Новости за 24.02.2023

No matter how modest, any backyard space attached to your home can prove useful—and one easy and popular way to level-up your backyard without too much work (or cost) is to install a backyard shed. If you’re lucky, there was already a shed in place when you bought your house, but you can buy a modest shed at your…

Poaching is one of my favorite cooking methods. You won’t get a hard sear, crispy skin, or any amount of browning, but that’s alright. Instead, you’ll be rewarded with juicy, tender proteins that are infused with the delicate flavors of whatever you add to your poaching liquid. (Plus, the skin of a poached chicken…

It might look like fluff, but buttercream frostings are delicate emulsions. When chilly temperatures interfere with this fine balance, buttercream can break. The “break” could refer to the state of the emulsion or to your heart, because the look of broken buttercream is, oh, so sad (and gross). Luckily, fixing a…

In ongoing efforts to combat inflation, the Federal Reserve announced early February that it’s raising interest rates by 0.25% up to a target range 4.5 to 4.75%. This is the eighth meeting in a row to result in increased rates, and the Fed says they expect to continue rising.

Scrivener 3 is giving their lifetime subscription for 50% off until March 2—both Mac and Windows user can get the program for $30. If you haven’t heard of Scrivener before, it’s a popular writing software that makes writing a lot more structured and easy to organize.

It seemed like streaming services started with a revolutionary idea—only paying for what you want and cutting out the rest. It worked for a while, but now it seems to have come full circle, with some services like Netflix turning their attention to an ads revenue strategy to sustain themselves. Peacock—which you can…

Not everyone has a green thumb (although there there are apps for that), and you may never want to be bothered by keeping real plants alive. Fake ones look fine and are way less effort (though you still need to dust them as you would their natural counterparts), but sometimes they look a bit too fake. You can make…

Most professional software these days has switched to expensive subscription-based models, but not Apple: Final Cut Pro still costs the same $299 it did when the app launched in 2011. Still, three hundred bucks ain’t cheap, leading some to seek, let’s say, “alternative” markets for the app. However, if you’re tempted…

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Portland was covered in ten inches of snow on Wednesday, which is a lot of snow for a city full of people who don’t know how to drive in snow. This means I’ll be staying home until it melts, and playing a fun game of Chopped with my pantry and chest freezer. I hope to unearth many treasures. Seeing as I’ve already…

In the State of the Union earlier this month, President Joe Biden called out the service industry’s practice of charging “junk fees.”

When faced with the prospect of propelling our stupid bodies through another stupid day, most of us appreciate a little jolt of energy to get us going and help us tolerate all of this. There are endless choices for a morning pick-me-up, but America has squarely landed on coffee—three in four Americans report drinking…

Barney’s coming back, y’all, with Mattel announcing a new, animated update to Barney & Friends, the slightly unnerving 1992–2010 series. It’s a shocking thought, but kids who watched Barney back in the day might reasonably have kids at about the right age to catch the new one. Besides that, Netflix kicked off a reboot…

Pastas have been used in desserts for some time now, like sweet lokshen kugel or white chocolate orzo pudding, but I confess, I’ve been missing out. All this time, my boxes of macaroni have only been treated to savory dressings, vegetables, and meats. I’ve been cooking with one noodle tied behind my back. Pasta is a…

Star Trek content has long dominated Paramount+, but March shifts its focus towards a whole bunch of Academy Award nominees and winners ahead of the Oscars ceremony on March 12. Releases include 12 Years A Slave, Life of Pi, Sunset Boulevard, Gangs of New York, Into the Wild, The Sixth Sense, True Grit (2010), …

The tuna sandwich is a lunchbox classic, but it’s not a sexy sandwich. It’s cheap, fish-based, and usually involves a fair amount of mayo, but when you get the craving, nothing else will do. All you technically need to make a tuna sandwich is tuna, mayo, and white bread, but it’s also a sandwich that takes well to…

The US Government has shot down several strange objects floating in US airspace in recent weeks. While the initial buzz linked the objects to stereotypical UFOs and extraterrestrials, we now know at least some were high-altitude balloons. That discovery raises the question: How much stuff is in the air right now?

No house or apartment is perfect. Even if it seems perfect when you first move in, your needs will shift over time, and you might wake up one day and realize your bedroom, office, or the living room looks too small, too big, or otherwise weirdly shaped. Changing the physical characteristics of a space is usually an…