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NYC actually has great tap water, some of the best anywhere. But in any event, these bagel people say there are a certain combo of minerals in it that they add to the water here. No idea if it really matters.Quote:
Originally Posted by J. Barron DeJong
I’ve heard that too…many times. Nyc water makes the bagels.
A large portion of NYC drinking water comes from the reservoirs at the top of the East and West branch of the Delaware, and some other reservoirs near the catskills.
Some might call it, upstate.
Is there just a touch of Genny cream ale in the water? Because that would make it upstate AF.Quote:
Originally Posted by east or bust
And the pizza. Same way there's supposedly a certain quality to southern biscuits that can't be found outside the south. Personally, I'll take the bagels and the pizza.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brock Landers
I'm at a traffic light yesterday, hear loud talking, look over, and there's a woman in a minivan with an ipad on her dash, wearing over ear headphones, on a zoom meeting.
Did she leave the chat when she started driving? Nope.
Any kids in the vehicle?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
I know, but I hate the place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Don’t know about water’s effect on baking, but minerals in water do have some effect in beer making. Been a while since I’ve made beer so don’t recall the details, but some interaction between minerals and hops.
No. Probably at school.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
I'll preempt the next line of questioning, no I didn't report her. I never saw her license plate because - get this - right after the light turned green, she turned onto the freeway on-ramp.
I don't know if others are experiencing this, but it seems like I've had this big influx of really long meetings at work lately. Back in the good old days one hour was the standard and the goal was to make it shorter than that. Now everyone thinks they're clever in scheduling hours or even days long "workshops" which, in my opinion, is just a euphemism for a long-ass meeting that's wasting everyone's time.
Can we schedule a workshop to brainstorm this problem?Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
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Originally Posted by Danno
I don't know if others are experiencing this, but it seems like I've had this big influx of really long meetings at work lately. Back in the good old days one hour was the standard and the goal was to make it shorter than that. Now everyone thinks they're clever in scheduling hours or even days long "workshops" which, in my opinion, is just a euphemism for a long-ass meeting that's wasting everyone's time.
I've noticed a lot of redundancy in my meetings.
see the Department of Redundancy Department
My uncle always claimed the reason his dill pickles tasted so good was the water--well water from their summer cottage on a lake near Detroit. I don't know if it's true but the pickles were great--and still are, when my cousin makes them. Especially the ones that have been neglected in the basement crawl space for a few years and turned mushy and hot. (Mikey gave me some that I'm waiting to try, we'll see about his terroir.)
I used filtered water I bought. My water is muni water through 100+ year old pipes - it smells too much like chlorine so I don’t drink it or cook or bake or ferment with it unless I decant it or boil it.
The donuts at the Dunkin at Logan airport (Boston duh) A terminal are fucking tiny
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Originally Posted by Danno
I'm surrounded by NYC reservoirs. They make getting around a pain in the ass because they're always in the way, they restrict land use around the reservoirs to everyone but polluting, drunk fisherman, they don't pay property taxes on the almost 20% of the county that they own and the things we can't do because of them is more frustrating than can be easily expressed. There are no lakeside parks on them, there are almost no waterside restaurants or ways to appreciate all of these otherwise pretty mountain lakes, all we can do is drive past them.Quote:
Originally Posted by east or bust
I do a couple of meetings a month in the car. If I don't it would take four days a month of actually working off the table.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
Using FaceTime or Zoom on a full sized ipad mounted off to your right, while wearing 1970s style over ears headphones, in bumper to bumper stop and go traffic, and subsequently on the freeway?
That shit is wack.
Ha! No, no. Phone is usually on a dash mount and on Bluetooth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
Before the PUD bought out the Donner Lake Water Company there was enough chlorine in the ater to kill my kid's goldfish in minutes;Quote:
Originally Posted by ~mikey b
Cold spots on a grill. Minor annoyance. Major first world problem.
Two yards into a ten yard mulching. I’m annoyed. And tired. Can’t I just chill in n a Sunday.