When hiring for my software company, I don’t know how far someone off the street stretched the truth on their resume to get an interview. We can test for some of that, but a personal reference goes a LONG way toward allaying my other concerns. I am reasonably sure a candidate referred by a friend is not going to have…

Oh man, if LeBron manages to dunk on his adult son in an NBA game he will have fulfilled the dreams of dads everywhere.

No, JR is just out of frame, dribbling the ball while the clock expires.

“The latter, it isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”

And youre saying you would not want to be compared to a Father like that

i’m doubting his hairline, comayo.

“If I’m on the same court as my son in the NBA. That would be No. 1 in my lifetime as an NBA player.”

But what if you’re really good at basketball?

If you were the son of the greatest basketball player of all-time, who happens to be a great and supporting father, who is also incredibly gifted at the game, you would likely have the self-confidence to believe in yourself enough to think that even if you can’t achieve what your dad did, you can still make a name for…

The Netherlands usually shuts down on Holidays and Sundays, at least the shops. This was more true at the turn of the century than now, as things are getting looser as time goes by. That said, if a holiday falls on a Saturday or Monday, better stock up for three days, because your usual shops for food will probably be…

So, New Zealand basically completely shuts down for Good Friday. I would never in a million years have expected this. It was the one day we had to go to the wineries and they were all closed. Almost all the shops and restaurants were closed. It was nuts. So, yeah, holidays that are seriously NBD in the US may be way…

Mainer here. We’re a strange state. LOT of anti-government people here, on both ends of the spectrum. And a lot of old people, our median age is 43.5. We also have a lot of libertarians that cross between MAGA crazy and crunchy psychosis. It’s not uncommon in Maine for someone to believe that the government is evil…

I love reading reviews for products that are a little silly. For instance, Jansport makes a TINY backpack (literally just a few inches tall), for use as a pouch for keys or a wallet.

It’s the woo that binds, seriously though, it’s a very weird coalition of groups that frankly hate each other. The only demographic they have in common is money.

I look for trends in negative reviews. If 10 people say the same part broke after using the product 15 times, I make a note of it. Mostly though, I read reviews as part of the research process. If I don’t know much about what I’m buying, I read the reviews. If I feel like I already know what I’m getting, I don’t read…

As a card-carrying Mormon, there is absolutely nothing doctrinal that should manifest an opposition to vaccination in Utah. My guess is that the high concentration of stay-at-home mothers likely spend a little too much time in the mommy blogosphere, which for a time there featured a lot of anti-vax propaganda before…

Yep, anti-vax is bipartisan dumbfuckery. On the right, there are religious objections and general “gubmint can’t tell me what to do” dipshits. On the left, there is some of that anti-establishment bullshit coupled with a TON of anti-corporation hysteria and acceptance of pseudoscience. Big businesses make vaccines,…

Are you familiar with rural Maine?

You’re discounting the Infowars crowd. I would venture that the number of people who are anti-vaxx for religious reasons are dwarfed by the number of hippie dipshits and brainwashed Infowars conspiracy theorists.

Actual review on Amazon I read yesterday, paraphrased:

“This item was great, but I ordered the wrong thing. 2 stars.”