My router emergency kit consists of my car keys and a Best Buy credit card. Fortunately, having the internet is not mission critical for me (I have network access at the office, and do most serious work there), but I do need to plan better. In the meanwhile, I would just plug the ethernet cable in from the cable modem.

This. Brilliant. I've pretty consistently applied this rule, but in my current job I know that I need to be at meetings to protect my unit's interests, so I cannot play this card as often as I'd like. But by and large, a meeting without an agenda is a waste of everyone's time.

I never have things on an SD card that aren't already backed up. Except for new photos on the camera that haven't been uploaded yet.

I was just thinking about SD cards the other day. I like to have my photos with me on my Macbook Air,but they take up a lot of space on the SSD. I was wondering whether it would make sense just to store them on an SD card that I carry around with the Air. In other words, I'd just add another 32 GB of storage through…

That'd be five white men, fer shur. Not hard to find in Raleigh. Still, this is an epic win.

Yeah, she's determined. For our second kid, she had to be induced due to a pre-natal little problem with our fetus-dude. So she goes in to the hospital (awful) for a checkup and they say "we're inducing today," so she says "Ok, I have to give this textbook to a friend" [she was in school for a 2nd career] and then…

Thanks—that was a close one.

I was unclear. Alternative schedule from your kid doc? Fine? Just doing the alt sched because "I feel better about it." No good. The latter group of parents are the selfish f*ckwits that fully piss me off.

Yes, I do know the difference between the NSC and a private organization. I also know that the NSC doesn't "answer" to the executive branch, because it's in the executive branch.

And there you have it. We're not reading about the cutting edge here tonight.

You come back a week later to bitch that someone had the temerity to call you out as a troll? But congratulations for being a fellow Old, I guess. And, yeah, I dabbled in assembly and basic (ooh, hard!) on the Osborne. But then I had to actually get real work done. But your hobby is paying off well, I see.

My wife had a midwife deliver our first son. Ten years ago. (And yes, we knew the diff between a midwife and a doula, etc. etc.) This is so one decade old. (Well, it was in a hospital. And she started the contractions when the icky male OB GYN was in the house. But she held him in until he went off shift, and the…

I believe the article suggests that all people using an alternative schedule — one they pulled out of their asses than one based on the recommendations of a pediatrician — are Jenny McCarthy idiots who think they personally know better than science. This would be a true statement.

It's the ones with the old Volvo 240 wagons you need to worry about.

"But I just don't understand how people can so willingly blind themselves to REAL and SCIENTIFIC evidence."

Thank you for posting this.

Ugh. More anti-vaxxers. More idiots. Yeah, spacing out the shots, yada yada yada. I trust the docs on this one, sorry.

Judith Regan?

Thanks for making me choke on my popcorn. Epic win.

I've written textbooks on bureaucracy—sorry to play the douche card, but there ya go. Oh, and I've worked in bureaucracies for 30 years. So there's that. I can recite the literature on bureaucracy backwards and forwards. That would be hella boring.