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Category: Living

  • Highway codes

    Photo by ohad* The other day while driving home, Naomi asked me what the universal sign for “your headlights are not on, please turn them on because it’s nighttime and you’re being a complete idiot if you don’t turn them on right away”? was. I told Naomi that I didn’t know, but that I had…

  • With a bang (and a slight dent)

    I wished a total stranger Happy New Year in Mandarin, even though he had just crashed into the front passenger door of my car right after he rode his bicycle on the pavement against the flow of traffic that was on the road outside the entrance to my apartment blocks. In response, he said, “対不起対不起対不起対不起新年快乐対不起対不起対不起対不起対不起対不起対不起“…

  • Completely useless Christmas gifts: ERP IU cashcard cover

    I have never understood the purpose of this car accessory. This site says it “hides cashcard to prevent theft”, and is available for $6.95 There’s no lock on this device, so if anyone wants to take a cashcard out of your IU, they simply lift the cover. This is how it works: you keep your…

  • Tandoori

    Our oven had been out of order for almost a year, owing initially to a lack of use (so said the oven dealer), and then to my can’t be bothered because there’s lots you can cook in a pan instead-ness, and then to the fact that the oven is very old, and replacement parts weren’t…

  • Thirsty work

    A hard earned thirst needs some cold tap water. And it’s not just Jake that’s finding living with Mac a little bit of work. Just as we were saying that we thought we had him house-trained, he went and went on one of our carpets. But dogs do what dogs do, and it’ll take some…