Your uncle gets it. Diamond tips are brutal but they last.

My neighbor swears by the Texas crutch for pork shoulders and I finally caved and tried it on a butt that was sweating out at 190 for three hours straight. Wrapped it in foil with some apple cider vinegar and it pushed through the stall in 45 minutes flat with the most tender pull I have ever had. Ever find that once you break one barbecue rule, the others start falling like dominoes?

I gotta say, the phrase "scanners see everything" is pretty funny when you think about it. But the real question is why did Mike not just look up the TSA website before he left for the airport? I mean, a five minute Google search would have told him exactly what those machines can and can't detect, instead of relying on some random article he skimmed. Is it really that hard for people to check official sources before they panic, or do they just like the drama?

Are you saying you haven't tried stacking with a tracker yet, @kai_chen2? Because honestly, I was the biggest skeptic too until I borrowed a friend's SkyWatcher Star Adventurer and threw my old 50mm 1.8 on it. The first time I stacked 30 second subs of Orion, I literally sat there staring at the screen like "wait, that can't be my lens." The tracker (and a good alignment, which I still mess up half the time) just unlocks so much you couldn't see before.

Oh wow, your lopsided ashtray story totally reminds me of my friend Jenna! She took one of those "wine and wheel" classes last year and her pot came out looking like a sad, droopy bowl. She tried to call it a "modern art fruit bowl" but we all knew the truth. The clay just kept flopping over on one side no matter how hard she tried to center it. She was so proud of it though, she put it on her desk at work and uses it to hold paperclips. Honestly, it kind of looks like a melted ice cream cone but she loves it and that's what matters!