For what it’s worth I am very religious (I’m a pastor), and I did not like the spirituality questions in the list. Maybe that makes me bad at my job (I’m data-driven), but I also know many people, both inside religions and out, that use spirituality as a primary decision-making tool.

I would have like to have seen a…

Wait. Am I understanding this app correctly? It uses notifications to remind me to meditate?

The Leatherman Crater C33 has been my EDC for years now. I’ve been given “nicer” blades, but they don’t do everything I want.

It helps me to remember that a budget isn’t an ironclad law to be obeyed, but a prediction of what might happen in the future.

And that would explain 1/8th of an inch worth of tenderness, but not the whole cut of meat.

I tried this based on America’s Test Kitchen’s recommendation. It works, especially to get the salt deeper into the meat (if you put anything but salt and pepper on your steak then you can go back to the USSR with the rest of the commies).

I don’t know that it has any effect on the tenderness of the meat, but I found…

I just wish there was a way to start in the Libraries view. That addition to Windows 7 was a big deal for me and I use it all the time. At least getting away from the Quick Access is a bonus. I also cleared the Quick Access history while I was in there.

Oh, and I abhor a double-space after a period. It’s a good thing these are style issues. :)

I use the em-dash for an interruption and an ellipsis for a character that just sort of stops talking. That makes the most sense to me as a reader; I hope that it comes through in my writing.

One of the more annoying things about ALT codes is that they aren’t available if you don’t have a 10-key, so if I’m on my laptop I can’t get to those characters without the character map.

As with all things grammatical, the “rules” aren’t hard and fast — no matter what your high school English teacher told you.

I really enjoy using em-dashes when I get the chance — especially in dialog.

I had seen a couple of the arrows (like for Chrome), but that doesn’t help me for Excel or Word (and once you pin an app to the Start Menu it leaves the recent menu).

I’m happy giving most of that information to Google because they’ve done helpful things with it. Since I’m not invested into the Windows ecosystem (other than my laptop), most of the features aren’t helpful.

If I already used Outlook for my contacts and had any Windows apps and used Outlook for my calendar and used a…

It’s the coil part of this that confuses me. I’ve frozen bacon flat before, but never in coils.

To me it seems like unnecessary work on both sides. First you have to separate and then coil the bacon to freeze it, then you have to defrost it before you can cook it. With frozen strips you just put them directly into the…

It’s incredibly important to address the emotional side of money. Especially for “savers” who can like to pretend that it’s all math and logic.

I really wanted this to be something different. I’m okay once I get my butt in the chair and my fingers on the keyboard. What I was looking for is a way to replace creative energy.

I don’t have a great system yet, but what I’m doing now is to try and read something every day before I start writing. Every six months I…

Don’t forget about grouping and naming the apps on the start menu.

When pinning an app to the start menu, it defaults to a medium size. Resize it to small and you can fit six apps across (on the smallest width setting).

I was playing with this yesterday. Right now there’s no (native) way to pin apps to the left side of the start menu, but when you pin them to the right side, you can then resize them to be small which makes them the same size as the icons on the left.

My biggest disappointment so far is the lack of jump-menus on the…

Eddie Bauer is good. In the PNW you can get stuff at Fred Meyer. Lands End has a decent tall line.