Minor things that please you

[gonealookin]

When you get the shower water temperature right the first time you turn the water on.

Corollary being:

When you're in a hotel, "H" actually means hot not cold and "C" means cold not hot, and you get it right within about 15 seconds.

Heh. You're making me think of the time when we were at the Marriott Chateau Champlain in Montreal and Ms1995hoo turned the "C" faucet all the way to its maximum setting. It never crossed her mind that the faucets were labelled in French. She got an unexpected surprise.

There are a lot of hotels in the US where you find that H and C are reversed.  I suspect it's an inside joke that plumbing contractors find endlessly funny, similar to Lucy pulling the football from Charlie Brown.

[GaryV]

I had a really weird hotel shower last weekend. There were two faucet knobs, one for hot and one for cold - ok, sorta normal so far.

But the cold knob turned on backwards. And the hot knob could be rotated continuously in either direction, going on then off then on then off ...

[1995hoo]

When you get the shower water temperature right the first time you turn the water on.

Corollary being:

When you're in a hotel, "H" actually means hot not cold and "C" means cold not hot, and you get it right within about 15 seconds.

Heh. You're making me think of the time when we were at the Marriott Chateau Champlain in Montreal and Ms1995hoo turned the "C" faucet all the way to its maximum setting. It never crossed her mind that the faucets were labelled in French. She got an unexpected surprise.

There are a lot of hotels in the US where you find that H and C are reversed.  I suspect it's an inside joke that plumbing contractors find endlessly funny, similar to Lucy pulling the football from Charlie Brown.

I can't say I've encountered that, although I have encountered single-knob (or single-lever) shower controls that either turn in an unexpected direction or have the hot water coming before the cold.

In the instance I mentioned, though, if Ms1995hoo had been paying more attention, she would have noticed that the one on the left (hot) said "C" and the one on the right (cold) said "F." That would have been a tip-off that something was different.

[Scott5114]

In the instance I mentioned, though, if Ms1995hoo had been paying more attention, she would have noticed that the one on the left (hot) said "C" and the one on the right (cold) said "F." That would have been a tip-off that something was different.

"C" and "F", obviously for "cold" and "French".

[kphoger]

When you get the shower water temperature right the first time you turn the water on.

Why do you turn the water off and then on again if you get it wrong?  I simply make minor adjustments with the water still on.

[1995hoo]

When you get the shower water temperature right the first time you turn the water on.

Why do you turn the water off and then on again if you get it wrong?  I simply make minor adjustments with the water still on.

Yeah, I always turn the water on to the highest setting because it initially comes out cold (the water heater is two floors down) and then I turn it down to the setting I want. I do turn the water off mid-shower to lather up with the soap and then turn it back on to rinse off, but keeping the same setting is easy there because we have the "Moentrol" style faucet where you set the temperature and then pull to turn on/push to turn off.

[D-Dey65]

Ever heard of Liberace?

Liberace never came out, though.

Oh, I thought he did towards the end of his life.

[D-Dey65]

Who is John Oliver?  Why is he "tenderizing meat" on a public social media platform?

I assume he's demonstrating how to prepare rump steak for rouladen.

You know, I still remember a time when cooking shows were few and far between. There was period where they existed on a lesser scale than local kids show hosts, and then around the same time, they were practically gone with the exception of Julia Child on "The French Chef."

Still trying to come up with a list of minor things that please me.

[Rothman]

Who is John Oliver?  Why is he "tenderizing meat" on a public social media platform?

I assume he's demonstrating how to prepare rump steak for rouladen.

You know, I still remember a time when cooking shows were few and far between. There was period where they existed on a lesser scale than local kids show hosts, and then around the same time, they were practically gone with the exception of Julia Child on "The French Chef."

Still trying to come up with a list of minor things that please me.

Cajun Chef!

[TheHighwayMan3561]

When you get the shower water temperature right the first time you turn the water on.

Why do you turn the water off and then on again if you get it wrong?  I simply make minor adjustments with the water still on.

Oops, it looks like my words weren't clear. What you wrote is what I meant; in my post, I meant getting the temperature right (or at least acceptable) the first time without having to make those adjustments mentioned.

[D-Dey65]

I just had one today. YouTube Music playlists that partially match tunes on one of my mix-tapes.

For example, one of my tapes contains "Sugar" by April March, followed by "The New Pollution," by Beck.

That list also included "Familiarity Breeds Contempt" by The Chills, but it's not followed by "Willie the Wimp" by Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Oh well.

[D-Dey65]

Who is John Oliver?  Why is he "tenderizing meat" on a public social media platform?

I assume he's demonstrating how to prepare rump steak for rouladen.

You know, I still remember a time when cooking shows were few and far between. There was period where they existed on a lesser scale than local kids show hosts, and then around the same time, they were practically gone with the exception of Julia Child on "The French Chef."

Still trying to come up with a list of minor things that please me.

Cajun Chef!

Ehh, the one I saw was "The Galloping Gourmet."

[kphoger]

I grew up watching The Frugal Gourmet on PBS.  Then, in high school, I used to watch various other shows that were on PBS:  Yan Can Cook, for example.

[GaryV]

Jacques Pepin. Especially good when his daughter was on, playing the complete cooking ditz.

[kphoger]

Jacques Pepin. Especially good when his daughter was on, playing the complete cooking ditz.

My favorite episode of Julia & Jacques was when they each did their favorite childhood sandwich, because Julia Childs' was an ice cream sandwich.

Also, my wife and I still say the word cucumber with Pépin's accent.

[Rothman]

Dang.  Frugal Gourmet brought back to life a small dormant part of my brain.  I wish it would go back to sleep.

[Max Rockatansky]

None of these flight shenanigans with the FAA and government shut down affected my travel plans to/from Kauai this week.  My return flight actually got in 10 minutes early this evening to San Jose.  Family and friends kept bothering me about all this based off things they saw on social media. 

[formulanone]

Despite the 10% reduction in flights, most of the cancelled flights began a few days earlier, with passengers generally given ample warnings. The airlines probably picked off the flights with the lowest passenger numbers, low cargo yields, or those with the worst profit margins at the busiest airports. Of course, it really depended on which airport...NYC airports had a lot more cancellations than Denver.

It stinks if it's your itinerary that's messed up, but unexpected weather cancellations have been much worse. This time of year is a lighter one for the airlines...it'll ramp up in two weeks.

Not having any flight delays nor troubles pleased me yesterday; I've had three weeks of projects within driving distance at just the right time.

[Max Rockatansky]

As far as I could tell the only flights Hawaiian cancelled were small cross-island fares out of Honolulu. 

[vdeane]

Hazbin Hotel getting a BluRay release

[Rothman]

Wondering if my flight on Thursday will be cancelled or not.

[Max Rockatansky]

I finished five Kauai Highway blogs today.  Two of those were fairly lengthy as they involved the HI 56 and 560 segments of Kuhio Highway.  That puts me at ten of twenty three blogs complete for Kauai.  This will give our page some decent Hawaii coverage from around now until late May in 2026.

[kphoger]

I recently taught a three-year-old boy that "the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain".  If I say that to him but leave out the last two words, he'll finish it with "the plane!"  At first, he would say "the airplane!" but now he's shortened it.  I have not corrected him to let him know it's not actually about aircraft.

[webny99]

Speaking of right turn on red:  What bothers me is the norm of those drivers going past the stop line and into the crosswalk without even looking to see if a pedestrian is there to cross on his/her green.  And then the crosswalk is blocked.

From something bothersome to something pleasing: modern intersections that are designed with roughly a car-length between the crosswalk and the cross street, so that one car can clear the crosswalk while waiting to turn right on red and pedestrians can still use the crosswalk.

Example

Unfortunately, not all intersections have the space for this to work effectively, but I hope to see more of this as intersections are redesigned and/or have signals and crosswalks replaced.

[JayhawkCO]

I recently bought an old NES to do a little retrogaming (my son likes Sonic and Mario). I was testing out different cartridges on it, and some you had to do the old method of blowing in the console to get them to work. I did a little googling, and it turns out, the easiest fix for this (other than just a Q-tip and rubbing alcohol to clean the pins), is to take apart the NES, take the 72 pin connector off, and boil it in water for 10 minutes. After 5 minutes of boiling, take a NES cartridge out and insert and remove it from the connector a bunch of times just to bend the pins just right. I reattached it and hooked everything up and now every game works great the first time.