"10 minutes" to get a car did seem too generous - I think the author had an NYC/cab mindset. Any airport where you have to take a shuttle to the rental car (or your own car, if you've parked in a lot not right next door) is going to add on significant travel time.

No, they didn't. According to the Philly train schedule, if you get in at 8 am, you can catch a train between 8:09-8:13 am depending on the terminal. If you get in at 12:15 pm (one of the other times they picked), trains leave between 12:39-12:43 pm. I calculated the average - using 529's chosen arrival times, &…

Google maps - they calculated using your maximum wait time for a bus/train. I don't know about Seattle/Portland, but Philly's number is way off as a result.

Public transit from the airport in Boston is also pretty great, and way better than driving. It depends on where you're going I guess, but I found it pretty well-connected to the city.

Yup - in the article (hidden a little) the author explains that they basically calculated Philly's transit time as the length of the ride + your maximum wait for the train instead of the average, totally skewing their numbers.

Bless you! :) One of our pizza delivery guys (we switch it up because we're blessed with an abundance of pizzerias) always has a dog biscuit ready. I wondered if there was a note for our address in their system or if he just remembers our house and loud beagles. I'm glad it made your night, because it always makes…

Amen! I had to get my immunization records from my pediatrician before studying abroad, and I keep that paper in a safe place, so anytime I switch doctors I can review with them and make sure I'm not due for any boosters.

Thanks, I was wondering how all these people in the comments got chicken pox vaccines, since they definitely weren't around when I was young, and I wasn't young that long ago :)

Are you my brother? My dad has said that "in my face" line too many times to count (though to be fair, he also hates heterosexual PDA), and yet both my parents found as many opportunities as possible to tell us that they love us and support us, even if we're gay (we're not), and use "not that there's anything wrong…

If it's Polish week, shouldn't their outfits also include some white, or at least an eagle? And yes, this is my train of thought every time I see "Polish" capitalized on Jezebel.

Her anger management issue was surprisingly visible when she was on Dancing with the Stars (shut up - I watch it with my mom sometimes, OK?). Whenever anything went wrong, she'd get kind of... scary. Not in a way that I was afraid of what she would do, but such a stark contrast next to everyone else having fun or at…

Well to be fair, a lot of athletes will push athletic gear (see: Michael Jordan), in which case I'm OK with asking about the outfits or what they're wearing. It's consumerism/capitalism and a little strange, but it's them marketing themselves, their products, their sponsors, what have you. If that's how they want to…

So is it just me, or does Cortana sound more and more like Clippy across the whole Microsoft OS? As nostalgic as I am for the little dude, him popping up with suggestions was really. really. really annoying.

So true - as a kid I would get antsy if the snow started too early at night. The word on the street was that the school board decided on closings at around 4, so it needed to still be bad/going strong at 3am so as they called around and started the decision, it would swing in our favor.

Opera requires very specific voice training, and aspiring opera singers also need to study multiple languages, at least enough to be able to pronounce it well as they sing (particularly German, French, Italian). IMHO it's less about talent "translating," and more about the fact that talented black people aren't…

I saw the musical version of Aida on Broadway back in the day, and from what I remember the Egyptians were played by white actors, and the Ethiopians by black actors, at least the leads. It seemed like a purposeful choice to evoke race relations & slavery as Americans understand/recognized them. Or maybe someone…

The issue might be the width though - with tall people you can at least lean to the side and look around them if their head/hair aren't blocking the view. So I can see why the amount of hair caused her view to be obstructed but... ask someone next to you to switch seats. Lean a little bit more towards your husband to…

What are you supposed to do, shrink? Actually I'm usually OK letting a short person stand in front of me at a standing show if they ask nicely (but I'll only let that one person in, or I'll end up standing in the back standing on tiptoes to see myself - I'm usually conscientious enough to not force my way to the front…

You know what makes it even better? Knowing there was a Christian rock band that decided Crimson Tide was a great name. I think they've changed it since, seeing as their website "ridewiththetide.com" has expired. It's making me giggle just remembering when my friends randomly found them online: https://www.soundclick.c…

There's a middle ground though, right? I'm not a big exerciser (understatement of the year), but when my usual routine starts feeling easy, I kick things up a notch. I want to feel like what I'm doing takes at least a modicum of effort, though if I start feeling actual pain I bring things back down.