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tue posted: Tue 2018-07-17 14:23:19 tags: n/a
My 8" Wearever teflon pan is about shot. It's OK, it lasted a good 10+ years. Not all that enthused about the other 8" pan we bought recently. Wearever is owned by the same housewares group that owns TFal, and doesn't seem to make quite the same pan build anymore. The closest and most highly-rated equivalent is probably Tramontina. I could go for an 8" and a 10" of their basic teflon build.

Take-away from Dawn's "lipstick on a pig" newsletter installment - You have to strip paint and replace shoddy infrastructure if you want to renovate and add on to a home. If you want to renovate and improve yourself - feel more energized, purposeful, secure, all-around happy - you have to commit to abandoning investment in failure beliefs and cognitive habits.

EW.com Breaking Bad Reunion coverage
Reddit: is BB derivative of The Sopranos? For that matter, is Sopranos the cookie-cutter for a whole slew of subsequent series? Yes and no; Sopranos told stories that revolved around certain themes, mostly the intersections (or collisions) of the crime boss lifestyle with more mundane lifestyles: restaurant owner, housewife, art student, psychotherapist, etc. If BB is likewise just the intersections (or collisions) of meth-production lifestyle with the foundations of secondary character roles, then why not just go the extra yard and say ALL genre serials, back to "Mary Kay and Johnny", or "Hopalong Cassidy", are the integral cookie cutters of everything since? Yes, there are resonances between Sopranos and BB, there are also divergences. Tony Soprano is a veteran murderer, thief and extortionist from episode one. His family's circumstances evolve in response to the growth (or disintegration) of secondary characters, but Tony, Carmella, and Anthony Jr. in themselves merely demonstrate a compass that returns them to status quo with each passing crisis. Even many of the secondary characters, e.g. Christopher or Vito, start out the series on various trajectories, and the unfolding of their stories simply documents progress toward conclusions that were predictable given their initial conditions. By contrast, Breaking Bad's Walter and Jesse, and the landscapes in which they operate, are fundamentally transformed by the end of the series. The Sopranos kind of had to end the way it did - believe the Sopranos are erased, or that they continue on much as they always have, but the thing you can't believe is that Tony will ever stop stealing, murdering, and cheating on Carmella.