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I've been vegan for 8+ years and am a fan of the Impossible Burger. I'm vegan for ethical reasons but certainly remember how good burgers/cheese/etc. tasted, so the closer vegan al…

The kinds of jobs available to typical high school students such as food service work and babysitting tend to start earlier in the day (in my experience). Food service jobs often s…

Have you looked into Jama software? It is customizable and very user-friendly. I use it for requirement management but imagine it would be good for document management as well.

By asking/telling someone to smile, one is basically saying, "You should look more pleasant for my benefit." I can't see asking someone to smile being appropriate in a workplace se…

I haven't tried Gardein's burgers, but their faux chicken products are excellent so I would expect their burgers to be good too.

Are you eating enough? Faux meats tend to have fewer calories than the meats they are replacing. Boca burgers only have 70 calories each (according to Google... I never eat those).…

NASA specifically wanted people right out of college to do operations so that they would not have to unlearn bad habits and since everyone would have to learn new skills for the mo…

I grew up in Silver Spring and was allowed to walk to nearby parks and friends' houses alone or with other friends starting around kindergarten. If I had kids and lived there now, …

$200-$300/month from ebook sales on Amazon. It was more ($600-$700/month) when I was releasing ebooks more frequently, but I haven't written any since July.

As a vegan, sometimes it's nice to eat at a restaurant and not have to go through the whole 20 questions with the server about whether food has animal products. So I may weigh othe…

But what if knowing lets you make moves that improve your salary (if you are on the lower end) or encourage your coworkers to ask for a raise (if you are on the higher end)? I star…

Read: "Galápagos" - Kurt Vonnegut (re)Reading: "Drown" - Junot Díaz

I'm enjoying my free month of KU and reading Hugh Howey's works at the moment. Halfway Home is pretty good, as are his short stories. From what I have seen, there aren't a ton of a…

No, entirely new books/stories. New books can get a nice bump in sales if they make it into the "New and Noteworthy" list or if Amazon mentions them in their "New books in [x categ…

This is not entirely passive (at least, in my experience) because in order to get people to continue to buy your books long after they are published, you need to continue publishin…

> Why is it better for an animal to die and feed maggots than to die and feed a human? These aren't the only two options. We could also stop breeding animals into miserable existen…

Fish need to eat other fish to survive. We don't need to eat other animals to survive. It is very possible (and very easy, in some places) to survive and thrive without animal prod…

Thanks for the reply! I'll try out the demo or freelancer version and email you this weekend when I'm more familiar with how it works. :)

I collaborate on PowerPoint presentations every time my organization has a major presentation due (frequently). The Track Changes feature in Microsoft Word is good enough for docum…

This looks amazing and would be exactly what my organization needs for collaboration in PowerPoint (which is a HUGE hassle that we deal with regularly), if only we could store the …

> Local libraries already lend ebooks as well. I'm not sure why more people don't take advantage of that. One would think that since ebooks are digital, any number of people could …

I'd vote in favor of removing gendered language altogether. The descriptions listed are vague and kind of meaningless. For example, in the "masculine" company description, the word…

Bob Nystrom's Game Programming Patterns is an engaging, informative book about design patterns that are commonly used in games but are relevant to non-game software too. http://gam…

This looks fantastic! I'm a writer/editor and have been envious of programmers for having GitHub while I've been stuck with Microsoft Word (which is nice for personal use, but frus…

As a technical writer, I completely agree with you. I also wonder if the author knows that you can modify the way track changes shows different types of changes (it sounds like she…