If you're reading a German cookbook, everything non-liquid in the recipe is by weight except where you're dealing with tablespoons or teaspoons of stuff. So yeah, we have a scale too.

I guess it would depend on how long you were with a particular employer. I don't see anything wrong with something like:

TARC is still miles better than what we have in the Utica/Rome area of New York (don't get me started on that), which is the functional equivalent of bupkis. So yeah, I'd take spotty bus service over utterly useless bus service.

You can get around this by stating time periods in years rather than months. I doubt very many people seriously care whether you started such-and-such job in May or September. If they do, you can always tell them later and impress them with your total recall.

...yet. It used to be semi-illegal to do this - it would violate the agreement the card companies had with the gas stations. Thanks to the CARD Act (I think), this is no longer the case. If you can get people to prepay in cash for gas in exchange for a nickel a gallon discount, you're actually splitting the savings…

Just be sure you know what the annual fees are with those cards. I was on a plane recently when the flight attendants started passing out these applications for the airline's super awesome get free miles credit card. I grabbed one, saw where the annual fee was $90, and left it in the seat pocket along with the barf…

You're still right. There are some places where climate control is not really optional, that is, unless you really enjoy sweating. I've lived in a couple of these places, like South Carolina. I once bought a stripper pickup truck because you couldn't beat the price. I lasted until just after Memorial Day before I…

Price Chopper does this too. Two catches - (1) Price Chopper cards only work at Sunoco, which usually has higher gas than everybody else, and (2) we hate PC with the intensity of a thousand suns. Dirty stores, bad customer service, and the aforementioned loyalty cards are our top three complaints.

If you get yourself a Citgo (refillable) gift card, you get a nickel off a gallon. YMMV on that, though; I've been in a few towns where Citgo gas was a dime higher than everybody else's.

Toyota Corollas are good for that sort of thing. We have a friend who drives beater Corollas and the thing that usually breaks them is the climate, what with all the sodium chloride on the streets from December through March.

You lucky bastard. We've got kind of a triangle going that screws us big time. There's our house, there's my workplace, located in an area we'd rather not live in about 12 miles away, and there's my spouse's workplace, located in another area where we've also been unable to find acceptable accommodations, 12 miles…

Super (not so) secret insurance hack #1 - pay off your note as aggressively as your budget will allow, then raise your deductible. Yeah, I know, the interest rate on your car note is something like nothing percent, but full coverage auto insurance is kind of like paying extra interest if you can afford to do without…

Number of pitches thrown at Alex Rodriquez?

A-Rod makes it real easy to hate the Yankees. I prefer National League ball anyway. Go Reds.

I guess I'm spoiled at SUNYIT. It's a fairly small institution, and the same instructors teach the same classes every time. The names are posted along with the schedule. And you can find out what text you'll need (if any) several weeks in advance. You really don't need to go to the bookstore for much else but…

Just learn to say no, loudly and often.

It was also the daddy of the Chevette. The only U.S. made subcompact of the 70s that was worth a damn (get the 4-speed, not the automatic, and avoid the diesel engine), and it was designed by Opel in Germany. Tough little car; you could really beat the hell out of it.

I had mine play Blitzkreig Bop before the old lady made me quit it.

Ex-Cubs. Gotta love 'em.

Stock '06-'11 Honda Civic LX sedan. It has been determined by the court of nerd opinion at my place of employment, where we happily churn out computer software, to be the nearly perfect car. Just roomy enough, just enough power, just enough style not to be confused with a current-gen Toyota Corolla. And not…