SuperApples
As someone who spent the largest chunk of their working life involved in localizing games, and doesn't come from North America, this post was an 'oh yeah, that's knowledge I take for granted' moment.
You shouldn't feel dumb; it's just not been a useful thing for you to know.
I have a graduate diploma in economics and concur it's mostly bullshit. The lecturers essentially agreed. Didn't bother to continue to masters as I don't think there's anything more to learn from the field once you've confirmed that the world economy is based on lies and dice rolls.
Pre-home internet I remember running a line-in to my soundblaster card from a clock radio and recording Tool's Sober to my HDD.
The wav file took up a good chunk of the HDD. After a good amount of funking around with encoding it was barely comprehensible and still took up too much room. Was exciting and felt like a glimpse of the future.
After 25 years of writing Japanese and trying many cheap and expensive options...
「Zebra Clip-on multi」
is my forever pencil (+pens).
This is Piaget's conservation of volume test. I did this experiment at school (we went to the elementary school next door and ran tests on the kids). Most of the kids said the higher one held more liquid because it was 'taller', though some said the short one had more because it was 'fatter'.
Toasted ham and cheese with quality ingredients. It's a tasty marriage of sweet sugar and salty ham, crisp toast and melty cheese.
Best one I made was when staying in Antwerp. I got the cheese in Amersdam - a truffle gouda. Butter was also dutch, from memory, but I can't recall exactly. Nice and salty. Bread was local - Suikerbrood. Sweet bread that browns easily. Ham was prosciutto from France somewhere.
Have to put the butter on the outside and pan-fry slowly to ensure the cheese melts. The If you don't have a sweet brioche bread, sprinkle sugar on the butter to get that crisp, sweet exterior.
Yes, very pleased or satisfied. Like, you'd be chuffed if you made a great pavlova, or parents got you a Megadrive for Chrissy.