What about the reverse - using my iPhone 5 sim in a cheap phone I don't mind getting beat up? (For instance, on camping trips.)

Really?? I've had this for weeks now. I freaked when I first saw it, but once I realized I couldn't see anybody else's, I calmed down.

National parks and mountains are pretty terrible too. Mount Rainier isn't on Apple Maps, neither is Pinnacles. Yosemite is a giant, empty, unlabeled, slighly-darker green blob. Same for Joshua Tree. This is really just rather sad.

Battery life doesn't affect clock speed. The real difference is that the slow iPhone is on iOS6, and the fast iPhone must be on iOS5 or less.

First photo is Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz. It looks exactly like the day I was there shooting. It's definitely unaltered - my photos needed very little tweaking, the light was perfect. I wonder if I just barely missed seeing it...

Lightsaber: Check out an axicon. They've been used to create a plasma, and can control length depending on how you mask an incoming beam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axicon

"Seriously, who really wants a wood wallet?" ...girls? Even disregarding the material, that design isn't exactly masculine...

That's not all it does. It appears to fix HDMI and optical audio, but only in 10.6.8, not Lion. Which doesn't help my 5.1 surround sound problem. I don't know if it's related, but I'm working off of a Bose system with an onboard soundcard. (Plug in with USB.)

Is anybody else having problems with 5.1 surround sound? I have Bose speakers that support it. I've configured them with the Midi app like you're supposed to. VLC plays the voice center channel in the left front speaker. The effects/music channel seems to be fine. Which is a bit odd, because I would have expected…

Shift + Command + F

Safari uses a two-finger swipe now. But you can switch back to the old ways via Sys Prefs > Trackpad > More Gestures > Swipe between pages, change to "Swipe left or right with 3 fingers" instead of "Scroll left or right with two fingers"

Also, don't secured cards have a hard cap on their spending limit? I seem to remember those programs don't support limits above $500 in general. They're meant for teens who have no credit history at all, or people who've declared bankruptcy?

Well, not everybody can get these perks. I was rejected from pretty much every reward card for a few years after getting my first one, until my credit history built up.

Are you sure that means what you think it does? I always have a balance on my credit cards because, well, I always need to buy things. (Groceries and gas, usually.) So you can look at my credit report and it looks like I'm carrying a balance on my credit card all the time. But in reality, the balance that shows up…

Well, the problem you're having is you're using a secured card. I wouldn't expect a secured card to get you a higher credit rating. It shows you can live within limits you set, but it's not really credit. If you don't pay, they don't give you back the $500 you gave them to get the card.

It seems so basic, but so many people don't do it:

10% each is still 10% of the total income...

I haven't read the study, but I hate these things. There are so many alternative explanations. For instance: They found a correlation between couples performing difficult tasks together and measurements of the quality of their relationship. What about couples performing easy tasks? How do you know it isn't just…

I'm always invisible. Turns out that's *exactly* what I'm trying to say. Contact me another way. I'll get on to talk to you if that's what you want, but I'd almost rather get snail-mail than IM with you. Call me, damnit, we have cell phones, we're not 16.

+1. What happened to the tools Unix programmers have been using for years?? I switched from TextMate to MacVim when I started to get carpal tunnel. It magically got better, and went away when I finally installed Vimium for Chrome. (And came back when I reverted to old habits using the mouse. It's a constant war…