The correct portion size of mashed potatoes, if I am coming over for dinner, is "all of them." That is, 1) mash all the potatoes in your pantry, 2) hand me the pot, and 3) hand me a spoon. If I am bringing my daughter with me, you'll need two pots and two spoons. As I have said at many family gatherings, "I don't…

Yeah, I don't really need a tool to tell me to sit in my recliner and have a beer or play with my puppy or hit the pool with my daughter. I got that covered, thanks.

Also, GMail's canned response feature is a cheap way to create an RTM template. Just overwrite the various bits of data and delete what you don't need and fire it off. Brilliant feature. I love RTM.

Step 1: Get drunk

That sucks, but I had largely migrated back to Remember The Milk. Now, I use it with an igoogle gadget, and I have all my productivity apps in one — dare I say it — portal.

I'm a runner, and for a couple years now, I have done next to nothing for my upper body. That is until I ran across this website. I'm in the middle of week 4, and it's a pretty tough program. But I have noticed significantly better muscle tone in my arms and chest, and my lower torso seems slightly more toned as…

You're doing it wrong. The vodka goes in you, not on you. When something hurts, there's nothing like vodka, but use as directed.

I wrote on this very subject on my blog. To summarize, CBC radio 3 podcast + lots of ska.

Does anybody know how to "undo" this hack? I try and keep getting "Permission denied" messages when I try to alter permissions on the registry keys.

I see this a lot, and every time I see it, I say to myself, "It cannot be! S/he's not...?"

Thanks to you guys, I've ditched my go bag. I realized that I carry too much useless, or unused anyway, stuff. I've got a ways to go, and I am still twitchy about it, but I'm on the road to recovery.

I'm admittedly an old fogey. I only make people my facebook friends if I know them. I'm only a little more "liberal" with my LinkedIn profile. I am connected to a couple recruiters there that I have never worked with, and I fret over it every time I log into LinkedIn. But I rationalize it by saying to myself that…

Anything new in this version that I cannot live without? Let's assume I will be one of the four people in the world who won't be getting an iPhone any time soon. Or ever.

I have songs with skip counts of 1536, 1025, 1024, 260, 256, 64, 16, and 4. None of these results, except perhaps the 4, make any kind of sense. The numbers 1024, 256, 64, 16, and 4 stand out because they are powers of 2. That makes me wonder whether it's a data type conversion bug or something. In any case this…

We have a culture of lateness here at work. To arrive 5 minutes late is "on time," and some think they can get away with 10+. It drives me batty. When I am the one in charge of the meeting, I have a 10 minute rule. After 5 minutes, I start to fume and wonder why I don't have a five minute rule. Then at exactly…

Maybe I am a little late for school, but when I select Open File and the xpi file from Firefox, nothing happens. I get no "Install" dialog — nothing. I'm using Firefox 2. Maybe that's it.

First off, tut tut, Jason, for breaking the naming convention used anywhere else encryption is discussed. Everyone knows that Alice and Bob are the two archetypal crypto geeks. :)

What about iPodLinux? Does anybody have any pro or con stories to share? Every month or two, I go to the Rockbox and iPodlinux websites and think about taking the plunge, but fear of killing my 1st Gen Nano has prevented me. Plus, I haven't yet seen a compelling reason to ditch the current UI besides novelty and…

This isn't really answering your question. It's more like me venting. When I graduated in 1993 [after walking uphill both ways to class] I entered the job market in the midst of a really bad recession. Also, at least where I was, it was the end of the era when getting a college degree meant *poof* you get a job for…

That's it. I'm sold. I'm so sick and tired of coffee. I had a gallon of it yesterday and I felt like my skin was going to skitter off my bones. And the coffee here at work is simply revolting. It tastes like they snaked out goop from the floor drains of a McDonalds and filtered them through old newspapers with…