How to Winterize Your Sprinklers, Drip Systems, and Hoses

Having water in your yard where you need it is a real blessing. Remember, people used to have to carry it by hand. But come winter, those hoses, pipes, and valves are susceptible to the cold. Your sprinkler, drip system, and hoses are likely made up of PVC, poly, and plastic. While those materials are fairly resilient to weather changes, the water that flows through them is not. Irrigation pipes are buried underneath garden beds, grass, and all over the yard....

October 29, 2024 · 3 min · 559 words · Michelle Gibson

Today's NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Tuesday, October 29, 2024

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Green category - Titles you might hear inGreys Anatomy. Blue category - Words from a famous Shakespeare play. Purple category - A fill-in-the-blank, with a word for a certain kind of quadrilateral....

October 29, 2024 · 3 min · 436 words · Melody Daniels

Today's NYT Strands Hints (and Answer) for Tuesday, October 29, 2024

For an easy way to come back to our Strands hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Strands answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the spangram and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Strands puzzle! Were about to give away the answers to todays Strands puzzle. What is the spangram in todays Strands?...

October 29, 2024 · 2 min · 235 words · Ronald Meyer

Today’s Wordle Hints (and Answer) for Tuesday, October 29, 2024

If youre looking for theWordleanswer for October 29, 2024 read on. Well share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solution. How to play Wordle Wordle liveshere on the New York Times website. A new puzzle goes live every day at midnight, your local time. Start by guessing a five-letter word. For more, check outour guide to playing Wordle here, andmy strategy guide here for more advanced tips. (We also have more information at the bottom of this post, after the hints and answers....

October 29, 2024 · 3 min · 453 words · Stacey Brown

What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: The World Is Ending in 2025

Are you already planning out your 2025 resolutions? No we should not be. Who was Baba Vanga? Vanga herself died in 1996 from breast cancer (which I assume she saw coming). Dead or not, Vanga’s legacy lives on. She has a large number of followers in Bulgaria and North Macedonia, and especially in Russia. (Global warming was first posited in ascientific paper in 1896.) Unlike most psychics, Vanga had the backing of real academics, particularly Georgi Lozanov....

October 29, 2024 · 2 min · 261 words · Edward Anderson

My Favorite Uses for AI, As an AI Skeptic

Like theMetaverseandNFTsbefore it, it feels near impossible to follow tech news right now without hearing about AI. Its tempting to write AI off entirely. That would be a mistake. As an AI skeptic, heres where I think AI is actually most useful. It feels genuinely novel. Thats the kind of AI Im interested in. It sucks to feel like youre losing content, which is where AI-powered generative fill plays a part....

October 28, 2024 · 3 min · 462 words · Lisa Larson

The Best New Microsoft Copilot Features You Can Use Right Now

(At that time, Microsoft called it Bing Chat.) Here are some of the best features and changes Microsoft has brought to Copilot this year. However, since the beginning of 2024,Microsoft has offered Copilot as a dedicated mobile appas well. As of October,the Copilot app (and site) even have a new look. That changed early in 2024, whenMicrosoft rolled out Copilot support in Microsoft 365 to all Copilot Pro users. Since May 2024, however, Microsoft has offered Copilot support in the Outlook app itself....

October 28, 2024 · 2 min · 411 words · Kimberly Hill

The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is Pink Cocaine?

Beast, Halloween trends and way more. So get yourself a spoonful of pink cocaine and read on. What exactly is pink cocaine? This led many to ask, thehellis pink cocaine? It rarely contains cocaine either (I assume because that shit is expensive) and its not pink. The color comes from food dye. The effects of snorting the substance is unknowable, because it could haveliterallyanything in it. (A problem forsquares, maybe.)...

October 28, 2024 · 2 min · 279 words · Kimberly Gonzales

Today's NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Monday, October 28, 2024

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Green category - Words referring to implication or symbolism. BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Connections puzzle! Were about to give away some of the answers....

October 28, 2024 · 3 min · 477 words · Kara Stanton

Today’s Wordle Hints (and Answer) for Monday, October 28, 2024

If youre looking for theWordleanswer for October 28, 2024 read on. Well share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solution. How to play Wordle Wordle liveshere on the New York Times website. A new puzzle goes live every day at midnight, your local time. Start by guessing a five-letter word. For more, check outour guide to playing Wordle here, andmy strategy guide here for more advanced tips. (We also have more information at the bottom of this post, after the hints and answers....

October 28, 2024 · 3 min · 457 words · Haley Johnson

Today's NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Sunday, October 27, 2024

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Green category - A certainje ne sais quoiyou might pick up on in a room. Blue category - They give meaning to numbers and figures....

October 27, 2024 · 2 min · 415 words · Christina Howard

Today's NYT Strands Hints (and Answer) for Sunday, October 27, 2024

For an easy way to come back to our Strands hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Strands answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the spangram and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Those are the words you should be looking for today. BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Strands puzzle! Were about to give away the answers to todays Strands puzzle....

October 27, 2024 · 2 min · 277 words · Daniel Cruz

Today’s Wordle Hints (and Answer) for Sunday, October 27, 2024

If youre looking for theWordleanswer for October 27, 2024 read on. Well share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solution. How to play Wordle Wordle liveshere on the New York Times website. A new puzzle goes live every day at midnight, your local time. Start by guessing a five-letter word. For more, check outour guide to playing Wordle here, andmy strategy guide here for more advanced tips. (We also have more information at the bottom of this post, after the hints and answers....

October 27, 2024 · 3 min · 458 words · Lori Wyatt