A decade or so ago I read a book called “The Well Educated Mind” that, among other things, recommends a note taking method that involves summarizing each chapter/section into a single run-on sentence like those long chapter subtitles: “Chapter 7 in which Don Quixote mistakes windmills for Giants and makes a fool of…

The headline does not parse, what is a literature map and who is placing it? Titles should be either quoted or underlined.

I would suggest that you

Even better, with 2010, SUMIFS allows multiple conditions.

Re: advice like “Greet your apartment before you clean.”...hefty dose of something like spiritualism in here that I really had to work to disregard.

One of the problems with these types of books is that they ignore the fact that we don’t live alone. I can’t just throw away all of my wife’s or children’s stuff. In addition (as mentioned above) there are things we need that don’t “give us joy”, tools, tax paperwork. There are things that are very sporadically used,…

When I was at McD’s in the 80’s it was crack them into the rings, cover them with the metal lid and pour water through the hole in the top to steam them. Are you saying they don’t do that anymore?

The way it seems to work on most elevators I have been on is that there is a minimum wait time and a maximum wait time. If you push the floor button before the minimum time has expired then it continues to wait for the maximum time, however, if you push the floor button in between those two times then the door will…

Just as with encryption the key is supposed to be the SECRET part of the security system. But in this case, the problem isn’t the key owner using it, it is when someone who is NOT the key owner uses it.

I’ve been under the impression that heritability isn’t strictly about “genetics” but doesn’t distinguish between genetic and constant environmental factors. For example, your parents being athletic means that you are 66% more likely to be athletic makes no attempt at determining whether that is a genetic or learned…

The only way for me as a user to know that an ad is “safe” is for it to be a static image hosted by the site I am on. So, advertising on websites needs to go more the way of old-style magazine advertizing where the advertizer contracts with an advertizing company to create and sell an ad campaign. The advertizing…

You can’t go cold turkey (Well, you can if you want a miserable 3-4 days). Reduce your intake by waiting until you feel the headache before you get your next cup. Eventually, don’t get your first cup until you feel the headache. It took me about 3 weeks to get down to zero from about 1 gallon of coke a day. In…

I don’t think it is correct to say that ad blocking leads to ever more obnoxious ads. People using adblockers aren’t seeing those obnoxious ads. Advertisers must think that obnoxious ads “work” for them. So, I think, the problem is somewhere in the way that ads are paid for and distributed.

The one non-resident library card I have does NOT let me check out ebooks on Overdrive (the resident card, does allow it). So I wouldn’t be sure that the non-resident card would let you use any other subscription service, either.

Apple seeds aren’t edible, they’re indigestible. They also contain some small amount of cyanide that grinding would make available, however it isn’t enough to harm you.

I’m going to come down a little bit on the other side of this. If someone says to you “Hey, I’ve been having these weird cravings” then they ARE asking for advice. Otherwise, why are they telling you this? Why are they initiating a conversation about something that they don’t want to talk about? I don’t normally…

I read that and really hoped that it was supposed to be an ironic joke, but this is the internet, so I can’t tell.

When we were in Paris we were told that some restaurants would charge more if you ate at an inside table, presumably because they also had a show.

I disagree with sans serif, I like serifs I like being able to tell an I from an l.

Probably, but you will get a message that says “We are unable to load this ad” and you will still have to wait for the ad timer to count down to 0. (And I suspect that hulu bumps the ad time up to 90 or 120 seconds if it can’t load the first ad.)