I did peep the potato cakes on the menu, and almost chose them as my side, but the aforementioned gnawing hunger required me to select a known quantity side order.

Now I want to put a beef and cheddar into a SodaStream.

I just shared this post with my wife, who points out: “It is a nation divided on curly fries.”

I will further make the point that at no time did I say that curly fries were bad; only that my strong preference is for regular fries.

Coincidentally, I can report on this right now.

100% normal. In fact, more normal than … normal. Downright healthy, I tell ya.

And now you know: the rest of the story.

I’m okay with that, apparently. They were great. I find that the crinkle cut, because it increases the surface to volume ratio, provides for more thorough cooking as well as additional crispiness.

I stand by my statements, and I do not deny madness.

There will be no further discussion on this point.

Don’t you besmirch the Sauce of Destiny.

Wait no more.

Later model VCRs had a thing where they kept a list of shortcuts for time/channel/length. The eight (ten?) digit code, you’d just plug that into the VCR and you didn’t have to program all the details.

It was a standard system for setting up a VCR to record your selected program, because every VCR was different. I believe you connected the VCR to a phone line and it would dial out to get new codes? It was sort of like DNS (really like a distributed HOSTS file), but for media recording instead of websites.

TiVo was the “VCR code in the TV Guide” for the early digital age.

[sings]: I’d like to rip the world in half / for perfect disharmonyyyy!

Opening the certain death door reveals a guy in a dark robe with a scythe: “Hey, what’s up?”

If you rip them both in half, then two of your party are cursed to be the next two truth/lie guards. Roll for unintended consequences.

Ask either guard: “If I asked the other guard which door led to the castle, what would they say?” The answer is always the door that leads to instant death; enter the other door.

Por que no los dos

Remember that when the talk is of “profit”, that’s just “charge extra money to line the pockets of major shareholders, because fuck you, that’s why”.

It’s a higher retail price than it has to be. You pay that.

Is this sour grapes because they can’t get exclusives?

I am known far and wide for liking shitty food.

I will find these and report back.