Quick warning to anyone who may want to try this with skinless chicken, don't. I'm not sure if the brick method linked mentions this, but at least with cast iron, I have made the mistake of having a large portion of skin folded back (careless oversight on my part) so the top skillet was in contact with breast flesh.…

Oh, I see. Facts have become strange, elusive things in the yeas since I was in college. Lord I feel old.

Johnny Dep is SO VERSATILE!

Aside from Henrikson and Paxton, it had Janette Goldstein who played Vasquez in Aliens. I've long loved this movie. So glad to see it still getting attention.

I did take journalism classes and got a degree in Technical Communications, and I guarantee you if we had used "true fact" in our writing, we would have lost a letter grade in many classes. We were taught a fact is always true. Anything else should receive qualifiers. For example, a perceived fact, an assumed fact, a…

We're still having the OS wars? So many lives lost to the flames of this senseless war over the years. When will we learn? I like 'em all for different reasons. I don't like some things about any one of them. Big deal. We're like a compu-hippie-commune in this house. Every OS welcome...except BeOS. Screw anyone who…

There are legitimate arguments to be made on either side of this, no doubt. I don't mean from the simple-minded camps of "more gubment is bad!" versus "anyone who disagrees is a racist!" That's what got us to this point. If we didn't turn everything into a black and white, my side versus yours issue, we could have…

Social Security Act prevented tens of thousands of deaths of senior citizens who had no way of supporting themselves prior to its approval. Child labor laws have worked out pretty well for all the 8 yr olds who haven't been killed or had limbs chopped off in factories. Legislation to give blacks and/or women the right…

For my entire life, I have hated mushrooms of nearly every variety. However, after deciding on a whim several years ago to do this very thing, I discovered how to love them. I still don't care for them individually, but I buy the dried shiitakes and grind them very fine and use them in sauces and broths of all kinds.…

Like many others here, I've been using mine for a million things for a long while. I can't live without it. It's by far my favorite egg cooking tool. It's thin enough to slip under eggs for the perfect flip, but also the angle makes it so much better to work with when scrambling. I use and wash mine every single day…

You may be overlooking all those GPIO pins that allow for robotics and sensors, which give you home automation, any conceivable prototype imaginable, custom car computing, data collection for analysis, the list of things you can do is literally endless. But it's true it will make a nice little media center as well so…

I reread Moby Dick this year because I promised a college professor I would once I reached middle age. It was part of a deal she made with me to allow me to pass her class after too many absences. Anyway, the book was a completely new experience this time. It was heartbreaking, and I loved it.

I have similar "mild compulsions" with volume settings (always odd nums), temp settings (always even), etc. It's not a must-or-I'll-go-mad sort of thing, just a preference.

I would hope to fail the test of someone who feels men shouldn't eat salad or women shouldn't eat meat or moreover the idea that women shouldn't be aggressive or for that matter any dependence on what a person orders in a restaurant as part of their hiring process. Thankfully, I've had the good fortune to not be hired…

A good friend of mine refers to Voyager as Gilligan's Island in space. I'm a V fan, but that's pretty spot on. And I so agree about The Doctor and Seven. The whole premise of exploring what it means to be human has always been more fascinating than the overall plot.

I like Voyager too, and everyone is entitled to their own opinions I guess, but no, you can't have that one. I'm afraid you're mistaken. Please regroup and realize your mistake and return upon completion. ;)

I'm in the middle of buying a car, and this information was incredibly helpful. The comments too were very helpful and provided some great links. Let me share my experience so far. First, I got my financing arranged in advance through a credit union. That worked well for me for a number of reasons. I got a rate of…

I'm in the middle of buying a car right now. This article was very helpful, but I'd love to ask someone, like yourself, a few questions. If you have the time or inclination, let me know.

I sincerely apologize for my epithet against CBS. I didn't realize it would cause hurt feelings. It was meant to be tongue-in-cheek and not a literal slander against something you clearly hold dear. I am very sorry. Please forgive me.

We can argue various points in the article, but why? We can say she's disingenuous because she was successful before attempting this therefore it's not the same, and that will only hurt aspiring authors, but what's the point in that? Is it much better advice to tell a young author to be unwilling to self-publish so…