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The columns are all that remains of a University of Missouri building that burned in 1892. History does not tell us if the fire was caused by a space heater, but I think it’s safe to assume it was.

(And they are both terrible, if I left some ambiguity)

Diet Dr Pepper is the only diet soda that doesn’t taste worse than its full sugar brethren. Which is an accomplishment of sorts, I guess.

You didn't see Lefors out there, did you?

I have worked with people who, like genAI, would sometimes make stuff up. On anything of consequence, I had to triple check everything they touched. Eventually, it became more work to check their work than to do it myself.

The bowl I made between these two blew apart on the lathe. I tend to push my limits more with free wood. Exploding a $20 chunk of olive wood is stressful. Exploding a chunk of half-rotten sycamore I dug out of a brush pile? Not so much. #woodturning

“Have you ever had an unexpressed thought?”

“Son, your cologne should be a secret between yourself and the person you’re about to kiss.”

I told my fourteen year old last night that “if it’s too loud, you’re too old” has ceased to be a dig and now just feels like an accurate diagnosis.

This Old House

Should have asked my wife first. It’s in the very first book, and pops up in more than one.

And that bit of exposition doesn’t really show up in detail until almost ten books in. (Are there hints before Busman’s Honeymoon? I can’t recall.)