I got some of these a few months back (one for olive oil and the other for EVOO). While it’s a cool concept, I don’t find them to be accurate. When I pour out the oil, more oil seems to drizzle out from the piece going down into the bottle. So while I might fill the top with 1 tbsp, more pours out.

I got some of these a few months back (one for olive oil and the other for EVOO). While it’s a cool concept, I don’t…

Or maybe they should keep their partnership with the company and challenge and try to change the viewpoint of the CEO. It doesn’t always work, but it’s better than just giving up the fight without trying.

I’ve been in a couple of different gerrymandered US districts over the past 15 or so years. When I first moved to Austin, I was in the wonderfully awesome Lloyd Doggett district. Then the state legislature went berserk and screwed everything up. First, I was in the Mike McCaul district which narrowly stretched along…

I went to public school in Louisiana in the 80s and 90s and received a stellar education. I was in the gifted program, which focused heavily on art enrichment in elementary school and advanced courses in middle and high school. While some teachers were better than others, I honestly don’t think I had a single bad…

I once emailed my state representative about the gerrymandering redistricting the Texas legislature was trying to do. He (not his staff) replied saying that it didn’t matter what I thought because I wasn’t going to vote for him anyway. (Seriously — he literally wrote that.)

I have very uncomplicated taxes, so I’m usually just waiting on my W-2 from my employer. As soon as it’s posted online, I submit my taxes (usually within an hour or two). This year, my employer rescinded the W-2s the next day with some excuse about their not being complete. Since I’d already filed, I was prepared to…

It was Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s That’s My Bush! They assumed that Gore was going to win and had planned for the show to be about Al Gore being a robot president. When Bush unexpectedly won, they had to change focus to create a show about Bush. It had it’s moments, but it wasn’t as good as it possibly could have…

I haven’t watched Love & Monsters in a while, but I think there would be a way to even say that his character was The Doctor with amnesia or something along those lines.

The windows are cool, but the British Airlines Dreamliner I’ve flown on was the most uncomfortable plane I’ve ever been on. The economy and premium economy seats are has hard as concrete, and it was the least amount of leg room I’ve ever had in an economy cabin. It doesn’t help that the electrical boxes for the…

American Airlines once told me that the pilots have the discretion to leave 15 minutes before the scheduled departure time. I only found this out when I missed a connecting flight that I could have made if it hadn’t left 15 minutes early without all the passengers. After that happened, I make sure to be sitting by the…

There was one style at Lane Bryant that I loved, which of course means they’ve discontinued it. All of there bras now seem to have molded cups, and that doesn’t work for my breast shape.

Possibly. Again, I might just be an anomaly as I was never the person who had to try hard at school. 

Maybe the difference is that I only ever had two male math teachers during my entire schooling? And all of my high school math classes (which were gifted or AP courses) were overwhelmingly female. I was never discouraged from liking math (even though I struggled memorizing my multiplication tables in elementary…

Thanks for being *that* person. It was a typo. I should have proofread, but I didn’t. (And, I did correctly use “than” in the first sentence.)

Why does it matter if I’m in a STEM field? Is that the only way an intelligent female can contribute to the world?

Honestly, I think it’s because I had very strong role models in my parents and my older sisters. My parents completely shard parenting duties. My dad did ballet carpool and put my hair in pink foam rollers — something a lot of dads wouldn’t do. I didn’t realize that this isn’t normal until I was older. (I’m still…

I went to public school. My parents were married, and we were regular church goers (United Methodist). I’m the youngest of three girls. My oldest sister started college the same day I started first grade and had a PhD by the time I finished middle school.

Sometimes I wonder what alternative universe I grew up in. When I was a kid, I always thought girls were smarter than boys. The girls in my classes always made better grades, were more studious and participated more in class. There were probably twice as many girls in my gifted program then boys.

Thanks! I’m going to blame my being too lazy to find something comparing EOs in the first 100 days on it being almost bedtime. I was using the chart in Wikipedia, but yours is much better as long as they keep it updated. He’s up to six now, but the chart only shows two.

If the current rate holds up, we can expect about 430 more executive orders this year.