Just read Illegal Aliens by Nick Pollota and Phil Foglio for confirmation — the Gees maintain a monopoly on gold starships, because gold is the fastest color.

For batter quick breads like muffins, if you want to throw the term ‘quick bread’ out the window and let it sit overnight to let the starches swell (and the gluten develop), you’d do better to take all the liquid and eggs and about 3/4 of the flour, mix that up, and let it sit overnight. The next day, take it out and…

What makes the controversy over pineapple on pizza more funny is that the ‘Hawaiian pizza’ was invented by Sotirios ‘Sam’ Panopoulos, the owner (with his two brothers) of a small chain of restaurants in Ontario, Canada; it was called ‘The Hawaiian’ after the brand of canned pineapple they used. It’s about as Hawaiian…

This reminded me of the story from some years back about a group of people who broke into a pharmacy and stole its entire supply of oxytocin. I can only imagine the scene when they tried to sell it...

“Yes you read that right, 5000-10,000psi. Refueling should be fun.”

Also, measuring the limits of the cargo space and the opening you’re putting stuff through beforehand is a big advantage. I still remember the expression on the face of the sales assistant at Sears more than a decade ago when I bought a five cubic foot tub freezer, collected it at the pickup counter, slid it into the…

I think it’s a mannequin; there’s a certain waxy tinge to its skin tone.

The problem wasn’t that they should have used three sensors; the problem was that having a second sensor was an added-price option, not part of the standard configuration, creating a single-point-of-failure situation.

Or pay attention to the details. An article on MSN about the temperature in the Antarctic posted this image:

‘...has its issues—the biggest one being it’s basically a rehash of the TV episode “The Changeling,”’

“who is this for?”

I use 3' and 6' USB cables; I keep the idiot 6" cables in the junk drawer, because the idea of charging a device with a cube plugged directly into the wall with a 6" cable is ludicrous. The cables might be useful if I want to balance something on top of my computer with it plugged into one of the USB ports on the top,…

“Now, the Perdue researchers think they’ve figured out how to replicate it in a lab setting.”

Random Cords: The exceptions to this are cords that have common connectors. A standard computer power cable will usually work with a number of different devices, and USB charging cables -- USB-A to micro-USB, for example -- will work with a wide range of devices. But any cable that is specific to a particular device…

“Rand Paul and his father have spent decades collecting government paychecks. If they were truly anti-government, that wouldn’t be a true statement.”

An old joke about the Irish weather is that you can determine what the weather will be quite simply — when you get up in the morning, go to the window, and look out across the valley. If you can see the hills on the far side, it’s going to rain. If you can’t see the hills, it is raining.

Because there’s nothing self-serving about Pfizer/Biontech and Moderna going to the government and saying “You should buy millions more doses of our vaccine, because we’re not making enough money from it administering a fourth shot to everyone would increase their protection. Even though it doesn’t actually prevent…

I wonder if the ability to preemptively disable notifications will extend to being able to tell Google Play that no, I don’t want Google Play to send me notifications, and stop asking me to turn notifications on, or whether Google’s services will be privileged and allowed to continue to dun you for all eternity about…

Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt, tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt.

Now I, even I, could celebrate
In rhymes unapt the great
Immortal Syracusan rivalled nevermore,
Who in his wonderous lore
Passed on before,
Left men his guidance
How to circles mensurate.