Nobody told my parents that. It was only while reading these comments that I remembered being actively discouraged from activities because they didn’t want to drive me around and/or felt it took too much time away from studying. :/

When flying not long after rotator cuff surgery, the flight attendants were nice enough to provide me, when I requested it, with a plastic bag full of ice to put on my sore shoulder.

That doesn’t seem to be something that was immediately available, and still might not be correct.

First of all there is no golden path for mothers at work. It’s not a rose garden.

According to family history, my aunt was a notoriously shy child to the point where she was often scolded for rudeness. I imagine Caroline has a similar situation. I was a shy kid too, who eventually learned how to hide it entirely (so now a lot of people seem surprised when I say I’m introverted—friendly and…

The best thing you can do is seek out reviewers who consistently have similar taste to you, or who cite the same reasons as you for liking and disliking films, and follow them. It’s a bit more effort to find them, but they make a far better recommendation engine than aggregate scores. I tend, for example, to like the…

I’ll laugh my ass off if at the RNC, Trump’s acceptance speech is “it’s all yours, Hillary” and then he walks off the stage, out of the hall, and into the sunset as the greatest troll of all time.

It’s no secret that Max Payne “borrowed” heavily from The Punisher and Frank Miller.

Isn’t that a bit like saying - ‘I loved the choices, but I hated that some of the choices had consequences that I didn’t like?’

Piggy-backing on what Jason said, I think what the “worst” ending does is reflect to the player that your actions on this world have consequences. If you choose to kill indiscriminately and take pleasure in doing so, you have to own that choice and accept the consequences. If you’re not comfortable with the world you…

Yep the glitches were not fixed :) It wouldn’t be shiny though.

I just watched the new W. Kamau Bell show United Shades of America (which airs on CNN but is so much better than the rest of CNN) and he spent a week at San Quentin. I have to say, after watching that? I’d rather even current inmates get the right to vote than Trump supporters. The lifers at San Quentin were…

I’m in a consulting position at work and I use “I feel like” when I’m posing an opinion vs a recommendation. “I feel like we could go two ways here...” vs “We should do xyz.” The former phrase is so good for opening discourse because it’s obvious that it’s an opinion and it’s open for discussion. I think it’s a…

No, that’s part of the dance to the song in Purple Rain. Gun to your head at “I would die 4" and then point to the audience at ‘U”

Some cars had 8-tracks or cassettes (though the latter would have been an expensive upgrade), but mostly you listened to the radio in the car or at work, and you were stuck with whatever the limited number of stations decided on for a format.

It’s really easy now. Back then, unless you lived in an area where you could pull in multiple large cities, you might have 5 stations to pick from on the radio, and one was probably playing polka, and another country (and not “almost rock”, 70s era C&W) and another was the classical station. Maaaybe you could get a…

I actually “failed” the measurement, which thrilled me. I’d been trying to get Essure for years. Not being a candidate for an IUD meant i had ammunition to finally get fixed.

I’m still frustrated when i think of how many women are turned down for IUDs and sterilization. It took me 10 years to work up the courage to…

the art style is incredible and the main draw of the game imo.

There’s another factor in play here, that radio was the only place at the time to hear new music. No computers, no music television. When all the radio stations switched to the newly popular (and therefore more money-generating) music, there was no place for the rock guys to hear their own music. So it’s also an…

Why can’t some Sanders supporters look at one bright side of things — Bernie isn’t going anywhere, even though he’s not going to be the president. He’ll still be in the Senate, with his current term not up until 2018. So he can still, one would hope, be a vocal part of governmental process, working with (most likely)…