He will be on your side when you want to spend an entire Saturday making the house smell like a brewery or drop several hundred dollars to build a kegerator.

My uncle gambled away his fortune, and now he hardly has a penny to his name.

The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

...it generated a rare national campaign of nurses who protested the show's bimboesque depiction of both nurses and nursing students.