I realize the world has much bigger problems right now, but let me take a break to mention that I hate today's flashlights ( Read more... )

I walked into a bathroom my first year of college and had to step around a very overflowing trash can. Families moving college students in had grabbed fast food, and if their kid didn't have a personal trash can yet, they found the bathroom trash can, found it to be full, and set their fast food trash and cups around the trash. I was furious. There ( Read more... )

I haven't ranted about raffle tickets in 2-3 years, time to rerun this topic. Poorly run raffle ticket events are a pet peeve of mine. I just got to thinking about it AGAIN this week because... I obsess ( Read more... )

Last week I went to menard's to buy some craft wood to cut in the laser cutter at makeict and it was pretty much like every hardware store adventure where I spend 10 seconds buying something, 20 minutes looking for it. Why isn't there an electronic aisle search yet? Or at least a search employees can access quickly? Of all the stores to make into ( Read more... )

GAADS I'm so frustrated ( Read more... )

Someone posted this to my facebook wall, I sighed heavily:

Harvard-Smithsonian Center debate comes to conclusion that Pluto IS a planetBasically a bunch of people got together because they're STILL mad that Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. They held a debate. One guy said "Well I think round things that orbit our sun are planets ( Read more... )

I sew all the time, but lately I've been running into an awful fact: it is really hard to measure kids for a sewing pattern. It's hard enough to measure an adult, but with the kids patterns there is WAY more variation, and to make it worse, the pattern companies are not helping. at all ( Read more... )

Here are websites that I refuse to click on, no matter how tempting the title seems ( Read more... )

I had a package from amazon that was scheduled for delivery on a day we'd be out of town. So I went to the UPS website with my tracking number ( Read more... )

According to CNN the US could save $150 million a year if we used coins for US dollars instead of bills. We print dollar bills because... I dunno, we just do. But the wear out so quickly we have to print more, and it's expensive. And it's a pain that they don't work well in vending machines. Coins would be great for that ( Read more... )