I’ve never thought about trying this at home – but I will soon. Recipe and info from Serious Eats..
serves Serves 4 to 6, active time 15 minutes, total time 1 1/2 hours (plus overnight marinade)
Getting a few too many catalogs or credit card applications these days? Catalog Choice is a terrific free service to unsubscribe from many of these companies. It is incredibly satisfying to hit the “No Postal Mail and No Name Sharing” option for garbage like Capitol One.. and I can say, it makes a huge difference in junk mail delivery over time.
Serious Eats covers some amazing sounding fries:
The duck fat fries served at JG Domestic are indeed something special. Skin-on potatoes are sliced moderately thick, fried to a brilliant golden hue, and then coated with a light dusting of salt. In a slightly odd comparison, the flavor is reminiscent of mashed potatoes wrapped in fried chicken skins. If that doesn’t sound glorious to you, I don’t know what else to say.
via Philadelphia: Inconsistent Burgers and Duck Fat Fries at JG Domestic.
Tired of hunting for recipes on sketchball sites? Google’s new Recipe Search might be the answer. Example, just did a search for Spicy Ahi Pokē and found some promising results..
I eat Clif Bars for breakfast – they are good for you, easy to eat, and can be had for fairly cheap (under $1/bar). Usually I buy the variety pack at Costco, which runs about $21-22 dollars for 24 bars – the cheapest anywhere. Until I found the same box on Amazon. It costs about the same on Amazon, however, if you sign up for their “subscribe and save” model – you get a 15% discount, bringing the bars well below Costco pricing, shipped free (and that’s 2-day, since I’m Prime).
Here’s the math on those Clif Bars:
Item Subtotal: $22.20
Shipping and Handling: $0.00
Subscription Discount: $-3.33
Shipment Total: $18.87
Click to see the Subscribe and Save options
Subscribe and Save has no strings – you can select your delivery frequency and change that model at any time. You can use it for all kinds of things - from soap to dog food.
Another example on some Neutrogena Deep Clean Invigorating Foaming Scrub
Serious Eats: “A picture is worth a thousand words, they say, so I’m not going to blab too much here.”
So.. I’m a Google Reader fanatic – and figured, why not see if I can send some Reader content right to a blog, rather than spamming Facebook? Turns out it’s quite easy.
And thus DFF is re-born.
Interesting read from Lifehacker..
The moment you’re semi-sure you’re getting a cold, get some zinc lozenges. That’s the result of a meta-analysis of 15 different scientific studies of the mineral, and cut the length of coughing and sneezing days by 40 percent.
via Zinc is Probably the Most Effective Cold Treatment Known to Medicine [Illness].
Shortly after writing the last entry, I lost all patience and decided to try upgrading the phone to an official release of the latest operating system. Not official by Verizon’s standards, of course – but official from RIM at least. Worst case scenario, I’d revert to 4.7 and reinstall everything from scratch – which should have fixed some issues.
Well, 5.0 installed in under an hour – and another hour later I had all of my apps and restored .. running the latest and greatest! I must say, RIM slipped some really nice improvements in – and it certainly runs much better than 4.7. I’m very pleased. The phone is not crashing anymore, seems to be holding its RAM better, and is definitely more responsive.
Some of the niceties -
Not so great:
Overall I am much happier with the phone. It is stable, which is quite comforting. It still has the god awful long boot time – which isnt a big deal anymore since the phone has stopped rebooting itself – and the signal is still very ‘flighty’ – as I sit on the couch I can watch it go from full 1XEV down to no bars on 1X.. and back again. Running Google Maps is still painful – I am thinking now that it has to do with the Latitude feature – but very irritating when it hangs the phone with a ‘stop watch’ icon.. making the whole thing unusable.
Bad Behavior has blocked 26 access attempts in the last 7 days.
