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…

That’s pretty funny, I finally sat down and watched it maybe two weeks ago myself. But I watched the Dustin Lee fan edit (recommended here, I think?), which pares it down to a “mere” four hours. It seemed to do a good job excising the kruft that wasn’t in the book — sorry, Evangeline Lilly — and compiled all of the…

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…

With any luck, he names the A.I. in the synopsis “Lucille.”

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

I noted this above. It’s like nobody knows the difference between an executor and an executioner.

That’s always bugged me. An executor — with the stress on the second syllable — is someone who carries out another person’s instructions or puts something into effect. In this case, a big-ass doom ship that enforces the Emperor’s will. The guy who puts people to death is an executioner. I honestly can’t tell if the…

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…

That would be an awesome, awesome thing.

“And then when I said I didn’t like ‘The Thing,’ he punched me right in the throat.”

Always worth reminding folks that this guy was the deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee until *June* of this year.

Best known for the zero-budget masterpiece “Drive,” you mean. (The 1997 one with Kadeem Hardison and Brittany Murphy.)

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…

We already got a taste of the “aliens’ view of the Federation” thing on DS9 in the following classic exchange:

“an incredible kind individual”

Dear writer: Fuck you. You couldn’t be bothered to paste a comedic skull and crossbones over his head? You’re that fucking lazy? Or are you picking up the slack from Andrew Whatshisname, that other douchenozzle writer who repeatedly posted gifs with major spoilers as the headline image prior to movies being available…

No mention of Discworld’s Greebo? What kind of nerds are you guys?