I haven’t read it myself, but I believe in Steve Jobs’ biography it is mentioned that one of his biggest regrets was wasting time trying to use alternative medicine for his liver condition. If the guy with more money than the state of Mississippi and access to the creme de la creme practitioners can’t “solve” his…

Just like they attacked those lovely Westboro folks!

Female engineer, confirming your observations. My coworker and I participated in the women’s march and the reactions were as if we had lit our bras on fire right there in the office. It was incomprehensible that two sane-appearing females might join such a crazed radical movement.

Samsies. She is a world class athlete with muscles I can only dream about, those abs will likely look great even after she has the baby. Congrats to her!

Or perhaps he was just a sociopath who also happened to be a talented football player.

In fairness, even with an H1-B you can hop jobs and if you are in the country and already have a H1-B, you are seen as a commodity (as opposed to foreign grads of US universities who are trying to get an H1-B). All of the folks I worked with on H1-Bs had Masters or PhD in engineering and were generally paid about 20%…

Insert “trump” for gamers and then weep for our country.

Yes but Kushner is married in, I wonder if Bannon’s got the goods to make a divorce happen, that would get Kushner on the outs post haste.

I meant to write if your keyboard has a number pad - this method only works if you type the numeric code with the number pad while holding the ALT key.

My notebook doesn’t have one, but if your windows computer has one, you can hold the ALT key and type the ASCII code for all the “special” characters (vowels with accents, degree symbols, etc). Here is a link to the Extended ASCII chart so you can see the decimal code to type:

Mind if I send your comment to my sister?

I realize that there is a lot of humor in this, but as a female engineer, these men are the absolute worst to work with. Thankfully, I have rarely encountered them, but the one who comes to mind was awful. All our male coworkers thought the handsy boss must have been the worst to work with for the few female engineers…

I just listened to a nutritionist at my child’s preschool and her entire message was based on this website: http://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org which removes the labels of good and bad on foods and tries to let kids develop and listen to their own hunger cues. It was a big relief as a parent to know that there is…

This was a common theme in the 1970s - assuming all kids were runaways. Some high profile cases have improved the situation for children of white middle and upper class families, but there is no doubt that missing black or latinx or any child with a less stable or poor home life are not treated as critical cases.…

Both of the photo comparisons are pretty convincing which is making me wonder if all British royalty resemble each other.

I don’t think there is a conspiracy. I did several trips to Baja in the early 2000s and then stopped when warnings started (~2006) when there was a turf battle in Tijuana between the cartels. At that time, violence in Tijuana dominated news cycles in San Diego. I have since moved away and don’t follow the news, but…

I agree. There are strict standards at my second graders team sports events stating clearly that bad sportsmanship on the part of the parents will not be tolerated and that offenders will be banned from games. Seems like they need a similar rule for the robotics competitions.

This is the part I do not understand when I speak with co-workers who consider themselves “fiscally conservative”. I want them to stand at hospital doors and look someone in the eye and say “sorry, no medical care for you” directly to people’s faces. These are people willing to pay in what they can to participate in…

The organizers are aware of this and have said to wear red in a show of support and other ideas respecting the fact that striking is not an option for many women. I think this is one is tougher participation-wise than the women’s march, but I understand the need to keep momentum and keep up the fight.

Listen you young whippersnapper, I can look in the mirror and see how old I am without all your hippity-hoppity newfangled slang making me feel even older!