If they had bought it, they would have run it into the ground.

*saveloy

Well, it was twenty years ago, so my memory might not be fresh, but we would go out to lunch, then head back to the office, so there was some elapsed time in between.

I don’t know, but I’d like to think I would shut everything off and run away until it demonstrably hadn’t exploded rather than take a picture!

I visited Costa Rica on a business trip around twenty years ago. The thing that blew my mind was every person in the building, after we got back from lunch, trooping to the bathroom and brushing their teeth. That’s public health done right.

They look like a gas furnace and a hot water tank. My first thought was "Why are they connected? ", because I thought the tank had its own heating element. My second thought was “Aren’t those water lines? How does a water line become incandescent?”

Je suis un rockstar, by Bill Wyman

Obviously Ikea.

ISWYDT

It is basically a gyro.

No, it wants to be roasted and covered in cheese sauce.

Makes perfect sense to me. It’s generally acknowledged that

Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round

Yes, the captions are horrible.

With a large form factor phone in my pocket, I have access to millions of books right away. When I’m not reading an ebook I’m probably listening to the audio version instead, because I need my hands and/or eyes for something else.

Revisiting Eric Flint’s 1632 series. I read the first several books and anthologies some years ago, and enjoyed them, but lost track of the series. I’m a bit daunted to see they got up to nearly forty published books, but we’ll see how it goes!

I had to look up Blinding Lights, and I don’t recognize it. I know the others from that list (whether they fit the criteria or not).

They wrote “you” at least once, so they appear to know the correct spelling.

Aren’t the tires not supposed to extend outside of the wheel arches?

IIRC people with older devices have found that replacing their battery does not significantly help, becathe replacement battery was manufactured at roughly the same time as the device it goes into, and has degraded over time even without use. This is anecdotal of course, but seems reasonable to me.

Some short browsing appears to indicate that batteries can last for years of stored properly, but how does one verify if the replacement battery in their phone was really stored appropriately?

I once went to Costa Rica on a business trip, and every one of my colleagues there would head to the bathroom after lunch and brush their teeth. That’s what you get when you teach dental hygiene.