Ummm... my rice cookers all have instructions in the manual on how to make oatmeal. It’s pretty much a standard function.

DOUBLE BONUS: Make slideshows where the images are stock photos that add absolutely nothing to the story being told. 

When I was a student in a very college town, there was a restaurant that promised a free bottle of wine on your birthday - you just had to sign up and bring at least one guest along on your birthday.

In my experience, the last one is free if you’re a good customer. More than once I’ve been poured a lot more than I was billed for “to finish the bottle”. In a Jewish restaurant in Paris long ago (yes, that one - long gone, sadly) they insisted I finish the bottle of vodka “for good luck”. 

Oh hell no. I want to be able to pick and choose what I pay for. This is all going in exactly the wrong direction.

Great, except Disable Autopreview does not work on Roku (and possibly other streaming devices). This has been the case for a very long time, possibly since the setting was first introduced. Netflix says it is a “bug”. Many of us think it’s more like a “Fuck you, customer. What our Marketing department wants is more…

Obviously depends on which stations you care about (in my household, it’s basically locals plus Food Network and HGYV... which I could get on Discovery+ now). Hulu is a decent alternative for a lot of people, and the difference between Hulu and YTTV isn’t enough for me to replace all my Roku boxes/smart TV with…

Here’s an even better option: Cancel Youtube TV. There are plenty of alternatives

I really want a dash cam, but I desperately don’t want trailing wires and a plug in the center console. (And please don’t anybody tell me how easy it is to hide the wires or wire it into the fuse panel - I have tried that before and I am totally inept).

I really want a dash cam, but I desperately don’t want trailing wires and a plug in the center console. (And please…

The science on this is overwhelmingly clear: unless you are an athlete in training or have a diagnosed medical condition, drink when you are thirsty.

The last time this brood emerged, my wife was pregnant with our son. We both marveled at the thought that the next time around he would be a high school sophomore.

This was one of the saddest periods in the history of the British car industry when badge engineering was at its worst. British Leyland’s designs were woefully out of date, quality was laughable, and their idea of a premium car was to stick a Morris badge on an Austin. (Worse was to come, mind you: later they would…

His entire statement is nonsensical. Even if h e did prepay (Narrator: he did not prepay), it would still show up as a tax payment on the return for an earlier year.

Or - and stay with me here - he’s just making shit up as he goes along because he knows that his base have absolutely no idea how taxes work.

I’m glad you put the comma in that headline, or it could have been awkward

In a world where two men simultaneously developed the theory of evolution, we’ve opted to remember Charles Darwin over Alfred Russel Wallace. In the development of calculus, we remember the name of Isaac Newton and not Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

OMG, so much this. I thought the whole stupid thing of “don’t read our stuff on the web, read it in email” died a deservedly lonely and unloved death in 2019. But here it is back again, worse than ever.

Check out bankrate.com. It has probably edged up a little since then, but worth looking. This is for 30 years refi, lots of equity, and an 800+ credit score.

I refinanced about six months ago at a shade over 3%. I’m seeing rates as low as 2.5% with zero points, and I’m tempted to go through it again.

I “discovered” Elizabeth David at the age of 19, having grown up in an English household that was apparently unaware that wartime rationing was over (we changed the oil in the deep fat fryer twice a year). It was a revelation to me that food was something that could be fresh, tasty, and actually an enjoyable…