A helmet also saved my life. It shattered into little pieces instead of my skull. However, I draw the line at knee and elbow pads. Scraping your knee won't kill you, and stitches are something to brag about.

I'm allergic to tomatoes and lactose intolerant, you insensitive clod!

Well, I'm 3 2-digiters. Boo yeah!

Not at first. When I signed up, the visual editor didn't exist. I uploaded my first site off a floppy. I wrote my HTML on a 286 using an old DOS-based text editor. Anyone ever use VDE? Anyway, the visual editor didn't appear until months later.

Misspelling words won't break your code as long as you misspell consistently. Once "orginal", always "orginal". :D

PDFs have their place...particularly distribution of complicated forms and contracts. Print a PDF of a contract, sign it with a real signature (e-sigs not accepted everywhere), re-scan and send. With today's multi-function scanners and printers, this is actually faster than faxing. Better yet, my insurance agent has a special stylus for electronically signing documents. The end result is a PDF that gets sent to the main office to be filed with all the other paperwork. Sometimes, a real sheet of paper is still a requirement.

I've also found this technique useful. If I'm not inspired to work on my current task, I'll just jump to a more interesting one on the list. Usually by the time I'm done the more interestng one, it has become dreadfully boring, and the original task becomes interesting again.

I second that. I've been to the Grand Rapids area many times, and I've loved it every time. Plenty of forests, not a lot of traffic, and very intelligent and friendly people. I would have moved there if it wasn't for the winters and lack of jobs.

You've obviously never had to see your kid off to open heart surgery. The kid WILL freak out at the alien-looking nurses in their shower caps and bright yellow smocks. Anything to reduce the fear is a good thing.

GEOS ... you can pry my Commodore 64C from my dead, cold fingers ...

I have found that client references tend to be some of the best, especially if they've been happy with your work. If your client is happy, it means you probably made your employer happy.

Tap with two fingers instead of one on the touchpad. I think there's a system preferences setting for this, but I forget.

Would looking at the image your brain is generating at the same time you are generating it create a feedback loop much like holding a microphone too close to a speaker?