Just wanted to chime in with a confirmation on the other commenter. "Fat Free" half and half is skim milk+corn syrup+thickeners. It provides a similar taste and mouth feel in your coffee, but fails to perform in scenarios that require half and half for it's fat content.

A friend of mine is a jailer in training at a county lockup. He's gonna have to get tazed and pepper sprayed before he graduates. I knew that cops, deputies and servicemen had to go through this, but I didn't know that jailers had to as well.

In my adventures, I've found that using tools to help can be useful, but you need to make positive life changes to keep with it. After a few months of counting calories religiously, I stopped. The goal of using a calorie counter was to teach myself what appropriate portions looked like and how much was sufficient…

I don't even think that tape backup is a viable solution to these kinds of problems. Nearline storage was supposed to solve this. I'd love to see some performance numbers for these drives, but I'm inclined to think that nearline storage is exactly what these drives are going to do best.

He's speaking of 1U of SSDs. A U is an industry measurement for the amount of vertical rackspace that a piece of hardware occupies. You can cram a whole lot of SSDs in 1U of space due to their low heat generation, low power requirement, and no moving parts. Doing the same thing with HDDs would require significant…

There are endless internet arguments about the merits of adding milk to your eggs when you scramble. Milk or Cream will result in a creamier egg. You can also add a tbsp of water per egg and that will result in a fluffier egg. I usually abstain, but for certain meals I'll add an appropriate mixer to achieve the…

Another great protip is that you can drown anything in ranch dressing.

As an IT consultant, I do a lot of faking it til I make it. If you go into someone's office with a real headscratcher of a problem and fumble around like you don't know which end of a USB cord is up, they're gonna worry and a problem that might not be a big deal will suddenly become the worst disaster the company has…

When I was a youth, I used to call it sibersecks. Ah, to be young.

Wen we bought our house and started renovation, I picked up a dewalt cordless circular saw. My dad brought his corded model. I was really impressed with the Dewalt and the only time we broke out the corded model was when we had to cut through 1.5 inch thick oak countertop.

So, basically, I need to live to be 110...

Yah, I didn't include tax. We have 7% where I'm at, so it would be $69 even. I agree 2 1/2" deck screws would be a better choice.

2 sheets of 4x8 7/16 OSB, 16 8' 2x4s, and a box of deck screws.

I like to rate these sorts of things based on environmental impact.

Could you find me some reliable studies saying that they are? It's one thing that you say that I won't find anything saying different, but am I going to find anything saying so?

Yes, if only... I know you are alluding to some sort of pipeline... If I recall correctly, we already have a pipeline running and it's not actually safer than using rail cars...

No, god no. I did not say that. Right now, we default to "normal" characters because it's "normal". In this scenario, normal isn't a good thing, and abnormal isn't bad. They do things because that's the way things are done and keep doing it because that's what they did last time. For a lot of storytellers, they just…

I've got a family sized George Foreman Grill... My father in law gave it to us for Christmas the year we got married and became expecting. (get it, family size). We've never taken it out of the box. I have a cast iron grill pan. I don't need a george foreman grill...

My dad taught me everything he knew about computers but didn't teach me very much about life...

It is lazy storytelling and doesn't actually help in the goal of being more inclusive. It is just pandering for the sake of meeting a quota. These sorts of characters are more decoration than anything else, their race/gender/species/etc is not relevant to the story. Good storytelling makes characters relevant.