I know this has nothing to do with the majority of the article, but I wanted to address the comment that this season is likely to be Fringe's last: TVbythenumbers, the site linked, has consistently been predicting Fringe's demise for about 2 1/2 years now. They've always been incredibly pessimistic about it, taking…

Yeah, I understand the reasons but I have to say that was actually kind of distracting. When I haven't seen the actor in anything else besides the show, it takes a bit for my mind to distance the new character from the character I usually see him playing.. but it's really hard to do that when all the other actors from…

Sometime in the last year or two hubby and I had done this, and when checking in (for some reason we had been unable to do so online) the agent noticed it and immediately changed our seats to two together in a different row. The plane was full, so I understand why, but she didn't even ask us or even just switch one of…

Last year hubby put in his notice because he was pretty unhappy at his job - the money was part of it but management and the company direction and culture was the main reason. The new job wasn't really going to be much new but he took it anyway just to get out. The current boss countered with an offer of a small…

Another reason not to do this is when you have a counter-depth fridge instead of the standard depth. Or any other smaller fridge where the boxes don't fit right.

I belong to a great private tracker for books. They have almost everything I could want, and if they don't, usually a quick request for it in the forums will get it posted quickly. I have to admit I "cheated" a bit when first joining; I downloaded a new, popular audio-book immediately and let it seed for a week to…

I was around 11 or 12 when I first saw the movie, just getting into Fantasy books, and I tried so, so hard to find the original version, not the "William Goldman abridged version," in my library system. This was back in the early 90's when they were just getting all their catalogues online and I could search the…

My college psych prof mentioned this, although not in the context of taking her tests.. she offered the scenario of having lost your keys while you were drunk. She felt the best way to find them was to get drunk again. Boy, she didn't have to do much to convince us!

I read this book more than 6 months ago but I still remember my biggest nitpick about it: The first clue/puzzle would never have taken 5 years to solve. Yes, they said most people were keeping things private so they wouldn't have to share the money, but there were still groups working together. I've seen the way a…

My company allows employees, with prior permission from their managers of course, to use up to 3 sick days as regular time off during the week between Christmas and New Years. This way you feel like you are "using them up" (since they don't accrue) but don't have to lie about it, and the company looks generous even…

It was preempted two weeks ago by the Daytona 500 which had been postponed by rain. Many of the cable companies still put it up anyway on their OnDemand service, and it was available on Hulu and in Canada, I believe. Then FOX decided to air this one in the normal time slot only two weeks later, and pulled it from…

Just grapefruit, but several other drugs besides my simvastatin are affected by it.

It's out there, I just think the market isn't as big. Also, I don't know if there's a single powerful organization for book publishers like there is for music (RIAA) or movies (MPAA)? Also, I wonder if the difficulty of "ripping" the physical media to a hard drive has anything to do with it (for stuff that isn't…

I didn't know either, so I did a [tineye.com] search on the image that GORNMagazine posted up there and it looks like it was Blake's 7.

Ahhh, Massachusetts. The only state in which one must be licensed in order to carry pepper spray. Wonder how many people will try to buy this thing and end up committing a felony in the process.

Poor Gale. Goddamn cock-blocking President Snow.

You've probably already watched it but for anyone else who wants to know: the only thing this 7 minutes really reveals beyond most of the other shorter previews we've already seen is the start of a couple of his cases and introducing his detective partners on each side. Most of the other footage is stuff they've…

There is a weird grammar thing that has been going around my company since before I started here three years ago. My speculation is that the person writing our SOP documents 5-7 years ago started it, and then others read it and thought it was correct, and now EVERYONE uses it. All our procedures talk about how a…

This is a really good idea. It can also help someone who's afraid to actually say out loud to their doctor what some of the symptoms are if they're "embarrassing." Just hand them the sheet of paper where you've listed your symptoms - then the doctor can ask the questions and boy, if they say the words first, it can…

Meh, even well-maintained elevators can get stuck. I worked a building once where one elevator got stuck twice within a month, and the other elevator got stuck once during that same month. And the same guy got stuck twice (he never took the elevator again). And these things were serviced every 3 months (I know,…