It is truly the best way to deal with a chronically late friend. We have a good friend who is a fantastic guy but is chronically HOURS late. We invite him over for dinner at 6, he gets there at 8. Says he'll meet us at 1pm, will show up at 4pm. So we started to give him much earlier times (4pm for dinner etc.), and…

like I said, I usually don't want to talk to people on an airplane. Is there a pleasant way to say "don't hog my space" without being confrontational? The cost of having a potential conflict with someone when you have to sit next to them for hours seems too much.

Not really a horror story— but these are both so frequent, they really drives me nuts.

I find music to be VERY distracting when I'm running. It messes with my pace (yes, I know you can pick music for your pace, but I want to listen to music I like), and breaks the wonderful peaceful silence of running. Without music, running is probably the closest I'll come to meditation— just my breathing and…

And I'm sure feminist bumperstickers are included as well!

Oh, good to know! I do leave things unread to read for later, so having that happen will suck.

How useful are feeds? The usefulness, in my experience, is in knowing what you've read and haven't read yet. So, I have numerous blogs related to my work that I need to read/scan through each entry. A RSS reader keeps track of what is unread better than me just checking out the website continuously myself.

Lived in NYC for 7 years and was obliged to diss NJ whenever possible.

VOTE: Feedly.

I found this to be too buggy— the vibration would turn off if I had my phone in a pocket or in my bag (when I do want it to vibrate).

My favorite laptop stand is a simple (and cheap) pantry shelf I found at Target. It was like $10, and lifts my laptop off my desk for the perfect ergonomic height. And I use the bars grid to organize all my laptop cables so they aren't in the way and are easy to plug in (I binder clipped them to the back of the…

This is also a great tip for handsoap. I love Method products, but it drives me nuts that they sell refill packages for handsoap and mark that they're NOT compatible with foaming pump dispensers. Any soap works with a foaming soap dispenser— just do like 1/3 soap and the rest water. Definitely a money saver!

Wow! I've been using a little app mac called wii transfer, but it you have to select video files ahead of time and wait a while for them to encode so that they show up in the wii Opera browser. This looks waaaaay better. I have a whole 100gb external drive of films/tv shows that I would LOVE to stream to my TV easily.…

ACK. I was going to say the same thing!

Huh? Seriously? Oh yes, any kind of criticism of anything "feminist" *must* come from some crazy men's rights nut. How silly of me.

My thoughts exactly! Too bad that they have the best chart around— but skip the purina and go for something like Wellness!

And the term *bikesexual* — my made up description of people who are just REALLY into cycling and can before found wearing cycling clothes and shoes everywhere— takes on a new layer of meaning.

I'm all for celebrating the achievements of athletes, but something makes me *uncomfortable* about this series. What is it? Is it the objectification aspect? Well, I don't think all objectifying is bad— it is possible to admire human bodies without objectifying them. Is it the emphasis on skinny, in shape bodies?…

Been running for 5+years and I've never had bloody nipples. I don't know any women who run who deal with this. All the men I know, on the other hand, do.

You couldn't force me to wear heels. I swore to my mother in 6th grade that I never would, and to this day (I'm 36), never have and don't intend to. I was the only bridesmaid in my sister's wedding in flats.