Wind power does NOT HAVE to be installed at utility scale only! Nothing wrong with local or residential turbine installations; maybe not as efficient overall as higher towers, but they could still help the situation.

The craze will end when most folks quit buying the bigger phones. For many, this may be after they do buy a huge phone, try living with it, and get disgusted. I bought my Nexus 6 because I thought it might be a little easier to see things without zooming; it was, but at this size I know I'll never buy any bigger…

Maybe my view of prehistoric life is mainly informed by novels and TV, but I think enough humans died of injury or illness that killing someone for dinner may not necessarily have happened often. I can imagine people, who fell down a cliff or got stomped while hunting something large, dying later of infected compound…

This sounds like CBP has hired people who abuse power because they never had any, skip training them properly, and don’t bother supervising them as they “inspect”. The electronic devices seem to claim a very small part of their attention - maybe smaller than the amount of oversight watching the CBP in general. It's…

So many people have this dream of a house shaded by trees. Fine, but in fire regions they should be one and a half times the height of that tree away from the house or other buildings. Any landscaping should be fire resistant plants, and even if that’s not done, all plants should be kept trimmed and controlled. Clear…

3 part Comfort Keyboard, with 10 key numbers section set on left. I retired, and now really miss hearing those keys every weekday. Note also 3M joystick mouse.

Somebody please find some mug shots that vaguely resemble Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg....then run those two past the recognition lineup. Should be good.

Hee hee hee, I used to love seeing the expression of support techs when they came to my cube and saw my joystick mouse. Full time users of mapping software get very serious about non-traditional pointing devices.

“Rm9sbG93ZXJz” , X-Files episode. Just saying.

I have been telling folks for years that trees are better at a safe distance from houses. But, a couple of items about your wildlife: look up betterthanlogs.com , an outfit that makes what are essentially long tiles shaped and colored like logs. They’re a beautiful siding that goes over new or existing surfaces. You…

Um, X-Files? “Rm9sbG93ZXJz”?

RE: Screen. Did you try reading glasses? Just saying.

MONORAIL. Someone always says how expensive a monorail system would be: how could it be more than thirty billion??!? Not to mention tunnels will be more and more problematic if the ocean level rises as predicted. Other places have working monorail systems.

Pogs. Just saying.

Had several alcoholics in the family. Watching them, and attendees at college parties, my take was that alcohol largely brought out facets of personality that people had otherwise learned to hide or control. Be that meanness, giggling fits, or rampant lust, it was always educational the first time I saw a new…

I would rather fly with six peacocks, twelve hamsters and a miniature horse than one crying human baby.

Rural dweller here. You’re all forgetting a great equalizer: satellite TV and internet, together or separately. I currently live in Southern California - seriously - and had only dialup, not even DSL, for a few years until we could afford the dishes on our roof. Phone signal has improved in recent years, to where my…

When did this law pass? I bought a 6 pack of eggs last week, yes in CA. Didn’t look at any stamped date because I already figured that they don’t matter. And if I had extra eggs, I’d pour the liquid eggs into a plastic or paper cup, and freeze them, then put the frozen eggs into a freezer-safe bag.

I would guess that if the loss of control was die to parts failure or bad maintenance, the driver could sue to recover the job and the court costs. And I recently found out that many areas have such a thing as ambulance insurance, separate from normal health insurance, with a reasonable yearly fee. Even for medical…

They don’t need to swallow string for it to be a hazard. I had a string hanging off the patio eaves as I removed some old sunshades. After I put the sunshades in the trash, I came back and heard a very weak meow - my cat had been playing with the string, and was hanging about two feet off the ground with one forepaw…