smokey_the_bear

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by smokey_the_bear 9mo ago
I bought my daughter a shirt I saw in a Facebook ad, from Chalk & Stone. The shirt arrived and is great.
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by smokey_the_bear 10mo ago
I do know how to load arbitrary PDFs onto the kindle, you can do it now with a specific email address that's assigned to each kindle. It's allow-listed for coming from your amazon email address though. I was not able to extract th
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by smokey_the_bear 10mo ago
I could not figure out a way to extract a pdf of the textbook to send to her kindle. I would have liked that solution, since she has one of the large format kindles.
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by smokey_the_bear 10mo ago
My 11 year old daughter uses the open dyslexic font in her kindle. She has dyslexia, and also had to do some vision therapy when she was younger. She thinks she is able to read for longer with fewer headaches. She specifically has trouble t
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by smokey_the_bear 1y ago
In the US, I usually show up about an hour before. A little less if I'm traveling alone, but holiday are a disaster at American airports. Once, I showed up two hours before a flight a few days after Christmas. I had a lapchild, so we n
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by smokey_the_bear 2y ago
We pack lunch for our three kids because the free lunch at school is low quality and they don't like it. I'm not claiming it's an overwhelming amount of work, and if we just packed sandwiches it would be easier, but it's
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by smokey_the_bear 2y ago
I have an M2 Max now, and it's incredible. But it still can't handle running xcode's Instruments. I'd upgrade if the M4s could run the leaks tool seamlessly, but I doubt any computer could.
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by smokey_the_bear 2y ago
I wouldn't mind paying to sit next to my kids so much if the middle seats were free to select, so I just had to pay for the aisle or window. It seems like blatant greed, and also encourages the behavior of selecting the aisle/wind
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by smokey_the_bear 2y ago
Mathacademy.com will curate an adaptive course for 4th grade math thru college
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by smokey_the_bear 3y ago
I have the cheapest kaiser plan available, with a 10k deductible. It is 1900/month for my family.
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by smokey_the_bear 3y ago
The California academy of sciences membership was cheaper for one visit for a family of 5.
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by smokey_the_bear 3y ago
My obgyn didn’t remember me when I went in pregnant for the third time. I’d seen her at least 20 times in the previous 5 years.
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by smokey_the_bear 4y ago
We had kaiser for years, and it was fine. I was able to receive care for pregnancy, stitches, vaccinations, etc with little hassle and mostly reasonable billing. Then we moved. Omg, I can’t even get appointments to get a rash looked at, or
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by smokey_the_bear 4y ago
My university had versions of courses that engineering majors were not allowed to take. Chem 160 for most students, chem 167 for engineers, chem 177 for chemistry majors.
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by smokey_the_bear 4y ago
We did. It’s a private school and they sweep everything under the rug. The other parents know she’s not a great teacher, but she was making an example of my kid in particular.
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by smokey_the_bear 4y ago
My son had a cartoonishly mean 4th grade teacher this year. Saccharine sweet to the parents, but berated my son daily. We pulled him out of the school over winter break, and he is so much happier already. He wakes up with a smile on his fac
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by smokey_the_bear 4y ago
I just found two weeks of emails from my kids new teacher in my spam folder.
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by smokey_the_bear 4y ago
Esri does not provide free access to their tile sets for offline caching.
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by smokey_the_bear 4y ago
I have a directory with a restricted hosts file and an empty one, and two aliases that just copy one of them to /etc I can turn it off whenever I want with one commandline, but it’s enough to keep me from falling into the rabbit hole a
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by smokey_the_bear 5y ago
I don’t like getting Knickknacks, but my favorite kitchen accessories make good gifts for many people. Instant read thermometers, silicone oven mits, etc
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by smokey_the_bear 5y ago
I just went to cancel my daughter's literati subscription because the books aren't a good fit right now. I was going to keep my son's, but they made me do an online chat to cancel, so I canceled both.
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by smokey_the_bear 5y ago
I mean, I have two kids. One never touches her iPad. The other would do nothing but ipad if we let him. Kids are different.
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by smokey_the_bear 6y ago
Our support and marketing teams wont switch to Google Docs from quip because they hate Google Docs organization. But the engineers hate quip.
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by smokey_the_bear 6y ago
Fwiw, I attended a nearly identical recruiting event at Microsoft for women and minorities.
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by smokey_the_bear 6y ago
I recommend fertility friend, from their privacy policy “ FertilityFriend.com is fully funded by its VIP service fees and has been so since we started. It does not rely on any type of data trading for any of its funding or any other purpose
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by smokey_the_bear 6y ago
I mean, six years old isn't exceptionally old for a TV, so it's not great to hear what a pain it is. My parents had the same TV in the living room for over 20 years. My current TV is a Vizio from 2012 and there is nothing wrong wi
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by smokey_the_bear 6y ago
I bought a book on ebay because it was backordered on Amazon. I was pissed when it arrived two months later in an Amazon box.
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by smokey_the_bear 6y ago
eh, I had an AirBnB in Houston, TX in the summer with no AC. We left before the first night, and AirBnB wouldn't even give me my money back, much less a suitable place to stay. They aren't an honest company, they're just burn
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by smokey_the_bear 6y ago
Airbnb treated a lot of customers pretty terribly this year, and I wonder how much that will haunt them in the future. I tried to stay at an AirBnB in Houston in the summer with broken AC. I left before the first night, and AirBnB wouldn&#x
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by smokey_the_bear 6y ago
I've biked a lot, and been into different styles of bikes over the years. Hands down, the best and friendliest service I ever received was buying my first road bike from Sports Basement (in Sunnyvale). Buying my xtracycle from a hip Be

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