There have been few “innovations” in the pizza realm over the years: cheese in the crust, cheese to the edge (i.e. no crust), etc.
The only place left for them to add cheese is on the bottom of the pizza. I haven’t seen that announcement yet, so I’m going to invent that here. All Around Cheese pizza. I don’t know that it’s going to be practical, but that can’t stop progress.
You may have some questions, like “Won’t the cheese melt off the pizza and drip onto the bottom of the over?” or “How would you hold it?”
Those are good questions, and I don’t have answers. I’ll let one of the big pizza companies figure it out. One of them must be desperate enough to try it.
honey, curds, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness
2 Samuel 17:29
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Finally, someone has closed the loophole:
I have always thought it odd that stores required shirts and shoes but not pants. I’m glad at least one store out there does.
Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me!
Job 38:3
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Most car critics judge a car’s quality by the panel gaps. The smaller the gaps, the better the car. My 20-year-old Jeep has no such pretenses. In fact, the headlights were designed with a large gap on purpose – to change the turn signal bulbs, you have to remove a screw and the only way to get to that screw is between the bulb covers.
To those who criticize the build quality of this Jeep, what’s your car going to be doing when it is 20? I don’t care as much about build quality as I do about the design quality. If the vehicle was designed to last, that’s the quality I want. I take build quality out of the equation by buying used cars. If it wasn’t built well, it’s either been repaired or junked after 10 years.
I personally think it is a bad user design have the screw there, but I don’t mind the gaps themselves.
I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
Ezekiel 22:30
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I bought a used lawn mower (Hustler Mini Z zero-turn) when we moved into our new house almost two years ago. Hadn’t talked to the seller since then.
Until just recently.
He called me, out of the blue, and asked if I still had the mower. He regretted selling it and wanted to buy it back. And he was willing to pay what I originally paid.
I wasn’t really that attached to the lawn mower, and this guy did seem to be. There was some suspicion that he knew something I didn’t. Maybe it was a collector’s item and he could sell it for double. Should I keep it and prevent him from profiting? Or should I keep it and deny him the joy of using the lawn mower he wants.
I didn’t have a good reason not to sell it, other than a vague suspicion. So I sold it back to him.
My justification was along the lines of this: if he had approached me two years ago with the proposal that I could borrow a zero-turn mower for almost two years at no cost to me, would I have accepted that offer? Sure would have.
It does feel a little different than that offer, but the basic concept is the same.
My wife’s reaction was “But now you’ll have to go buy another mower.”
My response: “You say that like it’s a bad thing.”
So I got a used Worldlawn Viper ZTR. Sounds fancier than it is. It’s slower than the Mini Z was, but it has a wider mowing deck, so the mowing time should even out.
The tires don’t have a good grip (i.e. they slip on the wet grass rather than moving the mower) so I’ll get some new tires with better traction. My plan is to not only get a different tread, but also get a bigger size so the top speed will increase.
What appliances/tools/machines do you have that you wouldn’t sell back for the same price you originally paid?
If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold.
Leviticus 25:25
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The worst part of a Slinky is when it gets twisted together. Once the coils get intertwined, I would much rather throw it away than try to get it untwisted. And in the rare case when it does come unstuck, the Slinky is never the same. There’s always a noticeable gap where the metal got bent and can never be put back to its original shape.
So you can imagine my disappointment when I ordered two coil springs for my Jeep and opened the box to find this:
I was glad that it wasn’t as bad as it looked. Just a slight tug and they came apart.
and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them of twisted cordage work, and you shall put the corded chains on the filigree settings.
Exodus 28:14
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My son wrote something on a piece of paper and then showed it to me:
He has a bright future as a EULA writer.
They were glad and agreed to give him money.
Luke 22:5
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The weather had been iffy, so I decided to check if the game was still on. The organization’s website told me this:
“Updated: Today”
That’s worthless. What if the website guy typed in “Updated: Today” yesterday and never changed it?
That’s one of the more annoying trends in web services: giving the relative time instead of absolute. For example, your inbox says it was updated 3 minutes ago. And it has said that for the last half hour.
Dear user-interface designers: try to give information with absolute times/dates, not relative. That way I know if the information is stale.
In my line of work, I deal with safety systems. There are all sorts of mechanisms for ensuring data is new and correct. I don’t expect rolling counters and checksums, just a normal date and time display. Don’t try to make my life easier by oversimplifying the data – you’re making it worse by making the data unreliable.
But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 3:13
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This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
