On the way from the airport to the sales meeting in the Holiday Inn conference center!

@dotnsk: I know exactly the phenomenon. I have friends that live in Los Angeles, and the same thing happens there.

Note that I wasn't making a judgment on your own personal character. I was probably assuming too much to think that in being a business major, you would know some rich corporate types. If anything, I was criticizing the establishment (and the rich corporate types that run it), and agreeing with your statement about…

My admittedly cynical take: It sounds like a really cool concept, but I wonder how much it costs. There are so many green concepts that just aren't yet economically feasible to implement on a scale that makes a difference. I'll hold out hope for this one.

Some more statistical information might be useful in this. For instance, I'd bet that knowing the means for each major would be very enlightening. I can imagine that even though the 75th percentile for business puts you at 90k, the top end would be full of people in the millions. I'd bet that there are far fewer…

Perhaps you should try to convince some of your richer corporate friends that. It's probably been for the past fifty years that everything past elementary school has been geared toward readying our little ones to be productive members of the workforce who fit pre-made roles, rather than well-rounded human beings.

Some of these tips seem so glaringly obvious to me that I wonder how they even get onto the site.

Yeah, it's everything BUT phone numbers and email, because Facebook (probably rightly so) makes those less accessible. So it really has no use for your phone, or for Gmail, for that matter.

It should.

Needs more Tesla coils. Get about a dozen of those suckers to play all the parts, and then just throw in a drum section, and you could replicate just about anything.

+1 for Krull reference.

Can it cancel out the music in Andy Dufresne's mind?

Thank you; was about to say the same thing. "Unforeseen" is exactly the WRONG word to use when you're talking about climbing Everest. The paradox is that in order to do that climb, you have to accept the fact that you might die, and there might be nothing you can do about it. And if you go up there thinking you'll be…

Come on everyone. It's just plain knotty to make puns about a dead guy.

You need to qualify this by saying it only works when you stare right at the white speck in the center. If your eyes wander off to any of the colored spots, you will start focusing on that spot and be able to see the color change. I found myself able to see the color change in several spots at a time, but never the…

I think you're thinking of sweet and bitter, which are transduced through G-protein coupled receptors. I'm pretty sure the salty receptor is the amiloride-sensitive cation channel and it's just a straight influx of sodium that results in depolarization.

"And no one knows how salt really works."

There are more comfortable ways to do that.

You have your visual scale wrong. What you see is not an upper leg—>busted knee—>lower leg—>foot. It's actually his right leg—>severed lower abdomen—>left leg—>left foot.

I think he should be stabbed in the lung until he feels like he is suffocating, left that way for a while, then taken to the hospital to be patched up. He should then have this process repeated as often as it can possibly be done without killing him. Occasionally a dirty knife could be used, and the resulting…