WillyF

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Just wrapped up One Day One Job. Figuring out what's next.
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Comment · 1 month ago
My grocery store's app requires me to "clip" coupons if I want to use them. Instead of clipping just the ones that I need, I would just take 2-3 minutes to tap the clip button repeatedly (as you clip the next coupon moves up into the same spot). Very tedious, but the best way to make sure you don't miss any savings. Today I asked Muse to do it. It was very slow compared to my repetitive tapping, but it clipped every coupon for me after getting my login credentials for the grocery store's website.
Comment · 1 year ago
Have done this twice recently. Did not own shares in either company outside of likely ownership in 401ks or index funds. They don’t check. Ridiculously effective.
Comment · 2 years ago
I’d like to see something for this for travel sports.
Comment · 2 years ago
I asked a French friend who comes from a long line of hunters. He'd never heard of it either. There are quite a few French woodcock preparations that include eating the guts, but I've never heard anything about tapeworms. I've also cleaned quite a few American woodcock, and I have never seen a tapeworm in the innards.
Comment · 3 years ago
“Destroyed” forest are perfect Warbler habitat—at least for the Kirtland’s Warbler which requires dense areas of young jack pine. That means either fires or logging are essential to their survival. So if you mean don’t pave over forests, then yes. But logging done properly is essential for a lot of species.
Comment · 3 years ago
There’s a TikTok account that shows up in my feed from a lobster fisherman with a series called “Will It Fish?” where he tests Baird suggested by his audience. I find it quite enjoyable.
Comment · 4 years ago
An IM with repeating <h1><br> tags until you hit the character limit was good for about 30 seconds of lag/freezing on the Mac client. 10 of those in fast succession would pretty much make you have to restart your computer.
Comment · 5 years ago
What about antibiotics?
Comment · 5 years ago
The YouTube Kids AppleTV app is also horrible. It freezes and needs to be restarted constantly immediately after opening.

But even worse is that there is no way to quickly rewind or fast forward. You can only use the skip 10 seconds buttons. So if my son watches half of a show and wants to watch it again a week later, the show starts where he left off. I end up having to click the remote about 200 times to get back to the start. I upgraded to get rid of ads, which has made the experience much better, but the UI is really infuriating.

Comment · 6 years ago
In 7th grade my English teacher had us each put together a book on grammar. I used "The Far Side" cartoons to illustrate all of the rules that I had learned. I wish I could link to it, but the only copy, a hard copy, is somewhere in my parents' basement or attic.
Comment · 7 years ago
I stopped at the same exact point.
Comment · 7 years ago
One thing thing that I love about Apple Maps is that they have the name of every river, stream, creek, and ditch if you zoom in far enough. I can't find this information in Google Maps (maybe there's a way to find it, but zooming in doesn't do it). This was exceptionally helpful on my recent trip to Corsica, where I was searching for a specific stream with a genetically significant population of native trout. Apple Maps made finding it a breeze, and even had the name of all the tributaries that flow into it, which were essentially just trickles.

I subscribe to OnX Maps for most of my fishing and hunting research in the United States, but Apple Maps is a pretty great free option.

Comment · 7 years ago
Even "real" truffle oil (or butter or some other fat) need not contain real truffles. It's quite easy to infuse fats with truffle aroma. If you put truffles and a fat (with sufficient surface area in contact with the air) in an enclosed place like under a bowl in a refrigerator, you will get a very significant truffle aroma/flavor in the fat.

I've done this with Oregon white truffles (tuber oregonense) that I harvested with the help of my dog. Kept the butter frozen for over a year, and it still had the truffle aroma when I pulled it out of the freezer.

I actually think the infusion method adds a lot more flavor/aroma than adding pieces of truffle, but the pieces are clear evidence that what you bought actually came in contact with real truffles--it's pretty much just marketing.

Comment · 8 years ago
One of my favorite cooking videos is "Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Kit Kats" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nqJiBRNQuw

It's a perfect example of hacking without a computer. There is a whole series of these videos trying to recreate mass produced junk food in a test kitchen, and it's incredible how difficult it can be for even a very experienced chef. It makes you wonder how these products were ever created.

Comment · 8 years ago
This is my frustration. I'd prefer to shop elsewhere, but the convenience of walking to Whole Food and grabbing whatever I need (or at least trying to) is hard to pass up when the alternative likely requires getting in the car. My strong preference would be to go to multiple shops (butcher, fishmonger, produce store, etc.), but the convenience of Whole Foods usually wins out.

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