The large amount of devastatingly flaky leftover breakfast slab pie I have in my fridge can attest to the smooth paste method working. Serious Eats has a pretty detailed breakdown of the science, written by the guy (Kenji) who originally came up with the concept for ATK.

Can anyone comment on upgrading from a computer running Win7 with TrueCrypt installed? (I know I should probably be moving away from TrueCrypt, but inertia is getting the best of me) Any problems I should be aware of upgrading an encrypted drive? If it makes a difference, my drive is partitioned, with only my personal…

Does anyone know if I need to be worried about upgrading from my Win7 machine with TrueCrypt? If it makes a difference, I only have one partition holding my personal folder/files encrypted; the OS is installed on a separate, unencrypted partition.

I’ve veered close (or I guess steered directly into, depending on who you ask) to this problem, and one of my strategies is something that focuses less on how to react to situation and more on how to act to begin with:

Great article!

I was talking to my coworkers about trying kale sprouts* for the first time. When I described them as a cross between kale and Brussels Sprouts, one of my coworkers kind of dismissively said, "Oh, so they're GMOs."

How do people feel about using "girl" to refer to a woman? I try to avoid it for anyone above like 16 because it feels kind of infantilizing.

Speaking of taking the metro, you can work around the parking fee by parking for free at the North Hollywood metro station and taking the subway one stop to the Universal City station. One-way subway fare is currently $1.75, so even round trip it's cheaper than parking (though the discount obviously shrinks the more…

I haven't baked muffins in a while, but a good way to prevent overmixing (which as others have noted is often the culprit for collapsed muffins) is to use a dough whisk (something like this). The weird shape lets batter flow through more easily than with a balloon whisk, while pushing the batter around just enough to…

Coming from another perspective, it can sometimes be annoying to have a conversation/debate with someone whose response is basically, "You're being illogical. I'm right. End of discussion."

I can never relate to the arguments about loading a dishwasher. Somehow I've gotten in the habit of always washing dishes by hand (this from a guy who has never lived in a place without a dishwasher). If I'm ever asked to load a dishwasher I'm sure I'll get an anxiety attack.

Question: does getting really shitty messages* like this increase one's choosiness/standards in replying to unoffensive messages or decrease it?

Eh, you like what you like, I guess.

I was in Manhattan for work one winter, and on a night off I decided to go to Martha Stewart Omnimedia headquarters for an employee craft sale (as 24-year old male government workers do). This was in a part of Manhattan that didn't have easy access to the subway system. I'm pretty good with subways but not so great…

Question: once all of the integration rollouts are complete, will all incoming GV calls routed through the Hangouts app be VOIP? What if I want an incoming call to come through as a regular voice call? I guess I would just not keep that setting on?

I always took the in-dream machines/drugs to be a way to focus the ability to enter the next level of dreams. That it's a mental trick to get their brain primed for entering the next dream.

I was eating snow peas from a crudite platter once and started to try to wring the individual peas out of the pod.

OKC profile snippet that irrationally bothers me:

Sometimes I think that my boss doesn't realize that the ellipsis isn't the only form of punctuation (I'm reminded that he's aware of other forms when he uses an apostrophe to pluralize words). Don't get me started on when he uses ellipses with more than 3 periods.

Wow, that sucks, sorry. I guess I was lucky that my insurer covered it completely. I got my third and final round weeks before my 26th birthday.