I can’t help but notice that the acronym for this would likely be “FAM”.

I’d love to see this topic revisited with regards to dealing with a co-worker with bad open-office habits. A hummer just moved in next to me, and I’m about to jump over the 12” wall between us and rip his headphones off.

My company is still on XP. I think by the time we all get to Windows 7, Windows 15 might be rolling out, and we’ll still be a decade behind.

I noticed that second one is nearly $22 for just 1.7 oz. You do know that you should use about 1 oz of sunscreen when applying correctly to most of your body (think swimsuit). If just intended for your face, that could last a long time, but yipes!

I noticed that second one is nearly $22 for just 1.7 oz. You do know that you should use about 1 oz of sunscreen…

Rubbing a walnut on a furniture scratch is really effective at hiding them. Take the part that you eat (not the shell, or you’ll end up with more scratches) and rub it over the scratch until it’s wood-colored again. I did this to some Craigslist furniture a couple years ago, and you can hardly see them until you get…

This is me. I’ve been doing this for years.. I’m a little hyper-sensitive to the taste of salt. Sometimes I crave it, most times I stop eating things - normal things like bread or soup - because it is too salty.

I had one instance when my copay went from $6 on the generic to $30/mo on the same pill. The insurance company put the name brand on the cheap-o list and put the generic on the expensive list.

If you are going to an annual check up somewhere that doesn’t know that this should no longer require a co-pay, I would really consider how much I like the doctor. The laws are very clear that they should not be charging you for a co-pay on these check-ups, and they are pocketing the money until someone checks up on…

I used to think that buying cookies at the store was financially smarter than buying cookies from vending machines (or chips or candy or whatever), but I find it better for my dietary budget if I just buy one $.95 package from the vending machine at work and eat them on one occasion than buying one $2 package at the…

I just think of the laws for school buses crossing train tracks. If the school bus needs to stop, open the doors, hush the kids, and listen to avoid collisions with trains, what hazards could we avoid with more attentive listening. I listen to NPR and music in my car, but I don’t have an HD radio or an audio jack for…

I know an ironman-level athlete that was creamed by a sober cyclist on a path in a park. That athlete was so injured, that two years later, he was finally able to get back to running. Another friend of mine ran into him, said he walked with an odd gait and in talking to him, learned that he was signed up for his first…

You can create separate profiles. That’s how we handle it.

So, in defense of the writer, he’s talking about how you get work done for yourself. If you’re complaining about working 60 hour weeks, and are spending two hours of your 12 hour work day doing non-work tasks, you should only be working 50 hours a week. Yes, this guy comes off as a tool, but I think that moral of the…

Agreed that it isn’t just to impress managers, but I was trying to emphasize that, while you may not think having these skills benefit you, they do have the ability to hurt you over the long-run. For example, one engineer co-worker doesn’t cancel meetings he calls but later can’t attend. Instead he just doesn’t show…

It’s great that your son has a long-term plan, but I would encourage him to think short-term as well. He’s 14, and if the PhD route is the route he chooses now, he should understand that he’ll be in school for at least as long as he’s already been alive on this planet. In that time, he’s learned to crawl, walk, run,…

Soft skills may lack mathematical truths, but if I had to pick one, communication is the biggest problem I see with the engineers I work with. They write poorly, answer 1 of 3 questions you asked, are poor at verbal communication of complex ideas, and don’t understand that some effort should be put into a meeting…

A lot of these jobs have one major thing in common. They may be Engineering Majors, but they have a cross-discipline. As a business major working in IT, I’ve greatly increased my income potential, but my husband who is an Engineer has no interest at all in becoming a sales guy or getting too involved in management. I…

For running, it can help set the pace and push you, but you have to be careful. I wore headphones for my first half marathon. In the beginning, it helped me set my pace. Around mile 7, I turned down the music, as I was well-settled into my pace. On long runs, I often feel fatigued from the overstimulation of revved up…

A related article said that most homes are robbed between 10am and 3pm. This seems to mean that lighting your home up like it is a Griswald Christmas tree is pretty moot.

If you’re on vacation, even if you have a car in your driveway, ask your neighbors to make tracks in and out if it snows while you are gone. There’s nothing like a couple inches of spotless snow after 4 days to indicate that no one is home.