Yesterday we were moving the old kitchen table out

[conuly]

I have no freaking idea how we got it in in the first place, because it's wider than the stairwell.

We eventually decided to throw it out the window, and I was so excited, but that didn't work either (too wide....) and we ultimately had to break the legs off to maneuver it down the stairs after all. Well, three of them unscrewed, it's only the last one. We did, however, toss the legs out the window, so that's something.

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This company wants to replace braille with a controversial new font

Disneyland is home to hundreds of feral cats who have free rein in the park

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How to bend and stretch a diamond

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A Marriage Used to Prevent Deportation. Not Anymore.

54 percent of surveyed inmates in Colorado had serious brain injuries. This program aims to keep them from returning to crime. (They want you to disable your adblocker. In this case, I think the article was worth it.)

A New Study Shows the Stunning Amount of Food People Toss in the Garbage Every Day

The Democrats Are the Party of Fiscal Responsibility

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Dick's Sporting Goods plans to destroy all the assault rifles it pulled off its shelves

How the NRA sells guns in America today

Neither Precise Nor Proportionate

Comments

[8hyenas]

"We don't want to be a part of this story any longer"

A slow, slightly stunned, clap for Dick's? I just, I mean, a corporation, taking a loss... to do the right thing. I feel like it's a trick. Maybe it's an image thing, or so liberals shop Dick's. Uh... but... maybe it's just the right thing to do?

[conuly]

They definitely don't think they'll suffer too badly for this.

[stardreamer]

When my ex and I got married, we decided on a yours-mine-and-ours financial system. We figured out roughly what the major shared expenses (mortgage, utilities, and insurance) would be per month, added a pad amount, and established a joint account into which we each deposited a share per paycheck. They weren't equal shares, because I was making 3 times what he made, so we split it 2/3 to 1/3. As the pad amount built up, we could tap it for making major household purchases. The money left over from our paychecks remained in our personal accounts, to be spent as we chose. It saved us a LOT of fights, because we had somewhat different money management styles -- but we always knew that the bills would be paid. When we divorced, we closed the joint account and split the money in it 50/50.

Living with Russ, we haven't established a joint account; instead, we've divvied up the major expenses between us. He pays the property taxes (he paid off the mortgage when his father died) and the insurance, I pay the utilities, and beyond that we negotiate on the fly.

[conuly]

That sounds like a good system

[greghousesgf]

I wanted to read the feral cats in Disneyland article but that website demanded that I either turn off my ad blocker or give them money, which I have no intention of doing.
I don't waste food.

[conuly]

I don't waste food.

And good for you!

[jesse_the_k]

Oh that alternative-to-Braille article makes me see red.

A $10 stylus is more cost-effective than an inkjet printer, which currently retails around $200 in its standard form.

Fundamentally, to be literate one must be able to read and write. I simply can't imagine any device as low-tech as a braille slate-and-stylus that could create these alternative braille symbols.

http://www.afb.org/info/living-with-vision-loss/using-technology/assistive-technology-videos/braille-writing-devices/slate-and-stylus-video/12345

[conuly]

1. Is that a... braille rubiks cube?

2. That's a point I hadn't thought of. I'm familiar with braille in the abstract.

Yes it is!

[jesse_the_k]

In an earlier life, I was part-owner of a software publisher. Our principal product was a text-editor optimized for speech, large print, and braille output (as well as QWERTY and braille input). Which leaves me ready to pontificate on braille and large print at any moment.

A rant on an earlier ridiculous braille scheme:

https://jesse-the-k.dreamwidth.org/144529.html