Seven bedrooms sounds pretty good for a vacation home, though...

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I would somehow manage to wedge myself in there.

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150 square meters of living space is not enough for Buffista town.

Yeah, we'd have to buy the neighboring town too.

eta: Ooh, and connect the two with a monorail!

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Everyone is having babies. For myself, I would settle for not feeling like one.

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Hey hivemind -- other than opening the valves all the way, which I've already done, is there anything I can do to stop my radiator (steam, I think) making these annoying loud rattling noises? It sounds like someone's filled it with marbles, and the last time I called my landlord about it, she called in the handyman DH and I refer to as Useless Incompetent Guy. (He stared at it for about five minutes, then nodded, and left without doing anything. And never came back.) I'd be willing to put up with a few days of no heat if it would mean being able to hear myself think in my own living room.

If it is a steam system, I don't think you can do anything. If, instead, it's forced hot water, you can bleed the radiators, which might help with the noise, and can sometimes help with the heat production. Ask the landlord if it's forced hot water. If it is, make handyuseless show you how to bleed them.

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Aw, Red Auerbach died. [link]

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What a cool video: The Inner Life of the Cell. You'd need a semester of biology class to understand what's going on, but the pictures are awesome. Like they took an IMAX camera inside a cell. They're explaining how a white blood cell "knows" when it's time to leave the bloodstream and move toward an infection. At first it's specifically about that and farther in it becomes a little more "let's show you all around the cell, skyscraper view to worm's-eye." Very cool.

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So I'm working on this impossibly long and complex job application, and I need some advice.

1. Many of the questions are some variation of: "Identify your level of experience doing X," where (1) is "I've never done it", (4) is "I've done it independently and without supervision, and (5) is "I supervise people who do it and get asked questions as an expert".

The position in question is not a supervisory position. Would it be safer to answer 4 to questions where I have been doing this for a long time and am expert and do supervise people?

2. The application format is weird. It will have 2 or 3 questions in a row of the "Identify your level of experience doing X", to which you are clearly just supposed to reply with a number, and then there will be a question that says, "Please provide a narrative supporting your answer to the above question, including information on the circumstances, the complexity of the work, the length of time, and the organization where the work was performed."

But it doesn't say WHICH above question, and the preceding 3 are all about different things. Do I assume they mean just the one question previous? I'm very confused.

3. What would you think someone meant when they said "liaison work"? Because they don't define it and I'm not sure what they're getting at...

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BBCA question: Was there a second season/series of Viva Blackpool? Tivo caught one for me that a) I haven't seen before, and b) doesn't match the summary of any of the episodes described on the BBCA episode guide.

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Congrats, Lyra Jane!

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