Lately I’ve been watching Noel Phillips videos on YouTube. He’s an airline geek (as am I) and has been to some really unique places - some are interesting places on different continent, some just random remote airports in the middle of American nowhere.

“thank you?”

-that guy, probably

Whats ur favorite wine and cheese flavorz?

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Anyway, I want to like red wine more than I do, but white wine is my preference. Not too sweet, not too dry. Pinot grigio is great.

As for cheese, I always check the fancy cheese markdowns to try new things. My favorites are gooey like brie, but brie itself isn’t very flavorful for my liking. I’ve had one that was a mix of cow and goat milk, while still being very soft, and it was fantastic. Another favorite is tallegio, which is like a really soft cheddar with a thin edible rind and notes of mushroom flavor.

Mozzarella is always a favorite, but is gotta be dressed up a bit. My favorites are marinated, burrata (fresh ball with a creamy cheese filling), or wrapped with prosciutto 😋

Can you ELI5 why water has no calories, which is also a unit of energy? Do we just not absorb it?

Worst years of my life. Some par for the course, some not. For example, it probably didn’t help that my school district was going through a reorganization and I went to 4 different schools in 4 years (grades 6-9).

Everything with energy, sure… But I’m not sure that all matter has energy. Water, for example, has zero calories/energy. In fact, cold water effectively has negative calories as your body has to use energy to bring itself back up to temperature.

I think the question is if calories can take the form of a gas like it can solid or liquid. Like, just by breathing them in somehow.

even though I read this huge wall of text, I’m not closer to understanding what this plugin actually does

Sounds like every piece of corporate literature produced in at least the last decade

I work with a different kind of legacy system. It was retrofitted to work with SOAP, OOP, and some other modern stuff, but none of the old farts bothered to learn it. When I inherited a SOAP service that system used, I had to learn a lot about it to get what I needed.

And honestly? It’s been a lot of fun. It’s a unique kind of challenge, I’ve practically gained celebrity status at work, and even if it’s nothing I’ll be doing long-term it shows how I can pick up weird systems and work with others to make some miracles happen.

It’s all relative. I live in Denver and don’t think the Nebraska border (almost 3 hours away) is particularly close. But when I drove home from Minneapolis a few days ago, I was thrilled to be in the home stretch

So kind of like saying “I am 14 yeared” (the same way a shirt with stripes is a striped shirt)? That’s actually kind of interesting.

Wait until you realize where the word verano comes from

In my first language (English) a 14-year-old would day “I am 14 years old” which means “I am 14 years old”

In my distant second language (Spanish) they would say “tengo 14 años” which, like Italian, means “I have 14 years”

Just don’t die there - it’s illegal

Svalbard, Norway doesn’t even require a visa to live there, but you do need to be able to support yourself (basically, have a job lined up before you arrive) and you’ll need to be able to enter the Schengen region to get there.

Not sure why you’d want to go out of your way to immigrate to Russia of all places given… Gestures at Putin

My wife and I are in the Midwest for Christmas and plan to get our White Castle fix. It’s so bad it’s good. My go-tos are a slider with egg and cheese, and a double cheeseburger with extra onion and no pickles

I think thumbs up can be equivalent to the middle finger in some cultures. “Ok” is a great universal word though.

Body language (not necessarily gestures or charades) can be hard to control, but if you can pull it off it’s most universally recognizable. Deep breaths, arms down, and a look of focus and confidence to take care of the situation. They have your attention; they’ll notice.

I have a friend who worked in Oman for several years. My wife and I went to visit, and the three of us were going to get dinner somewhere. We ended up parking somewhere that wasn’t free, but wasn’t horribly expensive either (honestly, paying for parking is pretty uncommon there from what I saw). Payment was only done in coins or through mobile. Paying with our phones didn’t work, and we only had paper bills, so I went into a small shop asking if they could give me coins for a small bill.

I can’t remember what the shop was for, but it wasn’t anything touristy. Oman is very highly developed, but I’m always mindful about the privilege I have to travel internationally as an American. They said I could pay through mobile, which I said didn’t work. The employee walked outside, asked which car was ours, and plugged our license plate into his phone. How long will we stay? Couple hours. Ok, you’re all set. Cool! How much do we owe you? It’s ok. No, we can pay you. No, it’s ok.

He just would not take payment. Even if it was a small thing, the context and optics meant so much to me at the time. If you ever get a chance to go to Oman, I would strongly recommend it before the tourists take over.

That only works if x is already 0

If i is 10 and x is zero, yes, x -= i would have a value of -10. If x was 5 from something else previously, x-=i would end with an x value of -5.