Drusas

It is a very large, phallic-looking clam. The name comes from a local native language here in the Pacific Northwest and is pronounced “gooey duck”. The clam itself feels sort of like really thick skin.

I once dug a geoduck out of the sand with my bare hands.

It’s relative.

I don’t agree. I watched tons of movies from the '80s in the 2000s and I didn’t really think of them as old. Certainly not recent, but not old old.

That is not an old movie. It’s not a recent movie, but it’s not an old movie.

You might want to switch Gremlins to the PG-13 category. The PG-13 rating was invented as a response to Gremlins being PG.

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-gremlins-helped-change-movie-ratings-forever-with-pg-13

Moderately good health.

It’s a reference to an old reddit post.

They’re building apartments now with more toilets than bedrooms in some places.

It’s only nepotism if the person is hired because of the relation.

I very mildly regret getting my upper ear pierced when I was a teen. It caused the collagen to push to the back of my ear, creating a little bump. It has gotten somewhat better over the years.

Books that I have already read more than once:

The Stranger by Camus The Woman in the Dunes by Abe Kobo The Fisherman by John Langan

Thanks again! Glad you had such a good experience and I’m looking forward to going there myself.

Thank you for sharing. The language barrier is mostly the thing that has held me back. I know some vocabulary related to food, but that’s about it.

How well can one get by as a tourist without speaking Vietnamese? Vietnam has been around the top of my list for places to visit for ages.

Interesting. My experience was the opposite; I couldn’t practice German at all because everybody would switch to English.

I’ve always liked the number nine because it feels round. Not the shape, mind you. The concept of nine.

Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now

I’d just like to point out that there is no “taste of fish”. Different species can taste very different from one another.

Cod is the most popular among people who otherwise don’t eat much fish because it is versatile and light on flavor. Salmon is one of the more flavorful fish, so I’m not sure what was up with the salmon you had. Mackerel is very flavorful (the oily fishes in general are), which you may or may not like. Sole or flounder are also popular among the lighter flavored fish, and easy to cook. You might like them battered and fried. You should try fresh tuna as well.

I also am a big fan of sole a la meunier (with butter, parsley, lemon, and capers). I’d also recommend trying teriyaki salmon. I like to make fish chowder with cod. Mackerel I tend to make shioyaki style (while baked with a bunch of salt, served with lemon or ponzu).

Out here in Seattle, if you give your two weeks notice as a tech employee to Amazon, and you tell them that you’re going to Oracle, they’ll just send you home that day. Probably not every team/manager, but it’s a thing.