I think you and I are coming from similar up-bringings/cultural backgrounds. {Shakes head}

It's awake!! Run!!!

I can't speak for all other Canucks but my freezer never, ever, has less than 4 ice-cube bags at the ready. It can be a chore to keep them flat-ish until frozen but once there, stood on their edges they take up almost no room.

I know the trick was supposed to us aluminium foil, but a sheet of food wrap would be better. The weight of the the water would hold it down into the egg carton and the ice would pop out really easily. Plus, no chance of little bits of foil being missed and doing that amalgam-filling-short-circuit thing in mid-drink.

I really wish this was an option for me. The culture at my work is "how many time bombs can we leave ticking in someone's email while they're away?" Things like "the Wilson report wasn't made with the most up to date data so I need u to recreate it when you return in three weeks. I'll need it that morning." Or…

Is there a way to make it stop asking "Aren't you going to finish watching {X}" (when you don't intend to give it another 10 freaking seconds of your life)?

I think it's because "empathy", "pity" and "compassion" tend to be equated today and they are three entirely different things.

Oooh look at that face - who could be mad at that face?

Genius - pure genius.

I still always travel with a spare pair of ear-bud headphones in my coat pocket. While I commiserate with the extrovert's deep down NEED to communicate with someone, if he/she doesn't know those buds in my ears aren't attached to anything, no harm, no foul.

Darn right. At the end of the day I'm recovering from all the people I had to talk to during the day, don't make it worse!

Indeed! Unfortunately, the back of the couch revealed a few misplaced DVD covers and something unspeakable that might have been a peanut in a previous incarnation.

Sadly the passport is slowly becoming a fancy yet dull photo album for the last 6mo of its life.

Combined with Makes Your Own Aventure - make the message a puzzle with multiple interpretations that lead to multiple next stops. Teams running all over the city in completely different routes. How awesome would that be?

"Kids, pack your bags. We have go home instantly, SOMEONE forgot to pack the Maldon salt."

Vote: Toshiba Satellite U845W Ultrabook

Love it. The only issue for me is dispatches of reminders get lost. I'll clear a reminder on my phone and 50% of the time Chrome will remind me again hours later at home.

"Engagement" is the new "paradigm" - a buzzword management picked up from HR consultants — oops "talent-strategists" Management gets a set of easily remembered sound bites they can toss out and feel they're somehow in control. We don't have a management problem, the drones just aren't engaged.

We've never had to fly to the next 'stop' (so this only works if you're driving to the new place, I guess) but we have always moved with a small (rental) van and taken the minimal needs (including a futon.) It's enough clothing, a place to sleep, a place to sit, the computers (which I'd never trust a moving company…

On some sites, I can sort the customer reviews from worst to best. (I don't remember the last time I looked at a 5/5 or even a 4/5 until after I'd booked)