Man I want to kind of promote this comment. A lot of people are saying it is pretty harsh for the guy to get fired for this, but in this situation, where you experienced the same thing, the business lost a customer permanently.

How is that not appealing? That sounds kind of awesome.

Could be taken as an average, I guess - I also think the number would be different depending on the type of job that you have - slacks and dress pants are hella expensive and seem to wear out almost immediately, so if you have to wear them, you probably spend more on clothes. Conversely, if you can wear jeans, and…

This is very shallow of me, but I always take a look at the front and back surfaces of a laptop before I consider it, and think to myself "How shit is this going to look after it's been in and out of my zippered laptop bay ten times a day for a few months? Will any of this attractive looking surface survive me and my…

I second (or third, or whatever number we are on now) this. An unsatisfying keyboard, or one that feels cramped can be an absolute killer for a laptop. If typing sucks on it, then absolutely everything else sucks a little by extension.

Shhh! If you mention anything, the weather will hear you and actually drop that blizzard on us! I just got out again since I am not actually allowed to use the weather as a reason to skip on the C25K I am trying to get through (veeeeeeery slowly). But I am with you on the emotional satisfaction thing.

I've been using RunDouble's C25K - You can play music in the background, it tells you when your intervals start/finish (with stats), and tracks your stats for you. Plus, it is cheap.

"Oh you just got your degree? That's neat. I got my degree while wearing Sailor Moon Cosplay. YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID FOREVER."

I remember distinctly when I was little the time when my parents lost a bunch of money in the stock market when one company they had a lot invested in (because of stock options and the like) went down. I didn't know it at the time, but I eventually figured out that they had lost all of the money they were saving for…

Working from home has always seemed an enormous privilege to me - but its a privilege that a business can only afford to give if it works for them. Yahoo's grand experiment with rampant telecommuting is obviously not working for them, so you could even say they have the obligation to their shareholders to make changes.

I feel like Mr. Satan & Master Roshi are just an extremely happy accidents - because if I were an old guy who was that ripped, I would probably take cell phone pictures of me too, AND if I saw that guy on the train I would be very hard pressed not to take his photo (but in secret, because how would you explain to…

You know, it's not that hard. I've had to introduce guest speakers and the like before, and I always, ALWAYS ask them how they prefer to hear their name, and then I write it out phonetically for myself before I introduce them, especially if their name is one I am not familiar with.

I will fight you to the death over Salma Hayek's dress - it was easily my favorite dress (though her hair could have been a bit neater to go with) :P

I replied to another commenter with this, but the phrase "existential crisis" is a well known literary trope that always describes a deeply personal introspective threat to an individual.

The entire phrase "Existential crisis" though, is generally used in the same sense that I described it here - as a life event or as a literary trope, but always as a deeply personal and introspective event. I don't object to the use of crisis, or of existence, but to the use of that phrase, which has an entirely…

The only argument I can come up with is that college attendees were likely to be training for a high skills, high knowledge based career, and, in the case of impending doom via war, could better serve their country by acquiring those skills (if they had the capacity) rather than as training as a foot soldier. A…

... That's not really the right usage of "Existential Crisis". I don't think the United states are going to have a personal crisis with regards to the nature of existence and their own mortal lifespan on this earth, and if it did, a draft probably wouldn't be the best way to get the country through it.

I... Yeah. When they started singing All that Jazz, I thought "Neat! a tribute to a bunch of movie musicals" ... and then they did Chicago, Dream Girls and LesMis.... and nothing else.

I use mine for a lot of stuff actually - any actual computing tasks I leave for the desktop, but any time I need information to come with me somewhere, I drag the tablet around instead of making a printout or taking notes. I use it as a reference for physical tasks that are new to me, recipes in the kitchen, youtube…

I have a friend who does this and it drives me up the wall (no pun intended?). I refuse to get in the car with him if he has any intention of texting.