Recent content by prabe

Sear it as hard and as fast as I can, then make a pan sauce while it rests.

Makes sense. I know less about dogs, but cats need to be socialized to people when they're a few weeks old; I imagine there's a similar point for dogs, and I can see cats being socialized to dogs at the same time.

Absolutely. Cats tend not to do well with even well-behaved big dogs. The difference, like just in size, between a ten-pound housecat and a hundred-pound dog is real--especially to the cat.

Maybe a pic of Blotch being particularly cute on a Chessex battlemat will help you rehome your kittens with gamers ...

Unrelated to the above: It's business, Jake, it's business.

Yeah, no real arguments. Being told that, for instance, the only pronunciation of "pedophile" or its derivatives we can use has a long e in the first syllable doesn't feel so much like an attack, in the sort of professional context I was in. Especially when there's "I've never heard this word...

I can see the psychology behind what you're saying, but context might matter for that? When I worked recording audiobooks (contracting for the Library of Congress) we were obligated to get the pronunciations correct, per specific sources, and I don't think the narrators were backing away from...

This fails to surprise me, especially if the not-unlimited vacation days go away at some point.

We are on the complete other coast, and Blotch is cat enough for us, but you have a hell of a sales pitch. I hope you find good people for them.

Also, of course, it might be the only thing on offer--in which case you should be utterly merciless about taking advantage of it.

There's plausibly some of that around here, too. A very quick poke-around on the Internet tells me that the Move Over laws have (at least mostly) been written to like a template that A) includes "if possible" and B) mandates slowing down if it isn't possible. (The law where you are might not be...

There's a similar law here in Maryland that has the proviso "if possible" in it, and pretty clearly is not intending or expecting people to cause accidents or make traffic even worse than the flashing lights would already make it. I do it kinda automatically these days (after checking that I'm...

Around here, a lot of "school zones" (a distinction that seems to be kinda arbitrary) have speed cameras. Maryland has a law that they can't ticket for less than 12 MPH over the limit, and they don't matter to anyone's driving record, and they're relatively inexpensive tickets, and there's a...

I would happily pay higher taxes (and, probably, higher fines at least occasionally) if jurisdictions would remove all their speed cameras and replace them with actual officers--especially if it meant putting more cameras at traffic lights. (It's probably clear which I think is a greater safety...