Years ago, I put a string of white holiday lights behind the TV. Easy.

Buy one regardless. Because if you have it, you will find reasons and occasions to wear it.

July 2010: "Within 5 years, you're going to have to jailbreak your MacBook if you want to run applications that aren't approved by and sold through Apple."

I am currently using Hover.com (a Tucows company) and am happy with their service and user interface. Will stay with them for now (like to support a littler guy if they are reliable, and Hover is.) But good to know, the big G is available if I need it.

A friend of mine, perhaps the most frugal guy I know, once told me he buys really good dinner napkins. Instead of the cheap ones that are 1000 in a pack, he gets quality ones. For a few pennies a meal, he feels luxurious.

I decided to jog my memory. The energy loss due to emissivity (radiation, more or less) is the fourth power of the delta T. That is, E is proportional to

As other comments suggest, this may be more complicated than it seems but the basic premise is false.

Not really a problem. The turkey remains cool as the water brings it up in temperature. You can do this with running water or frequent changes of water.

See the timetable on my turkey page. Depending on when you start, it tells you whether you can dry brine, wet brine, etc.

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Disagree that "labeling changes on pork in recent years has made it even more difficult to tell which part of the pig that cut of meat came from." Opposite is true. The new names are more standard and uniform and match beef cuts. Learn the new names and you'll know.

Shoes are supposed to match too?! Wow, this is hard.

Update: Over time, I have largely stopped the "Mr. Coffee hacks," especially the one where I remove the carafe to let the grounds steep. It didn't make that big a difference and if not timed, often led to over-extraction.

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That's true but not very believable that it's the "secret" to Costco's prices. Costco's formula is no secret: They have a standard markup (15% as I recall) and when they apply it to traditionally high markup products like jewelry and eyeglasses, the price to the consumer is very favorable. They also have massive…

Hard to believe, though that does sound like what someone at a competitor might make up. Costco is one of the largest in that business. Not likely they can operate at that scale based on "remnants."

Yes, no, no. (g)

Questions like this are intended to see how you think, so the questions you're asking would be a point in your favor.

Also, if you just need a few things, 1/2 hour before closing works great. (But please don't be one of those people who at 8:30 are still running around to get one more thing. Be nice to the employees and be at the checkout before closing time.)

If you have work flexibility, go Tues, Wed, or Th at 1:30-2:30. That's my secret for Costco.