How do you even bring that up without sounding like a jerk? I'd just buy the right wire and swap it out while he's grabbing a beer.

The lab coffee is actually pretty decent, it's a local roast. The real issue was the soil type. It was a heavy clay that dried into basically one solid lump. Took us two days just to get it broken up enough to wet sieve. Dr. Chen was a good sport about it though.

So handing someone a bike light is rude, but what's the actual line here? Like if someone's about to wreck a long exposure shot, is saying "shutter's open" really that different from handing them a light? Both are trying to stop the problem fast. Where does helpful info turn into a weird trick?

My brother-in-law had a similar scare with a chipped blade on his miter saw. He ended up duct-taping a piece of plexiglass to the frame as a shield. Sometimes the cheap fix is the only one that works.

My oven's timer gets set for 9 minutes at 380 degrees, no matter what the package says. @owens.jenny, your smoke alarm story made me double-check my own settings last week (it's way too easy to zone out for that extra minute). That lower temp gives the fat time to render without the strips going straight from floppy to charcoal.