PSA: My brother-in-law at Thanksgiving dinner said archaeology is just 'glorified digging'

We were in his kitchen in Phoenix and he was carving the turkey when he said, 'You guys just find old junk and write papers about it, right?' I mean, I tried to explain about the new LiDAR survey that found over 60,000 Maya structures in Guatemala last year, but he just shrugged. Has anyone else had to deal with family who just don't get what we actually do?

Just realized most digital art portfolios are way too slow to load

I was looking at a friend's new portfolio site last week and it took 12 seconds for the first image to show. He had all his work in 8K PNGs with no compression. This matters because people click away after 3 seconds if a site is slow. I know from my own site traffic that cutting image sizes in half doubled the time people spent looking at my art. How do you balance image quality with keeping your site fast?

My aunt told me to always use cold butter for pie crust, and I finally tried it after a string of tough ones.

My new spray booth fan was a total game changer

I finally spent about $800 on a big industrial fan for my small shop spray booth. I got tired of waiting for fumes to clear after each coat. This thing moves so much air it cut my drying time in half on a recent oak table job. I can now do two finish coats in a single day without worry. Has anyone else made a shop upgrade that really paid off fast?