Random Thoughts

[kurumi]

These were probably more of a thing many years ago: cookbooks or magazine recipes where the one promoted ingredient was absurdly specific:

Chocolate Chip Cookies

1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 cup Greenbaum's Original Blue Ribbon All-Purpose Baking Flour
1 egg
...

[Big John]

These were probably more of a thing many years ago: cookbooks or magazine recipes where the one promoted ingredient was absurdly specific:

Chocolate Chip Cookies

1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 cup Greenbaum's Original Blue Ribbon All-Purpose Baking Flour
1 egg
...

Did Greenbaum's publish this?  This is where I substitute ingredients.

[formulanone]

These were probably more of a thing many years ago: cookbooks or magazine recipes where the one promoted ingredient was absurdly specific:

Chocolate Chip Cookies

1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 cup Greenbaum's Original Blue Ribbon All-Purpose Baking Flour
1 egg
...

Did Greenbaum's publish this?  This is where I substitute ingredients.

It's definitely still a thing, for the handful of times a year I try out a new recipe.

Every time I make McCormick's French Toast, it reminds me to use their vanilla extract and cinnamon. (They even sent a few goons to help crack eggs when I used Watkins extract instead.) I substitute plain coffee creamer for half of the milk and use Texas Toast, so far that's been a winner.

Creamer was an emergency moment due to my miscalculation, but after the family reveled it tasted better than the last time, I always make it that way.

[GaryV]

cookbooks or magazine recipes where the one promoted ingredient was absurdly specific

Cookbooks: not very often (unless it was a cookbook distributed by a product or company).

Magazines, also newspapers and websites: all the time. Yep, there's a sponsorship or kickback going on.

[Scott5114]

I attempted this strategy in the modern era by making a site full of card game rules that specified my brand of playing cards. It didn't work.

[LilianaUwU]

I attempted this strategy in the modern era by making a site full of card game rules that specified my brand of playing cards. It didn't work.

But I thought I couldn't play poker without Denexa 100% plastic cards?

[vdeane]

Is anyone starting to wonder if Beltway has some kind of personal stake in the tunnel industry?

[TheCatalyst31]

These were probably more of a thing many years ago: cookbooks or magazine recipes where the one promoted ingredient was absurdly specific:

Chocolate Chip Cookies

1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 cup Greenbaum's Original Blue Ribbon All-Purpose Baking Flour
1 egg
...

Most of my family's traditional holiday recipes were like that, and were usually cut out of a magazine or the ingredient packaging itself. Some of the older ones, notably the peanut butter cookie recipe we made every Christmas, were probably a couple decades older than me and were held together by several layers of tape. (I think that recipe was sponsored by Peter Pan peanut butter, not that we went out of our way to use that brand.)

[Scott5114]

I attempted this strategy in the modern era by making a site full of card game rules that specified my brand of playing cards. It didn't work.

But I thought I couldn't play poker without Denexa 100% plastic cards?

Apparently, some bastard figured out a way.

[D-Dey65]

Some of you may have read that I take a lot of pride in the time I used one of those railroad crossing emergency signs to report a tree on the Brooksville Subdivision east of the Hernando CR 491 railroad crossing. Well recently I snuck a mini-road trip to Levy County in order to capture some signs along US 19-98 in places like Crystal River, Inglis, Lebanon Station, Gulf Hammock. and Otter Creek. So far, one in Inglis turned out okay, and the ones in Otter Creek did too. But on the way back, I decided to take a detour towards CR 491 via Citrus CR 482. By the time I got to the Brooksville Subdivision railroad crossing, I found out the overgrowth there was utterly insane.

This time my phone was almost dead, and the only way I could contact CSX was to take pictures of the crossing, including that sign. When I tried to call them. I got a teleprompter that didn't give me any options applying to my situation, and then recommended I go to their website.  So, I looked on their website, and none of the departments they wanted users to send e-mails to were relevant either.

[Scott5114]

Did you try contacting the DOT? The railroad may not be their responsibility but they probably have the means to inform CSX of a safety issue on their track.

[Rothman]

Did you try contacting the DOT? The railroad may not be their responsibility but they probably have the means to inform CSX of a safety issue on their track.

That's a pretty convoluted way of getting information to a railroad.  DOTs mainly manage funding funneled to railroads to maintain crossings (or even remove them) with some oversight for standards, but not much beyond that.  DOTs work with RR liaisons that operate as project managers, rather than with anyone doing operations.

Sending info to the wrong unit in an RR is more efficient.

[D-Dey65]

That's a pretty convoluted way of getting information to a railroad. DOTs mainly manage funding funneled to railroads to maintain crossings (or even remove them) with some oversight for standards, but not much beyond that.

I used to do that kind of thing a lot. I often sent requests for road improvements to the Town of Brookhaven Superintendent of Highways knowing full well that they would forward many of them to Suffolk County Department of Public Works, Region 10 of the New York State Department of Transportation, the Long Island Railroad, and even some villages within the Town of Brookhaven.

The thing about the Brooksville Subdivision is that I'm starting to think CSX might be in the process of abandoning the line north of the Cemex Mine in North Brooksville, and If that's the case, they ought to just cut down the brush one last time and tear up the tracks and take all their other equipment with them.

[JayhawkCO]

Random thought: Seeing a nurse put an IV into your three year old is a special kind of hell.

[kphoger]

A few years ago, the streets in our neighborhood got a layer of slurry seal.  With this recent deluge we've been getting, a bunch of rainwater must have gotten in through some cracks in that layer on a street near us.  It then apparently slid a big slab of thin asphalt, whole, several feet down the street and left it there, leaving the old pavement visible where it used to be.

[Rothman]

That's a pretty convoluted way of getting information to a railroad. DOTs mainly manage funding funneled to railroads to maintain crossings (or even remove them) with some oversight for standards, but not much beyond that.

I used to do that kind of thing a lot. I often sent requests for road improvements to the Town of Brookhaven Superintendent of Highways knowing full well that they would forward many of them to Suffolk County Department of Public Works, Region 10 of the New York State Department of Transportation, the Long Island Railroad, and even some villages within the Town of Brookhaven.

The thing about the Brooksville Subdivision is that I'm starting to think CSX might be in the process of abandoning the line north of the Cemex Mine in North Brooksville, and If that's the case, they ought to just cut down the brush one last time and tear up the tracks and take all their other equipment with them.

Heh.  Town Superintendent is one thing (i.e., they absolutely love telling DOTs people are complaining about State roads ).  Regarding rail crossings and rail infrastructure, it is still best to directly contact the railroad company one way or another.

[D-Dey65]

Random thought: Seeing a nurse put an IV into your three year old is a special kind of hell.

It's not exactly heaven for the three-year-old either.

[Max Rockatansky]

Random thought: Seeing a nurse put an IV into your three year old is a special kind of hell.

It's not exactly heaven for the three-year-old either.

When I was that age I was convinced the doctor was a vampire.  He kept wanting to take blood from me and nobody, not even my parents would provide an explanation for why.

[Scott5114]

When I was that age I was convinced the doctor was a vampire.  He kept wanting to take blood from me and nobody, not even my parents would provide an explanation for why.

Hell, doctors order bloodwork all the time and won't even tell paying adults why they want it. I think it's mostly a racket for the lab companies.

[Rothman]

When I was that age I was convinced the doctor was a vampire.  He kept wanting to take blood from me and nobody, not even my parents would provide an explanation for why.

Hell, doctors order bloodwork all the time and won't even tell paying adults why they want it. I think it's mostly a racket for the lab companies.

My doctors have an online portal where you can see what they ordered and what the results were.  They always have gone over them with me.

Then again, that's probably due to my having survived cancer.

I learned long ago to not look up my test results.  Too much stress when the doctor just tells me what they mean.

[kphoger]

Hell, doctors order bloodwork all the time and won't even tell paying adults why they want it. I think it's mostly a racket for the lab companies.

Meanwhile, a nurse practitioner recently prescribed my wife medication over the phone, based on a recent visit during the only thing they checked was her blood pressure.  Granted, it was blood pressure meds, but they had done zero blood labs.  That was concerning to us for the opposite reason you describe.

[1995hoo]

I was washing my hands and I noted how the cold tap water isn't particularly cold with the hot weather we're having. That, in turn, made me speculate about our clothes washer. It has two cold water settings: "Cold" and "Tap Cold." The distinction is mainly relevant during the winter when the water from the tap is particularly frigid. "Cold" warms it up some amount at that time of year as opposed to how it comes out of the tap. It makes me wonder whether it would chill the water if the tap water were too warm. The owner's manual doesn't say.

[Max Rockatansky]

I was washing my hands and I noted how the cold tap water isn't particularly cold with the hot weather we're having. That, in turn, made me speculate about our clothes washer. It has two cold water settings: "Cold" and "Tap Cold." The distinction is mainly relevant during the winter when the water from the tap is particularly frigid. "Cold" warms it up some amount at that time of year as opposed to how it comes out of the tap. It makes me wonder whether it would chill the water if the tap water were too warm. The owner's manual doesn't say.

If you run the tap water long enough it becomes cold again.   

[SEWIGuy]

I was washing my hands and I noted how the cold tap water isn't particularly cold with the hot weather we're having. That, in turn, made me speculate about our clothes washer. It has two cold water settings: "Cold" and "Tap Cold." The distinction is mainly relevant during the winter when the water from the tap is particularly frigid. "Cold" warms it up some amount at that time of year as opposed to how it comes out of the tap. It makes me wonder whether it would chill the water if the tap water were too warm. The owner's manual doesn't say.

I doubt washing machines have the ability to chill water.

[kphoger]

I was washing my hands and I noted how the cold tap water isn't particularly cold with the hot weather we're having. That, in turn, made me speculate about our clothes washer. It has two cold water settings: "Cold" and "Tap Cold." The distinction is mainly relevant during the winter when the water from the tap is particularly frigid. "Cold" warms it up some amount at that time of year as opposed to how it comes out of the tap. It makes me wonder whether it would chill the water if the tap water were too warm. The owner's manual doesn't say.

I doubt washing machines have the ability to chill water.

Correct.  "Tap cold" uses water straight from the cold water line only.  "Cold" mixes in some hot water in order to maintain a certain temperature range.  How cold is "tap cold" will vary from house to house and from season to season, but "cold" will be a fairly constant range.