Actually, iPhones and iPads screens work fine through a Ziploc bag. You dont need to take it out of the bag to text.

Hanlon's law: never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by ignorance. Sage, sage words.

We actually built a slide-out step into the kick plate of our kitchen island to make it easier to knead dough - I'm not tall enough to really lean down on the dough at counter height. Apparently it may be an attractive feature for people with kids who want to help cook too.

If you don't know who Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche are then the problem is you, not them.

I just came here to say that! :)

Also, Simpsons for Chrissake.

Or, y'know, just come up to Canada & buy an unlocked one.

Yeah, I was going to weigh in as well, saying basically "um, I know it's a joke and I hate being the humourless one, but please don't make light of that horrible problem. I'm sure there's something equally esoteric but less dreadful that could be substituted to make the joke work"

Why the picture of a rice cooker next to the article about the pressure cooker?

I've got a particularly weird case that the article describes fairly well. I freeze up and blank at arithmetic (and required extra lessons in elementary school) but I am really good at (and enjoy) higher math like calculus, trig, linear algebra, etc etc. The only time I can reliably add, subtract, divide, multiply…

It's 'vittles', not 'viddles'. Derived from 'victuals'

Don't use chopsticks in Thailand at all. Don't ask for them at Thai restaurants either. The Thais use a spoon and a fork. That's just good sense.

There's a reason that accounting standards don't let you capitalize advertising expense as an investment. It's because there's no way to be sure that it'll actually have any future value.

You're using Komen as a _positive_ example?

Yes! Katniss should be played by Animal.

Yeah, actually I would appreciate a multi-spoon like that. I'd get a full set of 4-5 for maximum flexibility though (b/c sometimes you don't want the cinnamon and the oil in the same spoon).

He was at a zoo, no doubt discussing what it's like to be responsible for lots of complex beings (yes, animals). Clearly a joke and as SkipErnst says, technically true.

Although for some of us (who actually have made this deal with ourselves for _years_ this but suck at followthrough on the weight loss), it means that we end up wearing clothes horribly uncomfortable, out of style & end up having to buy 'emergency replacement clothes' when the clothes we do have wear through. (I would…

My point is that 'requiring fewer resources' isn't an advantage unless it actually IS an advantage. If the resources in question aren't a limiting factor that confer a survival/procreation benefit then there would be no selection against them.

That only makes sense if white/non-pigment spontaneously adapted AND was an actual advantage to survival. It's not like there's an active thought process that "Nature" follows saying "well, heck! I don't need _this_!" If it's not making you less effective than your competition at getting food or making offspring, it…