Or just wear a shirt that isn’t weird. FFS, how hard can that be?

And Mark Twain’s famed quote on adolescence rings true: “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

Second “50 Things” and add A History of the World in 100 Objects (or really any BBC Radio 4 show)

I would say these rates would be for an adult with a lot of experience, not for the teenager down the street. ~$16/hour with no taxes taken out is pretty good money for a babysitting gig.

Fun Fact: Raw eggs are not the only risk to refrigerated cookie doughs. Manufacturers are now using flour that’s been heat-treated since E coli was found in this product (linked to the flour used in an outbreak 8ish years ago). Cookie dough components are all treated in some manner to reduce this risk because no one…

If you could do it full time and love kids it’s on avg 33k a year. That isn’t bad if the kids don’t suck. Especially for those who lack higher education. Although I am sure most aren’t full time, and the kids probably always suck.

I’m surprised it’s considerably more than minimum wage. Are these people professional babysitters, or is this the rate for the high school kid down the street?

What exactly has she done to be proud of?

She’s going to get dunked on by everybody.

Just wait a few minutes; silver is so volatile that this headline will probably not be true for very long. And then it will be again. And then it won’t be. And so on.

We can’t control our emotions. We are responsible for how we deal with those emotions.

Trump doesn’t go to functions. If she’s not at the White House or a Trump property then he doesn’t see her.

Parallel parking is easy to do if you know how to do it. It’s impossible to explain though. If you want to teach someone to parallel park, show them once and then rent them an apartment downtown for a year. After 100 tries it will sink in.

I hear The Slants are scheduled to perform there later this week.

Hot take: You’re an absolute child if you make a scene over a break up public or private.

The kind of heathen who copy edits for a living. As someone else said, if you use double spaces in a piece that’s going to be professionally edited or typeset, someone like me has to remove them all (whatever we think of them personally, the major style guides made a hard and fast decision on the issue a long time…

The best part about posting stuff like this online is that HTML collapses multiple spaces into one anyway, so you have to go out of your way to have two visible spaces after a full stop.

Tossing the double-space after a sentence is just plain reasonable. It was invented to solve a problem we no longer have. Typesetters had issues, but digital type doesn’t have those issues. There’s nothing easier to read about a sentence that has two spaces after it, because we don’t have universal space sizing.…

No. ONE SPACE.

Part of my job is reading/editing stuff from my other team members. I’m an old, meaning I learned to type on a typewriter that works just fine without electricity. So I’m a two-spacer. Mostly. Most of my younger colleagues are one-spacers. Mostly.