picklefactory

Recent Actions

• Commented on Comcast: Most Pittsburghers to get double internet speed at no extra cost
  Mmm, Penn Brewery. Stop fooling around with the Internet and pick me up a case of Penn Gold, won't you?...
• Commented on Chocolate Beer
  Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence Stout. Not a bitter chocolate like the Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, but it is absolutely superb and utterly drinkable; they use Belgian chocolate (which must be easy when you're owned by the rather well-known Flemish Brouwerij Duvel...
• Commented on Merry Christmas
  IT'S LIKE A KOALA BEAR CRAPPED A RAINBOW IN MY BRAIN...
• Commented on Stringer on how Sony will bounce back: starting by not making the same product twice
  A question: does this renewed focus on internal unity at Sony spell doom for Sony-Ericsson, or what? My guess is not "or what". http://invest-n-trade.blogspot.com/2008/09/sony-ericsson-lay-off-job-cut-sony.html...
• Commented on Christopher Hitchens: America the Banana Republic
  Christopher Hitchens discovers the idea of moral hazard. Scintillating....
• Commented on Marvin hates PhotoSwap
  My god. What the hell are you monkeys even TALKING about? I read this post twice and I'm still not sure....
• Commented on Review: Peek puts email in your pocket and removes voices from your head
  No IMAP? FAIL. A beautiful device, though. I will watch its future career with great interest....
• Commented on Banshee free/open music player for GNU/Linux turns 1.0
  Banshee doesn't yet support behaving as a DAAP server in 1.0. I have to still use firefly/mt-daapd for that....
• Commented on Traditional Lao music, remixed in random YouTube video
  What's with the links to a boingboing wiki? That isn't there....
• Commented on House passes wiretap telcom immunity bill
  Noen @ #61: I more or less agree with catbeller, the reason the Dems have caved with FISA and refused to impeach is because Rove, or someone has them blackmailed. Why not do as Ockham suggests and refrain from multiplying...
• Commented on House passes wiretap telcom immunity bill
  Noen: Genuine grassroot movents like ActBlue and NetRoots are making a difference. What difference are the NetRoots making? Failing to hold accountable the Democrats who buckled like belts or even gladly jumped on board with this bill? Electing Mo-Betta Democrats...
• Commented on Michael Ruhlman suggests a book about kitchen knives
  I've always taken "The Professional Chef's Knife Kit", a CIA (Culinary Institute of America) textbook, as my 'kitchen knife bible'. I'll check this one out as well....
• Commented on Morning Tech Deals Highlights
  I concur that the Canon Nifty Fifty is worth every penny. It's got a somewhat cheap-o feel, but shooting at f1.8 is a revelation if you're new to SLRs and used to f4....
• Commented on Power On Self Test: Videophone circa 1939
  Please return my interocitor immediately....
• Commented on Restaurant lays off waitress who shaved head for cancer charity
  Probably it was a St. Baldrick's thing. http://www.stbaldricks.org/...
• Commented on Linksys WRT54G2 isn't ugly, for a change
  If you can't put Linux on it, the hell with it....
• Commented on Worst drinks in America
  Greg London @46: moon said sugar is sugar, which is true. Sugar Water of the Week is glucose. Orange juice is mostly fructose. So in this case, sugar is not exactly the same as sugar, right? Drinking whole food smoothies...
• Commented on Worst drinks in America
  @32 MarkFrei: Maybe we shouldn't blame the foods. Maybe a little bit of just about any food at the right time is ok, but all the time isn't such a good thing. @34 Moon: I'd like to see some documentation...
• Commented on Bigoted Ford dealership isn't actually sorry for its non-Christians "should sit down and shut up" ads
  OK, I forgive everything just for 'blog-lo-dites'. That is the best new word I've heard all year....
• Commented on Power On Self Test: The Hard Disk You've Been Waiting For
  Hah -- this is already a cube decoration where I work....
• Commented on Glowing reader rec. for Himalayn Imports' khukuri knives
  God these are just gorgeous. I just don't usually have the need to chop cars in half or cut down trees. Might just have to get one anyway though!...
• Commented on Retrofuturistic PC case mod is straight from Vault 13
  Please return my Interociter immediately....
• Commented on A wiki for randomly-generated cool stuff
  Dwarf Fortress, the game pictured in the screenshot above (this is the 'world' view) makes NetHack look like Pong. Plenty more details at Bay 12 games' website....
• Commented on Six Ugliest Space LEGO Sets
  I had the first three, and I loved them all. The "special pieces" took over and I've found LEGO much less interesting since then -- it become more of a 3D puzzle and less of a encouragement to tinker....
• Commented on Spyderco Byrdrench is Literal Multitool
  Yay for Spyderco. They really are superb knives -- I've been carrying around a Delica or a Poliwog for years now. Street prices: they're often much lower than Spyderco's MSRP. For instance, their MSRP for the Poliwog is $150; I...
• Commented on Blackest material EVAR
  I am thinking here of fuligin from Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" series. The material darker than black -- the guild of the torturers wear it. I always hoped someone would get around to creating it someday!...
• Commented on Krups BeerTender Bringing Nasty Draught Heineken to U.S. Kitchens
  Anyone who says something like "I went to America and drank Coors/Michelob/Miller/etc and it was crap, therefore our beer is better" might as well have come here only to eat at Wendy's and McDonald's and then declare that all food...
• Commented on Retro Flashlight Motherlode!
  Damn it all, where's the Galvanic Lucipher? http://www.outpostproject.com/pub/crypto.html...
• Commented on I Want Sandy - perfect productivity email bot is free and public
  Does it bother nobody else that "Sandy" would have all of your email?...