From a professional standpoint in business, drug and alcohol use are associated with employee deviance, workplace conflict, absenteeism, punctuality, and a lot of other issues. It's not that they care that you do drugs, it's that it is significantly related to unwanted employee behaviors.

Amazing! Innovative! Ground-Breaking!

You know, I wrote this like three years ago, and I look back and think....man I was a dick!

I wondered this about transmission waves from radio stations as a kid. This looks surprisingly like what I imagined.

Honestly, I don't know. I was speaking from a renting perspective. Considering the shape of the kitchen though I think it would. It's pretty outdated.

That's also very true. I think, however, that people can do smaller things to improve those areas and still get a better return than other areas in the house. If my landlord would just replace the 50's laminate flooring with new laminate, a new laminate counter top, and some prefab cabinets, it'd look like a whole new…

Same here. We sacrificed on the kitchen since we needed a place cheap (plus our landlord has slowly upgraded appliances), but our next place will definitely have a nice modern kitchen.

The old adage stands - Kitchen or Bathroom yields the best returns.

Nothing like paper cuts on the underside if your arms!

As opposed to the shoe store where people also stick their feet into a ton of shoes?

Generally, I only buy from them if the price is equal to other vendors, or if the price is close enough that it doesn't bother me. I have large feet so shopping online is about the only way I get any selection anyways. But even so, some value the ability to have free returns over a 10% discount compared to other…

Zappos policy is to provide free returns and exchanges for the specific reason to allow people to find the shoe perfect for them. In fact, it's the only reason that I buy from them, so they actually get business by having customer-friendly policies. I also refer my friends to them because of their customer-friendly…

True, I'm just saying with so many vendors, you can likely find the same items to "try out" for similar price, but some without the restocking fee!

I do this with Zappos and treat it like in-store shoe shopping. I find 5-6 pairs or shoes I like, buy them all, try them all on, and then buy the one or two pair I liked the best.

The soldier sweeping for mines is always the most useless.

WE NEED MORE SMOKE! MORE SMOKE!

What, no sparkler bomb?

I'd like to update that Paint.NET works a lot faster now for some reason, but I still stay away from GIMP.

Oh god, Keystone brings me back to my college fraternity days. Cheap swill. I can't even drink it anymore because of being conditioned to associate it with hangovers and vomiting.

I bought a u410 Lenovo with an i7 (Ivy Bridge), 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1 TB HDD (added my own 256GB SSD for $200), great display, 1GB GeForce 650M, more ports, less weight, thinner, EXCELLENT keyboard and trackpad, and an aluminum chassis for $650 (so $850 after I updated to SSD). I've had no problems playing current games.