Ah well. Glad you vehemently explained that you are paying 20 times as much for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of the coffee.

No. Olen made this about Starbucks. The picture in the post is of Starbucks drinks. And, my initial post said nothing about the quality of Starbucks, which seems surprising given how you seem to be portraying me as some coffee snob (even though I’ve said I don’t drink it anymore) who couldn’t wait to bitch about them.…

I could say that getting beans every three weeks doesn’t equate to going to Starbucks every day. Or note that with a dosing burr grinder and an electrical timer, I used to be able to made a cappuccino in the time it took you to walk from the door to the counter and back. But, it’s all a red herring anyway—time doesn’t…

Your suggestion that I “didn’t read with care” is pretty ironic when what I actually said was that I was assuming just drinking expensive drinks wasn’t your point, even though that is what you wrote (“I’ll presume your comment is about drinking good coffee”). My response, if you actually read it, makes the…

Actually, no. I’m not a coffee snob because I don’t really drink coffee anymore. But you are right that I think Starbucks is a scam and have an anti-Starbucks bias. They managed to convince the world that burnt beans are how coffee is supposed to taste, which does bother me. I’m also quite jealous of how they managed…

That isn’t the point. Drinking anything solely because it is expensive is pretty stupid, so I’ll presume your comment is about drinking good coffee (as a reformed java snob, I will note that Starbucks is not good coffee and dispute that there is any correlation between having a $5/day Starbucks habit and a desire to…

Thought I’d replied to you, but it seems to have registered elsewhere. But since your reply is so sadly misguided, I’ll try again. Sure, “indulge” yourself daily. Treat yourself to those “daily luxur[ies].” But when you find that you don’t have enough money to retire at a decent age, remember how much standing in…

Read my response to Mystic Spiral—back when I drank coffee, I drank better coffee that what your “indulgence” buys you at Starbucks for about 1/20th the cost. It isn’t about denying yourself and becoming an monk. It is about spending in a thoughtful manner. But if you think waiting in line every day at Starbucks to…

No, that’s not my point. In fact, I think your post makes clear that you missed my point entirely. I’ll restate—my point is that Olen has correctly noted that, if you do the math, that “daily” indulgence you dismiss as inconsequential adds up, so that daily indulgence bears thinking about. Back when I used to drink…

I think Olen’s point is being seriously misstated with poor effect—it isn’t specifically about a Starbucks latte, it is about considering the long term effects of regular indulgences that you delude yourself into thinking are minor. The headline (and the rest of the press around this from other places) seems to have a…

I have no issues in selecting hardwoods. The issue is 2x crap from the local Borg. I can’t find any that aren’t twisted. And even if they don’t appear to start that way, any minimal work on the wood (jointing, planing or trimming) seems to wake up stresses that cause new twists and bends. The only time I’ve ever had…

I wanted a 4" thick top, so I was actually working with 2x6s. I was shooting for two 20" x 72" sections, so doubling the length probably hurt me. And, I think I was actually working with HD Select. Nowadays I’ve pretty much sworn off HD entirely, unless I need electrical boxes or plumbing stuff.

Where in the country do people live where they can get respectable 2x4s that aren’t warped? At one point in my life I tried to do something like this, and after jointing, all of the “kiln dried” 2xs that I was planning to used not only warped, but leeched moisture into the surface I left them on overnight. This was…

I tried “soccer player on US National team” and, sadly, that did not work.

Hemingway looks interesting, but I wish they had a trial version. I’m a little worried—based on the fact they chose to name it “Hemingway” and the “Grade X (Good)“ in the sidebar—that they might be equating a 1,000 word vocabulary and simple sentence structure with “good writing.” Not that Hemingway’s short, direct,…

Are you available in app form for under $5?

I wish there were some meta-app on top of this that would statistically analyze all of the sentences in a document, as opposed to a sentence standing alone. I would love to see something that breaks down your writing—is there a particular sentence structure you over-use? Or, say, some metric that compares the…

If I’m reading right, the rind isn’t melting the sugar, since you apparently pour boiling water into the mix to dissolve the sugar later...

If we were to judge things solely by the metric of refrigerator electrical efficiency, I daresay you’d just want to unplug the damn thing entirely.

When it comes to food safety, I am going to go with the advice of a respected food website like the Kitchn (http://www.thekitchn.com/food-safety-ic…) over your unsubstantiated opinion. The Kitchn’s advice is also consistent with what I’ve read in other contexts, and correlates with my own gut reaction—I’ve got a…