Aside from all the world famous obvious answers the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto CA was unexpectedly good. Saw a boot from a space suit, Shaq’s giant sneaker, a golden sandals that belonged to a king and lots of other cool stuff.
I don’t know if this is what they were referring to but Aeropress is great. Been using one for years as a secondary brewer when I don’t need a whole pot and it’s easy to make consistently good coffee without much fuss.
I still write 2 cheques a year because my water bill can only be paid via physical mail (or in person I guess), I’m pretty sure fax is still common in our medical industry.
Mainly we’re at risk from earth quake, flood, and wildfires. In general I keep a good stock of food, water, basic medical supplies and have a plan for evacuating if it come to that. For fire the main thing that is likely to affect me is smoke and I keep materials for making a Corsi-Rosenthal box.
She was a Flying P Liner. There is a film from 1929 documenting a trip around the horn on another of those ships called the Peking, great watch with some amazing footage. Around Cape Horn (1929)
My version is seeing the first cutscene in Resident Evil 2 and somehow convincing myself it looked indistinguishable from live action. I also remember being very impressed with Aladdin on the Sega Genesis (I had only ever seen NES games until that point)
Same, I also have a backpack for unique but non magical/useful items; dead fairy, mithral moulds, some armor I found in the mindflayer morgue. I definitely have a in game hoarding problem.
Paqui, the maker of extremely spicy tortilla chips marketed as the “One Chip Challenge,” is voluntarily pulling the product from shelves after a woman said her teenage son died of complications from consuming a single chip....
What Seasonal Things Should be Available Year Round?
We're all just characters in someone else's cyberpunk story (corteximplant.com)
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Rekt (mander.xyz)
It's time to let go (lemmy.world)
Ain't no one around to hate in the basement. Just me and my jug. (lemmy.world)
"Raccoon energy" is definitely something to aspire to (sopuli.xyz)
Perfectly good slice of bread utterly ruined by Marmite (newsthump.com)
Warm beer and cold coffee are the same temperature
What’s your best museum experience?
Is there an app that could send me a notification every 30 minutes?
They say time is is the most valuable resources. Right now, time feels quicker for me these days and I often lose track of it....
Altered Carbon (slrpnk.net)
What's an underrated/life changing product that's cheap?
IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - some of my fellow 'murcans are eligible (sh.itjust.works)
For your simple[r] tax needs: directfile.irs.gov...
What are you drinking tonight, and is it what you really want to be drinking?
Question in Physics (lemm.ee)
What Kind of Natural Disasters Occur Where You Live? And How Have You Prepared for Them?
Bonus points for man-made disaster preparedness tips.
Luck (lemmy.sdf.org)
Need help wall-mounting a tablet
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Knuckleduster-revolver, Italian, 1870s AD (lemmy.world)
A classic (sopuli.xyz)
Photo of the Pamir, one of the last commercial sailing ships in operation, picture taken in 1905, last sailing trip around Cape Horn in 1949 (lemmy.world)
In the US, there's a good chance you haven't even left your state either (startrek.website)
Truly an advancement (lemmy.world)
save it for later (lemmy.ml)
'One Chip Challenge' pulled from shelves after mother says spicy tortilla chip contributed to her son's death (www.nbcnews.com)
Paqui, the maker of extremely spicy tortilla chips marketed as the “One Chip Challenge,” is voluntarily pulling the product from shelves after a woman said her teenage son died of complications from consuming a single chip....