I feel fortunate that I live in a place where earwigs are pretty much the scariest bugs we have. The only thing worse (for me) are deer flies. Those little bastards force me to dress like a bee keeper just to mow my lawn from about mid-June until the end of July.

No cap here. Bell in Atlantic Canada doesn't have caps on their home internet for competitive reasons. However their only real competitor here (Rogers) does have caps.

I just wish they'd hurry up and run fibre down my road. I'm only 10 mins away from where fibre is and I'm on a main road (back road, but one of the big…

I've been on the internet for close to 20 years now, thanks. I'm supposed to just know which parts are overly-broad generalizations and sarcasm? I'm not a mind-reader. The part of your comment that I disagreed with was brought up twice in your little rant. I thought I'd address that particular aspect of it because I…

What does the marital status of a child's parents have to do with vaccinations? I have 2 kids with my girlfriend and I see no reason to marry. Common-law already gives her half my stuff if she should leave me. She also doesn't want my name because of how it would make her full name sound. I see no benefit to a…

If I buy a wooden table, especially an expensive one (as I assume this is), I want something solid and heavy. I don't want something that looks like a plastic table made of wood.

Every letter in the alphabet can have its pronunciation spelled out for clarity, including the way the U.S. folks pronounce Z.
It's not actually "Z vs. Zed" it's "Zee vs. Zed".

My personal opinion is that most things sound better when Z is pronounced "Zed". The only notable example I can really think of at the moment…

In NB, Canada, $10/hr is minimum wage.

Real. Every year. No exceptions. Sometimes we cut them ourselves, sometimes we go to a lot to get one. Every year the tree is a bit different.

Even pre-orders aside, Canada is part of North America and we have 2 time zones farther east than the Eastern time zone. We have Atlantic (an hour ahead of Eastern) and Newfoundland (half an hour ahead of Atlantic). Our stores open at midnight for this stuff, too.

Apostrophe makes it possessive, not plural.

I still have every mobile phone I've purchased since 2001. And they all still work.

As soon as I saw the new Pros, I immediately was reminded of some frame sliders I bought for my bike a few years ago:

You can make a donation to pay down the US debt here: https://www.pay.gov/paygov/forms/f…

I must be the only bad parent here. My 4 year-old has been using tablets and phones (no cell service) since she was about 2.5. She got a Nexus 7 for Christmas last year and also has her own computer (built from spare parts I had laying around) where she can play games on the Nick Jr., Disney, Jr. etc. websites. She…

The attack on land lines puzzles me, too. I have a landline at home. It's where my family is while I'm at work. It makes me feel better knowing that even if the power is out, the corded base phone will still ring. And if they need to call me, they can. You don't need to charge a land line. Even if we had cell phone…

Will the 4K BDs use H.265?

I keep my cables in plastic bags. That way they can't get tangled.

Agreed. 0 to 1 is better. You want a number from 0-10? Multiply by 10 and round or truncate the decimal places. For 0-100 add a '0' to the previous statement, etc.

Looks to me like bubbles in a protective film.

When I flush my poop, it goes literally feet from my bathroom and sits underground in a big cement tank for up to 2 years until I call a company to come with a big truck and suck it all up. Then maybe the rest of the treatment happens, I guess. Once they haul it away, who am I to tell them what to do with it?