It must depend on your venue, but we had none of those things except a caterer and we didn’t tip her (it never occurred to me). Of course, this was 20 years ago.

You need to be careful with this though. At the company I work at you are automatically marked “do not rehire” by HR if you leave before the probationary period expires.

No, I melt butter (bacon grease is acceptable, oil is not) in the pan, crack the egg in (uncarefully) cook it until the white sets and then (gasp) flip the egg over.

Your exponents are still backward it’s 26^8 and 1500^4, in general its <alphabet size>^<number chosen>

No, the idea is that you randomly select 4 words (using something like diceware), you don’t choose them. If you use a 2000 word dictionary this is roughly equivalent to a random password of about 8 characters.

MANN: The data actually suggest that there’s a relatively small group of borrowers, in the range of 10 to 15 percent, who had been extremely heavy users, whose predictions are really bad.

This freakonomics episode disputes the premise: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/payday…

For this to be useful, you would need to know the relationship between time of interview and a job offer. What people think is a good time for an interview is not relevant.

My experience is that cocoa powder doesn’t dissolve well, so I take sugar and cocoa powder, mix it into the milk and then microwave it to melt the cocoa, then add the coffee.

1-4: Obvious

No, it’s not progressive. the only thing that changed is that the threshold for required overtime moved from ~27K to ~47K. BTW, it used to be pretty common for auto workers to take home more than management and engineers at the big 3 due to overtime rules.

Yes, employers will no longer be able to abuse young professionals by paying them pennies and requiring that they work effectively off the clock.

This line in the article stood out to me:

If they’re supposed to be on call then you call them unemployed.

I would suggest that if your job REALLY requires 24/7 coverage, that is, you are getting legitimate(*) after hours calls on a daily basis, then the company needs to hire a shift person to cover after hours work.

I think there’s a bigger flaw than that. Go back a month later and ask how satisfied they are with the lamp and I’d bet that the people who got the friend’s pick are more satisfied than people that got the one they picked out themselves.

I suspect (without looking it up) that the rule is actually “stay as far right as is safely practicable”. The same as it is for any other slow moving vehicle on a road.

I disagree about the hand signals. The benefit of using a single, consistent, arm for hand signals is that people know where to look. You’re using the hand closest to the driver behind you. Additionally, everyone has been taught those signals at least once, they may not remember them, but they were taught them. But…

Or, you know, just match them, and if they’re long fold them in half and put them in a drawer. If they’re really long maybe fold them into thirds.

If you’re willing to shoot a birthday party or an anniversary then you’re willing to shoot a reception only. The important thing is to make sure that the customer knows what they’re getting up front.