It's really kind of fascinating how different the US is from corner to corner. Some day I'd really like to spend some time in the other half :)

I believe that standard guideline is to charge 3x the food cost so you cover all your overhead and make a profit. Good bleu cheese, while not astronomical, isn't exactly cheap either. Plus, like C.A. Pinkham mentioned, the guy was a total weirdo, so they probably weren't exactly trying to encourage him.

I'm kind of curious if that'll end up being the case here too. Most people over the age of 25-30 drink it black. Under that though, and you a ton of people putting crazy amounts of cream and sugar in. One of my friends usually puts at least 2 packs of sugar per cup :-/

I wish I had something clever to say, but nope, I just totally glossed over that line. I'll sit back down now.

"Regular coffee" means with cream and sugar? Is that a regional thing? If I ordered coffee on the west coast I'd be really surprised if they defaulted to putting cream and sugar in.

As far as the doing it in person part goes, I can't emphasize how important it is to be nice about it. I do it with most giant companies I have to deal with now, just as a precaution, but Comcast is the one I really take the hard line with.

I disagree with the part about the chat service. Comcast is terrible and has tried to screw me over a few times by not doing what they said they would. I always use the chat option so I have an actual transcript of what was said. On the rare occasion I have to go down to the office (I refuse to use the phone…

Overall I think it's a good idea. Giving it a name that actually sounds like a name rather than an acronym is a good idea for the general public. It's a much more user friendly alternative in my opinion.

For me it's a pretty awesome playground. I like to learn how to do new things in linux, and let's just say that "discovering" how to do things in the actual production environment is a BAD idea. I can setup the raspberry pi so it's basically a low powered, no risk copy of my production server.

I had a 120GB Zune... I loved that thing! Also, let's face it the Zune media center was awesome. Most people I know really liked the software, and the hardware was great. I think it would have been a lot more popular if more hardware manufacturers had supported it for their media stands.

You can't be allergic to meat by definition, but you can certainly be intolerant to it. Allergic means you go into anaphylactic shock. Nobody is allergic to glutin or lactose, but we can certainly agree that people have severe reactions right? We call that section of issues intolerance.

I don't really get the overpopulation argument. Yes the world as a whole is overpopulated, but much of the US isn't. If every person in the US had one child, the population would drop by 50% per generation. We don't need families having a ton of kids anymore, but one or two children certainly isn't earth shattering…

I think that the order meant a cloth that can't be seen though. The point isn't the sex aspect, but the imagery.

Personally, I've found generic soda is never as good as the name brand.

If you can only hear through one ear, you're not physically capable of hearing "in stereo". The whole point of hearing in stereo is that it sounds like it's coming from several places around you. That requires a minimum of two speakers and two ears to detect where said sound is coming from.

At least in my workspace, that's totally bullshit. Both buildings I've worked in on this campus have alarms that are so shrill and loud that I easily heard them through my headphones. Even a deaf person would be able to feel that they're going off, even if they they're not in their immediate vision.

Oh yeah. We'd pretty much lose it, and whoever instituted that rule would get defenestrated.

I'm kind of ashamed that I didn't know this... Well, that makes communicated with the family in Ireland a bit easier...

Oh okay, I thought you were calling me Todd Akin! I was kind of mortified :P

Um, what?