That said, there is something to be said for being guided. For example, whenever I try to learn a language I always get frustrated because there are never any good guides for GUIs. Sure, I can make some command prompt thing that does basic "plug in the math", but I want to make a button that someone clicks to play a…

If it's like every flight I've been on, it would start with them calling one side of the plane, an assortment of people lining up, and the attendent telling half of them, "No, you're not supposed to line up yet, and I'm pretty sure you knew that, so please get off this line," and then those people taking a half step…

Same question here. If I remember correctly someone did this in the 90s (to accrue airline miles IIRC), but using traveler's checks. It was considered fraud, I think.

I just let them dry, throw it in a ziploc, and save it as travel soap.

My parents, to this day, still insist that when you have a fever you should wrap yourself in blankets to "sweat it out". As ridiculous as it sounds, yeah, people actually believe a lot of them to be true.

If you already have the rotary tool, you might as well open the beer with that =)

5) Push my beliefs onto others.

LOL @ the Lolo & Lola contact. I suspect the upper right contact is Uncle Boy, too? =) #filipinopride

I love knots! Since its seems there's a lot of knot enthusiasts here, here's a knot I discovered a couple years ago that has supplanted the tautline hitch for me as far as adjustable loop knots go: [www.layhands.com]

I was never sure what the deal was about hacking a wii, so by the time I finally understood I had already taken the trouble to install a hardware ROM chip, something that is a PITA on a wii (the solder points are microscopic). So for those of you wondering "why":

Has anyone mentioned you should really weigh your flour instead of using measuring cups?

See, I started to do this same thing and found that Mint and Quickbooks' built in database categorizing vendors into buckets was something I just didn't want to have to replicate (so it knows Pathmark and A&P are part of my Groceries budget). Sure, I have to correct sometimes (Wawa is sometimes gas, sometimes lunch)…

Then stop looking to US-based websites for help on whether to buy a phone off or on contract.

This doesn't work if you are in an apartment that doesn't allow throw-the-window air conditioners (the case with many urban areas). Your next bet are portable ac units. If you want an actual air CONDITIONER as opposed to a portable air "cooler" or air "cooling unit" (neither are nearly as good as an actual air…

Starbucks changed the Frappacino recipe about 2 years ago. I worked there after that, but all I know is that everybody complained that the recipe was very different. I don't know the old method, but I know some of the things that changed were:

Ex-Starbucks barista, here; this is probably as close as you'll get. It'll never be exactly the same unless you have the actual "Frappacino base" and the "espresso base" but everything else in the recipe is basically it. You can get closer if you buy the syrup sweeteners at Starbucks itself (it's like, $7 or…

In-store Starbucks are frequently not "real" Starbucks, they are "licensed" stores. In other words, the store pays Starbucks a licensing fee, and then sells Starbucks products, but are not real Starbucks store - they are actually employees of the Target, Barnes and Noble, or rest area they are located at. For this…

As an ex-Starbucks barista another thing you can do if you tend to use a decent amount of milk/cream in your coffee is to ask for a certain sized drink in a different sized cup - you will be charged for the coffee, not the cup sized.

Be sure to grab a wpm tool to see how fast you are with different keyboards. I was satisfied with 8pen and swype, but on a whim did a typing test to see how I fared. I found using my hardware keyboard was much faster than either for most tests, enough so that I usually just switch to it nowadays.

I know everyone will have different takes on brands, etc., but I just wanted to weigh in on something I learned about with Epson printers.