Saw the broadcast on America's Test Kitchen last year, been using the method ever since. Cannot believe how easy and reliable the method is, and I find a soft boiled egg with a creamy yolk and some buttered toast the ultimate in comfort food.

Just about the best fun you can have is to ask a anti-glutenite exactly what gluten is... 99% of time they sputter and fooforaw around. Fun!

Sometimes all you want is a grilled cheese sandwich made with processed American cheese. Period. Because life has been hard, the fates cruel, friends unfaithful, and the world full of tumult. Also your job sucks, your hair is thinning, the DVR didn't record the program you wanted, your car needs expensive repairs and…

"...he Hindenburg utilized highly flammable balsa wood..." Andrew, no. Just no. Even Wikipedia will tell you that German zeppelin frames (the Graf Zeppelin, the Hindenburg, the Macon, Akron, and Los Angeles which were delivered to the U.S. Navy) were framed in duralumin. Duralumin is a hardened aluminum alloy, light…

Good to know that the practice of slut shaming is gender free. Sadly.

"Hocking" = pawning, "hawking", as in "hawking your wares" = flamboyant selling.

If only... meanwhile, here in San Francisco I have spotted (several times, so I'm not hallucinating) a Checker station wagon. I could move into the back half and the driver would not know I'm there unless I throw a large party on Saturday night, and even then only if I invite him

Maybe not so much the proto-Concorde as a flying ocean liner, with all the comforts of crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Mary or Queen Elizabeth. With a cruising speed of 250mph, the 3,300 miles trip between London and NYC would take over 12 hours, so of course you needed a theater for entertainment, a good dinner,…

I vote with you for the sheer elegance of the Constellation series. Probably the most beautiful plane that will ever be built.

With this particular jet the windows kepst blowing out during flight due to metal fatigue. I believe it's the early version of the DeHaviland Comet, on which the passenger windows were perfectly square; those sharp corners were prone to metal fatigue, which wasn't well understood at that point.

Because all Christians have an identical view of life, just as all atheists have an identical view of life? I don't believe that the world is as cut and dried as you seem to see it.

You've missed your meds again, didn't you?

Which is exactly why I tip $5 on a $20 pizza or Chinese delivery order; if the delivery guy or gal has six stops to make, guess who's gonna get theirs first? And the fact that most have to use their own vehicle and gas — and I don't — figures into it as well.)

"and none of us look down on them"? That would be on your home planet of Oblivister?

And the other reason it will probably never change? The idea that "waiting on table" is a respectable career decision is alien to many Americans. So many people see waiting table is a stopgap, a job of last resort, or even as a job so simple that only someone intellectually challenged would do it. It gives them…

"The Russian gecko sex satellite has gone rouge." No. It hasn't.

I can only go by what was witnessed; two of the three people had some sort of issue with each other, and calls to 911 became more and more frequent until they were a weekly occurrence. All that ended after a fistfight between the two of them occurred in front of one of their houses. The police arrived, one of them was…

Now that's interesting, as I also have an evangelical background — but my flavor never really talked about the Jews OT covenants. BTW, for those whom this makes little sense, God's covenants are unbreakable; Old testament, new, makes no difference. YMMV, but I was told after I was "saved" that I now had an unbreakable…

Corn dogs, veggie or otherwise, should be eaten at street fairs and other vending booths where the oil for deep-frying has been used over and over. At home, no matter how much mustard you put on, they're just not as good.

This is entirely anecdotal (meaning it has no statistical significance) but over the past twenty years we've had four different Buddhist neighbors here in our neighborhood, one of whom was the loveliest woman, very kind, very calm, just the sort of neighbor that makes a neighborhood feel more home-like. The other…