Deadspin Vin Scully Calling A Kid Rolling Down A Hill Is What Spring Is For
Part of me loves this clip because that little kid is way cute and listening to Vin Scully talk about anything is always a good time, but another part of me hates it deeply.
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I've been waiting for this moment since Grant Gustin first showed up as Barry Allen in CW's Arrow earlier this season — our first peek at the latest TV iteration of DC Comics' scarlet speedster, the Flash.
Civilization Revolution and Dungeon Defenders are the March offerings from the Xbox 360 Games with Gold program. Xbox 360 owners will be able to snag these games free from March 1-15 and 16-31 respectively.
Tired of waiting for Field Notes to release a notebook in your favorite color? Take matters into your own hands with this simple $5 Eco Clip. All you need is a stack of letter or legal-sized paper and enough strength to fold it in half. Then you just slide the Eco Clip down onto the edge and bam—instant notebook.
The first Shin Megami Tensei comes to iOS next month. It'll be out on March 18 for $8, Atlus says. Here's hoping you don't have to pay real money to negotiate with demons. That'd be kind of evil.
It doesn't matter how big or comfy your bed is, there's just something undeniably satisfying about falling asleep on the couch in your living room. So Unikia created a better couch pillow, with a two-piece Flip! cushion that should let you nap comfortably and not have to worry about waking up to a sore neck or joints.
Meet Boneco, the world's first beekeeping donkey. He lives in Brazil and helps his owner, Manuel Juraci, make honey. Boneco also does not appear to like his beekeeping suit. But boy does he look adorable while wearing it.
Since they're cheap and come in bulk, we tend to waste a lot of vegetables and herbs in the kitchen. If you'd prefer to cut down on that a bit, a few kitchen staples are dead simple to regrow and don't need a full blown garden. In fact, these ones don't even require dirt.
You can technically regrow just about any fruit, vegetable, or herb from a scrap or seed. Most of us aren't looking to grow an avocado plant in our kitchen. More useful are the foods we tend to use every day—like green onions or lettuce—that don't take much time, dirt, or space to regrow. Sure, you can grab a bundle of green onions from the grocery store for 70¢, but why bother wasting that when you can keep a nearly endless supply that doesn't need much upkeep for free?
With that in mind, here are some sensible, easy, and useful plants you can regrow as long as you have a little sunlight and a glass of water.
Lettuce is one of those staples that tends to get used in all kinds of meals year round so chances are you're buying a head once a week or so. Instead of tossing that heart in the trash when you're done, you can regrow new leaves.
Take the bottom of the heart and place it in jar with about a half-inch of water. Put that in a window sill near some sunlight. Then replace the water every one or two days. Within a few days you'll have some leaves sprouting up. From there, just let the lettuce grow, trimming off any brown leaves that might wither on the outside. When you have enough green leaves sprouting up, eat away. You can do this with most other red and green lettuces as well.
Green onions are the easiest food scrap to regrow. Just take the leftover green onion roots, drop them in a glass with enough water to cover them, and move the onions around so the roots are pointing down. Make sure you change the water out once every couple of days so they don't get greasy. Within about a week you'll have a brand new set of green onions. If you tend to top your food with green onions a lot, this is a pretty simple way to ensure you always have some around.
Garlic sprouts are usually chopped off and thrown away as a sign you've left garlic out for too long, but they're edible if you get the right bits. They have a nice, less abrasive taste than a clove of garlic and make a good topping when they're sprouted. The initial sprout is bitter and terrible tasting, so you'll need to grow them for a bit first. If you have a garlic clove with a green sprout coming out of it, pull it aside and put in a small jar with enough water to cover the bottom of the jar. Within a couple of days, the clove will produce roots, and shortly after the sprouts will rise up to a few inches tall. When they're at least three-inches tall, you can trim off about 1/3 of the shoot.
Fennel has a strong enough taste that it's pretty rare you'll need more than just a small cutting from one. If you'd like to keep one around all the time, it's worth just regrowing one you have. Just take the bulb, put it in a cup, and fill it up with water so the bulb's covered. Stick that jar in the sun and within a few days it'll start sprouting up. Replace the water every couple of days and trim off a bit of fennel when you need it.
Leeks are awesome for soups, and it turns out they're easy to keep around because they grow in water just as easily as green onions. Just take the base of your leeks, cover them in water, and leave them in the window with some sun for a few days. You should start seeing them sprout right away, and within a week or so you'll be able to trim off parts to use in recipes.
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I’m not one for hard and fast rules of dress etiquette, but then again I never thought “bow tie with polo and sportcoat” would happen. Via Pete Schroeder. We’ll have to assume this was an emergency, only-tie-available-in-a-pinch situation.
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Over time, dishwashers stop cleaning as well as they used to and need a bit of a cleaning. The Kitchn points to two parts of your dishwasher, the trap and the seals, that might be in need of a little care.
It's always a little counterintuitive to clean a machine that's made for cleaning, but your dishwasher catches all kinds of gunk throughout the day. To keep it running smoothly, just keep clean two parts of it:
Clean the dishwasher trap: Down in no mans land, under the lower sprayer, there's usually a piece that is removable. Under it you'll usually find bits of food that didn't make it out the drain or even pet hair (eww) if you have a fur-ball of any kind running around your home. Sometimes the tray comes out fully so it can be rinsed in the sink; sometimes a towel is needed to remove the gunk build-up.
Clean the dishwasher seals: After a few months of use, your dishwasher accumulates a little bit of ick and stick around the rubber gasket in the door as well and often around the soap door as well. Make sure to give them a once-over with a damp towel to keep the grime down.
As for normal cleaning, the Kitchn recommends running your dishwasher with a cup of white vinegar now and again to clean out old foot particles and keep it fresh. Combine all that with a properly loaded dishwasher and you'll have clean dishes every time.
10 Tips to Help the Dishwasher Run Better | The Kitchn
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When most of us hear the term "microhouse," we think of the chic, wedge-shaped homes that have colonized the world's wealthiest cities. But in a number of U.S. cities, microhouses are being used to house a different demographic—the very poor.
Jason Collins on Sunday became the first openly gay athlete to play in a major U.S. sport. In the 1970s, coming out was never an option for Dodgers outfielder Glenn Burke.
Remember a few weeks ago when everyone went bonkers over the Amazon drone delivery story? And remember a while before that when people went nearly the same kind of bonkers over test runs of Amazon’s same-day delivery service? Well how about this? Beginning yesterday, Philadelphia became the fourth city to have San Francisco-based Instacart–a same-day…
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Deadspin How Players Actually Make Progress in 'Twitch Plays Pokémon'
When more than 80,000 people band together to try to control a single Pokémon trainer via Twitch chat—and then manage to actually make progress—the question that immediately comes to mind is: just how in the world are they accomplishing it?
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Boing Boing Winter Olympics medals per capita
The Netherlands sits atop the medal table in Sochi, remarkable enough given the country's relatively small size compared to rivals Russia and the USA. But it's tiny Norway, Slovenia and Latvia that earn the truly outsize hauls. [The Atlantic]
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