It's good you're already swimming twice a week. You could pick up another sport (drop-in sports at the local community centre? Find a team, join a league, etc?), it might help, but the main thing would probably be watching what you're eating. Little changes to your diet would work, like getting more veggies, and…

LOL! yeah. This headline is harder to read/understand than many of the academic articles I read!

I don't know if this is "professional networking" (what is professional networking, btw?), but there's really nothing wrong with being honest. I'm working part-time at a coffeeshop near a university while looking for a full-time academic job. I found out one of my regulars is a research director at a nearby research…

Bit institutional.

That depends. Are you going for work or for play? Or a mixture of both?

Worth it? Measuring "worth" solely in monetary terms is a bit limiting, isn't it?

Discussing ditching email just because you haven't set and managed appropriate email etiquette, spam filters, or even the use of the delete button seems silly, doesn't it?

I eat my pasta with the help of a spoon! Which helps to hold more sauce.

What are you doing to burn your rice to begin with? Put your rice in, pour in water (twice the amount of rice; use the knuckle method), turn on the heat. Once it boils, give it a stir, turn the heat all the way down to minimum. Wait 20 minutes. Perfect everytime.

vote: googledocs presentation

This is what I got when I searched for "eating cat".

Sigh. These food service/tipping posts always bring the arseholes out of the woodwork. I'm not a waiter now, but I currently work in a coffee joint. Tips are nice. People who are nice to me are even nicer. People who ignore my cheery greeting and instead demand, "get me a small coffee!" and throw their change on the…

Oh man, I'm in the same boat. It feels so good to not have to pay for cable, but 2 years later and countless visits to the local pub just to catch the game..

You're nailing bottle parts to the wall. Why not just put two nails in the wall next to each other, and hang the plug (or whatever) between the two nails? Even better, put two nails in the wall a foot (or 6 inches) apart, get a large enough elastic band to stretch around the two nails, and then slip your plugs/cords…

The shelving in fridges (except maybe the bottom shelf) is removable. It's not really that hard to pinpoint a day every week/month when the fridge is the emptiest (the morning of the big grocery shop, perhaps), pull out the shelves, and give them a good wash and wipe down.

Plenty of people living in sub-zero winter temperatures dry clothes on a line indoors. The heater's not just for hoo-mins!

There was a tip here (or somewhere) some time ago that I've found useful - counting numbers would keep me awake, so I use the alphabet. Basically, identify a group of things (fruit and veg, gemstones, fuzzy animals, etc) going from A to Z. I'm usually out around N.

heh, I thought that too. I think those with runny yolks should be called half-cooked eggs. Yummy!

Just because you've never heard an alternative term for something (hint, it's cross-legged) doesn't mean it's not offensive. You think the n-word is still okay to use for certain people of colour?

Gee. I really hope LH never finds a groupshot with my head in it and points it out as someone not to be trusted, or something equally terrible.