I once purchased sheets at the Porter Ranch Walmart! They were the only store that had the brand I wanted in red. I am so glad I didn't get paper sprayed. Whew.

Kristen mentioned that Best Buy queues people up for doorbusters before the door opens and then go down the line handing each person a coupon for the item they are waiting for until they reach the end of the supply for the item. Before the doors open, everyone knows that they will get (or not get) what they wanted. It reduces the weird panic. That's preventative crowd control. If you do not have the resources to do this, do not have doorbusters.

People are bananas. This has been proven over and over. Prepare for bananas.

I applaud your ability to ignore wrongheaded people on the Internet.

I don't know how to do this. There must be a self-help book of some kind. I'm still wanting to punch "no female musicians" guy in the face.

If you do not have the resources to do this, do not have doorbusters.

They're dramatically in the minority, though, aren't they? I think other stores thrive on the idea of madness, they just hope it won't get Porter Ranch bad. But worked up excited people are more likely to rush into the store and buy *anything* to make them feel like it was worth the effort, and so the heavily discounted items are probably more effective loss leaders.

"Autofocus" is the title of a really weird episode of Homicide(if memory serves it's the Baltimore-hangman one) and as such is the name of a fanfic archive. So I'm kind of blinking right now. Just so you know.

So, Autofocus/Vitals crossover? It's just a little too late for Yuletide, alas.

I shopped on Black Friday! Luckily the grocery store and liquor store are door buster-free.

[but might kill you with the its effects on cholesterol]

Not that I use a French press, but wait, what?

I have weaned myself from responding to people who are being wrong on the internet by forcing myself to be productive. At any given moment there are too many outstanding items on my To Do list, and after doing enough cost-benefit analyses of arguing with people on the internets or following fandomwank down the rabbit hole, I concluded that I'd be better off cleaning the bathroom, cooking, paying bills, catching up on my TiVo backlog, logging into work, or reading fic.

hidden habits of ineffective people

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YMMV

Not that I use a French press, but wait, what?

I had to look that one up, too:

A 2007 study by the Baylor College of Medicine indicates that the diterpene molecules cafestol and kahweol, found only in coffee beans, may raise levels of low-density lipoprotein or LDL in humans.

Paper coffee filters have a property that binds to lipid-like compounds which allows the filter to remove most of the cafestol and kahweol found in coffee. Brew methods which do not use a paper filter, such as the use of a press pot, do not remove cafestol and kahweol from the final brewed product.

Omg I need to motivate. really seriously. Mac wants to have a friend over and I have not even showered. It's in the 60's outside which is like perfect yard work weather. must MOTIVATE!!

I need music, that's it!

Thanks, Tom!

For me, I think the key to avoiding internet slap fights is that I've found a way to circumvent my need to be right with the moral superiority of I Don't Have Time for This Bullshit.

I think police shoot too casually too, but I don't know if that's having a causal effect.

I do and I don't. Individual cops that I talk to get really upset at having to shoot because if they are at the point of shooting and that it most likely means someone dies. They don't shoot to warn, they shoot to stop life.