Also a doctoral student. I assume there's a healthy amount of self-editing involved here. My (honest) bag would be something along the lines of:

You'd better believe that I expect the $10 cake I get at a restaurant to be genuine Duncan Hines.

The "first rule" stuff is so stupid. Usenet providers get DCMA takedowns pretty frequently. NZBMatrix got taken down years ago. There are a lot of smart people whose job it is to stop copyright infringement; it's unlikely that fairly major protocols that have been used for copyright infringement since the 80s are…

Since it wasn't included: For scientists: Org Mode:

I have a Nexus 7 which I traded up from an iPad 1 to get. I'm kind of iffy as to whether I made a good call or not.

Sure, the world is overflowing with bullshit, but you can either ignore that and move on with your life or you can be a cynical asshole - either are valid solutions. But the people who lead successful, fulfilled lives tend to fall in the former category.

Because someone might not want to shut their phone off when they're taking a shower and think their spouse/roommate/kids/etc might be taking liberties?

In my experience, those phrases precede something that's deceitful considerably less than they precede something super racist (or whatever-ist).

How is this preferable to using the tag:foo operator in search?

If the standard for too much is a 16 oz. porterhouse daily, then yeah, this is practically health food. But it's also not unreasonable to say that 4.5oz/day may be pushing it. Consider that a normal (recommended) serving of ground beef is 4 oz.

Well, in fairness, the one package is like 6 lbs.

True, but I'd modify it somewhat:

It drives me crazy when the argument against Twitter is "I don't care what you had for breakfast." It's like saying that you don't use email because you don't want to get forwarded racist chain letters from your grandfather. Even if it's there, you don't need to pay heed to it.

You know how your mom (grandma, coworker, whoever) uses IE6 and has a ton of toolbars up cluttering the entire screen? You know how, despite your constant effort to get him/her to switch to some better browser, they shrug their shoulders, oblivious to the speed penalty and security risks?

A while back, I lost my dental insurance and figured hey, my mouth is fine. I brush twice a day, I floss every night, and I take care of myself. I can skip the dentist!

Ha! I'm the same way: instead of simply turning off videos that mildly annoy me, I ask for a higher power to visit violence upon the host of that same video. And I thought I was the only one!

"Imagine having to sign up for an outlook.com account when you need a Microaoft acount."

I don't think that this is as big of a deal as people make it out to be, but sometimes you need to plan ahead. People typically only calculate commute time by car. If you work a 9-5 in a reasonably major city, there's a good chance that you can either (a) move close enough to commute by foot/bike or (b) have at least…

Most upsetting fact: 2.3% of respondents disregard what education science has known for decades.

App options. Yeah, there's enough to get by, but iOS always gets the best (non-Google) apps first/exclusively. This goes triple for gaming options because of the increased sensitivity to piracy and fragmentation issues. Podcast apps are probably the best example of this; PocketCasts and DoggCatcher are okay, but the…