Exactly! Never miss an opportunity to impart flavor.

Do you think Neo ever left the Matrix. If the purpose of the Matrix is to make people think they are living life and give them just enough crap on a daily basis to make everything seem real / plausible, isn’t it also likely that there would be some that would see through this, attempt to escape (or at least think they…

Some IT people do hate you. They should find another job. Hopefully they aren’t too frequent but sometimes their piss poor attitudes breed piss poor attitudes in their fellow IT staff. It doesn’t take too many bad apples to ruin the bunch. Some IT people may be willing to work on your personal computer, but that…

Damnit Lifehacker. (lol, thanks for sharing it and bringing them down temporarily...hopefully they’ll see that it will be a VERY popular service and will adjust accordingly.)

I put off, for a really long time, replacing my crappy storm door. I recently bought a nice new one and it was really easy to install. You might have to use shims to get everything level and plumb (so use that bubble level early and often) but it really was an easy job. Time consuming, but once it was done the new…

I agree with krwilson85 below. Redo it. You can find all manner of videos on youtube on how to do it and match the texture. Besides, that spot might not be reinforced properly and it may sag with time, so even if you “fix” the spot itself now without redoing it, you may end up redoing it down the road anyway because…

You’re right though, BBQ is rather forgiving as long as you are somewhere in the ballpark. The mods are super easy if you know how to use a drill and maybe a can of black high temperature paint to touch up the drilled surfaces, too. So, there really is no excuse for not modding a horizontal one if you already have it.…

Thanks! I actually need that for my weber grill. It has a smoke box on one side. Most of the smoke leaks out that side because of the venting. I wouldn’t recommend sealing a gas grill (that would be stupid) but it should be able to handle having one side partially sealed so that the smoke gets out easier on the other…

A cheap bullet or even vertical smoker is better, but if you already have an offset smoker (like the one I inherited) you’ll find that you can very easily make HUGE improvements to it. I made a lengthy post above outlining the most effective modifications that will make a horizontal smoker a LOT more fun and…

A good smoker is a choked smoker. If you choke it down to the minimum amount of air required to hit the temperature you want with the most available fuel you can have without exceeding your temperature, you’ve won. On a horizontal smoker leaks aren’t as important as controlling the primary inlet and primary outlet. A…

You can bend a piece of scrap stainless steel at 90 degrees, drill a couple holes and mount it to the cooking side where the firebox opening is and use that plate as a baffle of sorts to even out the heat distribution. Holes in the metal plate are for show. The heat will find its way around / through the metal anyway,…

I absolutely love that meat probe and the newest version is a nice upgrade from the first one I tried... better range, works a bit better. Controls are a little weird, but you get used to them.

Horizontal smokers, without mods, aren’t ideal. Some simple mods you can do to make them MUCH better is: A> Install SEVERAL thermometers at grill height. One on the left, middle and right. Some thermometers are WAY off. River Country thermometers can be easily and quickly calibrated with a pot of boiling water (or…

The sixteen pack of those Eneloop AA batteries is an even better deal in terms of price per battery. $40 for $16.

The sixteen pack of those Eneloop AA batteries is an even better deal in terms of price per battery. $40 for $16.

I don’t know if other people do this, but I usually try to keep an extra SDHC and microSDxx card on hand. Often times I’ll get a new device that happens to take or require a memory card and I’m quite glad to have one on hand to just pop in. Then, next time they go on sale I just pickup another one.

I don’t know if other people do this, but I usually try to keep an extra SDHC and microSDxx card on hand. Often…

I need to wear glasses anyway....hence prescription. Flux is great and all and I use something similar on my phone when in the theater to keep the screen super super dark. (I don’t text with people, but if the babysitter messages me I check it to make sure someone isn’t hurt.) Anyway, I love the glasses as…

I need to wear glasses anyway....hence prescription. Flux is great and all and I use something similar on my phone…

The frameless ones don’t hold together worth a shit. I paid for prescription ones and they are so light weight, I absolutely love them, but I HATE how they loosen up so easily. I wish the mounts they used were stronger. /LoveHateRelationship

The frameless ones don’t hold together worth a shit. I paid for prescription ones and they are so light weight, I…

Oh please please please let something horrific happen to ned flanders and burns. Love to hate those characters and something really epic / terrible should happen to them to write them out of the story for good.

I would love to make $10k an episode. I can do voices... none of them are any good, but I can do them.

Now, is that a professional knob polisher, because I’ve been looking for one of those for a while...

Now, is that a professional knob polisher, because I’ve been looking for one of those for a while...