If you read the article, he does not even grow his own pumpkins anymore but buys them from other farms in the area. It is more of a pumpkin themed seasonal theme park.

A month ago, my wife saw a nice looking cookie recipe on Instagram. When she tried it herself, the cookies came out looking amazing. We had to throw them out because they tasted awful.

I crack with the blade of a knife (since I generally have one handy to chop whatever else I am including in the dish). I can get a very good crack with minimal force. Since it is such a small break, there aren’t any large pieces of shell to get into the food. I don’t cook recipes that require separating the white from the yolk, so I am not sure how often I break the membrane between the two, but from casual observation, it is almost never.

According to the article, the league as a whole rejected the offer, but certain owners are rumored to be interested. I am sure the NBA is working with those owners to campaign on their behalf and/or looking at ways to move those teams from Euroleague to NBA Europe.

Based on publisher leaks, there may be smaller carts now. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/cheaper-lower-capacity-switch-2-cartridges-could-mean-fewer-game-key-cards/

A game key card is not as good as a full game on the cart, but it is better than a digital purchase. I can lend, gift, or resell a game license tied to a key card. Once I have a game installed, I can play it entirely offline and never check licencing servers.

As my therapist likes to point out, no one is calling out my gross incompetence, so I can’t be doing that bad.

With a sticker like that, the driver is practically begging to be rear ended.

Applying for jobs is intentionally difficult. A company needs to be able to review applications as fast as they come in. By adding a lot of needless busywork to the application process, the company ensures that the candidate thinks applying to this job is worth 10 minutes of their life. The fear is if companies make it too easy to apply, candidates will just apply to every job posting they see without considering if they are qualified for the job.

That is also why companies have resume keyword filtering, AI candidate reviews, and recruiting interns administering standardized tests. Companies I have worked at put a lot of effort to not have (highly paid) hiring managers digging through resumes just to reject candidates lacking any relevant skills. I assume companies would rather immediately reject the ideal candidate because a computer did not understand that “automobile” and “automotive” are synonyms rather than rejected that candidate because they are the 501st person to apply for the job and the manager made an offer after reviewing 500 candidates.

If the point is just to slow down applications, it would be better if people did not have to play stupid games, but could set up a system where a person can only apply for a limited number of jobs (maybe 5/day). I would assume that that would not be realistic to build, since people would game the system by setting up duplicate accounts and the more you try to weed them out, the more you will have people denied access to jobs because of false positives.

I assume it is because the show is too popular. Amazon makes more from show viewers than they lose to upset Trump fans.

Also, they have started a spin-off series, Neagle. Maybe it is a ploy to reduce the role of Ritchson in the franchise, though I assume it is to reduce the royalties they pay to the book author. I noticed that the opening credits to Neagle do not mention the author, probably because it is not based on any of the books, just a character from the book universe.

I am like that boyfriend, though The Little Mermaid is one of the few Disney animated films I have watched. I am mainly aware of Phantom of the Opera due to the amazing Nightwish cover of the main song: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=n1G5WiMoRjw

It was a boring dud for me, just that I prefer grey ELEGOO filament for my 3D printer.

I don’t buy much on Amazon, but it should be more than just filament. No notes about headphone choice or random one-of items I have bought?

Amazon has no idea about my board game addiction because I don’t typically buy games on Amazon. They have a reputation for selling low quality bootlegs as legit. Besides, I can often find a better price on comparison shopping sites like https://www.boardgameoracle.com/ or https://boardgameprices.com/

I don’t have high expectations for this movie. The big crossover movies tend to be among the worst MCU movies in my opinion, just because they have to give every character their own storyline instead of focusing on the story the film is trying to tell. Based on the trailers I have seen, this movie seems particularly at risk for this trap.

For some reason, the Fantastic Four are going to meet the main MCU cast, then you know they will fight until they see the goodness in each other’s hearts and become BFFs. Then the X-Men will show up, possibly as Doom’s minions or something, and the same thing will happen. Also, Captain America is back! There is going to have to be a plot line about why he leaves his world and how all the Avengers are happy to have him back.

Let’s say the film will start with 30 minutes for the Avengers to assemble, then a half hour for each of those stories, and suddenly, there are only 60 minutes out of a 3 hour movie to tell the main story of Dr. Doom/parallel universe Tony Stark trying to take over the multiverse or whatever his plan is.

Am I still going to go see it in theaters? Probably. I am sure I will have a few friends who will be dying to see it and will want to go see it in a group. Plus, I am sure that it will have a couple amazing set piece scenes and it will be referred to by every MCU film for the next 2 years.

I am not a fan of judging someone harshly for something they posted on the Internet, 15 years ago, as a pre-teen, so I think it is stupid if the Blazers fired him to dodge bad publicity instead of just having him apologize and claim that he has grown and matured since then. I would believe him.

On the other hand, by the time the article was written, the offending tweets had not yet been deleted, so it could be the case that the guy refused to apologize and doubled down instead.

I just checked, and now the Twitter account is private. Hopefully, that is because the (former) announcer is going through and deleting all the embarrassing cringe bait.

I want to like Hyundai/Kia, but every decade or so, they make a decision that saves them a dollar and costs the consumer$1,000 and I write them off as a car manufacturer for a decade.

Yeah, why does it have a steering squircle? I should be driving my car exclusively by swiping on a touch screen.

No, it should have been The Switcheroo

I wonder if the timing is affected by multiple Xbox studios unionizing.

I am sure that the risk of killing your child while co-sleeping is very low, but what parent would accept a small chance of committing negligent homicide against their baby?