Is that really true? I don't have much experience with dishwashers (we didn't really use them growing up), but from what I've seen during college and the rare occasions I've used them since, they take MUCH longer and seem to use WAY more water. I can usually wash a sink full of dishes in like 30 minutes but it seems…

I like keeping my desktop as empty as possible (yes, I'm one of those people). Usually the only thing on my desktop is the Recycle Bin and anything I REALLY NEED TO WORK ON RIGHT NOW. Everything else gets shuttled into appropriate folders that are easily accessible through Win 7's windows-key-then-start-typing feature…

I know someone who can't eat eggs because he once saw a chicken laying an egg.

Well, yeah, but Atheism isn't the same thing as Satanism.

It really makes you wonder.

My first name is Jonathan, so I never get pronunciation issues, but people ALWAYS misspell it, which still mystifies me.

I was a little caught off guard by how the careers were played. I imagined deranged, borderline psycho, but most of the careers (save for Clove) played it as a sort of OMG-you're-like-so-lame-let's-hang-out-at-the-mall teenagers. It was an interesting choice to play it that way; I was just not expecting it.

Also, did the book have movie-Cato's little speech when we was holding Peeta hostage? It seemed to be an attempt to humanize him. I don't remember that.

That's actually the only points where it didn't bother me, interestingly. The shaky cam in the District 12 scenes were distracting, but during the battle scenes it seemed like a way of conveying violence without explicitly showing it (in favor of the PG-13 rating). Contrived, but I guess I've seen it enough for shaky…

I read about the costume department's decision to drop the jacket hand-me-down. They said they tried it, but it just looked too silly and made it too hard for Jennifer Lawrence to convincingly shoot an arrow.

Going on a bit of a tangent, a while back the latest headline that was making the rounds was that a massive proportion of packed lunches are not kept cold enough (I see one study of preschool lunches by the journal Pediatrics that listed the figure as 98%). I even remember reading that keeping an ice pack with a lunch…

Not really an etiquette thing, but I've always been a fan of eating sushi with my hands (at good sushi places, anyway. Probably wouldn't pull that at an AYCE).

Honestly, I think it's less about serving rice "pure" and more about the fact that soy sauce in particular is (seen as) anathema to rice. Like Secret to Everybody mentions, it's not uncommon to see rice cooked in different flavorings, broths, or add-ins.

Pretty sure it's "Spiders-Man"

I watch a lot of cooking shows, and this always struck me as somewhat wasteful, particularly since I rarely see people squeeze out the remaining juice in the leftover membrane sections.

I think you might have misread my statement. In my example, I'm talking about the cashier handing me the receipt directly after printing it out. Here's the sequence:

I usually go $x/night of service. But this is coming from a poor public servant. I've honestly never heard of tipping on a percentage for housekeeping, but I didn't stay in many hotel rooms before I had to travel for my job.

I've had many mini-crises about this same thing. I usually just leave the tip and total lines blank completely and sign it. I honestly think that a fair amount of restaurants do not expect a tip for takeout. More than once the cashier has actually handed me the receipt and said something like, "I just need your…

What would you guess the average size of an app (Android or iOS) is?

"Maya, a 17-year-old who is far more child than adult in the games, comes off less like an innocent girl and more like an emotionally unstable woman in her 20's."