Recent Comments

1. 6 days ago on Grand Avenue

   Dead bolts have been standard for so long it’s easy to forget older houses have self-locking doors. Deadbolts lack the self-locking feature so it’s impossible to lock yourself out without having the key (or someone inside to let you in).

   Of course, it’s also possible to leave your door unlocked by forgetting to lock it…

2. 14 days ago on Overboard

   Wolves getting friendly with humans is how they ended up wearing funny costumes and other things for our pleasure.

3. 18 days ago on Betty

   Pineapples on pizza is good. But it also requires a hot pizza oven to work properly. You need the pineapple to caramelize and then go through the Maillard reaction to turn into deliciousness. This requires a very hot oven so you don’t evaporate all the juice which keeps everything moist, but also not let the moisture get the crust soggy. Pizza is an exercise in contrasts – the toppings must be moist but the crust must stay crisp. It’s what makes fresh made pizza so good – the crust is crunchy and the toppings are moist.

4. 20 days ago on Heart of the City

   Disney also is responsible for the whole “lemmings commit suicide” thing. The Disney filmmakers purposely chased lemmings off cliffs for the movie. For sharks, shark fin soup is the reason – they cut the fins off sharks and dump them back into the water to drown. it’s so bad Gordon Ramsey who was doing a piece on the evils of shark fin soup got death threats – it’s so illegal many gangs in Asia are basically responsible for all of it.

5. 27 days ago on Zack Hill

   Especially given the budget for most school lunches is $1.25 per student. Yes, that’s all the money the school can spend on food.

6. 29 days ago on Dog Eat Doug

   Their customer support is even more amazing – there are stories where a guy loses his job, and called Chewy to cancel his repeating order of cat food. At the same time, he broke down and was nearly going to off himself but the agent talked him from it (and they provided the next month’s cat food for free, but that was incidental to the story). Apparently if you mention a pet passing they’ll send condolences as well.

7. about 1 month ago on Betty

   It’s basically a game of luck – the only skill is throwing the dice. But it’s all luck in that how your game goes is determined purely by dice. And it’s completely different from “The Landlord’s Game” which is meant to teach about the evils of monopolies and what controlling the housing market can accomplish.

8. about 1 month ago on Ben

   There are stores that still sell CDs. I’ve bought a bunch of CDs. Bought plenty online as well.

9. about 1 month ago on Ben

   What people call a DVD player often refers to a Blu-Ray or UHD Blu-Ray player these days

10. about 1 month ago on Baby Blues

    Verbing weirds language.