I use a meat mallet and sheets of parchment paper, but basically do the same thing after I slice them. Chicken breasts today seem... Mae West proportioned. I find that with halving them and flattening them, they fit in my 12" saute nicely and a single breast is sufficient to fee both my wife and I.

One of my easy “go to” recipes during the week. I like splitting the chicken breasts in half so they are thin and cook quicker when using that protein. But this also works really well with white fish varieties—butter, olive oil, shallot, caper, parsley, lemon... What’s not to love?

That is $15K in *credit card* debt. That doesn’t include home mortgages, auto loans, or educational loans. And while I believe education is a factor, it is hard to use a card if you don’t have one to begin with. When things start going bad, rationalizing bad decisions starts becoming easy. So remove temptation.

Fair enough, but a lender also calculates how much you have to pay to service the debt you have when deciding to make a loan.

You win most unhelpful comment of the day.

As I noted, I’ve got a stellar credit rating and have never had issues with the home mortgage process or construction loans, and I’ve had plenty. I did have cards, and paid them off, which may have helped, and have cards now, but that didn’t affect my credit rating 8 years ago when I bought my last house. I seem to…

I hear this, but don’t believe it. I’ve got a credit rating over 800 and didn’t use credit cards for probably 20 years—I’ve had home mortgages continuously throughout that period, however. And I thought I understood that credit rating agencies didn’t factor in cards that weren’t being used. That said, if you use the…

If you have that discipline, that’s great. I think I pointed out that I have that discipline now, and use them all the time—and never pay interest. But for the overwhelming majority of credit card users that discipline doesn’t exist. So for most people, having a credit card is a temptation that can’t be resisted—that…

I generally use the AMEX. I’ve used the debit card in the past only because there are places that don’t take AMEX. And my bank has decent fraud policies.

The real sneaky thing they do is to induce you into spending money you don’t have. One of the best things I ever did, upon graduation, was paying off all my credit cards and closing all my accounts. Everything that required a card was paid for with my AMEX or debit/ATM card, so everything got paid off every month.…

The better thing to do is poison your co-workers?

Can you imagine the horrible market consequences if a wireless company [^Google] were able to subsidize access to a wireless [^search/email/video/photo/cloud storage] service with the lure of “free” access and how bad that would be for consumers and choice because they could arbitrarily favor some companies over…

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. ;)