I married a co-worker, though we worked in different divisions/labs. I think it's a great emotional boost and treat to work near the person you love (though not directly with them), and since getting a new job miss having her down the hall.

Not to sound like a kissass but I think more so than other new LH writers, I feel like you have brought a very distinctive set of new interests to LH, and I appreciate that. I don't know if it's true, but since you've been here, there seems to be more posts about food (beyond sustenance) and life (beyond numbers)…

awesome. thanks.

I second this great comment. I have a very affordable K-x and a prime lens, and it has been perfect for me, and didn't kill my wallet.

Best advice ever. They will ask for it back, but make some interest on it in the meantime. They do it every year to our with holdings, so turnabout is fair play.

As bad as it is, that and movies are what my preconception is based on. Some folks are dealing with customers, and then its moving papers/receipts around and writing reports and then making presentations to and between different levels of management. It's those mid-level jobs that seem so weird to even define.

Thanks to everyone who answered this somewhat random request. I have a feel for jobs like research, industrial research, programming, IT work, or anything service oriented (from F&B to general contracting where it is working directly with a customer to give them what the ask for), but it's these stereotypical boring…

So what sort of tasks are those? Are you cleaning up someone else's rough product, compiling reports/figures from raw data, or something else entirely? Do you work with that person who has the abstract ideas and then implement them to folks downstream or present to those above?

Although a bit off-topic, this type of advice always makes me wonder what other people's jobs or days are like. Personally, I am a Ph.D. working in academia in hard science, and from grad school to post-doc to staff scientist, my days have essentially had the same layout, or at least theme if you will. This means I…

Velveeta + Rotel. makes you feel kind of horrible, but easy and classic.

I hear you. I have an N800 I am pretty sure just wants a nice home. I am sure someone could hack it to do god knows what, but I am no longer in that phase of my life.

I did this before using OSX's built-in tools. http://macintoshhowto.com/leopard/how-to-merge-pdf-files-with-preview-in-leopard.html Funny is that it worked great even though I had huge multiMB files (my dissertation).

I've heard Power Grid is great.

Its every Saturday on public TV, both of them.

Or just don't run XP from an admin account. XP is/was surprisingly secure (or most things for that matter) if you simply don't run as admin (or root).

This was my biggest concern too. Sorting by sender is a great way to triage your email box, and yet it really isn't possible on the web-client. This is pretty annoying for sure.

Along the same lines, I just started doing Internet-Free-Sundays at my house, and it's great. I set my phone to use wifi only, unplug my modem from the router, and relax sans internet all day. I leave the router on so I can still stream music. We are still getting used to it, but it has been fun so far. Last weekend I…

I missed the nominations, but I really had wished the Andrew Jones designed speakers Pioneer sells could have made it in. They may be the best priced amazing speaker out there.

Just download an old apk of Google Listen. They are still out there and it does what you want.

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