We’ve always gotten great produce from ALDI. We’ve also purchased cartons of strawberries from Jewel and Trader Joe’s that have already had mold by the time we got them home.

You know it’s bad when my local 7-11 is better than the local Aldi,

Agreed, Aldi around here the meat and produce is a joke. Wilted lettuce for only $0.05 cheaper than a high end supermarket fresh off the truck stuff.

For me, sweet, frothy Frappuccinos and caramel macchiatos from Starbucks were my gateway coffee. I didn't like coffee until I tried those drinks in high school. After college, in an effort to be healthier, I started drinking lattes, and after that, in an effort to be more frugal, I cut back to regular drip coffee with…

I would love to love unsweetened iced tea of all colors but alas, I do not. Too bitter. I take my black tea Builders' style, too: cream, sugar, lots.

The Japanese love sweet green tea flavored things. Green tea ice cream is seriously delicious.

Totally true, but I've actually read interesting research finding that a woman's body does impact the baby's gender, in a very roundabout way. Boy fetuses tend to be a bit weaker and more fragile than girl fetuses, so they tend to need more resources from mom. So, for example, during times of famine, when the…

Well, technically it has nothing to do with her eggs. It's entirely his fault! :P

The thing is, if you're emotionally hungry, you're not going to listen to your brain talking about whether you'd eat broccoli.

I can say with absolute certainty that if this were attempted at the tech company I'm at, you'd piss more people off than you'd impress. We're outstanding at fixing things, we want to get people up and running, I don't have time to fix your career when I'm on the clock. I'd be much more willing to help someone out who…

A "startup" with a customer service department that actually connects people to various important people in the company? I take it that you've never worked a CSR position? In the old days (before 1990s) this MIGHT work. Now, CSRs do not even have access to company directory information that they are allowed to give to…

This is sarcastic, right? If someone did this, I would be looking for the first chance to hang up.

Honestly this is terrible advice, please don't do this.

That was an amusing read...now, back to the real world...

I'm surprised they didn't go with "Some startups are run lean enough that higher tier people work support", which I actually encountered once.

I'd be really careful with this one... Remember, "slow and steady wins the race". First, lifting weights *faster* dramatically increases your risk of injury, whether from swinging exercises like a kettle bell or just from moving too fast period. Ligament stresses and tears, tendon inflammation, etc are all exacerbated…

Your use of Kaiju here just made my day.

The space under any given shelf in my freezers is filled with the stuff on that shelf. Never any room for this 'hanging'.

I swear I have read every article LF has about getting better sleep and getting up in the morning, and I still struggle significantly. Losing the sun in the morning for weeks is awful for me.

Regarding the password checker, I would be wary of entering my password into a site which may, or may not, be caching passwords. That awesome password you spent a week coming up with that the site claims will take them 100 million years to crack? Guess what....