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New (?) google feature, recipe searching

This may not be new, but I had never seen it before and it’s kind of neat. If you search for certain foods, along with the word recipe, it gives you a chance to sort through just recipes. Like here, searching for an acorn squash recipe.
In case it’s not live everywhere, it looks […]

Farmers Insurance wants your car to be stolen

A friend had their house burglarized and their car stolen. The car was recovered, but the thief still had their keys. Farmers refuses to pay for changing the locks, saying that it’s no more likely to get stolen with a criminal knowing where they live, and having the keys to the car.
They’d apparently […]

Are more people and companies going stupid, or am I just running into more of them?

So, obviously I’m cursed in the food delivery department, I’ve kind of grown to accept that.
The other night we wanted to try something new, rather than asian or pizza. So, I set about finding somewhere that would deliver to our house. I thought that would be pretty easy, seattle is a pretty together […]

Fixing the Roomba “Circle Dance”

About a year ago our original Roomba started backing up and turning when it shouldn’t have. After a few talks with iRobot, they said they’d send out a replacement — I just had to send them the little guard on the bottom, apparently that’s the thing they won’t sell except with the Roomba.
They sent […]

I am food delivery cursed.

We order delivery fairly often because we’re lazy, and since we buy fancy food at the store it doesn’t end up being that much more expensive anyway.
There’s a pretty limited selection we order from: Pagliacci, Zeeks, Chaiyo, and Snappy Dragon. (pizza, pizza, thai, chinese).
They all have various problems (usually the wrong stuff being delivered), […]