Vote: Superautomatic espresso machines

"I will kill you?"

Ah yes, sorry, I meant it spends a long time scanning whenever I change a file selection. My backup is 125 GB, and if I just add a single Word doc to my backup it scans the whole thing all over again. This seems unnecessarily duplicative.

Crashplan seems kind of resource-heavy compared to Jungledisk, which I also use. Also, I don't know why it needs to spend hours and hours backing up every time I change my file selection (don't know if I'm doing something wrong there). Any plans to improve on these things? Otherwise, it's a great service - thank you.

Or just flatten your keyboard and switch up how you use your mouse. I'm right-handed but I'll use my left hand to control my mouse for a few weeks, and then when I get bored with that I'll switch back. And I'll use my thumb or other fingers besides my index finger to click. Controlling a mouse doesn't require the…

Yeah, but what did you suppose I meant by "sometimes?"

What few people realize is that cynicism is a form of cowardice. You're afraid of being disappointed, so you view the world in the worst light, ignoring that sometimes good, pure things do happen. And often in the process, you remove yourself from the running for these things to happen to you (doh!).

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Oh good! Now I'll have another source when my brand (Crystal) goes bankrupt, as it must, if one stick of deodorant lasts a decade. (I said I started using this type of deodorant in high school - I'm now on my second stick, and I'm in my thirties.)

I have not tried this method, but I have a method that DOES work - boiling water. Fill it to the brim. Wait to cool. Fish out the wax from the top of the glass where it now resides, and Goo-Gone and dish detergent to clean up.

I do that. Works fine for me. I assume you're talking about the aforementioned "deodorant crystal" type of stick. I think they're exactly the same thing, but someone correct me if I'm wrong. Yes, it goes from my armpit to my face, you read that right.

One time a girl asked me if I had a ketchup secret. I took the bottle from her, held the bottle upside down without taking the cap off, made an up-down motion with my hand, and handed it back to her - with all the ketchup now at the neck of the bottle. She had a look like, oh yeah - what's all the fuss about?

Absolutely right. This is a great article, but if I'd written it I would have highlighted the usefulness of subtitled TV shows and books. I learned English mostly from Beverly Cleary books and watching Knightrider. Today my English is good enough that I've worked as a copyeditor. I started watching Korean TV shows…

I've got a tip: learn to like boring. The truth is usually boring because it fits in with the rest of the world. Stories that are too interesting - i.e., that don't fit the paradigm - should be automatically suspect. Truth is also boring because it tends to be complicated and tedious. Anyone who's had to tell a true…

Thanks! I should also mention I can put everything in one cold wash because I never go more than a week between washings. More than that and stains start to set and damage the fibers, so it has been said.

I typically spend about 20 minutes on laundry a week, and I compete with my boss, who is a woman and spends on clothes what others spend on luxury cars, for being the best dressed in the office. This is what I do, applicable to guys who work in conservative environments or whose fashion heroes are James Bond, Gregory…

I love to give gifts, and they're usually pretty well received. I just give something *I* would like, without thinking too much about what you *guess* the other person wants or needs. This avoids being boring and predictable, and the I-think-you-would-like-this-bullshit crap. Have a set dollar amount first but you…

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