As my old friend Michael says, “Better gray than gone”.

You wouldn’t write “her’s” when something belongs to her, why would you write “it’s” when something belongs to it?  But you need an apostrophe in a contraction such as “it’s” for it is.  That’s why there are the two forms.

I have a stepdaughter who usually gets the I-me thing wrong. When she was younger I used to correct her all the time. When she became an adult I stopped, but when she became an elementary school teacher I started again.

When I worked a nice union job (think brown truck) I was given full pay for time served on jury duty. I therefore wanted to be called - it beat actual work! I was called once in 32 years, and excused by lunchtime. The judge called us in and told us they had had 4 trials scheduled for the day and they had all settled…

Once when I was called, during questioning of prospective jurors a man got up and gave a 3-minute speech about his mother and a house she bought that turned out to have been a meth house, and the courts wouldn’t help her, and he concluded by saying “So I now just have no faith in the judicial system.” He was promptly…

Your last sentence is a gross generalization and I doubt there’s data to back it up. It certainly doesn’t apply to me, though I understand the invalidity of anecdotal evidence.

My questions: 1) Can the nag things be turned off? They would be a deal-breaker for me. 2) In the past, Subarus have had shorter warranties than some other cars. Is this still true?

The solution is simple, if perhaps expensive (or perhaps not): Quit buying Samsung and Motorola phones (and the others) until they start doing updates as promptly as Google does! My Pixel XL (a “Pixel 1", I guess) gets all the updates timely. I recently searched Amazon to see how much it would cost to replace it with…

Absolutely yes.

In Colorado it’s a black circle forming a star in the middle, of the same color as the rest of the license.  And it’s a regular 5-point star, not a Star of David.  Are you serious?  I assume not . . .

As the old saying goes, no airplane ever backed into a mountain. That being said, I suspect that the difference in the fatality rate between the most safe and least safe seats on a given flight is so infinitesimal as to be totally unworthy of even the briefest consideration.

I don’t think he ever had you in the first place.

The good news is that’s pretty cheap.  The bad news is you have to fly on Frontier.

My wife and I use KeePass. We each have our own data file, which we keep on Dropbox, but I keep some of her important passwords in my data file too, for convenience, and we make sure we know each other’s KeePass password, stored in the other’s KeePass database. In the event of one mate’s sudden demise the other would b…

The way I think of it, what I would win is time - time to do what I want instead of having to spend it earning money. At its simplest, what is life but some time we get to spend here? I do think that winning would make me happier, because I could do what I wanted to with my time.

I love Shel Silverstein, almost as much as Dr. Seuss. I’ve memorized a few poems by the former and a fair number by the latter (yes, Dr. Seuss was most certainly a poet!), not so much by trying to as by repeatedly reading them to three younger siblings and three kids.

The bad news is, you have to fly on Frontier, Which used to be a really good airline in a previous life, but isn’t any more.  Add up all the extras, then check Southwest, remembering that Southwest actually has a little legroom and padding on their seats.

I vividly remember a conversation I had once on a chair lift with a total stranger. Travel came up, and he said “yeah, my wife and I were always going to travel when we retired. But she died last month.” The lesson: If you’re going to do it, do it now!

Unit Converter Lite converts to/from furlongs per fortnight.  Alas, it won’t convert to/from Smoots.

Jason is bitter because people buy the kind of vehicle they want to buy.  That kinda says it all.