Things of Your Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i54TF13kBZk

https://youtu.be/tcUB-3lud60

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Check your calendar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCbD8nsxcd8

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Fellow [E] do not forget to do the thing.

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Power grid attacks by squirrels (and other critters): https://cybersquirrel1.com/

And tangentally related: Uptown Squirrel - 99% Invisible

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I just listened to this yesterday.

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Still inferior to the antique Sunbeam Radiant Toaster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y

Pop up toasters are cool aesthetically, and more expensive ones are better than cheap ones, but even those are not great. Toaster ovens are where it’s at. Even the cheapo ones like what I have are great. They do everything a pop-up toaster can do and much much more while also giving much greater control and precision. There’s really no practical reason for the pop up toaster to even exist.

Everyone should get a salamander in their kitchen. Whether that’s the cooking device or a mythical fire-breathing lizard is your call. Or a regular lizard.

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Man, that would be so pro. Even in rich people kitchens I basically never see one.

I have both a pop-up toaster and a toaster oven. The pop-up toaster seems to do a much better job of evenly toasting my bread than the toaster oven.

I relegated my toaster oven to things like small baking jobs where I don’t want to fire up the full oven, making toasted sandwiches, and the like. For actual toast, I switch to the toaster.

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Same, and I even have a fairly fancy toaster oven we got as a wedding gift. But the ancient pop-up toaster from Goodwill toasts my breakfast toast a billion times better.

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“Squandering it’s potential.” There’s a fucking understatement, they tossed the majority of the userbase out on its ear.

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FWIW, a toaster oven is an excellent way to heat up cold pizza…

Truth, but consider: Pizza stone in the regular oven

why would you desecrate cold pizza like that?

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Cold pizza is foul. Room temperature pizza is acceptable but ideally it should be hot, even reheated.

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The plot rapidly thickens. This would be the best end result bar none.

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