I'm trying to make a roast version of Hainanese chicken rice. I have never tasted any version of Hainanese chicken rice. Each culture has adapted this dish to its own local tastes and ingredients -- Singaporean Hainanese chicken rice is not the same as the Filipino version, etc ( Read more... )

I have just finished reading 397 articles (give or take a few hundred) about how to make homemade Greek yogurt. Here is what I learned ( Read more... )

I figured out years ago that my reading/writing etc habits at home were indicative of how I felt at work ( Read more... )

Oh, baby. I just knew when I picked you up in that store that you would smell so nice. When I got you home I found out how right I was; you smelled so. damn. good ( Read more... )

I use Siri to set alarms and timers, to make calls, to initiate simple web searches, and for little else ( Read more... )

1. Find a Tea Party supporter, or someone with a similar bent and number of functioning brain cells. Lock them in a room.
2. Have them talk about politics, but enforce the following rules:
   1. They must accept as gospel the findings of an independent objective fact-checking organization. Not bits and pieces, but all of the findings. I'll use Pultizer-winning ( Read more... )

I won't even go into how INCREDIBLY arcane, counterintuitive, and shabby the whole Amazon Cloud Drive experience is. I won't discuss in any detail how much it looks like a few very junior engineers threw together a disparate set of utilities and marketing was given all of a week to put it all together.

In a valiant attempt to say something nice, I ( Read more... )

Even after doing a sync specifying that the Mac should override the Calendar on my iPhone, I still have 2 copies of every Calendar entry on my iPhone. After some research -- made easy by the fact that so many people have been bitten by this for so many yet closely-related reasons for ages -- I think I know why ( Read more... )

This TSA Behavior-Recognition Program sounds all nice and friendly and innocuous, but I bet if you look anything at all like an Arab/Muslim, this is going to really really suck. I speak from experience ( Read more... )

A hibachi is not a grill. A hibachi is a bowl or box-shaped fireproof box in which (before home oil heaters aka radiators existed), one would burn charcoal. It was a space heater, not a cooking device, although larger later hibachis would often do double duty to heat teapots. Hibachi doesn't mean grill or stove, it means "fire bowl ( Read more... )