Those are brilliant lines!

The best way to get people to do things for you is to make them want to do things for you.

I use Stay Focused to limit my time on LifeHacker and BoingBoing (my major time-sucks). I'll also use it to block the sites for an hour to really focus. I use trello to store my todo lists.

Don't forget the Gamecube.

Another thing to think about is that we drive "slightly impaired" all the time. If you're running low on sleep, have people talking in your car, are driving in an unfamiliar area, or are even listening to the radio, you are slightly impaired.

Crocs are excellent shoes for airport security.

If it gets you through security faster, you could be naked for all I care.

I see. I haven't used C++ or LaTeX since college, so I'm not up on good IDE's for either.

Saving for college seems like a very upper middle class idea.

That's an excellent point. I've never used Virtualbox, but it looks like it's free and available on most platforms. I'll have to check it out.

I'm not sure what languages you're working in, but I liked NetBeans as an IDE. Visual Studio is still my favorite IDE though.

If you want to run a *nix environment for software development purposes, I'd suggest just buying a Mac. OSX has a really nice UI, and BSD is close enough to Linux for 99.9% of the stuff I use it for, and you don't have to worry about stability or hardware configuration.

Technically no (but for all intents and purposes yes)

I have two tricks I use to get myself into a habit.

I've owned a couple of rats, and they get very anxious in water, even if it isn't very deep (I know because they would poop (a sign of distress) and then jump out of the water immediately). I'm pretty sure drowning would be even more distressing for the animal.

Drown it, but even that's a pretty terrible way to die.

All I can see when I look at this is a pokemon type chart.

First of all, regardless of whichever you pick, you will be miles better off than you are now, so be happy about that.

When I was a little girl, I was told to go to my room when I cried. If I started crying while we were out doing something fun, we went home. As a cultural average, girls are allowed to cry and boys aren't, but it's just an average, and there are people all over the distribution.

My preschool used to have a weekly chart for all the kids, and each day the kids would get a gold, silver or broken record added to their weekly chart, based on how they behaved (gold = they did everything, silver = they didn't break any rules, broken = they broke a rule). Kids with no broken records got a candy at…