The fun part of that is the fact that they keep the title President. In writing they will qualify it with former but technically if someone were to refer to Obama, it’s President Obama. So technically they could do all sorts of things. Like if they did something together it could be the “Presidents Clinton” traveled…

I think the internet is forgetting that KFC used to sell a half gallon soda. It had a handle built in. This guy isn’t innovative, he’s retro....

Exactly. White rice, vinegar, and a variety of food coloring make for multicolored little sprinkles. It’s not hard to do the right thing.

I have a few.

If you absolutely have to go up a tall building to see the views and be a tourist don’t wait in line or buy a ticket. Dinner service starts at 5:00pm at the signature room in the John Hancock building. If you get there when it opens you can easily grab a table by the window. You’ll be sipping drinks, being waited…

I usually try to hit up a city with a local, but in SF my local friend was in San Jose at the time, so familiar enough with SF to get around but not much else, was also kind of a tourist. In that case I usually do a free walking tour where you tip the guy at the end and I’ve had great luck with that in the past in…

Early on another pointed out I used the worst possible example (I agree)......

Very valid, it was an example, probably not the best. My overall point was, learn how to be friends with a lesbian, don’t make it weird, and this is a good opportunity since FF can build off of an established friendship.

FF is in a bad spot, but there’s a bit of advice I’d like to add. Embrace her lesbianism. Don’t get weird about it by being intrusive or vulgar, but acknowledge that you now both are attracted to girls, just like you and your guy friends are. If a base friendship already exists, it wouldn’t be hard to say go out on…

Cheers Patrick! Well said. I deal with this a lot, as in I keep my mouth shut. I work in a place where a lot of young college women work part time jobs, often between classes. They will routinely walk in wearing what may or may not pass for history 101, but not for an office. In the end their dress often correlates to…

Spot on.

Yeah, it’s next to impossible. I was lucky enough to have earned enough STD hours to cover my 12 weeks of FMLA as paid, but I had to take it all at once. No options. That said, a straight up 24 weeks of time between my wife and myself does allow you to put off daycare for 6 months, saving even more money. The reality…

GD public speaking. I can talk in front of dozens of people at a place like work where I have a relationship with some of them and others are strangers. I could go talk in front of a room full of executives at work and be fine because I know most of them. Put me in front of strangers or really anything with a…

I remember in college people looking at me funny when I made eggs for a group breakfast one time. They looked at me funny because they thought they were getting scrambled eggs, but I made so much and made it both fluffy and sturdy enough that it more resembled Spanish tortilla (sans potatoes). So instead of scooping…

Driving in a country where I didn’t speak or read the language was a fun experience (no GPS either). It wasn’t a major city and some things are universal, so it wasn’t dangerous, but it was still enlightening.

You are right, sources matter, and beyond that other factors play the bigger role. Your example of guns always brings up the debate between the UK and Switzerland. In the UK it’s very hard to obtain guns, even the street cops don’t always carry them. In Switzerland they have such national pride and military…

I fail at many things, but over thinking the mundane is not one of them.

Well played pineapple.

I think you’re right in that can is a weak word, and not altogether correct. Of course I can, in theory. I should shift to may. I think terms like will are jarring unless you use the contraction I’ll or we’ll.

I’m in the midwest and I’m always alarmed when I travel to the coasts how courtesy just goes out the window.