Calphalon cookware

Some stores will actually accept foreign currency. I worked for Target 20+ years ago in high school and college, and although I can’t say if they still do, they did then. I live near the US/Canada border, and once in a while folks would ask if they could pay in Canadian dollars, and we actually had a button on the…

Even in public restrooms? I’m not big on sitting down in a stall in a baseball stadium. 

I just think it makes people sound like jackasses. Kind of like when someone with an American accent tries to pronounce mozzarella like an Italian.

Agreed, I work for an American automaker, and I never hear anyone pronounce Porsche correctly. While I understand the correct way, I feel like I’d sound like a pretentious ass if I were to do so in a meeting.

I hope it brings great pleasure to your life. 

Better does not equal good enough. 

Inventory in general is in a better place than it was when I wrote that comment at the beginning of the year. That said, it is still very low, and nowhere near pre-pandemic norms. It also varies by automaker and model. The automaker I work for is in a significantly better place from an inventory perspective, things…

I enjoy life plenty and am far from perfect, but mindless consumption of throwaway items like this really needs to stop. 

This is not good blanket advice. This article seems to only address loans that are at or below the $10,000 balance. My wife has a loan that exceeds that, and we never stopped paying during the pandemic. One huge benefit is that these payments went 100% towards the principle. Requesting the refund in a case like ours…

I’m of age to have watched Transformers, but never did. For some reason I was a GoBots kid. I don’t think there were a whole lot of us. 

We have the threat of nuclear war and are destroying our environment. You are going with asteroid as the likeliest scenario for the end of humanity?

Lifehacker today: Why the 50/70 eye contact is bullshit.

This works if you like steamed vegetables. Roasting veggies in the oven takes about the same amount of effort, and the results are far superior most of the time. The only advantage the microwave has over the oven is time.

It’s 2022. Instead of celebrating such things, we should be chastising a company for putting more unnecessary plastic into the world. Ditto for Happy Meal toys. On the rare occasion we get McDonalds we try and remember to request no toys for the kids. The vast majority of the time they play with them for 5 minutes (or…

Yeah I get that, I wasn’t referring to direct heating. 

And? I’ve heard of the festival, but it’s clearly not something I pay much attention to, so is it that unreasonable that an acronym wasn’t familiar to me. I work in an industry where the NAIAS was the biggest event of the year up until the pandemic. Do you know that acronym off the top of your head? 

Yes, that makes sense and should have been obvious to me. 

I assumed it had something to do with fat, that makes sense. 

Is there a reason to go low and slow with duck? I’m admittedly a novice when it comes to duck, but I roast whole chickens on the grill fairly often, meaning 4-5 times per summer, and I always go hot and fast. I know chicken can be cooked a lot of different ways, and the type of meat you end up with can vary by…