I agree with all of this... except the last sentence. An ex of mine was one of those people who acts as though only her time is important. She was, without exception, the last person to be ready to get in the car to leave, and the last one out when we arrive anywhere. She was the last to be ready to order, and the…

Only 5? Welp, it’s a start, I suppose.

Wooden lollipop sticks (the flat kind) and a pen. Insert the stick, mark the starting level. Remove stick, measure (or estimate) and mark the desired level. Start reducing. When you can touch bottom with the stick without the lower mark going into the liquid, you’re there. Sticks cost less then 2c each.

Here’s a much better technique IMO: before you start put water in the pan to the desired quantity of cups. Set your jury stick marker to just above that level. Discard the water. Now its a simple matter of cooking and reducing until you can touch bottom with the jury stick without the marker going into the liquid.

In related news, I can reply to comments but can’t directly reply to any story. You guys need to figure out how to roll back broken updates.

Well played, sir.

Is the answer still “shit-faced”? [Checks lineup] Yep, “shit-faced” it is.

That’s a really good insight. Reminds me of something a friend of mine says: “everybody wants to be an author, very few want to be a writer”.

It took my wife a decade out of college to admit that she really wanted to be a nature photographer, not an IT professional, partly because she too had learned to equate money with success, and partly because of the prospect of telling her father after he had put her through MIT. His reaction was basically “When can I…

And then Pa Kent throws his life away in a futile attempt to rescue somebody’s dog, yes? Or maybe I’m confused about, by that point I was kind of zoning out...

It doesn’t matter what you want.

My wife’s aunt used to ask inappropriate questions all the time, precisely to push the rest of the family’s buttons. And the rest of the family had spent decades teaching her she could get away with it by their reactions and their tolerance. When I came into the family and observed what was going on, when she tried it…

Getting an SSD is great, especially for laptops. It’s just a shame that using multiple disks with Windows is so messy, so it’s harder than it should be to have a small SSD boot/OS disk and a large, cheap HDD for everything else. (Blame the long history of Windows for its tangled and confusing mixure of physical and…

That’s complete bollocks. Don’t make shit up.

My health-nut friend told me “never eat anything you can’t pronounce”, which is why I don’t eat quinoa.

Perhaps Brady should explain his position to his colleague Dominique Easley, who is muslim?

As somebody who thinks we spend way too much money on defense, I have to say... damn. That thing looks menacing. When the US launches its first interplanetary destroyers, they need to look like this.

Yep. If the baby starts crying again it means something else is wrong, such as hunger or a wet diaper. But many times, being calmed is what is being called for.

When my son was young I used Harvey Karp’s “happiest baby on the block” technique, which shares a number of elements with this one, notably the gentle jiggling, plus swaddling. It worked like a charm, and my son even stayed calm / asleep when put down. The first time I tried it, it was like a little miracle — neither…

Good analogy. And just like a Fitbit, people stop paying attention after a few weeks. I had Progressive’s loaner version of this in the hopes of getting cheaper car insurance (spoiler: I didn’t), and for a while I did drive a little more cautiously, but yes, just about every time it beeped at me for braking too hard,…

Good analogy. And just like a Fitbit, people stop paying attention after a few weeks. I had Progressive’s loaner…