That is actually a really nice model. Effectively it is 300 Search for $5 valid for one month. And instantly renew if you exceed $5.
May be Kagi could also consider rolling over unused search for one month. So if you only did 200 searches, the remaining 100 will roll over to next month so you have 400 searches.
Do you mean that they charge you an additional $5 (so in a 12 month period, exceeding the 300 search limit would result in 13 payments instead of 12), or does the next month’s subscription payment get moved up to the day that you ran out searches, with the number of payments remaining the same?
What they actually tend to do is have someone in management call to congratulate you and invite you to discuss banking products. I know this from personal experience.
I agree the name is pretty terrible for a mass-market company because everybody associates it with price, but I believe the origin was due to the fact that they offered direct sales of products that were previously only available "to the trade" (aka professional designers/decorators).
You can make it work with iTunes Match. It will upload all your music (it's not just filename or metadata matching, apparently it uses audio fingerprints).
Then you can play your own stuff without needing an Apple Music subscription.
It's $25/year.
I moved to Apple music a while ago, but iTunes Match worked great for me before that.
It has a limit of 100K tracks. I have 97,760 right now. I worked at a music store in HS & College so I managed to acquire quite a collection. At Christmas the employee discount basically reached 75% so if I even thought I might want one song, buying the album was a no-brain. At one point I had an 8-bay SCSI tower with CD-ROMs in it and wrote a script to rip all the CDs. It took a few weeks :) In the last few years I have started on the process of IDing things that where ripped at lower quality and re-ripping in as Apple Lossless.
I use the Xtreme Comforts Shredded Memory Foam Pillow recommended; when I replace it I'll probably buy the upgrade pick mentioned in the article just to see if it's much nicer.
I've spent years trying different pillows (usually super-expensive ones) and the memory foam is by far the best for me (I am also a side sleeper).
Other random insomnia advice: try to focus on relaxing each and every muscle in your body so that you are totally slack. Mindfulness apps/podcasts can help you do this. It helps me a lot. Low-dose melatonin (1mg) is good when you're training yourself to sleep but I wouldn't take it long-term (very vivid dreams are a side effect).
I've tried mindfulness and melatonin before. Definitely took melatonin long enough to get the side effects. I'll try to get back into mindfulness but it was a difficult habit to form.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll definitely check out this pillow.
I live in Los Angeles near a lot of the construction going on for the new subway line running down Wilshire Blvd.
My neighborhood (Carthay) has been getting a lot more cut-through traffic. There are days that seem particularly "Waze-y", when it's basically just gridlock on our little streets for an hour. I imagine it's due to apps re-routing people.
But I don't really think it's any faster for the commuter. I'm reminded of this article (seemingly now password-protected, so I'll link to a summary) that Waze chronically underestimates your travel time, while Apple Maps chronically overestimates (and therefore overdelivers):
From my anecdotal experience, Waze does vastly overestimate the benefits of a crazy route, like making a left turn from a stop sign across 6 lanes of rush-hour traffic.
Google Maps does this too at times. It isn’t so much residential streets but I’ve had Google take me on windy country drives where I inevitably screw up.
It's ludicrous that Los Angeles politicians are blaming Waze for this, when it's their own fault for failing to approve and build higher-volume and better roads. I smirk every time I read some bureaucrat blaming apps that demonstrably make our lives better instead of owning up to their own impotence and incompetence.
Have you been to Los Angeles? On what space do you expect them to do this on, without interrupting the already bad traffic and with what money? I'm genuinely curious as to your idea and how it would work.
I've been there several times, and I'm aware of how difficult it would be. My comment wasn't predicated on the idea that improving traffic in LA would be painless—quite the opposite. In order to commit to proper urban planning, there are tradeoffs and the construction is disruptive and inconvenient for a time. But it must be done. And LA can afford to do it.
Inconvenient for a while is an understatement. It took them nearly 10 years to expand a portion of freeway from Temecula -> Riverside and it's honestly not helped at all, made it worse if anything. California may be good at some things but completing road work is not one of them. A recently repaved and widened portion of the 52 near me in San Diego feels like riding a roller coaster with all the dips it has.
And even if they somehow do manage to do it, I'm not sure at all that any lasting improvement will be made. An urban planner friend tells me that people decide where to live based on commute time, not miles driven. So if you put in more roadway, people move to cheaper places farther out, using more road-miles than before, at least until the speeds drop back down. 
I'm not sure what practical intervention you're suggesting there. We can rebuild existing buildings to be denser, but I'm not sure how you'd make that cheaper than a new suburban home, let alone as appealing to the kind of person who currently buys a new suburban home.
I use Blue Apron sporadically; it can be a good thing on a busier week because it removes both menu planning and shopping while still letting you make home-cooked meals (take-out more than once a week or so gets really old).
It can also be a great break when your go-to recipes feel too repetitive.
But often one of the three recipes ends up being a dud, and if you forget to skip a week and get a bunch of stuff you don't feel like cooking it's an expensive and annoying obligation to prepare meals you didn't really want or make an ersatz recipe out of the ingredients they sent.
There is absolutely zero chance I would go to a store to buy a Blue Apron box. Without the convenience of home delivery, it really loses its appeal.
I agree. The biggest annoyance with Blue Apron is planning your deliveries. There might be a week you were planning to skip, for cost reasons or "too busy to even cook" reasons, but you forget until its too late. Or, you might forget to go in and select the recipes you want, so you get a couple good ones and one that you never would have ordered, wasting at least $20.
But I think it depends on the cost of these in-store kits. It does remove the huge convenience advantage, but I still like the idea of meal prep kits. The problem with in-store is that this space is so easy to compete in, and now you're asking to go up against every other company that can find space on a store shelf, which is easier than maintaining a delivery network.
Blue Apron's food isn't especially high quality and the recipes aren't especially amazing. They're great, but not great enough that I wouldn't switch to a competitor if the price or quality was better.
I think it's good that they're exploring the trade-off between the convenience of home delivery versus the convenience of last minute decision to buy. If the meal kits were carried in corner stores or along the route from the subway to home, then they could satisfy someone who didn't plan ahead or whose plans changed.
For me it's just happened a few times towards the end of the month and I was happy with how they handled the situation.