I’m simply telling you how the post came off sounding to the casual reader on the off chance you weren’t spoiling for a fight and honestly wanted to know why this thread developed the way it did. The fact that you want to make that about my “biases” and the fact that you are arguing with me about how I interpreted the…

I didn’t, by the way, say that other commenters weren’t being condescending asshats, but I’ll also point out that others’ behavior is irrelevant to the point of whether you were being condescending, and you were the one who started the thread. You were proselytizing a modernist approach to a traditional dish in what…

As a former climber, it isn’t referred to as a “carabiner clip”—it is a “carabiner.” Hearing “carabiner clip” makes me shiver like you are running your nails across a blackboard.

This will probably be lost on you, but telling people they can’t knock it ‘til they have tried it then telling people who have tried it that they are lying seems silly. Erecting an artificial distinction between results and method for food is equally silly. And, yes, reading through the thread in one go, you have…

• Do you have assigned seating or do you let the human chips fall where they may? I sit in the chair closest to the kitchen. Everyone else can figure it out.

Could be worse, I started on a PDP-11 and learned assembly language on a Univac 1104 with punchcards.

I just downloaded Sublime Text and I can’t get it to do something I find simple in Notepad++, which is getting rid of stray “\r”s that my source files have in them. They tend to get treated as <EOL>, which fucks up my database. In Notepad++, I can do a search-and-replace on “\r\n“, turning it to, say, “***”, then…

I was using sed on Vax machines running BSD in the mid-80s when I was typing away on my VT100 terminal. So yeah, I know sed. I just am not up for the challenge of convincing an IT department for a large company to let me run gnuwin32 or cygwin on a locked-down company-owned machine. I’ve always been able to convince…

If I could edit my response to say I don’t use it for coding, I would. I use it to fix badly formatted text files because it can handle really large files and has excellent search and replace capabilities. Besides, it seems to be the one app that even restrictive IT policies allow to be installed on my work machines.

I mainly use it b/c I have to deal with some large fucked up pipe-delimited files and the search-and-replace works flawlessly. Will atom or sublime text allow you to edit a 1GB+ file that has no end-of-lines in it?

Notepad++

No, I don’t think that is the point, and you are perpetuating the strange entitlement I was talking about. Eating at a restaurant is a right. In most jurisdictions, it is unlawful for a restaurant to refuse to serve a patron on any number of protected grounds, including race, religion, gender. And most courts won’t…

I’ll certainly tip drivers for delivery, but I’m not sure I consider that carryout. I’ve notice a rash of sandwich joints in my area that, if you give them a credit card, make you sign and there’s a spot for a tip. That kind of bugs me—this isn’t a restaurant where carry-out might be taking a server away from their…

As much as I dislike his politics and worldview, I would have thought Delrahim would have been more legally principled. Even if there was a thin excuse for divestiture of that asset, the President’s very public feud with CNN strikes me as making that pure of a power play optically shitty from a judicial review POV.

I tried mashed potatoes in a Cuisinart in my younger days. It was actually quite a stunning result—it rendered boiled potatoes into their constituent basic elements, which are apparently dirty water and potato starch. Neither tastes good.

Number one with a bullet: that just because I’m working in a service job it doesn’t mean you’re better than me. You’re a guest in my establishment, act like it.

I just googled and found an article listing 10 FIRE blogs I needed to read. All written by men, almost all unmarried and without kids. All with very privileged backgrounds and education. I’m all in favor of saving for retirement, but this “movement” strikes me as an affectation of the elite.

I have this strange feeling that most of these FIRE types are single, and probably male. I also just can’t imagine having defined my “life” expenses in my 20s—at that point I had no interest in marriage or kids. Funny how things change. And if I’d stepped off the career path at that point, my life would probably be an…

• How strongly attached to turkey are you? Each Thanksgiving I wonder why I don’t cook turkey more often. So if there’s no turkey, it isn’t Thanksgiving in my book.

I promise you a shitty server and someone who quits after a day. The whole “walk a mile in my shoes” is a silly idea—by the time they start paying for meals, people have empathy or they don’t. Besides, in my experience assholes don’t tend to be self-reflective—that’s the essence of being a dick. I’m sure they would…