I appreciate your admonition to “be aware of your surrounding when you shop,” but I find that either headphones create an induced state of obliviousness or there is a correlation between people wearing headphones and being generally oblivious. Either way, my experience is that there is a disproportionate number of…

My system centers around Plan to Eat, which is a paid site, but only about $20/yr, so not too bad. At the start of the weekend I’ll peruse my recipes in PtE and consult with my wife about the weekly schedule. I use PtE’s planner to schedule meals for nights where we’ll all be here and it builds me a shopping list. I…

Hmm... What if the key flavor bits aren’t water soluble? And maybe need alcohol or acid or something?

Your link doesn’t make any sense to me? What am I missing? A Shirley Temple is not a pink lemonade... And besides, Shirley Temples are made with grenadine, not food coloring...

Odd. I thought “pink” lemonade was pink b/c it had crushed strawberries or raspberries as an additive. At least that was the only way I ever created pink lemonade and I assumed that was what other pink lemonade involved. People actually adulterate lemonade with food coloring just for kicks?

“We’re celebrating an 86.27 score.” I feel like I’ve been cheated out of a penny by bad rounding.

“We’re celebrating an 86.27 score.” I feel like I’ve been cheated out of a penny by bad rounding.

I find the E-Z Ancors to be as strong as toggles or expansion bolts, but... They are faster to install—the toggles require a lot of screwing, since the bolt has to be long enough to push the toggle through the drywall, and then you need to take up all that slack. To screw it, however, you need to be pulling the…

Having run 2x6s through a jointer and planer in the past, it isn’t worth it. the 2x stuff sold by the big home improvement centers just warps and twists if you try to properly dimension it—so many knots in fast growing wood that it tends to have a lot of built-in pre-stresses that come out when you change the…

Things I liked: (i) use of dowels to strengthen joints and use of flush cut saw; (ii) use of keyhole hangers; and (iii) use of E-Z Ancors for drywall (so much better than the expansion anchors or toggle bolts). Things I disliked: (i) use of 2x6 lumber (cheap, but it warps/twists and long corners are rounded so you…

You missed listing the Ghiradelli double chocolate brownies, which—by my reading—was the reader favorite and their favorite overall. But with that said, I cannot find the list of which mixes they actually tested. So I’m at a loss to figure out if they did or did not test my personal go-to—the Ghiradelli TRIPLE…

It isn’t pedantic to point talk about mobile networks in downlink speeds only because anyone who knows shit about networks should know that no one cares about the uplink. Uplink payload in the US runs about 10-15% of the downlink. At the same time the US has licensed almost all mobile broadband spectrum in symmetric…

No one cares about upload speed and your download is maxing out right about where they said--8 mbps. And if you don’t care about speed, you shouldn’t care about the 22+ GB soft cap on the T-Mo, Verizon, and AT&T plans. So WTF?

Surprisingly, the “real world” report of an anonymous internet commenter counts for... nothing. I suspect you are doing something wrong in your testing. See Cricket’s own AUP, stating speeds available “up to 8 Mbps with our 4G LTE service” (https://www.cricketwireless.com/legal-info/acceptable-use-policy.html).

According to what I’m reading Cricket LTE is capped at 8mbps max (http://www.reviews.com/4g-mobile-broadband/cricket-wireless/), and actual speeds average much lower (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/prepaid-carrier-performance,news-21331.html).

On Cricket and Straightalk the LTE is always throttled—Cricket is nominally the same network as AT&T, since AT&T owns Cricket, but the max LTE speeds on Cricket are only about 4mbps. Straightalk is slightly better, but not much. If that works for you, fine, but buying pre-throttled wireless isn’t what I want to do.

When you get throttled, what it usually means is that they bounce you off the 4G network entirely, which means you are reverting to 3G service. Here’s some empirical data on 3G average speeds, which seem to max out at about 4 mbps. I would think that if you are talking about congested periods to begin with (otherwise…

These are not “unlimited” plans—they are heavily asterisked (the AT&T plan is also astronomically expensive). The Verizon plan (like T-Mo) has a soft cap—you are throttled above 22 GB. Yes, the throttling is theoretically during congested periods only, but that’s a big limitation, and something that would definitely…

So, 90% of the shit you actually want with you then.

Seconding JPR and vivlock. I like my Mastrad spatulas—absolutely no place for ick to settle in. I’ll never use a two piece ever.

I use Plan to Eat for recipe management/meal planning/shopping, which allows you to designate freezer portions. So I may cook a lot of something (frankly, most recipes are a lot of servings when there are just 2.5 of you), but I freeze it and don’t eat it every 4th day or whatever. Over time, I’ve built up a variety…