Any soup is cool enough to eat on a first date. If your date gives you crap about something as inconsequential as what kind of soup you’re eating, your date should be discarded at your earliest convenience, because they have shown themselves to be an opinionated twat that will bitch about things that don’t matter in the slightest.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Period flow can happen without warning, and even if there is a warning, it’s not usually something that girls are comfortable enough with to want to announce the reason in front of a classroom.

For real. Just because Putin is a Bond villain doesn’t make every citizen of Russia one of his goons.

I started cradling him when he was just old enough to be adopted. Every time we crossed paths, I would say “Scoop!”, scoop him up with a hand under his chest, roll him over backwards with my other hand on his butt, and lay him down on my arm like that. Then I’d scratch his tummy and give him kisses, then let him go after a little bit.

I taught my cat how to speak. Now he doesn’t shut up.

I also “taught” him to tolerate being cradled on his back like a baby.

Make sure your litter box is clean, and that your cat thinks it’s clean. Cats want to be able to bury their waste, and if there’s too much in the box for the cat’s liking, they’ll go somewhere else, and it’s often right outside the box if there isn’t something else they could use. It’s important to understand that it’s the cat’s opinion that matters here, not yours: you may need to scoop it every day, even if there’s only a little in it.

You may also need to move the litter box and clean the previous area, including and most importantly the place outside the litter box that gets used. Use vinegar if you can: it has a strong smell that cats don’t like, but it won’t hurt them like bleach can. Lemon juice works well for this, also. What this will do is make sure that this area doesn’t smell like a place they have used as a litter box before.

The terms for “clockwise” and “Counterclockwise” originated long before clocks. Clockwise was originally called “Sunwise” and followed the movement of the shadow around a sundial.

Counterclockwise was “widdershins”, from a Middle Low German phrase meaning “against the way.”

We don’t use “earthwise” because from our perspective, the earth doesn’t rotate.

Well, think about it.

WiFi is electromagnetic radiation, and penetrates walls. The standard frequency is 5 GHz. With harmonics, we should expect similar behavior from wavelengths that are some whole-number multiple of this frequency.

There are multiple such frequencies within the visible light spectrum, such as 500 THz (orange), but visible light doesn’t usually penetrate walls, it’s instead reflected or absorbed.

On the other end, we have X-rays, which are in the range of 3×10^(16) - 3×10^(19) Hz, which are used medically to see into the human body. There are likewise whole-number divisors, such as 200, which put a potential fundamental at around 600 THz (green). Yet, we generally can’t see through people using normal light. That’s why we use X-rays.

Now, this is all well and good, but it’s all purely academic, because the reason why you can’t use your infrared sensors to detect the color blue or purple is because the infrared sensors aren’t sensitive in that frequency, the same reason why you can’t use your blue cones to detect infrared.

Ah. That makes sense. Something about the harmonics, though:

Sound generates those harmonics because it’s physically vibrating sensors in our ear, so we get a 1 to 1 translation of the waveform. Light doesn’t, because it’s received by 4 different sensors that are sensitive at different ranges and in different phases. The reason we don’t experience “blueness” in the infrared spectrum is because our infrared sensors don’t know what “blue” is.

Why would you say there’s only one octave?

Human audible frequencies are in the range of 20 Hz to 20 kHz, and are logarithmic.

Human visible frequencies are in the range of 400 THz to 800 THz, and are linear.

There’s far more available distinction to be made with color than with sound, it just doesn’t interfere the same way.

Night shift absolutely sucks, and I’m deliberately lax on enforcing many of the store policies because of it. Late for your shift? If your shit gets done, I don’t care. Don’t like wearing the uniform? I don’t either, just put your name tag on before the store opens. Forgot your lunch? Grab something from the cold case or whatever and pay for it when a checker wanders in later.

The only policies I enforce 100% are safety-related. I don’t want someone cracking their head open because they were using a pallet jack as a scooter.

My store has shift work, but does it in a sane way. The people whose schedules could change bid for schedules on a week by week basis, and they’re awarded by seniority. In theory, you could get stuck with a closing shift going into an opening shift, but in practice it never happens because all the opening shifts get snapped up by the senior employees every week.

Costco dogs helped get me through college, I tell ya

+1 for Kirkland

Kirkland Signature products in general are just as good or better than the name brands because they usually are the name brand stuff.

Their batteries are Duracell, their bagged coffee is roasted by Starbucks, their diapers are Huggies, their canned tuna is Bumblebee, etc.

Kirkland hot dogs are an oddity, though. They used to be Hebrew National, but they got too expensive to be selling for 1.50 at the food court, so Costco bought an old Hebrew National meat plant in California and makes their own hot dogs now.

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