I'll be visiting this family during the holidays:

I don't mind washing clothes, but Id rather set my face on fire than fold them. Oh, and I never do the dishes, either. And I have a dishwasher!

Honestly, dirty dishes is the thing that bothers me the most too, just for different reasons. I do mine regularly because when I want to make food or eat food, I like to know that I have everything ready to go so I won't start to get hangry.

No. Lots of things I do at work I like and lots of things in my personal life I hate doing.

First class.

They are the same people who hit cars behind them and in front of them while they parallel park.

So many good things that kids do nowadays go unremarked, drowned out by the bruiting about of any bad news the media can latch on to. But enough of the good manages to leak out, to provide proof that this generation, too, is going to be pretty alright.

I would use the fuck out of this if it becomes available in NYC.

I do remember a saying from my favorite author : "If at any point in a family argument, you discover yourself in the right, apologize at once" or something like that....

I'm going to reserve judgement until we find out how annoying these people were.

Pretty funny you think you know more about ethical research than someone who had to get past an IRB

Unless you're getting a cut of the eventual profits, it's not really investing. I think of it more like donating, if the Kickstarter is something for a good cause, or just giving a helping hand, if it's a Kickstarter for a creative product (book, movie, game, whatever) that I would like to buy someday.

It's not her neutrality in regards to this article. Here, she's obviously taking a hard, though I'd say pretty spot-on, stance. That was in regard to the process of her research, which is neutral, or as neutral as it can be, and peer-edited, to form the basis for the rest of her project.

I'm sorry, but that's a load of crap. You're acting as though the article tried to make out Allaway as impartial. It didn't. The article was describing the ways in which Allaway has taken steps to mitigate any biases in her work—it never attempted to claim that there were no biases.

She isn't declaring her own neutrality, but rather the neutrality of the process. Academic vetting of survey-based research methods is intense and frustratingly exacting. It is a solid bulwark about claims against the construction of her research design and is not offered as a direct defense of her analysis of…

Not to rag on this project, because I can see how this might be inspiring to people with disabilities who struggle with self-image, but: I still have to question the narrative of "beauty," be it inner beauty or outer beauty or some ambiguous combination of the two, being a stand-in for a person's worth as a human…

I agree with you in that I think he's wrong about using sous vide for this recipe, but I disagree with your claim about sous vide being a novelty.

Maybe. But to me this is a case of "not broke, so why try to fix?" A good braise is cool weather treat. As we speak I'm braising chicken thighs with onions and tomatoes while drinking Octoberfest beer and watching Auburn, and the house smells delightful.

Depends. Some bills, like cable and phone, are static. Those are easy to catch because if the amount charged doesn't match the amount I have listed in my prediction spreadsheet, it sticks out. Other bills, like electricity, I ballpark. If I expect the electric bill to be $150 and it's $155, I don't go line-by-line…

One of the better uses for mint.com. Set a budget for a category and just periodically check whether your normal bills go over that budget. I have it setup for TV, internet, cell phone, and basically anything else with a flat fee amount