I got mine a week before I helped my sister tear down her old deck. I scraped my arm pretty badly with a nail throwing a board into the dumpster and I was really glad I’d had the booster. ;-)

“Be considerate” also means “don’t be fragile”. There are lots of things we can get worked up about in the right frame of mind which just aren’t a big deal. (I had a roommate who picked a fight with another roommate about a ticking clock.) Make a schedule around cleaning and list what you each expect to have done. If…

Listening. This is really important to me as I have been the designated listener in dozens of roles in my life. I will cut people off during the back-and-forth stage of seeing if we want to meet IRL for not really reading my messages (and for not re-browsing them after a period of not talking).

I was raised in an athiest family and we just took the day to do what we loved best: play, make and eat food you love, hang out with nice people, watch a movie or two, go to sleep whenever you want. Since becoming an adult I do some more religious stuff but on Christmas day I’m much more likely to be hiking or skiing…

It just might look like an “epidemic” if kids who got pregnant, or got a girl friend pregnant, were able to stay in school instead of having to drop out and get a job. It might also look like an epidemic if we were honest about the fact that we are expecting kids to be in school at exactly the same time as their…

The weird thing about this is that the “no”s here are sometimes lies and sometimes the truth. There’s no key for which is which. So isn’t the article suggesting that “no” is a word we’re familiar enough with that when we pay attention to how a particular person uses it we can start to decode more of what they’re…

I’m saddened but actually not too surprised. It simply did not add enough value over the basic app to justify the difference. I was hoping I could copy my mom’s recipe box into notes and then get a nice, orderly export for her along with the searchable database for me but no such luck.

That’s a really bad article. First, it’s how to pack a bag for backpacking. Second, it’s an overview of the techniques for that. And third, it makes assumptions about things that aren’t universal. So following it wouldn’t really result in “stress free camping” because if you used it for camping you’d either be…

I sincerely hope that neither this article nor the paper it summarizes are taken seriously by doctors. In our age of reduced doctor/patient time routine tests really are the only hope we have for identifying chronic illness — such as low Vitamin D — before they do irreversible harm.

“What I believe is based on science and empirical observation.” No. It’s based on confirmation bias. Not necessarily just yours. Doctors have been assigning biological genders to non-conforming human babies for decades, often without consulting families. So what are the genetics of those babies? What’s the biological…

I think the ‘estrogen-mimickers’ also include Soy as revealed by Jim Rutz in World Net Daily: http://www.wnd.com/2006/12/39253/

This one, absolutely. They’re small enough to not be intimidating, they have a good variety of recipes, and the recipes are accessible for beginners. Sure, in time a foodie will outgrow this, but it will teach you the 20~30 basic recipes everyone needs and the dozen or so skills you need to get by in the kitchen.

I can see taking the “bunk” out of the “everybody needs 8 glasses of water a day” myth. But I think there’s some valid information which remains in it. 1.) thirst is suppressed by caffeine so if you drink caffeinated drinks make sure you’re also getting enough water. 2.) water is more bioavailable than many of the…

Packing well doesn’t necessarily result in packing light. I think *lean* is important too. Instead of jeans these days I take two pairs of dress pants and throw in a pair of long underwear for varying the temperatures they’re comfortable in.

“Don’t fall for this common scam!” Car buyers every day are tricked into clicking through articles like this only to find out they’re not really about someone tricking you into paying more for something than you would if you had all the facts they’re just about seeing through dealer’s marketing schemes.

Let the flaying begin. Example 1: video of an altercation on the street which involved a cop or politician. Example 2: consensual risque photos of another adult. Example 3: Pictures of your kids in the tub.

In GuildWars 2 the player characters are running around the map like airplanes — complete with pilot headgear and character noises.

I think that depends on what you do with the "emotionally hungry" when you recognize it. The apple test (I keep one on my desk) has helped me to make a list of satisfying other actions to take in response to emotional hunger. For example if I'm feeling "locked in" on a crisis and want a snack I might take a ten minute…

The real compelling reason to stop drinking those little packets is the hydrogenated oils in them — just like non-dairy creamer.

I think another potential characteristic is mental illness. I used to participate in a chat room and we had this one guy who would occasionally show up and be really abusive. But if you followed him around to other chat rooms on the site you'd see that he was super religious, and the religion was recent, and…