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  1. Comment on Help me prep food provisions for a sailing trip in ~travel

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    I floated the cold pizza idea and everyone is 10000% down lol. Great tips, thanks.

    I floated the cold pizza idea and everyone is 10000% down lol. Great tips, thanks.

  2. Comment on Help me prep food provisions for a sailing trip in ~travel

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    Great idea on the foodsaver / vacuum sealer. We did an overnight 'safety shake out' sail this past weekend and a lot of the food ended up soggy in the coolers. I think we're gonna upgrade the...

    Great idea on the foodsaver / vacuum sealer. We did an overnight 'safety shake out' sail this past weekend and a lot of the food ended up soggy in the coolers. I think we're gonna upgrade the cooler as well because we want to ensure that I don't poison everyone. (The thing with the cooler is that we're basically trading cooling for weight - yetis are reallllly heavy.)

  3. Comment on Please help me pick an eReader! in ~books

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    Is koreader a different ux? the ootb kobo ux drives me crazy - I want a quick toggle between night/day mode for example and kobo buries the functionality under a few clicks.

    Is koreader a different ux? the ootb kobo ux drives me crazy - I want a quick toggle between night/day mode for example and kobo buries the functionality under a few clicks.

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  4. Comment on Please help me pick an eReader! in ~books

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    I have a Kobo Libra 2 and I like (not love) it. I mostly read books from Overdrive/Libby - check out from my phone and then it pushes it to my kobo. Super easy. It's also been handy to side-load a...

    I have a Kobo Libra 2 and I like (not love) it.

    I mostly read books from Overdrive/Libby - check out from my phone and then it pushes it to my kobo. Super easy. It's also been handy to side-load a bunch of epub books using Calibre. Battery life is great, I LOVE having a physical button to click, and it's small enough that I take it everywhere.

    My main complaints are 1) the UX is comically bad 2) Reading progress does not sync on overdrive between my phone and kobo... but I think that's more of a libby problem.

  5. Comment on What consumeristic and somewhat pointless hobby do you have? in ~hobbies

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    Fancy wine. It's pretty pointless because often the $15-30 stuff is usually really good, and you can find some gems in the "party wine"/under $10 range. The more you learn and try and the more...

    Fancy wine. It's pretty pointless because often the $15-30 stuff is usually really good, and you can find some gems in the "party wine"/under $10 range. The more you learn and try and the more wine people you hang out with, the more the avg per bottle price tag escalates...

    13 votes

  6. Comment on What consumeristic and somewhat pointless hobby do you have? in ~hobbies

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    omg i have a pair of puffy cheeto earrings and they're my favorite

    omg i have a pair of puffy cheeto earrings and they're my favorite

    4 votes

  7. Comment on Help me prep food provisions for a sailing trip in ~travel

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    I'll check the temp this weekend down there. We don't usually use it during beer cans so I'm not even sure what the shape of it is

    I'll check the temp this weekend down there. We don't usually use it during beer cans so I'm not even sure what the shape of it is

  8. Comment on Help me prep food provisions for a sailing trip in ~travel

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    We were originally thinking of assembling the sandwiches on the fly but maybe bread in general is not a great idea

    We were originally thinking of assembling the sandwiches on the fly but maybe bread in general is not a great idea

  9. Comment on Help me prep food provisions for a sailing trip in ~travel

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    Good point on the protein. Looking at the list right now we’re a little carb heavy

    Good point on the protein. Looking at the list right now we’re a little carb heavy

  10. Help me prep food provisions for a sailing trip

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    In a few weeks I'm participating in a three(ish) day nonstop sailing regatta. My friend and I have been put in charge of making and bringing food and drinks for the entire crew. We also have no...

    In a few weeks I'm participating in a three(ish) day nonstop sailing regatta. My friend and I have been put in charge of making and bringing food and drinks for the entire crew. We also have no idea what we are doing, so any advice would be appreciated!

    My first thought is sandwiches/wraps but for morale I think it would be nice to have a variety of things.

    We won't have a kitchen/stove/way to heat the food. No fridge, but a cooler full of ice. (It will probably not remain very cold the entire time.)

    The primary goal is to sail fast so no stopping to assemble anything complicated- someone might even be on shift sailing and eating at the same time. Probably nothing involving sharp knives as the boat will likely be heeled over and that seems needlessly risky.

    What kind of sammies? Brownies or cookies? What are we going to do about caffeine? Are two day old room temp breakfast tacos gross or okay?

    18 votes

  11. Comment on How to read House of Leaves in ~books

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    There not a “wrong” way to read this book. You can save all the footnotes for the end of a chapter or pause the main narrative and read the footnote when you get to them. I did the latter, just...

    There not a “wrong” way to read this book. You can save all the footnotes for the end of a chapter or pause the main narrative and read the footnote when you get to them. I did the latter, just got to a good stopping point on the page and used a few bookmarks to flip back and forth.

    I wouldn’t skip them entirely but it’s okay to skim. There are some cool narrative things that happen as part of flipping back and forth between the main story and the footnotes.

    5 votes