Well your instincts were right on. I feel like he was able to tie a small number of his existing works into The Gunslinger successfully, but mostly it feels like he’s the George Lucas of popular fiction; I don’t believe for a second that he always intended all his stuff to tie together, and many of his attempts at it…

If you love The Talisman, don’t read Black House. It ruins the Talisman. Tying it in to the Gunslinger stuff lessens the importance and the majesty of Jack quest in The Talisman, and it also directly contradicts some stuff from The Talisman in order to make things fit.

With respect, 2500 calories isn’t “way over an entire day’s worth of calories” for a lot of people.

Ammo cans are easy to come by (certainly more common than an actual, free-and-legal pallet). You’ll find them at any surplus store:

Agreed on that. No harm done.

Huh, I’m agreeing with you, dude. Then expanding on what you said a little. While still agreeing with you.

Hot dog, we have a wiener.

What in the world is wrong with your perceptions and communications skills? None of what you published here makes them sound like dicks. Lots of what you published here makes you guys sound like entitled dicks:

And somewhere, Sean McDonald is laughing...

A whole article and all these comments and not one mention of who created Croyd?

Eh, if you have cabinet and counter space for slow cooker, you can add a sous vide setup no problem, and just use it_like_ the slow cooker, allotting it counter space when needed. So this is not a real reason, it’s an “I just don’t want to” reason, which is fine, but let’s call a horse a horse.

I’ll never understand this reaction to sous vide cooking. You heat the water, put the food in, and walk away, and then you come back some imprecise (chicken breasts, for instance, need an hour to be done, but they can hang out for an extra hour without negative effects. That flexibility rocks) time later and the food…

That’s a misquote. Why bother with a Simpsons reference if you have to change it? Just find something else that fits.

I’m sorry. When things so obvious and simple are posted, all I can think of is:

But they didn’t. Stop taking your cues from Constructing Strawmen for Dummies.

Yeah, but shut the fuck up. If no one notices, Bryan can win prizes by trading in Racism Spotter points. He can even earn Bonus Performance Points if his outrage really stands out.

Is that a $25 rubber spatula? I just want to be sure.

Also, the whole “let’s attach the end piece in such a way that it becomes a lever amplifying a force attempting to pull out the screws which secure it while the device is in use” thing does not inspire confidence in this thing’s designer, _and_ using electricity to crush a recyclable can is kind of goofy because it…

I wonder how many suicides happen with one of these still laying around half fucked? As in, the guy gets things started, gets into it, finds himself saying something like “Oh, Cindy, I’m gonna come!”, loses his erection, pulls out, re-evaluates his life, and finally offs himself.

For the network admin/programmer/power user you will probably want to dual boot ubuntu to get real work done.