be showing something. Most sports fans have particular teams they follow, though, and outside of the NFL most of those teams’ games will end up on cable. Even the NFL has the Monday Night Football game on ESPN (usually) and Thursday Night Football isn’t even on TV; it’s on Amazon Prime streaming. Broadcast channels have decided they don’t want to deal with the unpredictability of sports on weeknights to a large extent.

League championships are about the only thing we’ll see on most weeknights anymore, and I expect even those will move to cable at least sometimes. It is somewhat surprising since networks are starting to find live sports to be the biggest viewership draw nowadays; most fans want to see the results live. Other shows are easier to stream/binge later. But sports broadcast rights have also been getting more and more expensive and the networks are reluctant to pay for them.

You might be thinking of in the 20th century a local team’s games might show on a local broadcast channel. Usually this was an independent (no network affiliation) channel or they’d just preempt the network programming. The networks don’t like having their shows preempted (I know one station that switched from CBS to NBC a few years ago because CBS didn’t want them to keep preempting network programming for college sports) and regional cable channels came in offering more money for exclusive rights to all games except the nationally televised games. So a lot of games that used to be on broadcast moved to cable (cable also allowed some teams that used to only have some games broadcast to now broadcast their entire schedule). This hasn’t been entirely immune to the wider cable “cord cutting” phenomenon, though, and more sports are moving towards offering a streaming option on the Internet, although it’s usually not a complete option yet.

We had to make an emergency trip to Quebec in January 2022 because of health issues with the in-laws. Father-in-law advised to get the stuff rated to -20°F, but it wasn’t available where we live and I’d gotten the car serviced before we hit the road and they filled the washer fluid with what they had, I’m guessing 0°F. I bought some -20°F in Buffalo but didn’t have room to add any. The temperature was rapidly dropping as we headed farther north and as we neared Watertown, NY the fluid wasn’t spraying well. I tried adding what I could of the -20°F but by the time we stopped east of Montreal that night it was -45°F and the whole system had frozen solid. Tried using a hairdryer at the hotel, but we couldn’t melt it until we got it in the in-laws garage. Without fluid running the wipers can mean just smearing crud across your windshield, making it impossible to see.

Now I always make sure whenever we leave Quebec that I have a bottle of -49°F rated fluid and fill the reservoir at home before heading up in the winter. If there’s a lot of warmer-rated fluid in the car I’ll actually siphon it out.

Efficiency

I switched to YouTube TV years ago, but now it costs as much as cable (still somewhat better functionality for me though). If I could do a few sports streaming subscriptions I could drop that also. Use an antenna for local TV news when needed, but most of them do free streaming of their news and weather emergencies.

Postage stamping

In general I like Carr but as Panthers fan I hate the Saints so let’s GOOOOOO!

🎼is/can/should be/do🎶
—Frank Sinatra

How did you end up working for him a second time?

They need better SEO

I’d need to see what comparable x86 processors and graphics are to the M4, but yeah, this seems like it could be one of the first Macs in a while to be really competitive on price. It doesn’t happen often but it does happen. Fifteen years ago, a couple years after Macintosh went to Intel, I bought a Mac Pro. I had a hard time comparing prices at first, but once I finally realized I needed to be looking at workstations instead of desktops the Mac Pro actually came out to be about $300 less than identically spec’d workstations from Dell and HP. That was about the price of a full retail license on Windows Vista Ultimate (or later Windows 7 Ultimate). With Boot Camp and feeling like I could find Windows on sale for less it actually seemed to make the most sense with the added benefit of access to both Windows and OS X. It was frankly the best Windows machine I’ve ever used. No bloat, and all the drivers worked.