First question you want to answer:

What kind of lifestyle do you want? You ok with working 7-7 like a ton of surgeons do?

lol THEY SO TRICKY

I have no idea how those guys run 12 hour days for weeks at a time.

Speaking of sleep deprivation...I read through Nikola Tesla's wiki today and it was fascinating. The guy sounded like a completely genius loony toon. Here is a snippet:

Rest of wiki here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Yeah, he still holds the record for the longest man made lightning bolt. Crazy dude, he rules. **** Edison.

Serious response: cocaine is a hell of a drug. Pretty popular in Austria in the early 1900s

**** you, i live in edison, nj

Edison was a corporate sellout

Just saw The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. My wife read the book and she liked it so she wanted to see it badly. Pretty good movie overall. Definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen yet.

All the talk about it got me watching the Swedish ones. Half way through the second at the moment.

I read the books when I lived in Stockholm and I think it made them better as I knew the street names etc. The Swedish film also films in some of the right locations (as far as I know, all the bars he mentions are real) which made it kind of cool too.

just finished s4 of breaking bad. yessir!

For the people that follow Californication. My god this new season is so good again.
For the people that don't follow Californication. You better start, because it is super awesome.

The first swedish one is ok, but the second and third are just downright terrible. They omit and/or distort just about everything that makes the books great. I couldn't finish the third movie it was so terrible (I really like the books). It's like the film-maker decided that he understood the characters better than the book author; he makes tons of arbitrary changes that have nothing to do with shortening the narrative to fit in a film script, but that fundamentally change the characters' motivations/personalities.

I honestly never got the outrage with the whole "Hollywood is re-making a perfectly good foreign film" thing, because the Hollywood version is vastly superior to the Swedish version and much more true to the book.

Saw MI: Ghost Protocol today; for as off-kilter and nutballs crazy Tom Cruise appears to be irl*, I always have to take my hat off to the guy, he is just great at being a movie star. If he can actually make you can forget about all his weird crazy personal stuff when you watch him in an action movie, he's got to be doing something right.

* Being such a huge movie star for 20+ years, it must be difficult to mentally stay on track for anyone.

I was going to go as far as to say I couldn't think of a TC movie I didn't like or hadn't done well, then I remembered Vanilla Sky and Eyes Wide Shut... And I don't think of Magnolia as a TC movie (he just happened to be one of many in it) - but this was one time I felt cheated out of the time I had lost watching something! I know it was popular, but I HATED that nonsense film SO MUCH!

Have you seen Abre Los Ojos? Much better than Vanilla Sky

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...mcnuggets.html

awesome

also I just saw that NBC bought our Benidorm bastards show (benidorm is a f ****hole in Spain with only elderly people at the sea). http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=s6xHUPVEYwE

I thought MI4 was pretty bad and most of the storyline was convoluted and unnecessary, but I agree that Tom Cruise did a good job/is a good actor.

**** you Alex, your opinion is ****.

got a new fancy pan and two fancy knives for the holidays and finally used em. my girlfriend doesn't think i eat enough vegetables so she made me eat steak in salad form.

steak looks amazing! what's in the salad?

thanks! i used El D's reverse sear method from the out steak thread where you cook it on low/medium for a few minutes per side, let it rest, then sear on v high heat for 45 secs per side. the salad is steak, spring mix, red onions, craisins, blueberries, goat cheese, and a blue cheese italian dressing. other than the steak, it was all just stuff we had in her fridge.

what's the thinking behind the way the steak is cooked? i'm usually a 4-5min per side on med-high heat then let it rest guy. but if that's the end product i might have to reconsider.

4-5 min per side? I do 2 minutes per side max. Maybe you just have really big steak?

ofishstix if you use that method doesn't a ton of liquid come out of the meat, making it look fantastic but less tasty?

yeah obv cooking time depends on the size of the cut.

the juice comes back into the centre of the meat when you let it rest (i think this is right), so in between the original moderate heat cooking and the searing i imagine the juice would settle and the searing wouldnt make a difference.