• What’s the most expensive piece of equipment in your kitchen? Has it made your life better? Aside from the stuff that came with the house, probably the Le Crueset Dutch oven, which I picked up for a steal at the outlet mall a little over 6 years ago. My friend the mad scientist had recruited me to work on his project,…

Torrents send money directly to ISIS. I saw it in an ad before a movie one time, so it must be true.

Sure, algorithms are hard, but they’re a lot harder when you limit your inputs. Giving parents a “not appropriate for my kid” button would go a long way, and provide a treasure trove of data. Instead of having millions of other parents giving input into the algorithm, I just have to eyeball the…

Nah, it’ll probably be replaced by another pricey coffee shop that’s less inept at PR. Maybe not in that location, but probably within a block or so. That location will probably turn into a restaurant where you can order $20 mac and cheese or something like that.

Off-and-on crossfitter for the last 5 years.

Just remember that spikeball takes a fair amount of dexterity and coordination, so it’s not for little kids. Like, just getting a friendly rally going ranks somewhere between “hitting a wiffle ball with the skinny yellow bat” and “shooting free throws on a full size hoop” in difficulty.

I like turkey. I like cooking turkey. When I cook turkey, it’s pretty tasty. I’ve mostly blocked out the memories of stringy, dried-out slabs of gray meat I had when I was a kid. So in the weeks leading up to thanksgiving, I’m always a little puzzled when I see all the turkey hate in articles like this.

I don’t know, cartel rules forcing him to receive below-market wages for years on end seems kinda harsh.

Yeah, corn oil is great, I just don’t use it because it triggers memories of working movie theater concessions in college. Turns out that when popcorn pops it tends to shoot microscopic oil particles everywhere. (Also, fizzy drinks fizz microscopic sugar particles everywhere. Definitely the kind of job where you…

But doesn’t grapeseed oil have a lower smoke point than canola?

Out of curiosity, why grapeseed oil? I always feel like I’m setting money on fire any time I put grapeseed oil on the stovetop instead of canola. Between the heat and the addition of all those flavor-packed ingredients, does the grapeseed vs canola distinction show up in the final taste?

I’ve seen some people recommend honing knives on the bottoms of mugs. Not perfect, but it works better than nothing.

Most of the bill is garbage, but this deduction has always been a giant scam. If you need to fork over $7000 for a ticket, the price of that ticket is $7000.

My understanding is that Klein started vox.com as an employee of Vox Media, which had existed for several years beforehand and owns several other sites (like SB Nation and Recode). It sounds like it’s the broader Vox Media that’s trying to unionize, not vox.com, so I’d imagine Klein’s power is fairly limited.

They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys, becuse these babby cant fright back?

But only if the volunteers come back often enough to make the training worthwhile. If someone is volunteering with you for four hours one day a year, it’s hard to make training pay dividends.

Stuff your damn bird, because it is delicious and means the first wave of stuffing comes out when the bird does. You’ll have a backup pan of stuffing in that second wave of sides.

Gotta go with any “soccer specific stadium” scam. There’s nothing “soccer specific” about them; they’re just minor league stadiums on major league budgets, usually in places that already have 50k+ seat facilities that sit unused 350 days a year. In places where people care about soccer (Europe and Seattle come to…

Huh. Seems like that would be more relaxing, but I’m already the first person to leave the office every day. Not totally sure if heading out an extra 5 minutes early so I can sit and do nothing for 5 minutes is worth it.

I had a friend who was a grey-hat hacker, and used his real first name as his hacker handle. Once in a while his group would release an exploit for jailbreaking some device, and the jailbreak would come with credits that said something like, “Jailbreak by PwnZ0rz, XJT1122, Eric, and H4xM4n”