A lot of the problem goes away if you weigh your ingredients and get the mix closer to right from the git-go. The trick to weighing the flour if you're using cups is to weigh a bag of flour before you start making the recipe and then again when you're done. If the recipe turned out well, the difference is how much…

There are two things that really get to me about Waze. I use Waze. A lot. I currently have “All Time” ranks of 264 in Texas and 4620 in All States.

In this case, from Denver to Boston, and all in the same day.

That would be very nice!

It also helps to be nice to the airline customer service personell. A flight I was on was so late I missed my connecting flight. Another passenger on that flight beat me to the customer service desk, where he was screaming and cussing up a storm. He was told, “Sorry, but there are no more seats on flights to your…

Austin has Jester King, Independance, Oasis and Infamous for starters. I’d avoid Adelberts and the Draught House, but 512 is good, as are many others.

Where is it? Not using Google Earth I have no idea how to find it.

Worked like a champ! I couldn’t be happier!

I have a set of these Pioneers and they are remarkable. Stereophile listed them as a class C component, which is really pretty amazing for any speaker under a thousand bucks a pair. And, yeah, they ARE that good.

Avoid kosher(ing) salt. It is another highly refined salt that adds little to food, much like non-iodized table salt. An inexpensive sea salt is a much better choice. If you think there’s no difference between salts, get some bread, some unsalted butter and a variety of salts. Butter pieces of bread, salt them and…

What about combining methods? Will it help to roll and/or microwave before squeezing with the press?

We took out a Honeywell programable thermostat, put in a Nest and our electric bills went up. Why? Unlike most folks, we’d carefully programmed our Honeywell. The Nest wasn’t quite as frugal. We reset the Nest to settings similar to the Honeywell, and now we’re happier. The remote access is cool, as is “being part of…

It’s been a while, some of these components are no longer available. Perhaps it’s time to refresh this?

You definitely need to know your cost of doing business. That helps you decide if you want to take on a job at all. However, what something costs you and what you should charge for it are, at best, loosely connected.

I hope this isn’t a repeat post. I posted it a few seconds ago and it’s not there.

There is also an interesting dichotomy between charging by the hour and using value based pricing. Kirk Bowman was, for a long time, opposed to value based pricing. Now he things pricing by the hour is immoral and it sets up a fundamental conflict between contractor and client that need not be there. For his thoughts…

A freelancer friend told me, “If you’ve never been turned down because you charge too much, you’re not charging enough!”

Lately I’ve been getting phantom notifications. A sound, or even just a partial sound, and when I look at the windowshade notification area, nothing. Any hints for helping find and eradicate the phantom notifications?

One of the odd ones that isn’t mentioned is the buffet. Yeah, I went and got my own food. However, they brought beverages and made sure my dirty plates were removed between exercises in gratuitous gluttony. So, do I tip? And how much?

There is one missing element in this discussion, unless my eyes glazed over and I missed it. Software compatibility. OK, you have an 8” floppy disk, SSSD. And it has a CP/M format. Created on an OSI Challenger. (Did you know CP/M had different disk formats for different hardware? Now you do. The OSI Challenger was one…