When I have a class of 20, no, not so much effort. When I have a class of 200, yes, lots of effort. Lots of time, lots of clicks, lots of more valuable things I could be doing with my time. Let's call if 15 seconds per file. Open it, one click to get to the Info screen in Word, check the name against who the file is…

The NCAA is not an academic organization of any sort. They don't have the expertise or authority to guide a professor on anything at all (remembering of course that they barely have the expertise or authority to guide collegiate athletics). Even if they did write macros and make them freely available, or if a…

If they email the assignments in, downloading and opening every one before grading would be a big time investment, one that is nothing but mindless, repetitive clicking. For a 200 student class? No way I'm doing that.

Word World—there's a reason my daughter knew all of her letters by 20 mos, and it's a lot about her love of this show.

Such a beast exists. Lawrence, KS and Norman, OK have a place called Pizza Shuttle. They make a cream cheese pizza. It is everything you could hope for.

Having had to spend an inordinate amount of time looking for their kid-fooling countdown on NYE (which ended up being available only on some devices and hard to find even then), I sympathize with these folks. Netflix has a terrible search interface.

And I was warned about graphic images in the pending comments...

So, being Jewish, I never had my Santa bubble popped. OTOH, I accidentally destroyed my coach's daighter's childhood. We're at a debate tournament, with some downtime, and we (the debaters) are playing pool. We give one guy a hard time for a terrible shot, and he sneers back, "Oh yeah? Well, the Easter bunny's not…

Welp, now I'm in for a paddlin' by the dean. All in the name of accuracy, I suppose.

Oklahoma City University, please. If we're going have alumni murdering people, at least credit the school properly.

I hope that when Berry's treatment is over, he issues a statement saying the worst part of the whole thing was the horse pills. Because seriously, he seems like the best guy, and fuck cancer.

+1 to the diluted vinegar wipedown on wood furniture. My inlaws smoked heavily for years, so when they gave us the bedroom set they'd been storing for my wife, it was terrible. It took a few cycles, but the vinegar made an instant difference. It also helped to let it sit outside for a few hours. We took all the…

"Off the cuff" is impromptu speaking, that is, speaking without much preparation. Extemporaneous speaking is prepared and usually delivered with notes, but not scripted/memorized or scripted/read. Extemporaneous speaking is the best balance between preparation and remaining free to nonverbally engage with and react to…

Most of these should work on all capacitive screens. I have the Notier and use it on my iPhone and Yoga, while my wife has used it on her Dell Venue. The Jot Pro and Lynktec should also work on all capacitive screens, while the Paper and Adobe styli are not as universally compatible.

Feedly acknowledged the bug and says they've fixed it now. Pocket should work again with free accounts.

Vote: Musemee Notier v2

Not entirely sure that GoToob deal is really a deal. I just bought the same package at Bed, Bath, and Beyond for $19.99 and saw it at Target for the same price. Whatever they're selling them for on the manufacturer's website, retailers have that price regularly.

Once upon a time, pre-9/11 and pre-TSA, I flew back from a two week European trip, going through customs in Detroit. A guy on my trip had purchased a five-foot long broad sword in Assisi, wrapped the blade in paper and tape, and carried it on. The security folks waved him through no questions asked. I, OTOH, had a six…

Yep. I mailed a multitool home one time from KCI. I think it was a $25 flat rate for the very small envelope. My wife mailed her Swiss Army knife home from BWI as well (somehow it went undetected on the way out, not confidence-inspiring).

"Spazzed out? Nein, that's what I was Ghana do all along!"