Just need to vent...

Sounds like the research results got dumbed down for the label, possibly even before passed on to the writer. In fairness, a non-small portion of the population many not discern the difference between cholesterol precursors and cholesterol.

Not sure which group a perkolator brewer falls into.

 

My ex-wife had a Cadillac, driveway art, that self discharged the 12 V battery in about 3 weeks. So I bought a 12 V battery charger. Everything was stable until someone who wasn't me, decided to drive the Cadillac with the 12 V battery charger plugged in. The charger stopped working.

So this morning I opened it up to look for the fault and found a little, mousy board that just lights the charging LEDs and inhibits shorting of the battery clamps:


The charger now works perfectly!

Bob Wilson

 

The Outback manual has instructions on replacing the wiper blades with refills.
Found refills on Amazon.
In the brief time before I got possession of the car, someone replaced the factory wipers with beam type.

 

Glad we have some folks in Canada here...a few days ago, my daughter sent me a recipe from a French gal on these things were on the list:

2 C. It's paprika
1 C.S. Chopped parsley

From googling, I think the C.S. is a Tablespoon (Cuillere a soupe) and the C.It's. is a Teaspoon (Cuillere a the)

Is that correct?

 

Yes indeed ,(oui certainement )

 

News reports that keep mixing up "carbon monoxide inhalation" with "gas leaks".

Two Americans found dead at Mexico resort died from inhaling toxic gas | Mexico | The Guardian

I mean, it's not like the resort had a system of carbon monoxide distribution pipes for some reason and the monoxide was leaking out.

The monoxide was in the rooms because the resort had gas-burning appliances that weren't working right, or weren't vented right, not because of "gas leaks".

And of all the reasons to disable a CO alarm, because its "frequent alarms were disturbing guests" does not seem to rank with the smartest.

 

Your post was medicine to my soul!

 

... or, are there places in the world that still use coal gas?

If the resort was fed with that, then "system of carbon monoxide pipes" could be pretty close to the real picture.

 

That is what I was wondering. Do any places of significant size still use such synthetic gas?

Seattle's Gas Works Park surrounds this type of plant, shut down in 1956.

 

Of course there's the psychological thing of something that's $9.99 being less than $10. But there's more to it than that.

Back in the days of cash, this was a way to keep control of payments. If you had your 15-year-old shopworker alone in the shop, and someone came in and bought a coke for $1, the shopworker could just pocket the $1 bill and give the customer the coke: the customer would be none the wiser, and you wouldn't know until a stocktake. If the customer bought a coke for 99c, the shopworker had to ring it through the cash register to get the 1c change, so there was a record of the transaction and it was much harder to steal the cash.

 

Turns out there is fair portion of the population that don't see the cents past the decimal. So $9.99 is $9 to them. JCPenny(US department store) tried pricing in whole dollars some time back, and it didn't work out because of that.

 

Yes, there's definitely a strong marketing reason for it.

 

The one-way tourists might have succumbed to carbon monoxide from an improperly operated water heater for example. Puts a bad spin on our thread title here. It has happened before.

I recall that a hotel room somewhere was treated with ethylene dibromide. Maybe for bedbugs? Would not be legal in US and ?? in other countries. Anyway, the subsequent human hotel guests checked in to soon after, and did not check out.

 

Yes, I was originally venting about the media sloppily mixing up "carbon monoxide" (from bad combustion or improper venting) with "gas leak" (normally methane or propane around here, makes things go boom).

But then I remembered there used to be towns piped for "coal gas" / "town gas" / "synthetic gas" and that stuff really did feature carbon monoxide as a prominent constituent. If that was in use here, then the monoxide really could have been from a "gas leak".

I am not finding it easy to learn what sort of gas is used in Cabo San Lucas. Perhaps because I am searching in English.

 

Aaagh! The problem is metastasizing!

I rented a Chevy Malibu the other day. When I plugged my phone in to charge, it caused my phone to issue two separate warnings, first on the lock screen and then again within the home screen: "This accessory is not compatible!"

Yet the phone is charging just fine...

The Chevy did force me to set up some bluetooth link to get carplay navigation working. That was kind of a PITA. I mean, I'm going to plug the phone in anyway to get electricity... why make me do a wireless setup too?

So I get two BS warnings that need to be dismissed anytime I feel like using my phone to navigate in that car, which is every trip since it's a rental while I'm working in an unfamiliar city.

I suppose if I owned one I could put in a lighter plug adapter and tape over the built-in USB ports.

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And a bonus half-vent: Same car, the 2023 Malibu... it's got a radar anti-collision system, but no adaptive cruise control? I don't think I've seen another car with that half-baked combo.