I cook my bacon over low heat in a hot pan because using cold cast iron to cook your bacon makes for difficult to clean cast iron.

We often dine out on Feb 15th. Sometimes V-Day specials are still available. My wife is a server, so I usually have hot dogs with my son for V-Day.

Joe McHale is a good actor, but he did a very poor job as Roy. Part of the problem was it was an extremely typical american pilot of a british show. Exact same show, american actors, british english changed to american english (even for the brit).

Calling them stupid was a bit of tongue in cheek... Consider the statement from Pete's perspective.

Have you ever considered that this kinda behavior is exactly what Bing rewards has trained you to do? What search engine did you use before Bing? If it wasn't for the rewards program, would you use Bing?

Agreed. Molyneux lost interest in the game when he found out that PC gamers didn't like his mobile monetization strategy. He fought hard to sneak it in, and every single time the community went full pichfork, so he moved his development to the tablet version where he could sell his microtransactions to "casuals". He's…

I will stash this anecdote away and some day in the future, I will take it out of my pocket and the person standing next to me will be like "WTF are you going to do with that mayonnaise jar"

I think that DLC has a place, but its important to make a few qualifiers.

It was a metaphor...

Free storage isn't free storage. It's like letting you live in a giant house rent free for a year and you get comfortable and put tons of furniture in it and then they tell you you can't live rent free anymore and you can either pay the rent or move into a tiny studio and toss all your furniture.

Free temporary storage is not that good of a thing, unless you would actually pay for that storage today.

I don't have much issue with "Cheater" DLC or "Skin Pack" DLC. They can monetize the crap outta those things. I couldn't care how many outfits, skins, hats, etc they sell, as long as they don't affect the gameplay. "Cheater" DLC can be offensive when the game is made in a way where it's not fun to play without the DLC.

This was a good article. I think one of the most valuable parts of self improvement is learning how to admit to yourself that you were wrong, and that's ok, and you can change your mind.

I don't have a nomination, but I would share my approach. I use a french press to make tea. Toss your loose tea in the press, fill with water and steep. then press down the press half way (don't want to squeeze the tea outta the leaves), and pour your cup. Depending on what kinda tea I'm making, I'll pour it all into…

I don't have a nomination, but I would share my approach. I use a french press to make tea. Toss your loose tea in…

Qualifiers like "Barely used" or "like new" are red flags.

Yep, that is where I got the idea. I'm gonna give vinegar boiled baked fries a whirl this week and see how they compare. I've been using the serious eats method for my fried fries for some time and I love em.

That recipe involves a 3 minute par-boil. Very different than the 20+ minutes in a vinegar par-boil that I'm considering. I bought some potatoes and I'm gonna give it a whirl tomorrow.

That was far more cringe worthy than the lack of forethought regarding potential abuse for the donation announcer.

If you go with the 1tbsp vinegar to 1qt water, you can boil em for 20+ minutes and completely cook them through without them dissolving.

I always par-boil my deep fried fries (unless I'm seriously hungry for fries and in a hurry where I just go with the standard double fry). Serious Eats did a pretty awesome article on it a while back. Process was par-boil in vinegar water to cook em through, fry for a minute, freeze, 4+ hours, then fry for 3 minutes.…