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

It’s melted chocolate but if you use cheap chocolate that’s low in cocoa butter, you have to add oil, otherwise it gums up the fountain.

Measure by mass. Actually, that’s the solution to many cooking problems.

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.

Obviously you’re not a golfer.

Yes!

(woodchuck is from the Algonquin word “wuchak”)

Looks like a groundhog / woodchuck to me. They are a species of marmot.

This might sound ridiculous but I recommend watching with subtitles on. The accents are strong and the dialog is quick.

“Impudence!”

“No, tuna.”

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.

Clint Eastwood. Or a stand-in for Barack Obama, I guess.

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I watch Groundhog Day at least twice a year.

For me, I only back up data I can’t replace, which is a small subset of the capacity of my NAS. Personal data like photos, password manager databases, personal documents, etc. get locally encrypted, then synced to a cloud storage provider. I have my encryption keys stored in a location that’s automatically synced to various personal devices and one off-site location maintained by a trusted party. I have the backups and encryption key sync configured to keep n old versions of the files (where the value of n depends on how critical the file is).

Incremental synchronization really keeps the bandwidth and storage costs down and the amount of data I am backing up makes file level backup a very reasonable option.

If I wanted to back up everything, I would set up a second system off-site and run backups over a secure tunnel.

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.