I live kinda near Cleveland, OH, not that it matters much for this conversation, other than the fact that I don't live near silicon valley or wall street or anything. Anyway, I just pretty much wear khaki shorts during the spring/summer/fall and khaki pants fall/winter/spring. I pretty much always wear a t-shirt. …

Sorry... there's a third buddy on the roof waxing down the luggage rack or something. I'm guessing he wants the luggage to fall onto the road to get back at the sammich eating hack who is wasting everyone's time. Then again, for all we know, the guy on the right is stealing the tire, rather than replacing it, and…

Yes, I believe that is Harvey Dent from the Michael Keaton Batman movie.

How often are you supposed to sit in front of your vehicle eating a sammich while your two buddies are working on the car?

My first computer was an Apple IIgs, which came out in 1986 (according to wikipedia), so it was after that sometime. It didn't have a hard drive, but it came with a 3 1/2 floppy drive. It had a black and white monitor and, we didn't realize this until we were getting rid of it years later, but it had a modem. It…

Well, I guess it depends on my day as to the contents of my morning ritual. On days when I work my web design job, I get up at 6:30, take a shower, shave, all that hygiene stuff, go back to my room (usually about 6:55), toss on some clothes and turn on my radio. I flop down on my bed until 7:20. I get up, turn off…

I like cygwin. I have actually used grep to find information based on the contents of a file from within cygwin as well. I even have it set up on my desktop at home to run ssh, so I can access my computer from anywhere I have an Internet connection.

My desk is pretty plain. I have an empty candy tin that is shaped like a Super Mario Bros. 1-up mushroom, which is really the only customization that I really have. I have a computer with 2 monitors to work on (I do web design) with a white board just behind it with a few vague sketches that my boss put up there to…

Yes. Precisely. This is why I included the "&& del test10.zip" which, if it downloads successfully, will delete the file automatically. I don't think there's something comparable in Windows. This might also be good to have in a batch file (a file that has the file extension .bat) and you can add a pause command…

WinWGetPortable is available via portableapps.com. Once installed, if you go into the App/winwget/wget from a command line, you can create a batch file for downloading the file. Copy the following to a text file and save it as a batch file, then it should tell you the speed:

I have to agree. This professor did write down a lot of good information on his note card, but in order to follow it, you have to be pretty well off. I don't know too many people who are living paycheck to paycheck, eating ramen and spaghetti-os regularly that can just set aside 20% of their money, pay off their…

I have a few apps on my phone that have annoying ads. I installed an anti-virus program that offers a firewall that allows or denies internet traffic on an app by app basis with rules you can set up for if you are on wifi or on 4g. It actually helps to block some of the annoying ads.

Oh, I also suppose that the list could have been drawn on the person's arm/leg by someone else, so if it is an arm, it might have been drawn on by someone else and not necessarily identify that person as left handed.

Am I the only person (weirdo) that noticed that the person in the picture with the to do list is either left handed or drew up the to do list on his or her leg? Oh, and I tend not to make to do lists that much, but if I have to talk to a client on the phone, I will typically draw up a basic script of points to cover.…

Funny thing is that I used to go through and read most of the articles in Lifehacker and realized that some of them were just really a waste of time for me to read. Some articles just don't interest me that much. Sometimes when I have like 300 articles to wade through to catch up after not reading any of these for…

Yeah, I was going to ask this. In fact, portableapps.com actually has an app management program that basically does the same thing. I use some of those apps all the time.

A little while back, LifeHacker suggested a (free) service called lingua.ly. If you go to lingua.ly (website), you can add an extension to Google Chrome. It then links you to a news source in the language that you wish to learn. You double click on any words that you are unfamiliar with and it will translate it…

I have a friend who imports and roasts his own coffee. Since I tried his coffee, I have pretty much avoided Starbucks. He pointed out that Starbucks' coffee is actually not all that good. Now, most people that go to Starbucks say that they like Starbucks, but in all honesty, when was the last time that you heard…

I typically either right-click>copy/cut and then right-click>paste or I drag and drop. A while back I learned about using the modifier keys to modify the behavior of dragging and dropping icons in Windows Explorer. Before you release the mouse button, if you press and hold either the Ctrl, Alt, or Shift keys and…

This also depends on how the URL shortener works. A lot of them basically save the URL in a database and generate a random string that it uses to look up the original URL. It then sends a browser redirect (Location) response header to the web browser and the browser goes to the new site. I'm guessing (haven't…