I can second every word of this article on cast-iron cookware [https://www.menofthewest.net/cast-iron-cooking/], including this excerpt: > Since cast iron is made from the same stuff Hephaestus used in his forges for side projects like his automata delivery service to Olympus, you can use it just about anywhere. Stove top, in the oven, out over an open fire camping, cast iron don’t care. It’s the honeybadger of cookware. Bought a large – 10″ or so – skillet to cook on, and while it gets less…
An interesting post on the impossibility of utopias at Empire Must Fall [https://empiresmustfall.blogspot.com/2017/03/utopia-is-impossible-stop-trying.html] . > Every utopia fails. They fail because the consequences of their contradictions finally hollow them out and cause them to collapse, which is exactly how empires falls, and often by the same ultimate event: insiders turn traitors and throw open the gates to hostile outsiders. > And yes, I do mean every utopia. The excuse is irrelevant;…
A little something to lighten the mood. A little Chainsaw Lollipop, and a lady who goes by @Xenon_cosplay on instagram. Oh, and Hanna Ferguson. [](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6G6fFQk8CCk/WMw9M1XIbaI/AAAAAAAAAmg/IUdBshTnHUQIRR66xaAwQ5WE4QIZGOhhQCLcB/s1600/C7H8cGIWkAEXR2b.jpg) [](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nIqh0FHb6yA/WMw9Mbed1OI/AAAAAAAAAmU/aRcrNZJsWO…
Peter Grant makes the following point regarding “Amazon is taking away muh jobs [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2017/03/looking-for-easy-target-to-blame-for.html] .” > Companies who are currently struggling to attract customers, such as retail stores, often have themselves to blame for their predicament. They stock limited merchandise, employ the minimum number of store staff (many of whom have no idea what they’re selling or how it works), offer minimal customer service (and that on…
Over at Castalia, on guilty pleasures no-one has played [http://www.castaliahouse.com/guilty-pleasures-rpgs-you-probably-wont-play/]: > I’ll always have a bit of a soft touch for Palladium games. I mean… no sooner had I stumbled across a stray copy of the iconic Moldvay Basic D&D set, than I had a desire for something like that, but weirder. And Palladium was right there waiting with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness. After the cartoon and the movies, it’s hard to imagine how f…