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'Time Waits for No One' — Keshida Layone

2009; acrylic and pen on canvas; 20" x 20"; private collection.

80 cm x 80 cm print: 43 €.

The 48-year-old Philadelphia-based artist, born on Long Island, New York, only crossed my radar yesterday when I happened on the striking piece up top.

Experts' Experts: How to Make a Perfect Hard-Boiled Egg

[A perfectly cooked egg (L) will have a uniformly moist yolk and tender white. An overcooked egg (R) will have a dry yolk with a telltale green ring between yolk and white.]

From Cook's Illustrated:

Producing a hard-cooked egg with a uniformly moist yolk and tender white can be a challenge even for experienced cooks.

The method we developed 25 years ago is still the best we've tried, yielding consistent results with minimal effort and no guesswork.

Best of all, since our approach cooks the eggs with residual and ever-decreasing heat, it is virtually impossible to overcook them.

This method will work for up to 1 dozen eggs as long as you put them in a saucepan in a single layer.

1. Place the eggs in a saucepan in a single layer and cover with 1 inch water. Bring to a boil over high heat. Remove the pan from the heat, cover, and let sit 10 minutes.

2. Meanwhile, fill a bowl halfway with cold water and ice cubes. Transfer the eggs to the ice-water bath with a slotted spoon and let sit 5 minutes. Peel and use as desired.

A perfectly cooked egg [top, left] will have a uniformly moist yolk and tender white.

An overcooked egg [top, right] will have a dry yolk with a telltale green ring between the yolk and the white.

Self-Fusing Silicone Rescue Tape

    

Highly praised by Sean Ragan in Make magazine, who wrote:

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Silicone Rescue Tape

In case the advent of plastic bakeware wasn't enough to convince you of the wonder of silicone polymers, I relate the following tale. Shortly after moving into my current home, an air conditioner drain line in the attic sprang a leak, and water started dribbling through the ceiling. The proper fix would have been to cut out the leaking section of pipe and replace it, a task I was not looking forward to in the Texas summer heat. After complaining to a fellow chemist, he suggested I try silicone tape as a temporary fix.

Four years later, that "temporary" repair, which took all of 45 seconds to complete, is still going strong. Apart from a bit of dust, there's no sign of degradation in the tape, and I'll be surprised if it doesn't make it another four years at least.

  

Rescue tape comes in relatively short rolls, which is necessary because it's about 1mm thick and requires backing on both sides to keep it from sticking to itself, which it does almost instantly. If you wait a minute or so and then try to pull the bond apart, the tape itself will fail before the joint does. It's soft and flexible and highly resistant to heat, cold, water, and oil, and it can be used on any kind of material, clean or dirty.

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12-foot-long x 1-inch-wide roll in a variety of colors: $9.99-$12.11.