I can vouch for keeping the meat cold. When forming the burger it's not because you'll melt away the fat such that it won't go in your burger. It's that the melted fat will make the meat difficult to work with and will leave you with a denser burger. When the fat in the burger melts on the grill it creates small…

It's largeness and greyness escaped me. To save some face, I was specifically thinking of Dropbox's static host ID vulnerability.

Considering the security problems with Dropbox, why would using a solution that relies on Dropbox syncing be any better?

There's more to work than just money. So long as you make enough money to cover your current lifestyle you'll get more reward out of increased autonomy, flexibility to accommodate life outside of work, and better working conditions. For instance, I'd rather be paid less but get a private office and autonomous…

@cc: That's true, but it all depends on what the highest level of education you hope to achieve is. I'm not necessarily advocating CC to State undergrad to graduate program. I'm saying that if you talk with the admissions folks at the schools you want to go to then you may find you can go a cheaper route. If you're…

Joel Spolsky has written some great stuff about the importance of certain college admissions programs in evaluating a candidate for a position. Basically, part of his metric for resume evaluation gives favor to candidates that have gone to a school known to have high standards in admissions. The lesson that sticks…

@waffles: Seconded.

@CamJN: That's a mistake I meant Economics. I'm in Stats this upcoming semester. I took Micro and Macro in the Spring and Summer and I made all my graphs using Excel. Sorry about that.

I spent my first semester last year without MS Office on my home computer. The result? After a few incidents where hapless teachers were dumbfounded by the formatting of my documents I had to start checking my work in Office while I was at my day job. I made it through, though, without buying a copy of Office for home…

This isn't a snub at the article, but I won't download this. I have a rooted Incredible. I have quite a few ad-supported apps, and I don't see the big deal. I've yet to see an obnoxious ad. I barely notice them at all.

@CaptainJack: Okay, I just tried it and it works as advertised. The free version forces you to enter numbers manually.

@CaptainJack: In the Android market there's an app called Voice Plus (there's a free and paid version). I haven't tried it but it claims to do exactly this. I don't know if it's available for BlackBerry.

@MobileEMP: You can use GV with your existing number, but you cannot port your number to GV. If you want to sign up now then you should get a new GV number in case you want to take advantage of the features not available otherwise.

The best part is if you're already an Amazon Prime subscriber they'll cancel your current subscription and issue you a prorated refund. This deal paid me $33.

At work I have hanging on the wall the ultimate irony: A sheet of paper printed with nothing on it but the "Please consider the environment before printing this email." line. My company put it at the bottom of the standard signature. Someone printed an email and left that page on the printer. I almost died laughing.

The problem with this is the instruction to "firmly press the meat down." If you do that you will compress the meat into a more solid mass and change the texture of the burger. It will not be as tender, nor will it develop the same crust that a more loosely packed burger does.

You can use Caffeine for Windows. It will prevent your computer from going to sleep or hibernating. Another option is to play music in Windows Media Player, set WMP to prevent the screen saver and it won't go to sleep either. If you don't like the music you can mute it but it'll still keep your system up without…

Pretty simply, actually. I treat fast food as a luxury and only eat it on rare occasions when it's either necessary or I can justify it as comfort food. If I over-indulge on McDonald's fries once or twice a year there's little harm.

I can get the same thing in Facebook by hiding the most annoying of those applications and a few users. Though I really like Google Reader, I wonder what else I would miss out on and how much work this would really be to get practically the same results.

I went to the butcher at Whole Foods today and had them grind some steaks to get this combination. I was a little worried when I saw that the steaks should cost over $20. When he brought out my fresh ground beef he only charged me the regular 85% ground beef price. I bought two pounds of this mix for $11.