Different sauces for different pizzas. Neapolitan, NY style, Chicago deep dish, Chicago thin, Chicago stuffed, St. Louis, Detroit, Sicilian, New England bar pie, there’s a different “best” sauce for each based on the crust. And I may be a pizza nerd, but I’m not above using Mid’s brand jarred sauce on a Golden Harvest…

Easystore pricing at BestBuy is weird. The sticker price is $299.99, but $189.99 seems to be the default “always on sale” price. It’s the occasional markdown to $150 or $160 you need to keep an eye out for. That, and have a note on your phone with the serial number of the “better” version with more cache. It’ll be on…

Easystore pricing at BestBuy is weird. The sticker price is $299.99, but $189.99 seems to be the default “always on…

I’m not sure if I’m brave enough to buy refurb drives, but I do like me some HGSTs. I used to have four of their 4TB NAS drives in my QNAP before replacing them with four shucked 8TB Easystores (all normal-label WD Reds).

I’m not sure if I’m brave enough to buy refurb drives, but I do like me some HGSTs. I used to have four of their 4TB…

I couldn’t reliably produce a properly-cooked baked potato before I learned that trick. Always crunchy or gummy.

America’s Test Kitchen used chopsticks on either side of the potato as a way to stop the cut at the same point every time. 

I use the America’s Test Kitchen method. Jab some holes in the potatoes and roll them around in two tablespoons of salt dissolved in 1/2C of water. This is to flavor the skins, not the potato itself. Bake on a wire rack in a sheet pan at 450 until they hit 205 degrees. I jam a probe thermometer into one of them after…

He’s not *unable* to, he’s *unwilling* to. There’s a difference. And I wish people would stop using “constitutional crisis” when the opposite is the case. The Constitution has clear mechanisms in place both to remove someone who’s unfit to hold the office (impeachment and conviction), or to remove someone who’s…

I had to look it up since it’s been ten years since I first played it, but there’s a freeware game called Rumble Box that has some fun boxing combat. You’re a fighter made of blocks, fighting off wave after wave of other fighters made out of blocks. When you take one out (or get blown up - some have cartoon bombs for…

Speaking from direct experience, the simplest explanation is that the translator or adapter simply has absolutely no idea what the “old timey” grammar rules are and just wings it. I worked on a show once where a (modern) character affected a Kenshin-y speaking style, with the sesshas and -de gozarus. An affectation,…

If you really want to up your pizza game, look into a Baking Steel. They’re expensive and heavy, but they work wonders. I leave mine in the oven 24/7 to act as a thermal capacitor. If your oven has trouble maintaining a steady temperature, it’ll even it out beautifully.

Sounds an awful lot like what happened with the unfunded trillion-dollar tax cut for the .01% that the Republicans passed after the Mercer family threatened to stop giving them bribes— sorry, “campaign contributions.” The message is the same, “Do what we want, or we’ll chuck you to the curb and buy someone else to do…

Here’s an excellent how-to for French bread pizza (personally, I keep a pack of ultra-thin Golden Home brand crusts around in case of a pizza-munchies emergency) -

A mall in Indiana in the early/mid eighties would definitely have had a Garcia’s Pizza. They were all over the place in Illinois and Indiana back then. (They used to fling branded frisbees from their hot-air balloon -- I still have one that I caught as a kid.)

Always remember that diehard anti-abortionists are just as “morally” opposed to any and all birth control and sex education. They’re not anti-abortion, they’re anti-sex.

Yeah, I’ve since learned that car shopping leaves you open to being screwed over in a dozen ways. Fun fact: Car salesman can lie to you with *absolute* impunity under the legal concept of “sales puffery.” The only thing that matters is what is in writing, so make certain you do just that. If they balk, you walk.

“All is strange and vague.”

“His” church, huh? Where’s a lightning bolt when it’s so clearly called for?

He was in the process of financing a home purchase. That kinda pressure makes you just want it to be gone. I had a credit card go into collections ten years ago. I paid it in full, but neglected to request a “pay for delete” arrangement (where it’s deleted from your credit report). I tried to do it after the fact, but…

Car dealers seem to pull that stunt all the time. When I bought my car three years ago, I told them that I had financing through my credit union, but I ended up with three hard pulls anyway.

Around here, it’s “Disco isn’t dead! Disco... is LIFE!”