On Reddit: What’s a small quality-of-life upgrade at home that you now refuse to live without?
My response: This cushioned lap desk. I bring my laptop into our sunroom, sit on the daybed cross-legged and read and type in comfort. I’m using it with my MacBook right now!
The original post has been removed by the subreddit’s overzealous moderators (an example of why I rarely post to Reddit anymore)), but you can still read the comments.
On Reddit: When did iced coffee take off in America?
I remember my Mom drinking iced coffee in the 1970s, but it’s only in the past couple of years I’ve noticed that iced coffee seems to have become the default in hot weather, even when you’re ordering at an airport or some other large, enclosed air conditioned space. I think iced coffee is as popular as hot coffee now.
I’ve always personally preferred hot coffee, even in hot weather.
Craig Mod walks the length of Manhattan:
I arrived at Marble Hill–225th St. Station in not shorts. You’re not wearing shorts?! Michael screamed at me from across the street. I am a self-respecting adult male, so no – I wasn’t wearing shorts. He couldn’t believe it. He was convinced I’d die fifteen steps into the walk. I was less interested in my pants and more interested in the world’s worst-rated Starbucks (https://maps.app.goo.gl/5CPxpMu7nsSJDamq7) around the corner.
Tim Curry was a heck of a storyteller. Among other tales, he describes in this 2005 Fresh Air interview how he was mistaken for in imposter during a 1970s midnight showing of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and ejected from the theater.
There’s a new Twitter, launched by a startup that says Musk gave up the name.
How Canada can save Americans and defeat America. Canadians and Americans have a common enemy: Trump. By Cory Doctorow,
What is a talent or skill you have that is completely useless 99% of the time, but made you look like a god the one time you needed it? : r/AskReddit. From the comments: Balloon animals makes a woman a hero at a corporate retreat.
The Ig Nobel Prize, a whimsical science award that honors “achievements that make people LAUGH, and then THINK,” is moving out of the US after 35 years, because the US is now unsafe for international visitors.