I work from home about 50 hours a week; usually mon-fri, but if there's a production deployment or an emergency, weekend work comes up from time to time. My wife is a full time student and works about 10 hours a week. Her schedule is erratic. very Tuesday, she's gone almost all day, but every Wednesday, she has class…

Measure deaths-per-watt. Solar has very few deaths, but also makes almost no electricity as compared to nuclear. Every installer who falls off a roof and breaks his neck cancels out thousands who might die in any EXTREMELY RARE nuclear power plant accident.

It blows my mind that we are even still discussing this. Nuclear is cheaper than wind. Nuclear is cheaper than solar. Nuclear is cheaper than natural gas. Nuclear is cheaper than coal (per watt produced over the life of the plant.) Nuclear is safer than wind. Nuclear is safer than solar. Nuclear is safer than…

But, but... How do you get to work somewhere with the word "bartender" in your job title during the dinner hour on a weekend, without knowing one of the oldest and most classic cocktails? Isn't that up there with thinking that "scrambled" is the only way to cook eggs? My only guess is that the two bartenders scheduled…

I have to disagree with you on that one. The Chicken Fried Steak sandwich one WAS mildly interesting.

As there are no emulators endorsed by Nintendo, and they do not release ROMs, these emulators are quasi-legal at best. It's no surprise that Apple will not allow them in the app store. Remember when the recording industry tried to blame music piracy on Apple because iPods existed? After that, Apple changed how the…

Dear Nintendo
Please create your own emulator and make it available in the app store. Then, make every old NES, Gamboy, SNES, and other be available as in-app purchases for $.99 or $1.99.
You will make all of the monies.

I've worked for a couple of very large banks, and I've always wondered: Why don't they build their own linux distro for the ATMs instead of using Windows? Sure, there would be an up-front cost, but there are millions of copies of windows in the wild with plenty of people looking for flaws. A custom-built linux distro…

I was thinking of built-in bluetooth. All Apple computers and all Windows laptops (that I've encountered) for the last several years include bluetooth. Most windows desktops probably do not. Outside of that, you're correct.

LOL wut? I've worked in IT for a long list of fortune 500 companies, including banks, for the last 15 years, and I've never seen this or heard of it. At the biggest bank in the country, they disabled use of storage devices connecting to USB, but:
a. they did it inside windows so it likely wouldn't have stopped this,…

Airplay-stream it from your mac or your iPhone/iPad

The most recent one that comes to mind: Mini displayport. Developed at apple and given away free to everyone.

Or, keep the dime, eliminate the quarter, the penny, and the nickle. Bring back the half-dollar coin. Dimes and half dollars and just drop the hundredths altogether. That sandwich at subway? Now costs $5.7.

We round off currently. Gas prices all have that .009 added to them. Tax percentages are rounded to the nearest penny; that could just be changed to the nearest dime. Surely you didn't think that your 8.3% tax always came out even, did you?

Bad Mexican food might be the worst bad restaurant food. Del Rio in Joplin MO - Avoid them like the plague. And, funny I mention the plague, because that would be preferable to the symptoms you will experience after eating fajitas at Del Rio. They tasted funny, but I didn't realize that "funny" meant rancid until…

Also, a thing that most people don't understand, (and some ignorant business owners too,) is that the food cost is a very small part of the budget as compared to staff, lease, etc. If I'm making 70% margin on my food, or even 60% margin, the cost of BOTH dishes will be covered when the customer pays for just one dish…

We miss you Steve.

I know you go over this idea a little bit, but the best $300 PC has Dell written on the side.
I have some credentials: I'm nearly 40, I used to build all my own machines (and build for friends and co-workers); I've worked in field-services/desktop support doing hardware work on literally hundreds of computers; perhaps…

TomTom USA for $40 - Totally worth it. At the time I bought it, retail was $80 and it was on sale for $40, (a "mother's day sale" of all things...)

The first time I drove across country using using my iPhone for navigation, it was the first gen iPhone with the first gen maps. There are huge parts of the country with no…

Until recently, I lived less than a mile from that mall/Joplin high school. It was only part of the mall too; the rest of the mall is still a mall. The kids ate lunch in the food court.