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It's just interesting this was singled out as a disappointing trend when there are activities that are more socially accepted but have about the same or with even less connectivity.

From the outside the, "fully immersed" game seems to be a disconnect. But to someone who's playing it does connect. I do this with my brother all the time, we live about 8 hours apart but yet we can play and talk to each other and laugh and share an experience. We can also add in his old classmate who's currently working in Singapore. I play regularly with a group of people who range from the east coast in the US to Australia, and the sound of 12 cheering people who've worked together to complete a common goal is fun.

I'm surprised there isn't this kind of commentary on television in which the individual does not take action but sits and watches. At least in a game like the one in this article you're forming strategy, teamwork, or even competition against another person.

In response to the comments on smartphones and facebook, I think for a lot of people this technology is new and there hasn't been an etiquette passed down to them. I come from a tech savvy family, we all have smart phones. However no-one answers texts or facebook or any other happenings at the dinner table or during family time. Our friends also know if we tell them we're spending time with family and will be free at x time will not text till after that time. My parents have set the example, it this is how we do it as well. And likely as the newness of the technology wears off there may be less people texting while chatting as well...hopefully....maybe.

My ex is a musician, when we moved in together we found an end apartment over a garage. The room dedicated as his studio has the closet (packed with clothes) then a hall then the neighbor's wall. Ideally you want to build a room inside the room so the sound doesn't travel to your neighbor. And Ev is right this room has to "float" there also is the problem of ventilation to a room like this. We also raised the speakers on gravel so it dissipated the waves further and faced them away from the neighbor. Also you'll need that dense (and surprisingly expensive) wall mount baffle foam stuff, although this mainly helps with the short sound waves, the long wave low end are the ones that travel through your floor and walls.

He kept most of it to the weekend and if he was working in the evening it was headphones only after 10pm. We didn't get any complaints from our neighbors, even my super finicky one that reports everything to the landlord. On the other hand his music did not have a lot of that sub low end going on. He also had to change his work flow a little getting accustomed to a smaller set of speakers and his headphones, then using the larger/louder ones mainly on the weekends to check and finalize. Our neighborhood is a nice quiet neighborhood and we wanted to keep it that way.

Other friends have solved this problem with, renting out a space with other friends and sharing the cost. Using commercial/industrial spaces in off business hours. Renting a house and converting/sound proofing the shed/guest house/garage to be a studio. Doing the same as above room within a room, most of these places even had double doors with 2' ish in between the doors. Good luck :)

My boyfriend loves poached eggs, however I noticed it always leaves a ring of egg stuff on the stainless steel pot he likes to use. It's really tough to scrub off (I unfortunately get the scrubbing duty.) I've had him use white vinegar so the egg coagulates faster but it still leaves an egg ring. Any suggestions?

I've done this, where i'm about 4 books over the limit of my book shelf. Or i'm using them at the moment as research for a project so they're handy. But dust does make shiny book covers a little less shiny even after dusting. I've even gone as far as to very carefully damp towel wipe it then dry it....but it still looks matte.

I also spend way more time on my computer than the tv. We get like 5 channels and 2 of them are in spanish but have the good movies on it but no subtitles......so not really missing out on too much.

It is nice to get live news however, whenever there are helicopters circling you can almost always turn it on and see what's going on and the inauguration...business like that. But I don't think it'd be worth getting cable. But I think they maybe streaming from the local tv station's websites.

I should have left notes.

My first roommate I saw her maybe once a month (though i know she was home more often than that but she'd come in really really late) and it was usually on the way out or in so talking to her face to face was not a possibility.

She left plates of half finished food in the hallway closet cuz she was too lazy to take them a whole 10 steps and to the kitchen. She left a bag with several plates of food in the middle of the living room....i didn't know it was food till it went really really bad...since it wasn't mine i didn't touch it but after a month of being there i eventually threw it out. She used her fingers to eat my peanutbutter and left it in the hallway for me. (Like stick her finger in and suck it off then put it back in) She'd set her alarm for 3-4 am i guess to wake up to do homework or something i don't know but wasn't home to turn it off and her door was locked so it left me listening to her alarm for hours. Didn't pay the utilities because she claimed to be paying utilities at her friend's place she was crashing at. I found out she wasn't paying her friend either...because she told them she was paying me.

I've had 1 roommate since....who was even worse....I don't live with roommates anymore, that's my big luxury...so everything else is on an extremely tight budget.

On a side note...my sister's old roommate would have sex in the living room with his girlfriend. He also threw a party and she didn't know about it till she got a fwd of the invitation...apparently he started off as a really good roommate...

I have a fleece jacket that's got a bear face on the hood with ears and plush claws. With light blue slippers that have removable bunnies. And can often be seen with a hot cup of tea.

I used to wear this at work too till the boss's really huge square headed dog growled at me and now looks at me funny every time I'm in the room with or without my bear jacket.

....there are travel chopsticks....they're like mini pool cues in a box. They screw together in the middle to make full sized chopsticks. I also got a mini pair that goes in my bento box (there's even a space for it) so when I bring my lunch I don't have to worry about utensils.

I've used them all my life, but I do use them wrong. My cousins make fun of me all all the time. I also cook with them, however my boyfriend only uses them to stir things like paint and tosses them. So I'm on my 3rd set....that makes me sad.

I live in a relatively safe neighborhood now, but it's still LA. It's not really just paranoia or been watching too many movies/tv when it's live and beyond hd on your lawn. When helicopters announce to stay inside and close and lock all windows and doors. And they're shining their spotlight into your windows. (it does look like the movies when that happens)

Or when stepping out for a sandwich but you've got the swat team who closed down your entire street with guns drawn and shields up telling you go back inside because there's a suspect with a gun holed up in the house across the street. (Lucky our neighbors weren't home.)

Or when one of our neighbor's child was found in a trunk of a car way out in East LA.

It's not to live in fear but to be prepared. Like if you were to prepare for an earthquake in prone areas or hurricanes in prone areas. I've got the multipurpose maglite by the bed.