While everyone else in Portland is making and/or eating and/or judging pies, I decided to take another stab at beef brisket before I run out of summer.
As I think I’ve mentioned before, this is the first summer I’ve felt comfortable listening to my intuition when barbecuing. I’ve made good ribs, I’ve make good pulled pork, [...]

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Here’s a clip where Adam and Jamie illustrate the difference between a CPU and a GPU using a single paintgun, and a monster 1100 barrel paintgun.

Awesome.
via Geekologie

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The Wife is ready to send the kids back to school. Preferably at high velocity. And in a ballistic trajectory. We’re at the end of a long and strange summer, and it’s been a bit of an endurance contest for her. Here’s a fine example:
The other day the Wife found a couple of water balloons [...]

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He looks like a sweet and gentle puppy, doesn’t he? Well don’t let his looks deceive you: He’s a killer.
The Girl and a friend were walking Gus in the local park yesterday when Gus suddenly lunged around a tree. There was a squirrel behind the tree. Gus knew this. My daughter did not.
Needless to say [...]

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Get in an airplane with a napless, constipated two-year old and all rules about entertainment are off: We’d let her watch Canadian ice-fishing bullfight porn if it would keep her occupied.
From Doodaddy

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The groundswell of enthusiasm in Portland for the approaching Pie-Off has me thinking about pies. Pies were always the dessert of choice in our family, cake coming a distant second, and usually only on birthdays. Important holidays typically required two or three pies, like pecan, pumpkin, lemon meringue, rhubarb, blackberry. It should be easily understood, [...]

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