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I'm very familiar with the "needed more paint" syndrome. I think that we do-it-yourself types don't have the experience to cover a given wall with a thin enough coat of paint to actually conform to the "this can covers X square feet" estimate provided on the side of the can. Either that, or...

In an enclosed area, fumes ARE a problem - but the bigger problem is that the spray drifts. A LOT.

While it is not exactly the same, a good systems administrator has to apply multi-dimensional viewpoints. If you read Douglas Hofstadter's The Eternal Golden Braid: Goedel, Escher and Bach, you would find a chapter on Reductionism and Wholism - the mental ability to see both the forest AND...

I made the mistake of using a paint sprayer indoors once. From now on, brushes and rollers!

Jon, since you are on a health kick, you probably have your blood work done on some schedule. If your liver functions start to go haywire, check with a gastro specialist about fish oil. In high quantity it will whack your liver. The insidious part of it all is that many supplements are in...

Ah, the infamous "scene that cannot be un-seen."

On your list, I have a couple of items that overlap and that took a while to work into or out of my routine. I have stopped the vitamin stack on advice from my gastroenterologist. Apparently, vitamins aren't quite as good for you as some folks say. In particular, if they are gel caps with...

Sounds like you are heading in a good direction. Change sometimes takes time - to accomplish and then to adapt. Good luck. And, IF it is what you want, good luck with the naked men. EDIT: Left out ONE important word from the post. You will know it when you see it.

Jon, looks like you have a bunch of bots posting adverts.

I used "toxic masculinity" because everyone participating in this discussion would know it as a reference to culturally imposed roles that men don't always want to assume - but culture and society demand it. As to male & female roles, I cannot improve on anthropology studies but I can and will...

Re working longer hours: First, in the clip it is clear that they are dancing around the mulberry bush based on inadequate data and faulty sampling practices. If they fail to make their point, the accusation of inadequacy falls on their shoulders. Second, I would believe in a heartbeat that...

The impact was subtle but pervasive. It was a confidence-builder more than anything else, but that is incredibly important. During various parts of my career I was asked to make presentations because folks knew I was not afraid to speak publicly. The opportunity to do something that other...

Some time ago I learned the art of public speaking. I have taught classes before and have many times dealt 1 on 1 with technical issues. While I am sure I'm not perfect, I wonder if my group-vs-single skills are almost balanced (by having studied speech more formally in high school and in...

To be honest, it is all artistic license anyway - but they probably got THEIR viewpoint (if the film was new enough) from Underworld:Evolution, where there was a brand of Lycanthropes who could never change back to their human form. Nasty beasts!

If you are a WEREwolf, you don't lose the trappings of humanity most of the time if you go by traditional lore. But if you become a wolfwere, you spend most of your time in canine form. (Us fantasy writers have to be "up" on such things.) If the guy loses his humanity for most of the time, he...

Bee, I value your opinion and if in any way I came down too hard, that was not my intention. If that irritation happened because of my response, I apologize. But at the same time, spirited discussion does that to all of us, I think, precisely because we ARE intelligent and HAVE strong opinions.

I, on the other hand, never got that deeply into chess. For me, the allure of chaos is more interesting. And this chaos is embodied in card games where you shuffle and deal from a randomized (chaotic) deck, then do the best you can with what you've got. I used to be a tournament bridge player...

I can thing of some slightly more modern names that have come up with important philosophical truths - Voltaire comes to mind immediately. Machiavelli also had some important insights. And let's not forget Confucious (Kung Fu Tze) and Sun Tzu.

This is just the most recent of a long line of publicity stunts for career or social purposes. There was a young woman who claimed to have been the victim of an attack that included rape, kidnapping, and smearing feces on her face, but that was later proved to be staged. Rev. Al Sharpton was...

There is no doubt that various social media have provided gathering places for the disaffected. While it prima facie appears to be sexist, I think it is more of a societal haves-and-have-nots sort of thing. Not a gender struggle but a social (or perhaps class) struggle. But then again, I'm...