I like to fried rice or bibimbap all of the things, with a fried egg on top. Not the healthiest thing, but it works with tons proteins and veggies.

It would be nice if this kind of service was the default, to anonymize and limit the scope of information disclosed at the point of sale, but it's difficult to enact a drastic change in how POS card processing is done. Retailers can be very averse to change. I'm hoping in 10 years we'll be done with magnetic strips…

A few credit card providers offer this service for free, through a service called Shop Safe. Bank of America has this service on a card I have with them and it is fantastic. I always use it any time I make online purchases with smaller online businesses.

It is becoming increasingly difficult. I have several generations of fire, the original Fire HD, Fire HD 8.9, and Fire HDX 8.9. On the first two, I rooted and replaced them with stock android, but on the HDX I just rooted and replaced the launcher.

It is becoming increasingly difficult. I have several generations of fire, the original Fire HD, Fire HD 8.9, and…

Metal Gear Rising 2: Troll face boogaloo

Hah, that's just like how I used to have my media server; it was my old workstation. Since I have to pay electricity, having an i7 920 running 24/7, paired with 6 hard drives can get really little pricey, so changed mine to a lower power i5 Haswell. Averaging about 25W on the server, compared with around 90W when I…

I've been using WDTV Live (UPnP client) and a media server running Universal Media Server/Playstation Media Server (DLNA Server) for years. The issue I find with both the WDTV Live, Roku, and Chromecast, (I've used and have/had all) is that the hardware can be lacking grunt to handle native playback, where…

I'm not a big fan of Hulu, so I don't use it. Netflix is smooth as silk. The hardware is very fast, so there shouldn't be any issues running those apps. The Hulu app shouldn't differ too much from what you'd have for your phone or tablet, since FireTV is android based and runs android apps.

It's faster in the sense that you just set the prepped dish aside for over an hour, versus the active tending that happens when it's made traditionally. It's one of those really huge time saving deals like no-knead bread, where there's little actual hands on time, and a lot of hands-off sitting around and waiting…

Bless you, David Chang. Ramenize ALL OF THE THINGS!

My media is networked on a file server. The FireTV and FireTV stick have 802.11ac wireless, which is quite fast, so long as you have a fast wireless router and good connection. External storage via USB is going the way of the dinosaur, as wireless network speeds become extremely fast.

I recently picked up a Fire TV and it is an excellent device, with fantastic hardware specifications. It really shines if you are a more technical user and have a personal media collection, where XBMC or SBMC can be sideloaded onto the device, turning it into a full blown set top media server.

Not Playstation Home gone bad, just a typical day in Second Life.

I'm a pretty good home cook and prepare most of my meals at home, which saves a lot of money...so that I can occasionally splurge on some really great food at nice restaurants. Had a beef wellington and a nice seared piece of foie gras on toast a few nights ago. It had been a few years since I had foie, since it…

Seriously debating going to K-town tonight and getting some. If you're in LA by any chance, I recommend:

This kind of stuff fascinates me, like cracktros.

LIES. Korean bone broth soup (seolleongtang) fixes everything. Hangovers, mostly, but still.

A drawback of a high fence is that burglars also enjoy having lots of privacy.

Yeah that's how I do it when making a soffritto for pasta sauce. Sweat the soffritto a good deal, toss in the tomatoes, blend, then add spices.

This would be a great pairing with ketchup spaghetti with hotdogs, another filipino delicacy.