Mains voltage is not precise. Supply authorities normally quote +10% to -20% around the nominal voltage.

My son (or AI) created this in seconds to go with his dessert contribution to a California BBQ. I was impressed.

This talk about cock fights reminds me of an embarrassing experience. I was visiting a Filipino friend's farm with my dog. He raised fighting cocks as a hobby. He had great hopes for a young rooster, his current project, descended from champions. This bird knew he was special. Strutting and preening...

The improvement in public health and the increase in life expectancy over the last 150 years have been SPECTACULAR. We can argue about the COVID restrictions we have all lived through but there has been a significant hit to life expectancy over the last three years (for a good graphic see page 72 of...

Support for sanctions seems a vanishingly small minority view in western media. I am curious if western expats in Asia have an opinion.
This is the only site that I follow and it seemed a reasonable forum to satisfy my curiosity.

I have some sympathy for the representatives who voted to sanction them. While their cause is wildly popular and they feel justified disrupting the formal meeting of those elected to craft laws, their behavior was not acceptable.. After googling and reading, this side of the story is hard to find. T...

There is or was an effective system in Denver Colorado some years ago. My Android phone was making a loud noise I had never heard. There was a tornado warning on the screen. How? By whom?

Knowing the serial numbers may have been easy. When I bought USD recently the bank recorded the serial numbers and gave me a copy.
On the other hand, talking serious money to a massage parlor does seem very suspicious or foolish.

President Duterte stopped me smoking weed for six years. With COVID Restrictions eased, my choice for a break would normally have been Siem Reap but Pattaya is getting my tourist dollars this time. I arrived tonight and scored a gram for ThB 200 from a "dispensary" that also sells beer, ro...

Most skin cancers are BCCs (basal cell carcinoma) and are rarely invasive. When small, like keratoses, they are easily treated with liquid nitrogen. Aldara cream (imiquimod) is also effective. Suspected squamous cell carcinomas and melanomas, like larger BCCs, are removed surgically and sent for pat...