I always make stock with my Thanksgiving turkey carcass, although there’s a limited amount of collagen that gets extracted from the already-cooked bird. I like to simmer it a looong time—24 hours or more. I stick a thermometer probe through the steam hole in my stock pot’s lid, and keep the temperature at 200 degrees…

Probably you’re right. The short explanation for Megan is that Sauron is essentially the equivalent of a fallen angel, and after the Fall of Numenor was so damaged and corrupted as to no longer be able to take on a beautiful corporeal form. That’s why he’s only shown as the Eye in LotR. He did have a physical form at…

The handful of times we moved, our family made kind of a tradition of packing a little box with beans and franks as our first meal in the new house.

As others have noted, it’s more important in baking to follow the recipe.

I can see that. They were pushing raisins as a snack, but nobody wants to eat raisins as a snack! Maybe in trail mix, or in oatmeal cookies. Not just plain raisins. I would eat the raisins only after I ran out of plain saltines.

Ooo! I have raisin figures on my shelf here at work. I got most of them from Hardee’s in the ‘80's, probably when they first had raisin biscuits, I think. Need a drummer!

Sounds like an absolute orgy. :) I have 32GB in my development machine, myself.

This is kind of a classic now.

Yeah, I can’t thrown any stones. You should have seen me dancing with my daughter at her wedding. It was fun, and I’m sure it was entertaining to watch. It certainly wasn’t good.

I’ve lived most of my life in the Central TZ, but during the time I lived in the Eastern, I guess because of the TV schedule, it always felt like everything happened an hour later, including meals.

Perfect response. Marry me!

Having been a programmer for more than 35 years, there’s something...obscene...to me about a piece of software needing 8GB of memory to run. :-/

The office of one of my doctors is also finally joining the 21st century. A year ago they were still using an old-school manual credit card machine! The kind where you put a multipart receipt on top of the card and pull the roller over the embossed numbers. They finally had to quit doing that because a lot of new cards…

Of course, there’s the big-name ones, like Hershey, PA and Coke in Atlanta. Family members have been to both of those, although I haven’t myself, but they found them interesting.

My wife asked me something once, and I said, “Do you want the long answer or the short answer?” She said I better give her the short answer, which was, “I don’t know.” The long answer I’m sure would have made her look like that, but amounted to the same thing as the short answer.

A few years ago I was on the interstate heading to work with a nasty thin layer of ice on the road. I was going about 35, because that seemed like the fastest safe speed. At one point I saw a pickup coming up behind me *fast*, and started to worry. I could see him changing lanes to pass me, but just as he was about…

It’s amazing your AC kept working that long. Usually they need to be kept clean to keep the coils from icing up.

I blow the dust out of our fans and portable space heaters every year. It’s incredible how much accumulates in them.

A Mars bar?

If the insurance company totals it, yes, that normally means they are essentially buying it from you, and you give them the title. But if the vehicle is old, they really don't want it, so in some states you don't have to surrender it in those cases.