@Shuft: Kelvin, Celsius... same difference. Just add 273.15!

hardcover lab notebooks, lined on one side of the page, blank on the other: [www.bluelineinc.com]

@ElRobear: It's already happening: [secure.wikimedia.org]

I was in engineering school about 15 years ago, and a bunch of classmates from Hong Kong made a significant chunk of change bringing over textbooks we were assigned. It was ridiculous, the price difference — like $30 for a HK paperback version of Sedra & Smith's Microelectronic Circuits versus $130 in the campus…

@franklinshepard: That's the problem with basing movies on centuries-old fairy tales.

@Snow leopard: yeah, ever since Robin Williams did the genie in Aladdin this has been their SOP.

I love Radio 3:

I can attest that no work gets done when you're in a Snuggie.

@Posco Grubb: If you let Launchy index all your folders (or at least all your most-used ones), it'll do that.

maple syrup + curry = WIN

@Yellow Number 5: He sounds Canadian.

I forgot to put it on my butt once, and spent the morning snorkeling. Never again.

heh... this is kind of like ordering at a Chinese restaurant. If their menu is 500 items long, chances are pretty good you don't have to adhere to it. Lots of the time I don't even look at it — if it's likely they have the ingredients to make whatever I want on hand, I'll order it.

@jc364: I think any oily substance will work. I've used olive oil for this.

I work at home and the thing I hate most is not being able to leave work stress at the office because it is IN MY FREAKING HOUSE.

@Lisa Hoover: Same here. Music with lyrics (in a language I understand) will completely derail any writing/language-based tasks. But for any thinking task, listening to music is as distracting as someone talking to me. I prefer quiet when I work. If I could kill the ambient fan noise, I would.

I use rubber bands. Free and easily removable.

@witeowl: I think there's a Chuck Norris joke in there somewhere. #cooking

The easiest frozen snack ever is frozen grapes. Pick them off the stem, wash them, freeze them. They have the exact same texture as popsicles.

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