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We've looked into taking trains to certain destinations across the US, but every time it ended up costing about 4 times as much as flying or driving, so we haven't taken the plunge, unfortunately. These cases involved sleeper cars, so perhaps cheaper alternatives exist, but so far trains haven't...

Nonplussed.

I've taken a few breaks from this forum - one lasted for months and I came back to what seemed like a pretty different place. Another one lasted maybe for a few weeks. They both helped. A few things have happened here that really irritated me and I found that just getting some distance for a...

When I was staying with friends in Uruguay, one of them took me on a walking tour of Montevideo. When he ran into someone he knew, and he knew a lot of people, he introduced me like this: "this is [ewomack], he's from America and he doesn't own a cowboy hat." 80% of the people looked at me in...

"I'll put my foot down, so shall it be, this is the land of the free..."

I have had days like this. Oh, I messed that up. This is apparently a standup comedy video thread. Um... whoops.

I received a mini Arduino in the post today and it was far smaller than I thought it would be. Supposedly it functions the same as a full sized Arduino Uno (about the size of a credit card). I guess I'll see.

One upside of the pandemic is that we're no longer breathing in quite as much of each other's anal gas on a daily basis.

If you got a hot rod Ford and a $2 bill, then take her to the spot right over the hill. To think that $2 used to be a substantial enough sum to mention in a song.

It's strange having just read a lot of about the outbreak of both WWI and WWII and to wake up with the BBC screaming in my ear "Russia invades Ukraine!" So it actually did happen, I was beginning to doubt that it would. It's very hard to reach any kind of objective viewpoint in such power plays...