Whatever Renaissance

I still drink home-brewed coffee on my couch in the morning, but it just isn’t the same.

A candied nut gives your cake or quick bread (which is also a cake, if we’re being honest)

The minute I hit “Publish”, I knew that sooner or later, someone would be along to point that out...

Airlines got into wars with EACH OTHER about marginal profitability, leading to such cost-shaving measures.

. . . or the salad bar, once a solid deli/grocery store standby, but now a virus petri dish.

More out of curiosity than anything else, I decided to try repairing the white balance. increasing saturation, and decreasing contrast. This isn’t great—can’t reconstruct what the dark berries looked like, so they still look like black olives, for example—but at least it reveals that there were some blues and greens…

Make an odd number and cross-post to io9.

You oncologists. Hollowing the thing out is always your first thought. Enough with the over-treatment, I say.

Just this week, I finished my bag of yeast, confidently opened my reserve bag, and baked a wheat masa chipotle doorstop. Turned out my reserve was nutritional yeast, rather than active dry.

I sense the approach of the Frittata from Hell.

Regrettable, yes. However, painful experience has shown that R&D-intensive corporations and universities that do not do public relations are at a competitive disadvantage.

Time constraints. Actually doing those assays is time consuming, so they only got eight of them done before the marketeers hit SEND on the press release.

There never HAS to be another option. Sometimes things are THAT fucked.

And for a value of “make” equal to “attempt”.

MAILLARD PARIS

Once a brand-new jar has been depleted even a little bit, you’ve got to dig the knife ever farther into the container,

That is an impressive number of uses of the term “genetic engineering” for an article about a process the researchers made sure to accomplish without genetic engineering because people freak out at the term “genetic engineering”. As Goldberg put it:

In the Shutterstock image, the driver is wearing a valved mask. Good for catching incoming stuff, not so good for stopping outgoing. Oh, and earbuds. If this is your driver, don’t get in the car.

Interestingly, about 1.4% of jigsaw puzzles are sold to cinematic prop departments for use in concretizing the futility of existence in mental institutions and long-term health care facilities.