Waves to all the Colbert Report writers who are lurking.

"Hopefully" is not at all wrong. Like split infinitives, it's just something that a generation of commentators got their panties in a wad about.

2. Add a Tablespoon or two of miso paste

I love how this presupposes that own miso paste or even know where to find it in the grocery store. And dashi stock? Hm. I'll investigate my local place, but I may need to make a trip to Whole Foods.

No stressballs!

I'm being sucked further down an information loop. OK, so 3 years ago, this project, C, asks us to store their data. There's precedent, so we do. Project C has since picked up steam and become a reality and is teaming with us, as planned. Except now they are coming to us and asking us "Um, that data? What is it?" How the hell should we know? You're the source! The local partners don't know either, because they are at stage 11million and this stuff was from stage -18. Dudes. No wonder our garage counter doesn't work.

GC, your gf's company is in for a good smiting.

I have what seems to be a small tree behind my car. I would have Mr. Jane slice it and move it, but we have no power (I'm on the laptop).

To the woman who was sitting sideways in her bus seat and thus squishing me: is your ass broken? do you have some debilitating tailbone cancer? is there some medical reason why you can't sit in your seat like a normal person?

To the woman who always puts makeup on while sitting next to me: you have no idea how much I want to jostle your elbow. omgwtf, I hate getting up early and even I manage to put makeup on before getting to the bus.

Who needs extra hate today? I seem to have plenty.

I love how this presupposes that own miso paste or even know where to find it in the grocery store.'

Heh.

If you can't find it at the grocery (it would be refrigerated), you can find it at most Asian markets. In comes in several varieties, but really all you need to know is that the color of the paste reflects the intensity of the flavor. I prefer the darker stuff myself. It will keep in the fridge for ages, so it's good stuff to have on hand.

Refrigeration! Very important clue. Thanks.

I mean, I once wandered the store for a very long time looking for lime juice. Gave up and bought limes instead, eventually found the lime juice weeks later hiding in a very counterintuitive spot.

I have instant miso soup in packets that's pretty decent.

Strunk & White:

This once-useful adverb meaning “with hope” has been distorted and is now widely used to mean “I hope” or “it is to be hoped.” Such use is not merely wrong, it is silly. To say, “Hopefully I’ll leave on the noon place” is to talk nonsense. Do you mean you’ll leave on the noon plane in a hopeful frame of mind? Or do you mean you hope you’ll leave on the noon place? Whichever you mean, you haven’t said it clearly. Although the word in its new, free-floating capacity may be pleasurable and even useful to many, it offends the ear of many others, who do not like to see words dulled, or eroded, particularly when the erosion leads to ambiguity, softness, or nonsense.

eventually found the lime juice weeks later hiding in a very counterintuitive spot.

I think there's an unwritten grocery store rule that lemon and/or lime juice can never be found in the right place. For instance, the little ones shaped like lemons will be stashed in the produce. Which, yes, ok, fruit product, but then why can't you put some of those in the baking aisle, along with the industrial sized lemon juice?