@JonThomasDesigns: I once got a gift card to a store I'd never been to, and the closest one to me was over 50 miles away at some outlet mall in the middle of nowhere. And at the time, they didn't have online ordering, either.

@capsskinsterps: Only if you are preparing food directly below the cupboard doors while you're writing on or erasing the board.

WHAT?

@Derfel: Contrary to the tenets of the Protestant work ethic, time is not literally money.

@clever.girl: @Gretchen:

Please please please don't feed the media alarmist machine. Yes, the total numbers are higher, but they're still astonishingly small, and much of the increase is attributable to increases in both the human population, and the number of owned dogs.

@lewisboy: Except that singing ability and body size are completely different things and are treated very differently.

@lewisboy: I can't imagine that being a factor at all.

My personal philosophy is that you should try to DIY almost anything you can think of at least once.

@amowls: Christmas, as it's celebrated here, isn't a religious holiday anyway. It's pretty much just the winter solstice, and it celebrates the days getting longer. As a lifelong atheist, I am all about that.

I used to work at a company where one of the VPs was notorious for ditching scheduled interviews and throwing someone else in to do it. I got caught flat-footed a couple of times myself, when the receptionist would call me up and say that B. wanted me to come down and interview someone.

@team-science: Thank you!

This isn't just a o hay we just found out about the internet thing, you know.

Makerspaces or hackerspaces are a particularly good resource. They vary quite a bit, but generally they'll offer a shared workspace, tools, and collaboration with others, often including scheduled workshops and classes.

I have a three-step disposal system for food scraps. First, I put anything that would be useful for stock (bones and most meat and vegetable scraps) in a big bag that I keep in the freezer. Next, anything that is not stock worthy (most peelings, eggshells, rotten parts I cut off of vegetables, pits, etc.) goes in the…

@mrknowitall: I was considering getting a ceramic one, too, until I started actually counting the number of times I drop my plastic one.

Both of my main house stereos are vintage components that I retrofitted to play newer media. I have a regular stereo that's mostly better quality components from the 70s, and I have a console tube stereo rigged to play CDs and DVDs (which display on an interlaced Commodore monitor).

@loosesealbluth: Please, though, be aware of what the Komen Foundation stands for. They have very close ties to drug companies and to the right wing, and they focus almost entirely on supporting drug research into cancer treatments, almost entirely ignoring prevention and environmental issues that affect breast…

Facebook is fine, because people already have accounts there.

@iamjames: That's probably a single sachet of Sugru at most, which would make that repair cost about $1.38.