We're heading for this decision with our elderly (16 year old) cat. I'm crying, and I'm going to go snorgle her now.

You can deauthenticate iTunes from another computer. Do Store > View Account, then select "Manage Devices" once you've signed in.

Don't set it for after it's supposed to be done. Set it for after you're supposed to START. So if you're thinking you'll work on that paper [or whatever] after dinner, set an alarm for 7:30 or 8 pm to remind you that you're supposed to be working on your paper [or whatever]. Obviously it doesn't work for appointments…

I teach college, and I have a terrible time remembering my students' names. Except for when I don't. Some of them stick immediately, and others .... well, others I struggle with almost all semester. The unusual names, or the students who have some special characteristic about them (pink mohawk guy! girl with the long…

We just got back from Prague. In my experience there, you can have any snooty European beer you want as long as it's Pilsner Urquell. (Though the Urquell there is definitely fresher than anywhere else, so it's not necessarily a bad thing.)

Never mind. Just checked my Time Machine and is set to back up the local Dropbox folder. So the moral of the story is to not delete your local Dropbox folder, because then Time Machine can't back it up.

Okay, so I use Dropbox to store files that I need to work on on more than one computer, so that I'm always working with the most recent version. I have a Mac, so I use TimeMachine to back up the computers themselves — how can I create a regularly backed-up version of my Dropbox?

Along with the "meeting people" thing — if you're in an academic discipline, go to as many conferences as you can. You'll hear the most current research and meet the people responsible for it. If you're planning on applying for another degree (i.e., if you're a masters student and you're planning to apply for a Ph.D.)…

Replying to myself to update: I just went through the "appeals" process and got a response that my name still violates the Google+ Name Policy (even though apparently they don't have one anymore, so I'm violating a non-existent policy). And of course they don't let you reply to the email they send.

True. And I haven't been. But now that they're not restricting it, I'd like to start using it, and would like to know how to get my account un-suspended so that I can. Do you have any constructive suggestions?

My profile, which I created under the name of "You Suck at Craigslist" (because I run that website) was suspended because it violated their names policy. Any idea how I would get that back? I just logged in and I'm still seeing an alert that it was suspended.

There also is an separate FSA (which I have, and which is also use it or lose it). They say the HCSA is an HSA. Weird.

The interface on the web app is a bit weird, though. It takes you through a demo, then forces you to sit through 25 seconds of the timer, then tells you to put in something that you "did" for that time period. If you click stop it tells you you're in the middle of a Pomodoro time, and if you click cancel it takes you…

From their website: Before the plan (calendar) year begins you will need to determine your annual election. After you determine your estimated annual expenses and arrive at an HCSA contribution dollar amount, divide this amount by the number of pay periods for the (calendar) year. This amount will be deducted in even…

I just checked, and our HSA is a use it or lose it program.

It was David Bruno's 100 Thing Challenge. While I love the idea of living a streamlined lifestyle, there's no way I could pare everything down to just 100 things. (But I NEED my turnip twaddler!) So my janky version was with my wardrobe.

A while back, I read something about someone who pared everything they owned down to 100 things. There was no way I could do that, so instead I pared down my wardrobe to 100 items. There was a little bit of creative math involved, as I live somewhere with four very distinct seasons so I need separate winter,…

You can export from Scrivener to Word very easily for the editing process. I was concerned about it because I had a gazillion footnotes in my (academic) article but it all worked very well.

Thanks for this. I'd used Scrivener for an academic article a few years ago, and then stopped using it, so I've completely forgotten its workflow. I'm starting work on a book now, and need to get back into it. This is a good reminder and jump start.

There's a ridiculously un-fun thing in roller derby where you have to be able to complete at least 27 laps of the track in 5 minutes. Lots of people struggle with this requirement. A lot of people obsess about counting the laps in their head as they're skating; I've found that a better thing to do is to think about…