Right now, coding. Part of the problem is my lack of free time (thanks, grad school), but I've decided that I'm going to take this coming summer to go through as many tutorials and how-tos online to learn as much as I can and then maybe try to practice little by little to keep up with it through the school year.

I might have trouble going to sleep once every couple months, and it's usually when I'm really worried about something. I also tend to be a pretty heavy sleeper, so I don't wake up until morning most of the time, and even when I do, it's easy to go back to sleep. My problem is that no matter what I do, I can't seem to…

I bought the Transcend 1TB drive 13 months ago yesterday and it's been fantastic. I'd highly recommend it to anyone looking for a portable external HDD.

I bought myself a VUE27D a couple months ago, and it's fantastic. The stand seems fine enough, but I use an arm mount attached to my desk so I can pop the monitor out of the way whenever I need to use my desk for other things. I believe I paid about $420 shipped very shortly after it was released.

It sounds like you might have a good GM, then. My GM for D&D 4e was pretty excellent and gave us plenty of roleplaying opportunities as well, and he was a master of interweaving subplots that kind of blew my mind.

If you enjoy the game you're playing, I'd definitely recommend checking out some of the others I've mentioned. There are several subreddits dedicated to tabletop RPGs in general, as well as specific games, if you want a community to learn from or discuss things with. White Wolf has a fairly active community at The…

My Kindle app doesn't do any page flippy things like Google Books or other apps do; it just moves on to the next page, and you can change the speed of it. But yeah, I get what you mean about getting into books in a certain way.

Audiobooks are great when I'm driving, though I've only found one that I actually enjoy so far: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (read by Wil Wheaton). It was my first audiobook, and I'm on my second or third time through now. I love fantasy books, but I just can't get over how silly a lot of the audiobook people…

I prefer to read physical copies of books whenever possible because I like how it feels. I also tend to remember things better because I (unintentionally) associate information with where it occurred on the page (top, middle, bottom, left or right page, etc.).

Something that bothers me a lot is the lack of separation in words when used as verbs if the nominalized form would be written as one word (hyphenated or not). For example:

For those who seem confused, I read this as running it through to find additional sources you could check out, kind of like looking at the References section of a Wikipedia page as a way to start a paper. Maybe that's not how it was intended, but it's certainly a valid (and clever) way to use it.

Yet another of those things that makes perfect sense, though I'd never have thought to use it like that. Well done.

Having done the exact same thing as an American learning German, I can only say that it takes time. A really long time. This is my ninth year since I started learning German, and while a lot of people couldn't tell that I wasn't German while speaking to them, I still feel like I have a lot of really small knowledge…

I didn't discover this until my sophomore year of college. When I had two major writing assignments at once and had to give presentations on both of them, it really kinda hit home, especially because my first draft of each one was absolutely terrible, but once I made it into a presentation, it was like I'd seen the…

I frequently carry an external battery with me, but I don't use it all that often. It's mostly for when charging from an outlet would be inconvenient and/or I've been using my phone a lot that day.

$60 - phone, internet. I don't pay for the Netflix account I use, use Spotify free, etc. If you include the hardware as well, then the cost averages out to be significantly higher. $1200 on building a computer, $160 on peripherals, $500 on a laptop a few years ago, $125 on a monitor, $420 on a new monitor, $100 on a…

I've owned a 10" (Asus TF700T) and a 7" (Nexus 7 2013). After a while, I realized that the things I wanted to do with my tablet worked best with a smaller screen size; I like using it for reading books, articles, blogs, etc. I don't need the bigger screen, and it in fact becomes more of an obstacle to easily using it.…

I'm decidedly more introverted than extroverted, and I always have been. I also used to be really shy, and I still am to some extent, but it's not nearly as bad as it used to be. I'm totally fine in the vast majority of social situations, and I can handle them for extended periods of time even, but they really wear me…

I'd just like to point out that Americans frequently perceive European service as being worse, when in reality it just reflects a different food culture. In Spain, for example, meals out are social events, frequently lasting upward of 3 hours. Because of that, the wait staff do their best to intrude on your social…

Oh you poor person. I'm originally from Louisville, and there's nothing reliable about the public transportation there. Sometimes the buses just never show up. It's also only "ubiquitous" in certain areas, not really everywhere in the city.