No. The meat is from hamburger patties that got a little dried out on the grill. They are gathered throughout the day, then they are boiled, drained, chopped, and added to a canned chili sauce created to Wendy's specifications, with canned kidney beans.

I used to work at Wendy's. The burgers that are overdone are put in the chili-meat bin. Then it's broken up and put in the chili. I see nothing wrong with that. Anything that hits the floor, goes into the garbage, like it should.

I really prefer to work inside. I have a window, and it's open as much as the weather allows. It's open right now, although it's expected to be over 100*F today. Yes, I could work on my laptop, but my desktop has infinitely more power and a nice 23" monitor.

QRDroid fan here. . .

Hey buddy, don't crush my dreams. ;-)

Interesting. Wouldn't have thought of using TiddlyWiki for that. Kudos.

I've always made my own. It's a simple text-only links page laid out in old-fashioned tables, but it does exactly what I want it to do, and takes very little time to update. The links go onto a white backgrounded div, and that is on a colored wallpaper background that I change when I get tired of the color or style.

I made a series of 4 pages or so of my most favorite sites and use that as my internet gateway page set. Once in a while, I change the background and link colors to suit my mood, and add or delete sites as I see fit. That way I get what I want, not what Comcast, or Google, or Yahoo, or whoever else thinks is best for…

I agree. It sounds like homeschooling. No prescribed units, chapters, mindless exercises.

Do you include the area code when you make the call?

Unity is the worst of both worlds: Mouse GUI and Keyboard. It forces you to use both negating the advantage or seeming advantage of either.

Or you can try what I've been using for a couple of decades: Get yourself a Good Season's Salad dressing bottle, a bottle of liquid Lecithin and a bottle of cheap vodka.

I meet passive guilt trips with a direct "No". I hate it when people try to guilt/con/passively wheedle me into doing something. To quote Jo Dee Messina, "My Give A Damn is Busted".

I'm a soap maker. If you use bar soap, over the course of several hours, that blended bar soap foam will become soap slime. Bar soap never actually becomes a gel. it just becomes a softer bar due to the nature of soap made with sodum hydroxide. It will still do the job, but it will not retain that bubbly, creamy…

I really dislike the mind-mapping idea. I know others love it, and it works for them, but t just doesn't work for me. Lists, maybe, to keep a pulse on a few high points, but the mind-mapping idea makes me insane. I don't know why.

I love Ubuntu. I've been using it since 5.x and have bought 2 computers with Ubuntu pre-installed, but I really dislike the Unity desktop. It has the worst of both the mouse world and the keyboard world. That HUD makes you use both the mouse and the keyboard to get where you need to go. What's with that?

Yes! I have enough artwork and cute sayings that I rarely need to buy a card. In my Windows life, I used Avery Design Pro, and under linux I use Scribus.

One of the best things we ever did when we bought our house, is install ceiling fans in every room. If the outside temperature is 85*F or less, the fans and open windows do all that's needed. Once it goes above that (and it does get to, and above 105*F), it is time to turn on the air, but we can still save a degree or…

This was an interesting and excellent article.

Good additional tips.