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"I used to be a nervous wreck for things like this. No matter how well prepared I was, my notes would be rattling in my hands and I'd be talking a mile a minute without knowing quite what I was saying. I was a horrible presenter. Now, I love..." [
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6 days ago
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"How about letting Pandora find the patterns for you, and the terms to describe them? Put in a song that has some sound or feel you like, let Pandora come up with some that are similar in the right ways, and then click the "Guide Us..." and..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"Full disclosure: I posted a version of this answer once before, in response to this question. I've edited it a little for yours.
Whenever I used to hear people say things like, "you have to love yourself," I thought the only way it could..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"Congratulations!
In a lifelong relationship, assume that you'll go through some difficult periods of time, when you don't feel like being together. When you feel like being together, you don't need any vows to stay together. So, when you hit those..." [
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"Siberians are often said to be less allergenic. I've learned a lot about Siberians lately, almost all from one of the heads of this group: http://www.siberianresearch.org/Siberian-catteries.htm Check out that site for a lot of great info.
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2 months ago
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"I've often thought about being a craftsperson, but I'm very practical and risk-averse, and that's steered me away from trying to do it for my living. I recently decided to explore whether I was being too fearful. I went to one of the most prestigious,..." [
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3 months ago
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"I'm conjecturing here.
If your daughter doesn't have complete fluidity with seeing a letter and knowing its sound, then one thing that reading 4+ letter words requires that writing doesn't is holding the 4+ sounds in memory at once, and accessing..." [
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3 months ago
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"Where poison ivy grows, often so does jewelweed. I've had poison ivy badly enough to be put on steroids, and I swear by this stuff to nearly instantly stop the spreading and start the healing. To use it, I've collected it, mashed up the juicy stems..." [
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3 months ago
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"I have a Siberian and a husband who is super-allergic to most cats, and not at all to her. In the course of getting her, I accumulated a lot of allergen info. Here's some of it... A lot of it is from one of the founders of Siberian Research, who is..." [
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3 months ago
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"Parent A bought something and then it was lost on Parent A's watch -- there's no way that Parent B owes anything out of fairness, obligation, or responsibility.
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5 months ago
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"If you believe humans are the only species that creates art, you've never watched Attenborough's pieces on bower birds, like this one.
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7 months ago
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"IANAGay Male 20-something Head-turning Single, but I remember going thorugh what you describe, and then there was a big shift for me that seems like it might be relevant for you. I used to imagine something like a spectrum of good-catchiness that a..." [
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8 months ago
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"NAPFA stands for National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, but many (most?) experienced, good advisors also do comprehensive financial planning. . You need to register to do a search for NAPFA members near you, but I did, it's free, and I..." [
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8 months ago
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"Here's a contemporary, designerly travel set I like -- stainless steel utensils plus aqua melamine plate, bowl, and cup. They'd have to cost three times as much to qualify... but I thought I'd toss them in here anyway, since I think they're a nice..." [
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10 months ago
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"Since others have answered your main question, I'll add an observation that I hope might also help. I notice that, having had one phone call, you wrote that this is your dream job. I wonder if, at least during the interview, your anxiety could be..." [
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10 months ago
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"I think in one of Deborah Tannen's books, or it might have been in "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus," it's noted that there's a gender difference in the meaning behind the words, "I'm sorry." Many more women than men say..." [
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11 months ago
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"IIHS crash test data goes back a long way, too. When you do a search by vehicle type/size, current year models will show, but there's a link to earlier models near the top of the search result page. When you do a search by make and model, the search..." [
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11 months ago
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"Imagine that there were a woman at your husband's workplace, and that he felt about her just the way that you do about Jason. What would you want him to do? Do that...." [
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"You know that junk mail you sometimes get, where there's a check made out to you, but then terms and provisions that say what you are agreeing to by cashing the check? I wonder if you could send Uncle Preposterous a check, but attach terms that say..." [
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"One additional gripe that I have with MB is the assigning to one category or the other for each of the four pairs. Imagine two people, and (arbitrarily) the T-F pair.
Max is very, very T, and also very F. He gets called T.
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"I have my own, home-baked, maybe crackpot theory about this. I've thought of it more in terms of why most families seem dysfunctional to some degree or another, but I think coming from a dysfunctional family often leads to people who are..." [
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"In addition to what others have said, I'd like to add that the belief that "even entertaining sexual thoughts... is the same as cheating" is one that can itself undermine fidelity. In a lifelong relationship, it's inevitable that one will..." [
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"Etiquette arises to avoid uncomfortable social situations, so it's not just some arbitrary sense of tackiness you should seek to avoid, it's creating discomfort for people. For me, it would be uncomfortable to hear about a celebration and have to..." [
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"I've never had a baby, and I don't have anything as insightful to say as lots of the responses above, which are really touching and eye-opening. The one part that I do have first-hand experience with is hiding or revealing myself to the people I love...." [
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Two years ago
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"JackFlash: Nope, not at Vanguard. The target retirement funds simply pass through the low expense ratios of the underlying index funds.
Wow, I'm really sorry for posting incorrect information! I had no idea that there was a firm that had the same..." [
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Two years ago
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"Great thread! I'm looking forward to going through it more thoroughly and culling suggestions.
Conversational Style - Deborah Tannen. Convinced me that simple, blameless conversational style differences underlie so much of our painful..." [
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Two years ago
