I still remember the adage that a family friend once told me: “We are not rich enough to buy cheap things.” For things you will use daily and have a real time/effort/money impact on your life, research like crazy and buy a good/high-quality item that you can use for a long time.

Congrats on the Shun chef’s knife. I…

That’s a good rec--I stumbled upon this piece just now and it reminded me how much I missed this column.

Add in the fact that Vettel himself is a largely reserved person with a growing family, and it makes even more sense. The Vettel family could move to a nice quiet place in the U.S., like suburban Indianapolis.

At the cost of 1-and-2/3 stimulus checks, SHO that that seller the money!

As a Lancia fan, I hear you.

Is that you, Little Carmine?

As someone who works regularly with scanned/photographed materials collected from archives, I can’t agree with Arcanum enough. Low quality scans (sub-300dpi), typeribbon/printer bleeding, letters that look too similar to each other all play havoc with OCR software.  It’s even worse if you work in non-alphabetic…

Writing this in 2020, but that would be a Larry David-esque spite store if there ever was one.

This was the time I decided to finally buy an Instant pot. First item: Japanese curry. Second item, if I can find the ingredients: saag paneer (or chicken, depending on availability).

Still did a trip outside to support 4 restaurants near me that I really like and ordered about $60 of takeout. In case anyone was…

I can’t imagine eating the same soup for lunch for 17 years, but beef stew or chicken tortilla (with a few frozen wontons and edamame added) in a thermos is my work lunch for at least 3 or 4 times/week.

Lunch stored in a container that is easy to pack is pretty important: the thermos fits perfectly into the bottom…

...when was there ever a “Bring Back Schumacher” crowd?

Maybe the profits come from selling orders they don’t fulfill.

Why I’m boycotting Popeyes: Over the holidays at parents’ home, ordered a few chicken sandwiches and two cheesecakes for dinner via Popeyes drive-thru, only to realize when I got home that we were short one chicken sandwich and a cheesecake. The Popeyes…

Zack Morris never disliked the poors: they and all marginalized groups were just tools for his schemes.

This sounds to me to be the work of Chief of Staff Lisa Turtle.

Another possible security method: Don’t be friends with shitty, sketchy people.

In true Williams-Sonoma fashion, even their most niche, expensive, unnecessary kitchen items (or perhaps especially these items) are beautiful objects to have on display in your home.

I’d sooner shop at Michael Scott’s Emporium than Kondo Marie’s Kobetton Hausu.

Thanks for sharing the link, and I like how they have a number of different specials every day.

Wasn’t meant to be a shot at you in particular, but there are a lot of comments here that take up a lot of space but say nothing. Something in me snapped.

Well, at the very least we’ll know that Jon won’t be happy with just 50% of the popular vote.

Yep, same here. The lines are already like 30-45 minutes long for mine in Atlanta.

Search Yelp: it’ll be among the first ten entries.

This is a good-sounding but unhelpful comment: what’s the purpose of describing the merits of these places—I’m always game for tasty breakfast sandwiches and stunningly good espresso-based drinks—if you won’t mention their names?

...Unless the purpose is to brag about these places while hiding them from crowds that…