Binged 50 episodes in a week and it broke my anime brain

I hit episode 50 of a 300-episode shonen last Saturday and realized I couldn't remember a single character's name from the first arc. That's when I knew I had to slow down or risk forgetting why I even liked the show. Has anyone else hit a viewing milestone that made them step back?

Found a stat that really got me thinking about old perm rollers

I was reading through an old trade magazine from 1989 I picked up at a flea market last Saturday. It said back then the average salon did 15 to 20 perms a week, easy. Nowadays I'm lucky if I see 3 perms in a month at my chair. Made me wonder what changed besides just fashion trends. Any of you still getting requests for a traditional perm, or is it mostly the 'loose wave' stuff now?

The Guthook trick that saved my ass on the JMT last summer

I was sick of guessing water sources and hauling extra weight. Then I figured out you can download the offline maps AND mark your own waypoints on the phone app before you lose signal. Has anyone else used this to plan dry camps better?

Shoutout to the old library reading rooms for inspiring my desk layout

Last month I was killing time at the downtown main branch while waiting for my car to get an oil change. Found this quiet reading room I hadn't been in since college. Big windows, warm wood tables, lamps on every desk. Nobody had a laptop out. Just people reading and writing with pens. Something about the way the light fell made me realize how harsh my home setup is. I've got that blue led strip from Amazon throwing cold light everywhere. Now I'm building a monitor shelf with a warm gooseneck lamp clamped to it. Hoping for that same calm feeling. Anyone else get ideas from weird places like libraries or coffee shops?

Was skeptical about leaving native weeds in my yard... now I get it

I used to pull every dandelion and clover thinking they ruined the lawn. Then I left a patch of goldenrod alone last summer and counted 14 different butterfly species on it in one afternoon. Has anyone else changed their mind about so-called weeds?

Finally got the old kitchen drawer unstuck after three days of trying (and a can of WD-40).

I used to think the whole 'watch order' debate for Fate/Stay Night was pointless internet noise

I always just watched whatever was new, but a friend in Seattle made me sit down and follow the 'Unlimited Blade Works -> Heaven's Feel movies -> Zero' order he swore by. After finishing the third movie, the whole story clicked in a way it never had before. Has anyone else had a watch order completely change their view on a series?

A weird trick for fixing a dead laptop screen that actually worked

Had a client bring in a 5 year old Dell laptop last week with a totally black screen. The backlight was out, but you could see a faint image with a flashlight. Normally, I'd order a whole new panel, which would cost them about $120 plus my time. Instead, I remembered an old forum post about a specific capacitor on the screen's power board that often fails. I opened it up, found the tiny capacitor labeled C23, and sure enough, it was bulging. I didn't have the exact part, but I had a similar one from an old TV board. I swapped it in, and the screen lit right up. The whole fix took 20 minutes and cost nothing. It feels like a gamble every time, but sometimes these micro-repairs pay off huge. Do you guys ever try these pinpoint component fixes, or do you stick with full unit replacements to be safe?

Had a customer's car come back with a loose lug nut after I did the brakes...

It was on a 2018 Ford F-150 last Tuesday, and they drove about 50 miles before they felt the wobble. I double-checked my torque wrench and realized I'd been using the same click-type one for almost 8 years without having it calibrated. Now I'm sending mine out for a check every year. What's a good, reliable brand for a daily-use torque wrench you guys trust?

Warning: I used a cheap flux pen on a PS4 HDMI port and it made a mess

I was fixing a PS4 with a bad HDMI port last week and grabbed a new flux pen I got online for like $5. I put it on the board, but when I heated it up with my iron, it left this sticky, dark residue all over the pads. I had to stop and clean it off with a ton of isopropyl alcohol before I could even see to solder the new port on. It added maybe 20 minutes to the job. Has anyone found a flux that doesn't gunk up like that on game consoles?