I was taught a recipe by a friend's housekeeper about 45 years ago. (EDIT: I'm going off memory, so if the proportions seem a touch off, adjust to suit your preferences).
Lee's Tuna Salad
2 cans tuna
2 heaping tablespoons mayonnaise (start with 1 heaping tablespoon if you like your tuna salad on the dry side)
1 stalk of finely chopped celery
2 level teaspoons of pickle relish
1/2 teaspoon of yellow mustard
1 pimento pepper finely chopped
pinch of salt
Combine in a glass mixing bowl and thoroughly mix.
Peanut butter sandwich is a go to quick comfort food late at night for some folks, including yours truly. With blackberry or strawberry preserves, orange marmalade, or even apple butter (try it!). PB & Honey or PB & soft butter is also good.
Peanut butter on banana
Peanut butter on rice cake
Peanut butter in vanilla ice cream
A scoop of peanut butter. Yes, I'm one of those folks.
I used to buy the huge Peter Pan peanut butter jars from Sam's club. But can't find it anymore. I wonder if it got discontinued during Covid. so I've just been buying the fresh stuff from Whole Foods, which is good for PBJ but not for desserts like peanut butter balls or Muddy Buddies.
Things I need to do to the household cars in the next week. Change plugs on 3 cars, change the oil in the Acura, and change the front pads and rotors on No 3's Accord.
Also, sister's family is in town and BIL wants to use my stuff to change his oil.
My dad taught me how to do brakes when I was in high school. It was a fun, straightforward, and relatively easy job and it's no doubt saved me plenty of cash over having a shop do it.
Initial reviews of the car were brutal. In addition to being too expensive and having insufficient range, it had suspension tuned so poorly that it made several automotive journalists sick.
They have a new "dealership" store in a Marina del Rey shopping center that I noticed for the first time on Saturday, didn't look like anyone was in there.
Of all things, the driver’s door lock on my Civic has given up the ghost, won’t lock the car and rattles away trying and failing to lock when I start from a full stop. I suppose I should get that repaired sooner rather than later, but given that it’s a manual, I don’t think I have to worry about anyone stealing it - maybe the EZPass transponder
This seems like as good of a place to ask as any. My friend and I were wondering why the American auto industry embraced automatic transmission, while so many other places in the world stuck with manual as the default.
i too wonder this sometimes. my guess is that Americans value ease and convenience above many other things. even if it was more expensive, the switch to automatic happened.
I haven't rented many cars in other countries, but Morocco was stick. Mexico was stick (iirc). But Japan is all automatic (American post-war influence?).
I love stick, but my wife – who needs to start driving again – won't drive stick. So got rid of 19-yo Toyota Matrix. Wanted plug-in hybrid – which by def is not stick – so now I'm in automatic land. Not as bad as I'd feared, but still not as fun
I can’t speculate in terms of cultural explanations but I will say that older automatic transmissions were less efficient in power transfer which meant higher fuel consumption and slower acceleration *unless* you had a large understressed engine. Cheap gasoline and larger 6 and 8 cylinder engines meant that US cars were much better suited to automatics than cars in places with higher fuel taxation (and in some cases taxes based on engine size). I think the massive improvement in small engine performance over the last 20 years, more compact “traditional” automatics plus other alternatives (dual clutch or CV transmissions) make them more appealing for a cost to buy / run... plus it’s much easier to game EU CO2 emissions standards with CV / dual clutch transmissions.
As an example of tax by engine size, for a while Italy had higher taxes on engines with a displacement over 2 liters, which is why you can get old Italian market Ferraris with 2 liter engines when they had 3 liter engines everywhere else I found this offer on AutoScout24.
I would essentially echo HAG. Because Americans are lazy and don't want to deal with manual transmissions in certain situations.
Remember Subaru's hill-holder clutch? Nothing that an automatic transmission can't handle. Driving a manual transmission well is a skill which is NOT being taught anymore. I blame it on the radical decline of Driver's Ed in high schools which started in the late 70s/early 80s.
What happened to accelerate the nearly unanimous presence of automatic transmissions is that gas mileage for such vehicles over decades has been getting better and closer to comparable with manual transmission vehicles. Now, it's practically indistinguishable and has been for about 10 or more years.
It used to be manuals accelerated better. With the new DCT transmissions, autos now accelerate faster.
I don't want to accelerate faster. Not like I have a place where I can go 0-60 in under 3 seconds anyways except at the track. I want to be engaged in driving and have more fun than just putting it in drive and using the paddle shifters.
Better than indistinguishable, automatics can often achieve a few mpg more than a manual for most cars. And on performance-oriented cars, automatics can shift much faster than a human with a manual, so their 0-60 times can be up to a second faster.
That said, they can pry my manual transmission from my cold, dead hands.
O's-Dodgers with a delayed start because they didn't put the tarp on the field overnight and it poured for awhile this morning and the field needed work. Finally started and it's raining lightly, though it doesn't look like it'll last too long. Six runs scored in the first. I won't give away the score.
I'm not really a soccer guy but the MLS AS game is in DC tonight so thought I would tune in. In checking, it's broadcast on Apple TV+. Not exactly the way to grow your audience.
I used to be pre-pandemic, and was always in the office around 6. Now I'm rarely out of bed before 7:30 and I usually stay up until around midnight. I enjoy the peace and quiet in the evenings after the missus and Cf98 have gone to bed.
Depends on whether or not it's a workday or not. Then, it's a matter of degree. Workday - up at 4:45 am. Not a workday - Sleep in until 7:00 am is common.
(checks time) yep. though I can be very productive well past midnight when my brain goes 'squirrel' resulting in operating on ~4 hrs sleep the next day. Unsustainable.
...and there are many songs I think are absolutely great (Layla is one of them, but not my fave, which is "Tell the Truth – Jam"), and yeah I've seen a few of news stories, but I don't want to really focus on that much.
So he sucks! Haven't bought an album by him in more than 4 decades - but I don't want to think about any of that when listening to the songs I love.
Barbie is getting good reviews. Looks like I'll be seeing it. Anyone else? Also wondering what the response is to Oppenheimer, no reviews yet but looks promising. Who's checking that out?
The "No Labels" political party qualifies as a third-party in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, and Oregon. It's a dark-money centrist party meant to bleed voters from the Democrats.
Sounds like another third-party vanity project that ultimately undermines the democracy-saving goals its founders tout (see also: Andrew Yang's Forward Party)
Michigan AG files charges against 16 fake electors. One of the defendants is apparently using the "I thought we were just taking attendance" defense. Good luck with that.
Texas QB Quinn Ewers chops his mullet, trims the bushiness from his neckbeard, and loses 18 pounds. I am sure Party Quinn was more fun to hang out with.
Rank 'em: tuna sandwich, PB&J, turkey/mayo/american, bologna
PB&J, tuna, turkey, and a distant fourth to bologna. To me, turkey is inoffensive/nearly tasteless par level.
a good tuna sandwich is a good thing. i put celery, salt and little bit of vinegar in mine.
but i dont like tuna saald that has been sitting around or at the deli. just the homemade variety.
I was taught a recipe by a friend's housekeeper about 45 years ago. (EDIT: I'm going off memory, so if the proportions seem a touch off, adjust to suit your preferences).
Lee's Tuna Salad
2 cans tuna
2 heaping tablespoons mayonnaise (start with 1 heaping tablespoon if you like your tuna salad on the dry side)
1 stalk of finely chopped celery
2 level teaspoons of pickle relish
1/2 teaspoon of yellow mustard
1 pimento pepper finely chopped
pinch of salt
Combine in a glass mixing bowl and thoroughly mix.
Serve on toast or leaf lettuce.
nice. thanks
PB&J
turkey
[I'd rather go hungry]
bologna
tuna salad
Turkey (but with good cheese, not American), tuna, PB&J, bologna. I'll ask that my bologna be of the mortadella variety please.
PB&J
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If in Japan (maybe sometimes) Tuna
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neither of the others ever. partially because vegetarian. but partially because "bologna" (really?!?) and "mayo and American cheese"?!?
Turkey, tuna, pb&j, bologna. Tuna over pb&j only because it is a more meat-like option during Lent.
I reject the premise of a Turkey/mayo/American cheese sando. Having said that -
1. Turkey/mayo/Swiss/ touch of dijon w/lettuce & tomato (of course)
2. PB & blackberry jam/preserves
3. Tuna sandwich
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Bologna sandwich (because there's nothing else).
Turkey sandwich as described in a pinch otherwise pass
Turkey
Bologna
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Tuna
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PB&J? What age am I? 6?
exactly. i dont eat PBJ unless there is literally nothing else to eat and i cant remember the last time i was in that situation
PBJ is a good quick meal. Sometimes I'll do that or cereal.
Oh's or Smart Start, which has now been discontinued it seems, sniff. So I guess it will be Oh's in the near future until I find another cereal.
i am more likely to have a Snickers bar as a good quick meal
Peanut butter is great stuff, at any age.
Peanut butter sandwich is a go to quick comfort food late at night for some folks, including yours truly. With blackberry or strawberry preserves, orange marmalade, or even apple butter (try it!). PB & Honey or PB & soft butter is also good.
Peanut butter on banana
Peanut butter on rice cake
Peanut butter in vanilla ice cream
A scoop of peanut butter. Yes, I'm one of those folks.
Agreed. Peanut butter is excellent and good with a ton of foods
I used to buy the huge Peter Pan peanut butter jars from Sam's club. But can't find it anymore. I wonder if it got discontinued during Covid. so I've just been buying the fresh stuff from Whole Foods, which is good for PBJ but not for desserts like peanut butter balls or Muddy Buddies.
I can get a 2-pack of Skippy (40 oz. jars) for $10.59 at Costco.
Skippy sucks. Jif is better. Peter Pan is great.
Car and DBDer
Things I need to do to the household cars in the next week. Change plugs on 3 cars, change the oil in the Acura, and change the front pads and rotors on No 3's Accord.
Also, sister's family is in town and BIL wants to use my stuff to change his oil.
No 1 said he wants to do one set of the plugs since he's never done that before. I'm going to have No 3 do the brakes on his car so he can learn how.
My dad taught me how to do brakes when I was in high school. It was a fun, straightforward, and relatively easy job and it's no doubt saved me plenty of cash over having a shop do it.
The first time I did it was the rear brakes on the Accord. Watched a few videos and it was super easy.
going to send the kids to your house for auto mechanic training
Anytime.
Vietnam's electric car maker Vinfast has sold 128,000 cars in America this year. [checks notes] Sorry, 128 cars.
https://www.carscoops.com/2023/07/not-so-vinfast-vietnamese-automaker-floundering-with-just-128-registrations/
Initial reviews of the car were brutal. In addition to being too expensive and having insufficient range, it had suspension tuned so poorly that it made several automotive journalists sick.
Donut media reviewed the car based on the major complaints
https://youtu.be/DF7kaLTsNHQ
They have a new "dealership" store in a Marina del Rey shopping center that I noticed for the first time on Saturday, didn't look like anyone was in there.
Of all things, the driver’s door lock on my Civic has given up the ghost, won’t lock the car and rattles away trying and failing to lock when I start from a full stop. I suppose I should get that repaired sooner rather than later, but given that it’s a manual, I don’t think I have to worry about anyone stealing it - maybe the EZPass transponder
This seems like as good of a place to ask as any. My friend and I were wondering why the American auto industry embraced automatic transmission, while so many other places in the world stuck with manual as the default.
Anyone here know?
we're lazy?
i too wonder this sometimes. my guess is that Americans value ease and convenience above many other things. even if it was more expensive, the switch to automatic happened.
I haven't rented many cars in other countries, but Morocco was stick. Mexico was stick (iirc). But Japan is all automatic (American post-war influence?).
I love stick, but my wife – who needs to start driving again – won't drive stick. So got rid of 19-yo Toyota Matrix. Wanted plug-in hybrid – which by def is not stick – so now I'm in automatic land. Not as bad as I'd feared, but still not as fun
I can’t speculate in terms of cultural explanations but I will say that older automatic transmissions were less efficient in power transfer which meant higher fuel consumption and slower acceleration *unless* you had a large understressed engine. Cheap gasoline and larger 6 and 8 cylinder engines meant that US cars were much better suited to automatics than cars in places with higher fuel taxation (and in some cases taxes based on engine size). I think the massive improvement in small engine performance over the last 20 years, more compact “traditional” automatics plus other alternatives (dual clutch or CV transmissions) make them more appealing for a cost to buy / run... plus it’s much easier to game EU CO2 emissions standards with CV / dual clutch transmissions.
As an example of tax by engine size, for a while Italy had higher taxes on engines with a displacement over 2 liters, which is why you can get old Italian market Ferraris with 2 liter engines when they had 3 liter engines everywhere else I found this offer on AutoScout24.
https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/ferrari-208-2-0-gts-gasoline-red-028e4001-ad6c-406e-b93c-4008b6aa7724?utm_source=ios-share&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=share
UK taxes the size of your engine too.
I think they’ve transitioned over to CO2 emissions although in practical terms that’s kind of a proxy for engine size
I would essentially echo HAG. Because Americans are lazy and don't want to deal with manual transmissions in certain situations.
Remember Subaru's hill-holder clutch? Nothing that an automatic transmission can't handle. Driving a manual transmission well is a skill which is NOT being taught anymore. I blame it on the radical decline of Driver's Ed in high schools which started in the late 70s/early 80s.
What happened to accelerate the nearly unanimous presence of automatic transmissions is that gas mileage for such vehicles over decades has been getting better and closer to comparable with manual transmission vehicles. Now, it's practically indistinguishable and has been for about 10 or more years.
It used to be manuals accelerated better. With the new DCT transmissions, autos now accelerate faster.
I don't want to accelerate faster. Not like I have a place where I can go 0-60 in under 3 seconds anyways except at the track. I want to be engaged in driving and have more fun than just putting it in drive and using the paddle shifters.
Better than indistinguishable, automatics can often achieve a few mpg more than a manual for most cars. And on performance-oriented cars, automatics can shift much faster than a human with a manual, so their 0-60 times can be up to a second faster.
That said, they can pry my manual transmission from my cold, dead hands.
2 M5's - 2002 & 2018; one you could only buy as a stick.
DBD Street Journal
I never thought I'd say this, but God bless Taco Bell
https://gizmodo.com/taco-bell-wins-trademark-fight-over-taco-tuesday-1850652925
I usually only say that at 2 a.m.
Because collusion needs people to get together in order to work
https://fortune.com/2023/07/18/new-research-suggests-bankers-are-5-times-less-likely-engage-financial-misconduct-working-home-careers-finance-gleb-tsipursky/
unsurprising result really. you can't hide your misconduct via methods that aren't tracked when you work from home.
PRO
Lots of weird baseball scores yesterday:
The Mets, Giants, and Royals all won 11-10
A bunch of football scores: Rams beat the Ravens 10-3, Bears beat the Commanders 17-3, Cardinals beat the Falcons 16-13
And strangest of all, the A's snapped their 8-game losing streak with a 3-0 win over Boston
12 teams scored more than 10 runs yesterday, the most since 2010 - per ESPN. I wonder if the nation-wide heat wave had anything to do with that.
O's-Dodgers with a delayed start because they didn't put the tarp on the field overnight and it poured for awhile this morning and the field needed work. Finally started and it's raining lightly, though it doesn't look like it'll last too long. Six runs scored in the first. I won't give away the score.
Neither pitcher wanted to get out of the 1st inning easily.
Pitching is at a premium, not unlike every level below MLB. And its very scarce.
And the pitch timer doesn't allow pitchers to fully recover between pitches like they used to.
From yesterday's Giants/Reds rain out. The Tarp Monster ate well.
https://twitter.com/NBCSGiants/status/1681108330658545664
Not to be picky but that was on Monday.
Cleveland Browns unveil their Surrender uniforms
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1681303821576974337
I'm not really a soccer guy but the MLS AS game is in DC tonight so thought I would tune in. In checking, it's broadcast on Apple TV+. Not exactly the way to grow your audience.
TDF. Pogacar apparently fading fast. Will have to check out the highlights later to see how bad he bonked.
gave up 5+ min to yellow jersey. now in 2nd place by a whopping 7:35.
not so great last couple days compared to the 10 sec deficit he was facing.
He looked decent yesterday but was simply beaten by a faster Vingegaard. Today it seemed like he hit a wall and was in a world of suffering.
Yesterday was not a good omen for him.
A's 3-0 over Oxford - wait, some other team.
Are you a morning person?
I'm here at 6:28 Am local time, if that answers your question,
yup. i am naturally up by around 630a and find that i am most productive before lunch.
i think it is more nurture over nature. many many years of waking up early for Wall St jobs ...
Didn't used to be, but my current job has 6 and 7AM calls once I moved back to the west coast.
I used to be pre-pandemic, and was always in the office around 6. Now I'm rarely out of bed before 7:30 and I usually stay up until around midnight. I enjoy the peace and quiet in the evenings after the missus and Cf98 have gone to bed.
Absolutely not.
No, I set my alarm at 8:30 but wake up around 10~11am on weekdays. Weekends I wake up around 9.
Sigh, I don't want to be.
Depends on whether or not it's a workday or not. Then, it's a matter of degree. Workday - up at 4:45 am. Not a workday - Sleep in until 7:00 am is common.
Yes. Usually up by 5 am.
(checks time) yep. though I can be very productive well past midnight when my brain goes 'squirrel' resulting in operating on ~4 hrs sleep the next day. Unsustainable.
OOooOO... I do not like that either - but it's usually just over-thinking at night.
DBD AV CLUB
Another reason to hate Eric Clapton
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-eric-clapton-campaign-donation-report_n_64b24367e4b093f07caef8ce/
Overrated goon.
he seems like a terrible person.
LaLaLa - Don't want to read...
It's spelled Layla
Haha, but the first Eric Clapton album I got was a double from my Dad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Eric_Clapton
...and there are many songs I think are absolutely great (Layla is one of them, but not my fave, which is "Tell the Truth – Jam"), and yeah I've seen a few of news stories, but I don't want to really focus on that much.
So he sucks! Haven't bought an album by him in more than 4 decades - but I don't want to think about any of that when listening to the songs I love.
Pittsburgh Pirates commemorate Dock Ellis' no-hitter by having Wiz Khalifa throw out the first pitch
https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/wiz-khalifa-first-pitch-pirates-game-high-mushrooms-1235373463/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Ellis
Barbie is getting good reviews. Looks like I'll be seeing it. Anyone else? Also wondering what the response is to Oppenheimer, no reviews yet but looks promising. Who's checking that out?
You gotta do Barbenheimer!
is that a DIY double feature? Pay for one and then roam into the other screen afterwards?
That is what LMFS calls it.
Oppenheimer - probably me all alone.
CAL
Go Bears!!!
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Janet Yellen may have accidentally dosed herself on shrooms
https://news.yahoo.com/treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-reportedly-173805707.html
These things happen
Trump praises President Xi's as a dictator
https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1681482006775963648
The "No Labels" political party qualifies as a third-party in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, and Oregon. It's a dark-money centrist party meant to bleed voters from the Democrats.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2023/07/18/no-labels-party-arizona-ballot-scam/70423151007/
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/no-labels-third-party-joe-manchin-2024-election-rcna94927
Sounds like another third-party vanity project that ultimately undermines the democracy-saving goals its founders tout (see also: Andrew Yang's Forward Party)
I don't think there's any question that it is not a democracy favoring party.
This sounds like a stretch, but would be hilarious if true
https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1681318379867742212
Rudy flipped like hot cakes on a griddle. Though he may not have had much useful information, and he's probably an unreliable witness.
Michigan AG files charges against 16 fake electors. One of the defendants is apparently using the "I thought we were just taking attendance" defense. Good luck with that.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/michigan-attorney-general-charges-false-electors-efforts-overturn-2020-rcna94838
Looking at the ages of the people who got charged, almost all will die in jail if found guilty
https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/mayor-of-wyoming-charged-in-fake-elector-case/
The only way most don't die in jail is to plead guilty to something quickly, agree to effectively life on probation, and get it over with.
Or just go to Russia.
Is that a a variation on FAFO?
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Alzare la marea
https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1681668155687718912?t=E262bBNrgTDzfk9k0uAsZQ&s=19
I never thought I'd ever say this, but God bless the Stanford Daily
https://twitter.com/tab_delete/status/1681714003771260932?t=L06a6vh-od0g5uu8XHh1ig&s=19
Texas QB Quinn Ewers chops his mullet, trims the bushiness from his neckbeard, and loses 18 pounds. I am sure Party Quinn was more fun to hang out with.
https://twitter.com/HookemHeadlines/status/1679530693259321349
getting ready for the Pros I suspect