Another benefit, it works very well to season cast iron cookware.

If you are the type that moves the couch out to the front porch then I guess moving a hammock inside seems like then next logical step.

The 404 might deserve velvet ropes. The 304 is the less attractive sister. A relative has a 404 in mint condition that he bought new and has lovingly obsessed over ever since.

I found when dealing with a certain ISP with the initials TW that sending a group email to every VP I could find an email address for brought a very quick email response from something called their executive response team, followed by phone calls from various managers and technicians at the local office to a problem…

I’m all for DIY but unless you already have the equipment and welding experience, it makes more sense to just by the hairpin legs unless you are planning to produce these on a large scale. They are not that expensive.

Your favorite vinaigrette is not going to produce a gas cloud of death if even the much harsher conditions in the stomach is incapable of producing hydrogen cyanide gas as the cyanide is too strongly bonded to iron for any reaction to occur at stomach acid concentrations and stomach temperatures. Science, more than…

Use whatever salt you enjoy, but your fears of adverse effects from sodium ferrocyanide are completely unfounded. Again, unless you are downing an ounce of the sodium ferrocyanide straight, there are no ill effects and your body naturally excretes all of it before you could reach those levels from kosher salt intake.…

Yellow prussiate of soda or sodium ferrocyanide has a very low toxicity. Salt itself has a more adverse effect on your body than the anticaking agent does. A 150lb person would have to ingest between 1 oz to a pint of sodium ferrocyanide for toxic effects to result. All of it gets excreted within 3 hours so there is…

It’s going to take a lot more than 2 seconds to make the love child of Mr. Bean and Three’s Company cast member Joyce Dewitt more charismatic.

No, having your thumb work the cursor leaves your pointer finger free to click. If you have to click and hold while working the cursor the thumb trackball is a much more comfortable setup to use. Your hand doesn’t have to do the weird contortions you would with holding a button with your thumb while trying to work the…

No, having your thumb work the cursor leaves your pointer finger free to click. If you have to click and hold while…

The whole point of the tankless is not to have to catch up. With an appropriately rated btu and flow rate tankless heater, you have instant unlimited hot water on demand. Why would you then run a less efficient and slow to heat up, tank heater in conjunction? Your tank will not catch up before you are done with…

The whole point of the tankless is not to have to catch up. With an appropriately rated btu and flow rate tankless…

The ramblers that I use the walk away approach are those who are so self absorbed that they really don’t care who they are talking at (not with). They just want to fill every moment with the sound of their own voice and have no interest whatsoever in what anyone else could possibly have to say. In cases where the…

See, soccer hooliganism can be used for good. Well until they set everything on fire.

If you have some idea of the general types of wine you like and you are standing in front of shelf after shelf of wine, take a quick look at labels not for a particular brand but just for a label that looks interesting. If the label looks too gimicky or trying too hard to be clever I usually skip it. Grab that…

The thing with scotch though, yes a 6 year old vs a 25 year old will not taste the same, older does not always equal tasting better. There are some 15 year old scotches that I like better than some 25+ ones. Even batches from different years runs are not all going to taste the same. Like wine, the flavor of a good…

While there are many very good cheap wines in the $5-$10 range, Barefoot is not one of them. Barefoot should not be drunk, cooked with or given to someone you like. It is just bad wine.

This is one of my favorites from an unexpected source.

While the possibility always exists to get sued. Neither I or anyone I know spanning 30 years of experience has ever been sued. If there is a question potential drive failure I let the person know that data may be unrecoverable and I pull the drive and determine if data is readable. If it is, it is backed up before…

You don’t garner good will by being cheap. What you get is being thought of as an electronics janitor. 20 years of experience has shown this to be true.

Yes, always the big bottle. I may be easy, but I’m not cheap.