I promise this is not another dumb cleaning question without searching. I know about BKF, but I won't use it on the shiny side. And I've tried plain vinegar, and good old soap and water. Of course, it's purely cosmetic and in no way affects the performance, but if there's a way to get rid of it I'd use it. [Please ignore the bad edit in the title where I deleted the "what."]
From Show #9505 - Friday, February 20, 2026.
Okay...I've got this. The Bridge On the River Kwai was my favorite movie when I was a kid. Except that's wrong. As Andrew He correctly answers, it's The Bridge over the River Kwai. First off, how the heck did he know that the book title and the move title were different? Or did he mix up the prepositions by accident (my first thought)? And would they have accepted either "on" or "over" as correct? I guess we'll never know.
It's an Aetna Medicare Advantage PPO plan. It's hard to figure out how much it's going up in total, but it's not zero. Changes include:
Premium remains at $0
Deductible remains at $0
Max OOP unchanged at $5000
Primary Care visit unchanged at $0
Specialist visit increased $5 to $50 (up 11% and 43% from just a year ago when it was $35)
Hospital stay unchanged at $325
Lab services increase from $5 to $15 (up 200%, but that's only for the weird tests, which I usually have two or three a year. Most are still $0)
Hearing and vision unchanged
Eyewear allowance decreased from $150 to $125 (amounts to a 20% increase)
Dental max benefit unchanged at $750
Dental exams and x-rays unchanged at $0
Dental Comprehensive coinsurance increased from 20%-50% to 50% (Potentially a 150% increase on fillings, which used to be 20%)
Tier 1 and 2 drug copays unchanged at $0
All my doctors and facilities are still in network
How exactly do you get there? There's a down button on the elevator, but we know that doesn't work. And I sure don't see any stairs.
That model came out in 1986 when he was 6 years old, so I doubt it's original. I know that Howard has an old model in his bedroom, and Sheldon told Steve Wozniak that he had an Apple II, even though Young Sheldon's first computer was a Radio Shack Tandy 1000 SL. And now they all use Windows laptops. So, was it a thing for Millennial nerds to collect old Apple hardware and never use it?
"The die is cast" is a variation of the words spoken by Julius Caesar at the crossing of the Rubicon. It means, of course, that a decision or action is final, absolute, and impossible to change. But here's how stupid I am: I had no idea that it literally meant throwing dice. In my mind it came from "die casting," the metal-working process used for producing everything from moveable type to injection molds. Once the die is cast, it can't be changed, so it's final. But that ain't it. It's that once the die is thrown, you can't change the outcome (apparently they didn't have loaded dice in ancient Rome).
I couldn't figure out why she started looking so different. Then I noticed the huge fake eyelashes. Wonder why they made this choice.
Doesn't matter if I wear them over the belly (Florida) or under (Texas), they just won't stay up. I can cinch my belt as tight as I can, but by the time I'm halfway through the supermarket, I'm sagging like a hip-hop musician. And, although I wore them as a fashion statement in the '80s, I don't think I'm ready to face suspenders.
That's right...a septuagenarian. But as we learned on Jeopardy! recently, we're all mispronouncing it. You've got to get that "U" sound in there: sep-ˌtü-ə-jə-ˈner-ē-ən. If it helps you to remember, you can just think of the Hawk Tuah Girl.
I mean the city in the show. Note: I also felt the same way about the Apple TV show Tehran, especially since it had a huge story arc about disabling Iran's air defenses (turns out that wasn't really necessary IRL). But something they both have in common is a fairly robust Westernization of the populace with lots of drinking and drugs. I wonder if this still goes on, and how it will be addressed in future seasons. It just seems to me they'd have to give up a whole lot of the drama.
On normal days, I usually turn it on at noon when I eat lunch, then leave it on in the background while I work on my computer until 4:00 p.m. when I watch it continuously until 9:00 p.m. Should I turn it off after lunch to save those four hours? Or is cycling it on and off more harmful?
I went to the dentist today for my 6-month checkup. They took x-rays, did the thing where they scrape your teeth with that pick thing, then polish them, then floss. It's the same cleaning I've been getting all my life. Went to check out, and they said that would be $118. But my insurance says checkups are free? Well, because you had a deep cleaning in the past, you now get a periodontal maintenance. But it sure feels like the same thing. No, it's not. What's the difference, besides the name? No answer.
Okay. But my question now is, can I just start seeing a new dentist and go back to getting regular cleanings?
Like when my iPhone went out of Do Not Disturb mode, I'd get a notification on my iMac. Same with any phone call I got, the number would show up as an alert in Notifications. Now it's stopped. I haven't changed any settings, and have done no system updates. What happened?
Note the bookcases and the seeming absence of Sheldon's desk to the left. Quite different than the second pic I posted the other day which was Season 8. This is from The Euclid Alternative (Season 2, Episode 5), when they have a drug-style intervention to get Sheldon to learn to drive.
I live in an urban neighborhood where most of the houses were built around 1940. A lot of the houses have these water valves by the curb. Mine doesn't. Should it have one? Does it have one and is it just buried? The meter is in my basement and I do have a shut off valve on the pipe as it comes in from the street through the wall.
We as the audience are so used to being back there, you don't think of it as a wall with posters and such.
Yeah, I know it's from a TV show so it's not real. But every time the gang on House of Lies flies somewhere, even on short hops, they sit in this first class cabin with a 2-2-2 seating. I don't know of any airplane that has that configuration, but maybe an older Boeing business class?
Sure, pasta and Alfredo sauce are easy with stainless, but Pork Milanese and sauteed zucchini with onions and garlic is no problem either.