Sam Lin

Please don't waste good oranges, thx.

A traditional scallion pancake is one of the great joys in life. Stripe of Lao Gan Ma crispy chili oil to take it to 11.

I have a hard time believing the minimal gas savings justify the extra wear and tear, but I have no data to back that up. It's not there to save you gas. It's there to help the automaker meet emissions requirements on a standardized test cycle. My Mazda eats a battery every 2 years, and the battery needs to be a heavier duty partial deep cycle battery to survive the increase charge discharge cycles. The fuel savings definitely does not outweigh the battery costs.

Don't attempt to explain this to wife, but most fuel pumps are immersed in the fuel tank and start running hotter if the tank gets low. You will increase your fuel pump lifespan if you never run the tank under 1/4.

Actually, you jinxed yourself when you got married.

I tend to put the twisty tie on the bag, not on the bread, but whatever works for you.

It's a factor for me if it's a true abomination to use. I passed on a Ford because of Sync back in the day. I also won't buy a car that buries HVAC function controls in the infotainment.

LC200 has a few Android HU options with Carplay as well if the infotainment is a hangup.

But she thinks you're really thoughtful for filling the tank up, so you have that going for you.

Refurb at least for Jabra means you get new silicone ear tips, so I wasn't concerned. $20 is $20 man...

Both were wired identically (both Nest thermostats) - what I don't know is if the wiring in the wall to the air handlers is the same, though builder spec house, identical heat pumps, it <should> be. But one Nest worked correctly by default, and other cools instead of heat unless I switch that OB wire setting in the software, and then it just blows fan, still doesn't heat. But works fine swapped back to the dumb Trane TCONT800 thermostat that was originally there.

I swapped the two Nests and got same results, so it isn't the thermostat. I swapped the finicky thermostat back to the original "dumb" Trane thermostat and everything (heat/cool) worked correctly. Will throw the Nest on a shelf and try again in the future when I have more time. Very confused.

My set of Jabra seems to do pretty reliably for charging. Case does have charge indicator LED. Bought them refurb for pretty cheap, I think 30-40? They do have a known issue where the little magnets in the charge case come loose and don't trigger charge reliably, but you can peel the silicone back on the case and re-glue the magnets easily. I have not had that failure on mine.

Grom Vline puts Carplay into LX470.

No harm in letting it thaw, but you could sous vide straight from frozen also. 145 for 2hr, add an hour if frozen.

Bumping this for help. I have two Trane XL 14i heat pumps that I just tried to upgrade to Nest thermostats so I could monitor over the internet. One seems to work correctly, the other is behaving oddly. The existing thermostat was Trane TCONT800. Looking around on internet and looking at info from Ecobee's site, I should be able to treat the existing B wire as a C wire for Nest/Ecobee, and I should connect existing O to the O/B terminal. Snippet from Ecobee site: Existing wiring with the Trane TCONT: How I wired into each Nest: Here are the software settings on the Nest that works correctly, O wire heat pump: The other unit, if configured the same way, seems to cool when the thermostat is trying to heat. So I tried switching the software setting, heat pump to B wire, and then the unit doesn't cool when the stat is instructing to heat, it just blows fan, but still no heat. It doesn't make much sense to me that two identical builder-installed units would be wired differently in my house (one unit using O wire and one using B)? What should I look at next? (I have not gone to the air handler in the attic to check the wiring yet - I was hoping to avoid needing to go up there.) I did not disconnect power when I swapped thermostats, but I was very careful to protect each wire and not short it. However, if I shorted a wire and blew the internal fuse in the air handler, would the symptom be the behavior I'm seeing? I can also try swapping the two Nest thermostats themselves to see if one is actually sending a different command. I also read while Googling that even on heat, the heat pump will periodically run a cool cycle to defrost. Is it possible that I was in a defrost when I tested? If so, how long is a typical defrost cycle? (How long do I need to let it run before I'm sure it is/is not correctly heating?)

One bite of brisket to one pot of queso.

Tell me more about these Vietnamese strippers...

Goddammit. So.that's why my channel has no subscribers.

I'm of Asian descent and I laughed. No offense here folks, move along.

I keep a huge pack of disposable bamboo skewers and usually use those to probe, but as Cajun says, use anything.

Yes it sucks.

One of my best memories from college was studying in the library near some Econ majors, and hearing one complain "How do they expect us to remember all of these E's??? There's the small E, the big E, the pointy E, there are so many E's!" Life is hard.

It's a generic China Kamado, 1/3 the price of a brand name locally. Still cost more than a Jr in the US(!)

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