I use it as an ingredient in my turkey brine, along with salt (natch), brown sugar, water, and a lotta ice cubes. Soak your turkey[*] in brine overnight before roasting.

My master’s thesis was on 8" floppy disks: the text on CP/M file system in WordStar, the code on RT-11 file system in PDP-11 assembler. That’s a long time ago.

Oh, and the last time I ordered some Irn-Bru too, the Scottish soda that looks like Fanta but tastes like bubble gum. I learned to like it on the same trip.

I learned to like haggis during a trip through the Scottish highlands when I attended the World SF Convention in Glasgow in 1995. I order this canned haggis via Amazon.com once a year or so. It’s not as good as the haggis I had in Scotland, but I like it. It reminds me in both taste and texture of corned beef hash. It…

I’ve owned maybe a dozen bikes over my forty-five year riding career, ranging from a BMW airhead to a Harley Electraglide to a Honda CBR1000F. But the Bonneville I bought when the new ones first came out is hands down my all time favorite. Beginner or old timer, doesn’t matter. I do keep a BMW R1100Rt in the stable…

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LASIK about a decade ago was the best money I ever spent. From 20/400 to 20/20 in just a few hours, no complications. But I was so paranoid, I chose the most expensive clinic in the Denver area, the one that caters to professional athletes and local television personalities. Also, I was a great candidate, eye wise. It…

Mrs. Overclock and I went to see DEADPOOL last Saturday. Just before the movie started, a dad brought in his two boys, perhaps nine and twelve, and sat in the back. There were a few times I wondered how that was going.

Be careful what you wish for. The state of Colorado now requires its citizens to pay state sales tax on those internet purchases for which it was not collected. So I downloaded the spreadsheets for 2015 from Amazon.com, seperated the purchases out by credit card number (personal and business), and summed it up. Even…

I’ll turn 60 this summer. Wanna know one of the few good things about getting old? You can wear whatever the hell you want and you don’t give a damn what other people think. Of course, you can do this at any age. But it’s a lot easier on your self-image as you get older. (This came up just yesterday when I posted a…

This is the truth of innovation: if you don’t make your own stuff obsolete, someone else will. Better to do it on your own terms.

This is a really interesting comment. It tickles my receptors that make me interested in economics and incentive distortion.

Mrs. Overclock tells me the original Girl Scout handbook says that every Girl Scout should know how to ride a horse, shoot a gun, and swim. Having been a Girl Scout over fifty years ago, she is three for three. The Girl Scout organization needs to get their asses in gear.

After becoming enraged one day because I could not find one damn working pen on my desk, I use Fisher Space Pens almost exclusively. I like their black tactical model because it’s sturdy yet fits in the spiral rings of my lab notebook. I like their plastic (but refillable) Space Tec pen because I can put them in all…

After becoming enraged one day because I could not find one damn working pen on my desk, I use Fisher Space Pens…

My wife and I refer to this as “agonizing”, as in I tell her “I’ve agonized over that Schott jacket long enough, I’m going to buy it.” It’s not a crazy idea; often I do change my mind after obsessively thinking about some expensive item for a month or two.

My subscription to Esquire has convinced me that there is a wide range of colors for men’s clothing; whether the local clothing store carries them is another issue. I’m just grateful that I’m a winter, so I look good in power suits and black leather motorcycle gear, which has simplified my life. I needed my wife and…

Twenty years ago my wife introduced me to color palettes and it changed my life. I no longer buy clothes that I never wear because the colors just don’t work on me, no matter how much I like the way they look on the hanger. I also finally settled on a few brands and lines that match my sense of style (I tend towards…

I’m a 59 year old straight white married male, and this article could have been written by me. But one of the few good things about getting old is I care less and less about what people think of me. Yep, I bought a $500 designer replica army field jacket that I rarely wear. So what. I still love knowing that it’s in…

In 2007 Mrs. Overclock and I spent three weeks in Japan, and loved every minute of it: Toyko, Yokohama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Nara, and a few other places. It’s like you’re on another planet, but it’s a more advanced planet. We used nothing but public transportation: subways, trains, rarely a taxi, or walking. Two…

This is TL;DL _and_ TMI but...