Yes, I just read a study that showed electric does boil water faster than gas. The main reason seems to be that more heat escapes up around the edges of the pan with gas. You definitely have to have a good flat pan with electric, though. We invested in some good heavy anodized aluminum pans a few years ago, and they…

Never heard of it. I looked it up, and it must be a northern Midwest thing. We don't have it here in Southern Illinois. 

You can get little rubber plugs to cover the port and keep dust and fluff out. I carry my phone in my pocket, and I’ve been using the plugs for a while. They’ve completely solved the dirty port problem for me.

Ooo, I love Ting. We have a tradition of someone in my family getting me several bottles or a case for Christmas. It’s not easy to come by here in the Midwest. Sometimes Kroger has it in the international aisle, but often it has to be ordered from Amazon or somewhere.

I might give this a try this weekend. I have some really good stock in the freezer from the Thanksgiving turkey carcass, and there’s some of the schmaltz left, too. I feel like they would make for a good potato soup like this. I’m one of those who let my stock simmer for a really long time, like 36 hours. This most…

I’m planning to make some creme brulee soon, so now I have something to do with the whites. :)

I broke a finger last year while loading a car onto a trailer in my driveway. My medical insurance carrier really wanted to be able to push the claim onto either my car or house insurance carrier. In the end my medical insurance did pay, which was correct IMO. I wasn’t even in the car when it happened.

I once had a private YT video flagged of my kids with a medley of Star Wars music themes *played by me* on synthesizer. At least it was unflagged when I appealed. This was years ago. The response was so fast it had to be some kind of automated system. I’ve always wondered if it was just the fact that I appealed, or…

Rainbows everywhere!

Wow, that footage from Wings really does hold up. Better than a lot of much later aerial shots or greenscreen.

Mine is very similar to yours, but at Heartland Motorsports Park in Topeka in 2006. I did have a decent instructor with me, and I didn’t completely loose braking, but they had faded a lot. I was on the back straight heading into turn 8 (or 10 depending on which map you look at) and had very little brake left. I told…

With a Pixel there are several similar options. For example, you can go to Settings > System > Gestures > One-handed mode and turn it on, which will let you swipe down on the bottom edge of the display to make the top reachable with your thumb. I believe Lineage OS also has a one-handed mode that shrinks the entire…

I wonder if that’s related to or a new version of Dawn Power Dissolver? The only thing I’ve used that will clean our smooth cooktop, but it’s hard to find it anywhere now.

Years ago, pre-allegations, one of our daughters was a big fan. For her sixteenth birthday we drove 6 hours away to take her to a live show. We can’t remember that birthday with much joy now. :(

It’s been quite a few years ago now, but I remember my wife very noticeably lost hair when she was pregnant. I don’t mean she started going bald or anything, just that there was clearly more hair in the shower drain when she was pregnant.

Not sure where you are, but when we were in the DFW area we got 4 or 5 inches of snow several times in the 13 years we lived there. Best of luck to you. I have a friend outside Abilene who said her power is out already.

It sounds suspiciously like a bacterial genus. But missing the capitalization.

The Fossil Gen 6 is currently on sale for less than $200. (Also it now has Wear OS 3.)

I guess my personal automotive highlight is still upcoming. Back in the spring a tree fell on my SRT-4 Neon, which I bought new and now have about 242K miles on. There’s an old engineering saying along the lines of, “Good, cheap, fast. Pick two.” I opted for good and cheap. The company I work for does some painting of…

Super! I always swore I’d teach my kids to drive stick. I succeeded with two of them at least, who each drove one of my CSXes for a couple of years.