Your premise—”they’re not investing enough into the network due to padding the profit margin”—doesn’t make sense. If they are “padding” their profit margin, where do you think the money goes? It goes to the shareholders as a dividend. If the dividend on wireless stocks was “padded” with extra profit, what that means…

I don’t get the logic of slamming sponsored data—it is a billing arrangement, fer chrissakes. It is like saying 800 numbers (sponsored minutes for telecom, right?) are a scourge because companies with 800 numbers will do better with consumers because consumers don’t have to pay to get to them. Absurd.

Seems pretty pricey trying to put one together from pieces. I’ll paste in a link to the Cold Bruer below—I participated in their kickstarter and they made a nice product. It makes a smaller amount than my toddy, but it has a nice modernist look. Unlike the Yama, it doesn’t have parts that look like they’d snap off it…

Absolutely. I do my own painting. Over the years I’ve learned the importance of good prep. I used to say good paint counted for a lot too, but it seems like the overall quality of paint has improved immensely.

Interesting to play with the dial (sucks to live in Santa Clara, CA). But I wish there more more dials to play with (income tax rate, downpayment %, interest rate).

Are you referring to the deductability of home mortgage interest? I would presume yes, but the income seems to be fixed at $100K/yr. Obviously your payback is faster if you have a higher income and the deduction is worth more.

Agreed. Even as an Asian American in my 50s, I almost always have a 12 oz glass of milk with dinner (except Chinese food—milk and Chinese just seems strange), and sometimes an extra half glass on the rare occasion I have a cookie for dessert. As a side note, I have zero cavities (well, one tiny filling put in by a…

You always see that stuff after it is posted. ;)

As long as you trust them. Some painters may be factoring in prep, like small hole repair, etc. And there is a difference between a good and bad paint job... I would not just hire a lowball contractor unless I had a personal recommendation from someone.

Argh. Shave and learn to spell “maintenance.”

Taking your comment as actually being serious, opinions aren’t valid just because they are vocalized by someone. This whole idea that opinions have to be respected because someone expressed them is silly. You may opine that vaccines are harmful, but that’s a bullshit position universally contradicted by science.…

So far I’m liking it. I like the import function, although I really wish I could bulk delete repetitive entries instead of doing them one at a time (unsurprisingly, seems like my browser on my MacBook has an awful lot of password overlap with my workcomputer and my home desktop).

Thanks all. Think I’m probably going to give it a try—been waffling on a password solution for the wife and I (and joint accounts) and this seems to fit the bill.

If anyone is a regular user of LastPass, maybe I can get some questions answered... Reading their site, it seems like you can enable two factor authentication to gain access to your crypt. Does anyone know if that means two factor authentication is required every time you log into any site (I’m wondering how…

I’ve got several Thermoworks thermometers (and a pH tester). The one I use the most at this point is this guy:

I’ve got several Thermoworks thermometers (and a pH tester). The one I use the most at this point is this guy:

Exactly what I was going to say... I’ve got a couple of those four packs of single serving wine “bottles” in my pantry for precisely this reason. I want to say that there are certain flavors that only alcohol soluble.

In a strange way, fucking up is good practice. As an kid, I tried to build things—doing stuff like nailing into end grain and using short L brackets where I really needed a big shelf support. I learned through experience that kind of stuff doesn’t work. But I still see plans on websites (websites that look very…

There are a lot of bad plans out there, including from at least one of those linked sites. Part of the problem with the Internet is that any pinhead can publish a set of plans whether they know anything about woodworking or not, and their ability to self-promote and design a website may have a lot to do with how…

The same people who save money using MDF are likely to be the same people that save time by not cutting dovetails. Besides, dovetails are great when you need a strong joint where wood movement is an issue—dovetails maximize strength based on the physics of the wood grain. MDF is stable and has no grain, so there is no…

Three of the sites in my cooking RSS feed are on your list—Serious Eats, Food52 and Saveur. I haven’t found those to pander to lowest common denominator tastes and have had very good success with most of the recipes I’ve tried from those sites. I’m also partial to the Homesick Texan, which serves up some spicy fare…