No, they are not. I’ve worked in a couple of kitchens and all of them used heavy aluminum pans that you can get for a very reasonable price at a restaurant supply store. Check your local stores and find the ones that are open to the public. They’re pretty awesome.

No, they are not. I’ve worked in a couple of kitchens and all of them used heavy aluminum pans that you can get for…

I like to buy Kiwi brand knives from my local Asian Market. They are good enough and dirt cheap. They aren’t a permanent solution, they require frequent re-sharpening, but they’ll get knives in your hand at low cost and help you decide what kinda knives you actually want.

According to the calculator, I’m going to have to invent an immortality serum before I can become financially independent...

When I was a kid, my parents were honest about they money problems with me. They would tell me what bills they didn't pay so that we could have christmas or birthdays.

This is the internet, the land of gratuitous pedantry. I’m cool with a person eating baked pork belly to reduce the sodium in their diet. What I’m not cool with is calling it bacon, because by definition it is not.

Standardized tests were the bane of my existence. I regularly scored in the top 5% in my schools so they always were shoving me into “honors” and “AP” classes. Then, when they realized that I wasn’t doing the homework, they shoved me into dumb kid classes. Every single school, the cycle repeated itself. The tests were…

Baked pork belly is delicious, but it isn’t bacon.

I need to find a good sewing machine for darning my jeans. I’ve tried doing it by hand and I’ve failed miserably at every attempt. I don’t feel like my technique is that bad, but my sewing machine makes it difficult. Getting a leg up to the knee and still being able to maneuver it is problematic and finding a machine…

I had to deal with this in my living room. It was quite a pain. It took me at least 4 hours total, maybe 6 (hanging out in a 110f attic can make a guy lose track of time). I pulled wire from two existing switches to a junction box, and from the junction box to the fan box, installed a 3rd switch (for the fan), added…

Last year, we installed ceiling fans throughout our house. We got a sweet deal on a couple of awesome ceiling fans (75% off). They were very straightforward installs. The only hard part was pulling out the old box and installing one that was designed for the weight (still haven't fixed a few of the holes in the…

Debt is a bad thing to get into at a young age. Avoid it at all costs.

Last year, I moved into a new house. I'm still trying to get the grass into shape. I've got a very steep hill in the back yard that pretty much goes vertical at the end (Our back neighbor is about 20 feet up from us). The neighbor has a huge two tier retaining wall and that might be the way to go, but the cost of…

I saved money by having a private wedding. Then, we threw a party and invited our friends and family.

This article prompted me to make Beignets. I did so with a few simple ingredients. Eggs, Flour, Butter, and Frying Oil. It was very much unlike what I expected. I guess I was expecting something like a doughnut, but what I ended up with was awesome. It took about 10 minutes total to prepare. I looked up the recipe in…

I'm not a huge fan of Ninjas... I don't really think that a food processor is a valid replacement for a blender.

I'm not a huge fan of Ninjas... I don't really think that a food processor is a valid replacement for a blender.

Looks cool, I'll keep an eye on it and hope that it graduates out of early access so I can buy it.

I used to do a bit of kernel hacking with Atheros SOCs and I do not like DD-WRT. DD-WRT used to do some pretty shady business practices, and may still do so. I admit I haven’t stuck my nose into this world in a number of years and lots may have changed.

I just wish that you could tell steam not to broadcast that you're playing certain games... I know there are workarounds, but I just want a toggle that says "Don't tell anyone about this... ever"

It doesn’t sound like an April Fools joke... Sure, it started as one, but then it became not a joke, and if they do it again this year, it won’t be a joke.

It bothers me when strangers add me on LinkedIn. It bothers me more when those strangers are asking for a job. If I don’t know someone, I’m not adding them on LinkedIn. If you don’t know me and you wanna connect, you should prolly find someone I know to introduce us.