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?

Hey, I didn't bring what things should properly called into it. I'll defend your right to call it food processto if you want to.

stumbles into thread I have finished today's to-do list, in spite of wanting to do nothing but sleep and take pain meds for the Lyme flare-up that's been going on for a week or so. Someone please come make me dinner and cocktails.

I just used uber for the first few times this weekend. Quite liked it. Very easy.

I think it's probably easier/less likely to be offensive from someone who is also not from here, ita. Though I've certainly gotten into chats with cabbies about wherever they're from , usually because we start with the weather and they then compare it to morocco or Ethiopia or wherever. (The Moroccan guy then found out I'm from Indiana, and said he wants to go there because he hears there are big girls, and he likes parks and rec, but his wife won't let him!)