It seems puberty is mean to everyone. Boners for guys. Not all girls get their breasts/periods at the same time. Fun times!

So very, very true. It's the very definition of being a teenaged boy.

That reminds me of that creepy cell phone commercial where the sister complains that the brother has all her friends in his circle. The brother says something like "it's your fault for having hot friends" and the dad says, "Yeah, you do have hot friends."

It's an interesting screed (especially with the irony of her sons' photos), but seems pretty tame, I think.

I've been blogging for about 8.5 years at the same place. Right now I'm doing an experiment for most of 2013 to see if I can create at least one blog post per day. Also, having read similar advice to this post, I've given each day of the week a theme so that readers know when something they're interested in will come…

Do you know if there's a really good WP plugin for posting to G+? (One that you use vs me just googling for one)

I've found that if it's relevant to the post at hand and you don't do it all the time, people tend to be cool about it. One of my most-trafficked posts both before and after posting it to lifehacker was on comparing DigiKam to Lightroom and I posted a link to it in a post on LH about Photo software. About 1/4 of the…

I'm always polite and never get anything. There are people around me who are a-holes and always get everything. I tried it once out of exasperation and it did not work. I guess I didn't do it correctly.

Yeah, that makes sense. I have no frame of reference on whether I'm the norm, big, or small, but I have just over 12,700 (I think it's 12,735) songs. Found iTunes unbearable ON WINDOWS for a library of that size.

if I really wanted to, I could sync the playcounts between google music and amarok because both scrobble to last.fm. I don't care too much and count last.fm as the official count. Sure, because of my personality, I prefer to play on my account instead of the wife's so that I can get the scrobbles, but otherwise don't…

Depends on the situation. IN the car we use Google Music. If I'm at my desk playing Civ, I use my computer since it has the very powerful Amarok

How big is your collection? Maybe you have a lot less music than most?

My wife hated iTunes like no other program. Whenever I've had to use it, I've been nothing by frustrated. When I finally moved my wife to Linux I moved her to Rhythmbox, which has the same paradigm - your entire collection is always a ready-to-go playlist and she loved it.

you're making my mouth water - I can't wait to visit my folks again so I can get another sub.....I mean so I can visit with them....yeah, that's it.

I am jealous of you! Ever time I go back to Fl to visit the folks I get publix food - especially their subs.

finally - someone that treats dogs like dogs! (no sarcasm)

Wegman's cereal. I love their vanilla almond granola-like cereal. It's like crack to me.

Yeah, I just wrote something similar - I've had someone say racist things to me because they don't know my race/ethnicity.

Not sure if this helps or is the worst thing to hear, but don't worry about. People can be very weird assholes when it comes to race. Racially I'm white and ethnically I'm Hispanic. I've had people think I was white, Mexican, Persian, Ba'Hai, and Arabic. That's led to some weird stuff like people being racist against…

weird. I always had backed macaroni (like a cassarole) (also, not mac/cheese) and I'm a white hispanic