I hate electric and I have it now. I wouldn't mind upgrading to the flat top surface for easier cleaning but I so miss having a gas stove.

Always read that SDS. :P

I love rereading books! Especially the childhood favorites. :) I force myself to read enough new books these days that my reread cycle is now two years apart rather than the six months I had in the past. Now, at least, I have time to forget most of the dialogue and minor plot points. On the off chance that someone…

It would be super spiffy if an updated version of this article was published. Purty please?

For anything in a cup I start checking at 12 min (350ºF).

As I watched this, I began to think that the creep factor was becoming exponential and by the end, there just had to be an explosion. Fortunately, they started repeating themselves.

Yes to this, haha. As someone raised around cows, I can tell you that no country kids believe cows to be harmless creatures. Stupid, yes. Harmless, no.

My first thought, as well.

This is exactly why I promoted the wacky idea of paisley pawed chihuahuas in a presentation to my Cell Culture class. :P When I submitted the idea, the look my professor gave me was priceless. But I gave a great (imo) presentation on all of the advances that would need to be made, marketing, and how the uber rich can…

As a weak defense, I'm pretty sure my friends and I celebrated every hour that day watching the international countdowns. At least that's what I tell myself every time I watch that episode. :P Every hour from about ten am to eleven pm my time we did the ten second countdown, yelled and screamed and acted like crazy…

If your gums bleed, you are not flossing enough. By flossing, brushing, and rubbing your gums, you toughen them up and they won't bleed anymore.

This reminds me of the time when I was in elementary school and I came up with the theory that the Bermuda Triangle was actually the Garden of Eden and set out to prove my hypothesis with a crap ton of evidence. I think I wrote a nine page paper on the subject listing sources and everything. Oh, to be ten again.

I used to think about that, too, but then I would stare at the blur of my ceiling fan at night and say it didn't matter that there were only three thin blades up there. They are moving so fast that they might as well be occupying all of that space. Probability cloud!

We had one in our daycare. I just remember feeling groovy every time I played it and feeling a distant longing for it when I wasn't. I still can't even remember what we did in that game.

As a genealogist, this advice gives me the heebie jeebies. Obituaries are still the most useful tool for finding relatives, especially the married names of women. Of course, that was never the purpose of an obituary...

As soon as I saw the title I was going to go 'La cry! You have not seen the results of a cat or dog tail recently stepped on!' but this was covered quite well in the article. I agree that cosmetic reasons are stupid. Cats are at the biggest risk on my uncle's ranch. I don't know if it is horses or cows that do it, but…

I'm not sure we're disagreeing here except on one minor point. :) As you say, standardization of languages had more to do with who was in power at the time than the existence of print media. However, the dying off of alternative dialects of those standardized languages within each country were facilitated (key word)…

I think what he's saying is that certain languages (like Standard German) won the right to be called the base language while other languages that previously had equal footing are considered dialects of the base language. The variety is being lost due to nationalism and standardization of languages within each country.…

Take a look at Urban Dictionary. Every five years or so we get a huge influx of new words (and more importantly phrases that then get shortened into new words). Words change meaning based on shared history and context. I think we may be moving towards a more globally harmonized base of several languages but I don't…

I loved this app when I played it. Unfortunately, I tried to incorporate my whole life into the app and had way too many tasks and rewards. Then I leveled up and chose the wrong path that let me slack off too much. It lost all meaning after that. Did they warn me not to add too many things? Yes. Did I listen? No.