Dwarfgoat, if it's any consolation, if all ball crawls were burned to the ground, all Chuck E. Cheese employees would rejoice along with you. Being on ball crawl duty was awful, and cleaning it after kids barfed, peed, or shat in it was the worst. Well, second-worst.

Aw, shucks. I put on my big cartoon shoes one foot at a time, just like everyone else.

I was sixteen. I wasn't thinking litigation — I was just hoping my friends didn't find out I'd been fired. (They did.)

Aw, shucks. I put my Chuck E. costume on one gigantic foot at a time, just like everyone else.

It was 1986, and I was 16 years old. I wasn't thinking litigation; I was just hoping that my friends wouldn't find out I got fired. (They did.)

The best part was that when my mom came to get me after I got fired (I was 16 — I couldn't drive myself yet!) she wanted to stop by the mall on the way home. There was a fancy new store that sold tapes and CDs (! — hey, this was 1986!) opening up, and they were setting up the store. In a fit of bravado I asked if they…

The cordies are currently $9,990 on Amazon.

For the vast majority of its use life, a toilet paper roll is covered by the toilet paper. I actually don't really see the problem.

I work in a music department at a university. In my case it's "Go home when the class to teach future band directors to play the saxophone begins." Trust me on this one.

I'm an academic, and I supervise graduate students. I've started having a very open conversation with the students at the beginning of the academic year about Impostor Syndrome, and encouraging them all to talk to one another or to me about it if they start feeling that way.

We all still stand behind him, since this calendar was released before he was director and, if you haven't noticed, was released BY THE STUDENTS, AS A JOKE. In fact, it's making fun of official OSU calendars that show scantily clad female students, and seem to not be contributing to the "sexualized culture" of the…

I've been using this since this recommendation, and one thing that drives me nuts about it is that the floating head notification pops up even when you're already in the app it notifies you about. So if you're chatting with someone on Facebook Messenger, the floating head keeps notifying you that you have new messages…

SwiftKey on Android here.

First of all, it refused to recognize the word "Say", autocorrecting to "Day" every time.

Say hello to my little brother and I can do to help you with the team and I can do to help you with the team and I can do to help you with the team and I can do to help you with the team ... (I stopped…

I understood your comment, and was agreeing with it. If the goal of law school is to learn to think and write like a lawyer, you're not going to learn that by cramming. Thus cramming doesn't work for law school.

A multi-week bar cramming course is, by definition, a spaced repetition of that learning — because you're not trying to learn it all at once the night before. And if the main goal of law school is to learn to think and write like a lawyer, you're not going to learn that by cramming.

But how much did he retain? There's a difference between immediate regurgitation of information and actual retention and understanding. Assuming the goal of education and studying is the latter, spaced repetition is a far better method of achieving that goal.

Totally agree. We want to believe in the 10,000 hour rule because it implies that time spent is an equalizer — that anyone can do something as long as they put in enough time. The problem is that research shows that most "masters" of something put in far less time than the 10,000 hours, but they reach their level of…

Missed that bit. I'll sit in the Shame Corner.

I keep reading it as "Perversy", for some reason. I don't want 10,000 hours of practice at THAT.

Also, there's significant research that shows that the 10,000 hour rule isn't scientifically sound. It's a great sound bite, and Malcolm Gladwell popularized the notion, which is seductive because we all want to believe…

Calm down, sparky.
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