Hot chocolate later.

I succumbed to the fitbit craze (late, as usual) because I was interested in increasing my passive exercising (the kind you get from parking further away), doing the stairs, and sleep monitoring. I had to hide all the calorie stuff, but otherwise it nestles comfortably between my boobs most of the time (finally found something I could hide in there) and I've been pretty good at doing 15-25 flights on active days.

Need more active days, though.

Who else is using Uber? I love it to pieces. No more taxis for me, hopefully. I have also found the drivers nicer, and one or both of us gets an edjamacation by the time we're done. Apparently Shailene Woodley (or however you spell the Divergent star) said something cheesy about learning about cultures by asking your cab driver where they're from, and I got into a Jezgument about whether or not that was patronising and shitty to do.

I maintain you can do it nicely, and just had a great conversation with a driver from Cote D'Ivoire by just starting out with "I don't recognise your accent--where's it from?" Maybe it's easier because I'm not from here either and also not white? Dunno. But the worst part about the drive today was how often the driver turned and looked square over his shoulder to talk to me.

Also, still consistently cheaper (no tipping and total is less than just the ride from the cabs I used for the same distance) and so far the cars are all really nice and clean and the drivers are working for their star ratings. The "goodbye" from the drive was "I give you five stars" and "I give you five too."

I need to work out if I can see my ratings, but that way lies meowmeowbeenz ( t /Community ).

Who else is using Uber? I love it to pieces. No more taxis for me, hopefully.

I love Uber, and now that they have taxis in their umbrella (in SF, at least), I don't use any other service. And I've learned awesome things from pretty much every driver I've had.

Hot chocolate is now in the past. Delicious and decadent. I may not need dinner. Which would be fine, more soup for lunches.

Beware the meowmeowbeenz.

Uber isn't out here where I am, yet. Might be worth looking into for the other end of train rides, though.

I've never heard of Uber.

I was just reading about the CEO of Mozilla on Twitter, though, including the statement from OKCupid. Good for them.

The only reason I haven't tried fitbit is the last pedometer I bought didn't work because I'm apparently too fat for it work when clipped to my hip, and it wouldn't work anywhere else. But if it works when tucked into my bra, I might give it another try.

Did you try your shoe? That works for me for the cheaper ones, but I can't really use the more expensive pedometers

I've been avoiding news about the CEO of Mozilla because quitting using Firefox would be a PITA. Too many open tabs.

Zen, did you get your Chromebook? Am I remembering right that you ordered one off that same deal tommyrot linked to?

I maintain you can do it nicely, and just had a great conversation with a driver from Cote D'Ivoire by just starting out with "I don't recognise your accent--where's it from?"

Not about cab drivers, but I just found out background information about two coworkers in the last two workdays in ways that seemed OK. One, I asked her about how people mess up her name, and the other I asked where she grew up, because it was relevant to a vaccination question we were discussing. It turned out to be Zimbabwe, which was a surprise! t /vaguely related

I was all set to go ask for sympathy from my parents, but my mother had a tooth pulled today! So I was very sympathetic toward her instead.

I missed something with the Mozilla guy. I think this is going to add to the people at work calling Firefox Mozilla, which drives me batty

I also can't stop laughing because a Facebook friend who is named Bethany keeps getting called Stebany. Because people mishear her name as Stephanie, and she says No, Bethany with a B.

I use Moves, but I would love to have a straight-up pedometer on my Pebble instead, because then I could count steps when I don't have pockets.

I have been told that the word "pesto" is derived from the same root as "pestle" and anything that has been ground up in a pestle can reasonably be called pesto.

By this derivation, was the basil/garlic/pine nut goop I mixed into tonight's pizza sauce properly called food processto?