Many people are actually more productive working from home as they have the flexibility to do their work as well as attend to personal matters.

I worked in streaming media for number of years, including a large component using phone audio and VOIP. Doing a lot of audio engineering, among other things.

How much background noise makes it through on a phone call has much more to do with equipment, setup, and best practice than it does the environment you’re in…

They don't even need to do a multiverse. Comics having been bringing characters back from the dead practically as long as they've existed. It's a running joke with several Marvel characters. 

What’s weird about it? Most of Thai and Vietnamese food contains both.

That’s how I hit on it. Didn’t realize there was cilantro on a Banh Mi. No soapy taste. The pork up in there was marinaded with fish sauce.

Widow Jane has become both hard to find in my area. And very expensive. Last bottle I ran into was like $115. It is good whiskey. But it is not hundred dollar whiskey.

I know their sales rep from this area. It exploded in popularity, and the brand and wholesaler prefer to focus on on-premise sales. So you’ll see it…

It’s not even limited to thinking Absinthe is a powerful psychedelic and the DEA is gonna come to get you.

I’ve more than once ordered from a place that said they shipped to New York. Prominently listed on their website! Or hanging off the back of a god damn airplane flying over the beach I’m on. Only to have the…

If it’s an option.

Shipping alcohol by mail is technically a no-go in the US, though the Post Office doesn’t check and doesn’t really care. And private shipping companies typically allow it.

Sending alcohol across state lines on the other hand is complicated. Many states disallow it entirely. Those that do allow it…

Cut over a paper towel on the counter.

Those plastic bags aren’t biodegradable, and are an environmental menace that’s increasingly banned. They should be recycled, but can’t be if they are covered in food residue. 

The “all the nutrients are in the skin” claims about any given food are a long standing myth. From 70's health food and diet fads. A large proportion of the dietary fiber in a lot of things is in the skin. But “nutrients” does not just mean fiber. Or fiber at all, since fiber is indigestible.

It also rests on a…

I did not know that existed. Holy shit. 

I use yogurt from time to time. Is good if you don’t use too much, much like sour cream. My sister in law makes insane cheesey mash potatoes where Greek yogurt is a key ingredient.

What you don’t want to do is accidentally use vanilla yogurt in your spuds.

How are lumpy mash potatoes, or mash potatoes with the peels “country style”?

It’s less sharpness of blade, then amount of mixing. The sharp blade will break up more cells and release more starch with less processing time. But food processors and blenders run faster than mixers, so they’re doing more mixing in less run time.

Mixers run slower, and hit less of what you’re mixing at once. So it’s …

The smaller you cut the cloves before cooking (smashing/slicing/mincing) will increase the garlic flavor.

The cooking water is loaded with excess starch given off by the potatoes during cooking. So it will tend to turn you’re potatoes denser. Which is fine if that’s what you’re into. But it’s one more factor on maybe going too far. You also want to salt your cooking water pretty heavily, and that means over salting your…

It’s a good baseline, but you generally have to add some other form of cooked garlic as well. Either garlic powder during cooking (to drive off the sharpness), or roasted or sautéed garlic while mashing.

It’s kinda like adding a bay leaf to things. It’s not easy to pick out in the finished product, but the end result…

So the two types of potatoes are starchy and waxy.

Yeah the point of them is to grind up the dross from doing the dishes so the drain does not get clogged. It’s not a place to throw additional garbage so you don’t have to throw in the trash can instead.

I had a friend growing up who’s family would toss whole left over potatoes, egg shells, fucking small milk cartons…

Evan Williams in general is a good buy. For bog standard American whiskey the Black Label beats the hell out of Jack for half the price, the green is legit for around $10. And the white label bottled in bond is actually good for around $20.

I just think "smooth" is meaningless. I mean people call Jameson's smooth, and practically nothing on the market likes to crawl back up your throat more.