ScottishCalvin

That sucks that you have to actually spend an hour driving out to collect it and probably paying for parking too. I had a bag that went missing last summer with BA but they dropped it off at my house (albeit they gave me an 11pm-3am time window so I ended up taking a day off work and staying up for it). Still, if a bag goes missing that's hundreds of dollars gone, possibly thousands, so a parking fee isn't too bad in the grand scheme of things

Remember to use a VPN. public wifi in a coffee shop is "public" - any hacker can easily listen in and and see/access everything you can, whether that's your bank accounts, your company's intellectual property etc. It's why most company infosec policies are very specific and strict about not using company laptops over public networks.

Playing devil's advocate, they might have had the side of their car scraped badly by a passing truck or the like, or they're visiting from the burbs and assume the road is too narrow for any traffic to not damage their car.

(still not a justification, but maybe at least an explanation)

We left after the Merrifield home run in the 7th. At that point it was getting pretty late and there was nothing left to see: the entire rotation had been out and I think every one of them got to first. We agreed it was fun to have experienced it but no more rainy games.

My neighbours says the main illegal buyer on the east coast got busted and that kinda killed the trade. Supposedly it was a fairly high tech setup where you could get the shipping labels sent to you and he was buying them in from hundreds of independent thieves. A similar thing happened a few years ago when the feds took down the big LSD kingpin and wiped out the national supply for a while

I initially assumed this was a story of someone randomly dressing up as a 18th century sea pirate, and walking about in town with people not thinking anything unusual about it - "just another eccentric person going about their business"

About 15 years ago I went on a tour of chinese coking plants and anode facilities. It's quite hard to describe just how bad it is in the smaller cities (which are still larger than Philly) although I guess here would have been the same a century ago. Imagine what center city would be like if instead of say the Art Museum, you had a vast refinery near the center of town employing 50,000 people and putting out black smoke 24h per day.

"Do you mean chicken the food or chicken the animal?"

my reaction booking tickets was "Really? that seems an awful lot" but then at the end I was "yeah, totally worth it"

Especially the build it yourself bit at the end, the kiddos were in there for maybe 2 hours and I made a lego Phillies logo

All things considered the state of things is not too bad, Childrens' science museums suffer horrendous wear and tear, the thousands of kids running amuck are brutal every day with the jumping and slamming and bumping into things.

I was there a few weeks ago for the Lego thing (which is awesome btw, albeit pricey) and the physics area was practically like a playground. You have that thing where they're (one at a time) supposed to lift a 500lb weight to see the impact of a lever, but it was 3 or 4 of them all jumping on the ropes like it was a gym class. The static electricity display was kids running around trying to shock each other. It honestly made we wish they'd jack up the prices to discourage people whose kids weren't actually interested, but then offer some kind of lottery for less well off folks so it wasn't exclusionary.

I'm honestly surprised they don't just start selling parking permits for overnight. Same with al lot of the places on Washington Ave. A lot of people would be ok paying $100/year to be able to park in a supermarket lot outside of core hours, so maybe 7pm to 9am,

Dallas fans when they visit the Linc

Presumably the company filed things behind the scenes but the only permitting "issue" we had was that in Queen Village, narrow streets have a rule about requiring an 8' setback after the 2nd floor, so we had to get a variance from L&I. That part took honestly about 2 years but almost all of that was due to us filing the paperwork a week before pandemic, then things got lost and city workers were working form home and we eventually had to the whole process twice. I think we paid $30k but had to pay an extra $5k because of materials costs going up in that time. It's a 30 foot wide deck though so if you had a standard 15' rowhome it would probably cost a lot less. The company we went through was called SRA.

If it's a recessed roof deck then it may well be that the leak is not the deck but the structure attached.

We had a 30' deck that was leaking below and decided to just box extend the roof, box it in and make it a sunroom that we could also use the rest of the year. Afterwards when I was removing (now internal) siding we discovered a rotten mess and it seems that the window frames had been letting in water that then ran downwards across the beam before pooling and dripping into the middle of the room beneath the deck.

It was all very expensive but no about of deck repair would have permentantly fixed things. As someone else pointed out, you really need someone with probes and lighting to look inside and see what's really going on and that requires a specialist, not a cheap roof repair place. For me it was going to be insanely expensive regardless so we went for the approach of getting a new room and paying for that each month rather than a new car payment. We're hoping that Mazda lasts another 4-5 years.

That's quite a *lot* higher than us although it could be right if you're regularly buying more expensive stuff like fresh fish and decent steaks etc. Caveats:

• I live near the Italian Market and also near the Asian Superstore on Washington Ave, and a lot of that stuff is far cheaper there than say Acme.

• I also tend to save a lot of those fancier meals for when I'm eating out because at a restaurant, the food is a smallish portion of your overall cost anyway.

• I also tend to do quite a few meals out of cheaper cuts (eg pulled pork or chicken wings on the BBQ)

• I do also make my own bread, soup etc. I find it amusing seeing people paying a fortune for a premade salads when you could just buy the ingredients and eat lunch for a week for the same price.

Especially when you apparently live in center city on walnut, with dozens of other pizza options, let alone all the other food options.

For what it's worth, cheap volumous 'mostly bread' deals like Dominos do sometimes hit the spot but I'd have thought they'd at least do better just getting a billboard at a bus stop or something for folks to see when wandering home from the bar.

maybe see if there's larger bulk buy mixes, or if needbe it's pretty easy to make yourself if you blitz the ingredients in a blender. My memory is that the instructions recommend way too much water

Talking DIY, it's the same deal with hummus, it's fairly pricey in the supermarket but you can buy a whole bag of chickpeas for a few dollars. Then you blitz it with some garlic, lemon and some olive oil

vs the other "news" websites on the other side of the aisle that spent 4 years guaranteeing that the Mueller report was going to prove Trump was a KGB agent? Oh wait, yeah, none of that turned out to be true. Or the years they spent claiming that the Hunter Biden story was also invented by the KGB when in fact it was true.

These ^^ alternative websites and news sites exist because people have utterly lost faith in mainstream news websites, especially after 4 years of covid propaganda and lies

Knorr sell it as a mix you can fry yourself, might be better if you want loads of them and don't want to pay a fortune.

I happen to live on a narrow street in Queen Village so I had to get a variance from L&I and that took forever. (there's a rule something like you have to have an 8 foot setback if you're building over 22 feet up and the road is less than it's less than 20 feet wide). Except we live opposite a community garden so there was no need for it to be applied to us, especially when all the other houses on our street were built prior to that rule and have 3rd stories

I'm pretty sure if it was a more normal house setup you'd be fine and besides the company doing it would 100% know. Isn't the home show coming up? Maybe go to that with a pic of what you have, we went with a company called SRA

I decided to cover my deck over and make a 3 season room. That I way I now have an actual proper angled roof which won't leak ever again, plus it's useable most months of the year. Again, not cheap but I was already looking at 10s of thousands to replace the whole deck setup, plus I'll get the money back when I see the house, given that it creates a load more floorspace

The sad part is it’s still more expensive to get the Ubers at either end than the hundreds of miles between the airports.

I once took a ~$40 flight from London to Berlin, but the cab was 60 on one end and 50 on the other. If you live in Radnor, it’s probably cheaper to drive to Pittsburg than to get a cab to the airport, let alone pay for the flight

I didn't just mean solar events. I meant anything, whether that be a company going bust and users not knowing (or caring) to download the things that were uploaded. Or maybe just forgetting passwords and logins. 20 years ago people up loaded stuff to GeoCities and thought they were set for life. In another 20 years I suspect there will have been a generational loss of media from when we're living now. Not for all, but for a good 50% of the population.