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Mickey O'neil wrote:I drink cold brew when possible. I get heartburn like a motherfucker.

Grandpa's Spells wrote:I know some major coffee nerds who have switched to cold brew, particularly people sensitive to acid.

Mickey, I think your sig photo just carbonated my hormones.

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/truth-wont-admit-drinking-healthy-87891 The more alcohol a society consumes, the fewer alcohol-related problems and alcohol-related deaths (including cirrhosis) it has. The aftermath of the Temperance movement still has American public institutions looking a...

Wfe's a big fan, has spoken enthusiastically about several of his books. I should check him out. (And RIP, Ivan.)

After spending his formative years in Kirkland, Wash. with a fishing pole in hand, Don decided his life’s calling was to yell at deckhands on commercial fishing boats in Alaska. As a strapping young man of 19, he moved to Dutch Harbor to fulfill this dream. Over the next 40 years, Don was a boat co...

The audiobook version of "The Wee Free Men" (narrated by Stephen Bridges) is possibly the most moving work of fantasy I've ever encountered. I will always treasure it. Thanks, Mr. Pratchett.

I liked the book, but it's got that quality of "truthiness" and uncompromising zealotry that (as Shaf said) isn't going to hold up so well 3 years from now.

"Just Ride" was a classic of its kind.

I read a couple of favorable reviews of this model and decided to ask for this for Christmas, and my wife came through. It's a bit more expensive than some Chromebook models, but it seems worth the extra money to me. Great "build quality" - the thing feels and looks solid and slick, keyboa...

Sorry I haven't been more active, life and continuing education has gotten in the way. I spent months passing Network+ certification tests and it didn't do me a damned bit of good at work,even though they insisted I get it, so fuck 'em. Going the Cisco Route (pun!) (CCNA, CCNP and up) and go work fo...

Fat Cat wrote:Sup Lemon, any link to the product?

Didn't think I needed one, since you can currently find it in any Barnes & Noble/Books-A-Million. Also, I'm lazy.

At last, a useful and helpful product from Men's Health. YBIYB is BW training for strength and fat loss. You do 8 different exercises (and their progressive variations) in a circuit. The progressions and micro-progressions to the harder variations are well thought out and workable and the criteria f...

I made it through about 20 minutes and had to shut it down. I guess I was expecting something else. Tired of this dumbass "reality" shit. One of my friends worked building sets, etc., on that Tommy Lee Jones-Goes-To-UNL reality show awhile back - and he confirmed that "there is nothi...

My current thinking on atheism is best summed up by Lee Child's character "Jack Reacher" in one of his recent novels (I think it was "Nothing To Lose") "We're all atheists. You don't believe in a thousand gods, why does it bother you if I don't believe in a thousand and one?...

This was added to my cable line up just as I was considering dropping cable for Internet streaming. Not bad. I especially like the Thursday night "Kung Fu Theater" programming - all those old classics I'd heard of but never seen because I live in the Scandanavian/German/Lutheran/Farmer reg...

Danny Boyle strikes again with another great looking movie that has 2/3rds of a great plot and then falls apart in the last 30 minutes. (Just like "Sunshine").

I liked it, but wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't a big fan of Hitchcock mind-fucks.

I got it and liked it. Good stuff, Tom...especially enjoy the terse, minimalist, No-BS format. As others have said,a $10 nugget that gives everything you need and nothing you don't.

I also think this show is a surprising over-achiever. Interesting how much of the tech is cool and 'futuristic,' but still stuff that makes you think, 'yeah, why don't we already have that?' Based on Doom and LOTR, I used to think Urban sucked. But, I thought his dredd was WORLDS better than Stallo...

I use Teamviewer to remote into my work PCs from home and from my home PCs to work (instead of the supplied Juniper/Dameware combo work supplies for on call). (If I have to remote into another user's PC on my work domains instead of my own from home, I go ahead and use Juniper and Dameware). This do...

Agreed. His recipes can be hit-or-miss, but he's such a great food nerd and smart ass that he tends to carry the viewer along with him. His stuff did more than any one else to turn me into a decent cook.

"I Carry". Whadda card!

5 years ago, I hosted my inlaws for Thanksgiving and made the brined roast turkey recipe Alton Brown did in "Romancing the Bird" for the 1st season of "Good Eats", along with his Corn Bread Pudding and Cranberry Dipping sauce. It/they was/were a big hit. It's our turn again this ...

Well, shit. When I started running again, I decided to run for time, not for distance. It simplifies things. Psychologically much easier.

It's not as if anyone's paying to do this, after all, and all I really want is to be out in the fresh air and being consistent from day to day.

I remember hearing some of those episodes, more than 30 years ago, and thinking they were hysterical, snort-milk-out-your-nose funny. Hopefully they hold up.

I remember one of our local stations carried this thing for one season and about 13 episodes; they broadcast it on Saturday night at midnight, which should tell you everything you need to know about the audience they aiming for (and yes, I was in that audience at the time). They never showed any mor...

Deafula (the world's only movie shot in American Sign Language by deaf actors...that I know of). Teenagers Versus The Thing Dementia (not "Dementia 13") also known as "Daughter of Darkness" when narrated by Ed McMahon A.P.E. (which hates you personally and wants you dead) Santa A...

My home computer, bought in 1994, bit the dust last Friday. I've never had internet service at home and probably never will. Playing simple games like solitaire, hearts etc. is the main reason I use a home computer. It helps me get ready for a run or a work out. Windows 8 does not have pre loaded g...

This month's "Atlantic" has an interesting article about the new fossil fuel boom and its positive implications (no such thing as running out of fossil fuels, well, ever) and negative ones (increased onset of climate change, instability for OPEC and other oil providers.) Apparently between...