some quebecois hipsters are rolling their eyes at that. "the jumping frenchman of maine have been playing the second stage at osheaga for years. stupid anglos!"

wish I could remember the details, but in my inorganic chem class in university our old-school oxford or cambridge educated prof told us about someone once upon a time leaving a container open in a lab overnight. I want to say it was hydrofluoric acid, but I could be wrong. Whatever it was, had such a low surface…

true, but most laundromats I've been to hire people to come in at least once a day to tidy up and clean the place and label machines that might be out of service. Even if you're a germaphobe, when you're doing laundry you likely have access to vinegar and or bleach and water and towels or something to wipe a counter…

I think Laundromats can actually be fun. Multiple simultaneous loads, somewhere clean to fold, and huge dryers that dry everything in under 20 minutes are infinitely superior to 1 or 2 coin-op machines in a multi-unit rental property (in my experience).

The productivity method is interesting, but is anyone else bothered by these trendy talking-while-drawing videos?

well as a veteran snoozer, I can attest that snoozing disrupts the restfulness of your sleep, while simultaneously robbing you of time you could have been doing anything else. both leave me exhausted, but snoozing leaves me frustrated and exhausted.

yes, I'm not using google or any cloud service to store anything extremely personal or valuable. and as I said, I think google analytics looks at me from a purely statistical view, I am merely a datapoint in relation to other datapoints that allow them to improve service and make predictions which benefit their…

ok, that's obviously an emotional response, but it seems more relevant to the facebook conversation. personally facebook creeps me out, and I don't want my friends and acquaintances knowing that much about me, let alone zuckerberg. So I'm with you there.

Can someone articulate good reasons to sign out of google regularly? It's been getting so much press lately, but right now I don't care, as far as I know I'm anonymous enough. Am I missing something? I did read the new privacy agreements, and I'm not prone to wearing foil hats, so beyond that any keen insight would be…

someone should write a modern epic with an americentric bias. wealthy eastern heroes, dirty fanatical ironworking men in the middle, and primitive but goodnatured moustachioed brewers, fishermen, and craftspeople of the west. with casual references made toward gentle hearty northern populations living off barren…

yeah, vaseline is petroleum based, just like WD-40, and will eat plastic (and condoms). that guy should be mocked for his snark.

exactly, good for cleaning/drying, but mostly evaporates. thus the need for something more substantial if you're lubricating a chain or gear.

'fluid film' is my personal favorite. Lots of the explanations here are actually misunderstandings. WD-40 displaces water (prevents rust), penetrates tight rusty fittings to loosen them, but after that it mostly evaporates, leaving very little lubrication behind. So after i clean something metal, and 'dry' it with…

white lithium grease is designed for door hinges and such. Take the pin out, clean it with WD40 if you like, maybe a bit of light sanding, the wipe down with the white grease. The reason wd40 doesn't stop squeaking for long is because most of what comes out of the can evaporates, very little lubricant stays behind. Be…

that's what I thought. lots of amateur chemists in this thread.

The irony is that the public demands that mcdonalds serve a dollar menu, then when word spreads that it takes extraordinary (yet legal) measures to create a hamburger for a dollar, mcdonalds is the first to demand a higher quality product from their suppliers, and governments will spend the next 15 years arguing…

not to sound too tin-foil-hattish. but retailers know what items are most often and easily price-checked. They're often discounted as a loss-leader and intended to give you the impression that you're not paying a premium for other items at the overall higher-end whole foods. The Atlantic did a comparison a while ago…

I'm trying to make sense of your post. do you use handicap stalls so you can crap without taking off your pants or un-tucking your shirt?

Toilet seats! The cleanest thing you'll touch all day!

I believe rather than exploring factors which prevent women from succeeding academically in science and choosing it as a career, this research is focused on factors which make the child-bearing the more attractive option to north american women in science compared to european women in science. That is, they're more…