To elaborate on Chris Hadfield’s memoir, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: I especially appreciated the part about how NASA makes contingency plans in the event of an astronaut’s death:

I also just noticed that the links sent to Pocket have no title; they appear in my Firefox Pocket plugin with the URL as the title. Not sure what part of the API affects that, or whether the Firefox plugin displays something different from the web interface, but figured you would want to know!

I’ve been using the aforementioned IFTTT recipe, but would like to not have to deal with marking my feedly IFTTT folder ‘read’, so this might be a good way to separate the two.

Our roommate is deathly allergic to onions, but we recently figured out that we can substitute chopped celery and get much the same result.

I’ve been recently going through the reverse of this; having weighed no more than 92 lbs in my entire life, I always just assumed I was supposed to be fighting to gain weight. Now that I have ten years of experimentation under my belt and have concluded that nothing outside of total lifestyle overhaul and great…

It has some annoying music in the background, but you could probably grab a clip from this video (download the mp3 using a converter site and use Audacity to trim it down).

Here’s my husband’s ringtone tone for me.

Couldn’t find it on Youtube, but here’s the audio clip my husband has used as a morning alarm for six months.

As with most lists of this kind, ‘They find you unattractive because you’ve let yourself go’ is missing, and that’s the complaint I hear most often from gal friends. This is somewhat covered under ‘You’re Not Reciprocating’, but could really use elaboration. “Maybe you’re taking it for granted that they’re always…

this is over an inch of meat. I can’t fit it in my mouth, it’s so much meat.

I just checked under Budgets, and when you go to set up a pay period, the only option is 'Every month'. I get paid weekly, and the amount can vary, so this definitely leads to some imprecision in my budget.

You asked for insider knowledge, and my day job involves figuring out Walmart marketing logistics, so here you go:

In a world where the ‘asshole’ character is easy to stay away from and doesn’t talk about you behind your back, this would be a great solution. The problem is, while a man ‘standing up for himself’ is seen as strong, or maybe aggressive at worst — women are quickly assigned the ‘bitch’ label. One of the easiest…

My favorite is when the straps match so well with the shirt that I have friends ask if they're a punk-rock-looking extra part of the shirt.

Always good to see neat little hacks like this. That said, if I'm wearing a shirt informal enough to show my bra straps, I'm probably also going into a situation where I don't care who sees them. Is this widely considered uncouth and I missed the memo?

As I stated in another post, Arkansas is a beautiful place to live. (Man, I should get paid Tourism Bureau money or something...) It has all the amenities (just for example, sometimes it feels like we hold the world record in annual music festivals), cost of living is so low that I'm always shocked to hear about…

Why do you feel the need to turn it into a competition? I don't think the Earth cares which part of it 'wins'.

Arkansas' stats are most likely skewed by the fact that healthcare and other amenities are concentrated in the northwest area, where I happen to live. Plus we get fringe benefits from being near Walmart HQ, like an art museum and other public works. Certain cities have reputations for higher crime rates, but the vast…

I definitely understand where you're coming from. I easily get bored and frustrated while exercising (except a martial arts fitness class I took — that was awesome). However, I'd like to point out that sometimes, the time sacrifice is so worth it.

Can we please not dogpile smj33 for having an (unpopular, possibly badly-worded) opinion? If you don't have something nice or helpful to say, please don't say anything.