They really need to get trained on this stuff down in A-ball, showcase it at the Futures Game.

According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, health department staff helped train him on proper food handling, and brought him a thermometer, a utensil-cleaning station, proper containers, and everything else he needed to come up to code. He then passed a health inspection, and so inspectors paid the $87 fee to get him…

Wait, why didn’t the camera auto-rotate? I was going to bitch for 5 minutes as a phone camera-knower about portrait mode, but I can’t because I just twisted my neck trying to see this thing.

Is the rookie scale bad enough that he can’t even afford a good iPhone knockoff that has auto-rotation? I can see (though not…

Agree with so much of this. When I had lymphoma a couple of years back, a bad friend (now frenemy/lapsed friend) who had ignored me for years tried to aggressively pump me up with, “You’re going to beat it, you’re going to make cancer your bitch.”

I was just so fucking tired. Physically tired from the cancer and the…

Yes, but unless heads roll at FEMA, this has all the tangible effect of a zen koan.

I’m heavier than I should be but I never seem to get comfortable sitting in my desk chair at home. It’s supposed to be a good one—a Steelcase Gesture—but the seat tilts slightly forward and my back stiffens up after 20 minutes.

I could get in better shape, but I’ve instead decided to complain about my desk chair…

In Japan, they’ll have pre-made versions of this at the supermarket or convenience store for $4/pop. Ramen shops will also offer it part of their summer menus, around $10/each.

In the US, your local Japanese supermarket will sell the ramen and sauce in 3-packs, with you sourcing the rest of the ingredients on your…

Okay, I’ll have to check it out the next time I’m in Hawai’i!

Hey get back in the mirror

One of my best friends is a Hawaiian local, so when I visited him he would take me to Rainbow Drive-In and various Zippy’s just to get my fill of plate lunches.

I usually ordered the loco moco, and would have one of the scoops of rice replaced with another scoop of mac salad, which is really the only reasonable way to…

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve actually spent 5 of the past 15 years in Japan and feel like I know the country and customs pretty well, and Tokyo very well.

One of my neighbors when was in Chiba was a former salaryman who, true to stereotype, retired to make soba and I got to watch him a few times. Apparently the…

My sometimes issue with Japanese cuisine is that a lot of it is just carboloading. Haven’t had somen much, since I like the akali flavor of ramen noodles more and like hiyashi chuuka’s variety of ingredients.

Zaru soba is an acceptable backup, provided that there are some freshly-fried tempura on the side.

No sympathy for England.

The best thing is seeing how Jimbobs give the same rules- or style-based hot taeks on why soccer “is not fun to watch,” 24 years after 1994.

Watermelon, if I bought a whole one over the weekend and I’m just too tired/hot/tired to cook.

But I guess the classy answer would be something like hiyashi chuka: chilled ramen noodles, thinly-sliced and chopped pork, egg, cucumber, and seaweed with some vinegary sauce poured over it.

Belgium can take that salt and stick it on their delicious, delicious frites.

Trump-supporter Jim Phelps approves.

What makes you think either you or I will have any say in what a production company does.?

We’re going to get a movie on 2016.

That pic of Hardin is a dead ringer for a (slightly younger) Hillary Clinton; I really thought it was a documentary/movie about her.

Whenever they do make the movie about Hillary/Trump/the past few years of American politics, Hardin needs to play Hillary.

I miss Feinberg so much.