Good advise. I also make sure my very old backpacking stove still works and that I have fuel for it.

But it is pretty easy to be "anonymous enough". I was cyber stalked aggressively a couple of years ago and the person could only figure out what state I was in. With all my accounts, I'm careful to not put in my real birthday, the real town I live in and I'm careful to not use apps that broadcast where I am.

I pay to read the NY Times. I get the educational discount though. I probably wouldn't pay for the Times if I didn't get the discount.

Oddly, no. I've even done experiments playing FLAC files with my iPhone through different setups and you don't loose that much with bluetooth compared to a direct connection. I think it is because the iPhone is such a mediocre sound source to begin with, using bluetooth isn't a big deal.

Lawn Darts!

This is the coolest alarm clock on the planet:

I noticed the gentleman in the middle of the photograph was carrying an RPG. What do you think he was going to do with it?

Having an urn shaped like a head is better than having a head shaped like an urn.

I remember when the picture from the moon was first displayed that night, it was upside down.

I've been thinking you should be able pair two phones, a smart phone and really small, hard phone that you can only use as a phone and for IM. You'd be able to flip your number between the two phones, depending on where you going. That would be handy.

1960 or 1961. A traveling US Army PR show came through the town I was living in. Part of the show was a computer that could play chess. Someone knew that my father was a good chess player so he was invited over to play against the computer. He found a weakness right away and beat the machine. He showed me what…

We'll hear here?

Dear Lord, please make every DBA read this article.

11. Make sure your speakers are in phase!

I've tried Windows 8. I saw no compelling features to wait for.

When you've got enough money to hire several people to tote all your stuff up a mountain, you are ready.

The first reason anyone would build an aircraft carrier is to prevent a war. Also, you should note that there are a lot of people who aren't poor because they've got this boat to work on. Is there's something bad about having people working?

I was thinking that the bath room in Hong Kong looks palatial compared to the men's bathrooms at Fenway Park.

Good advice. I really like being able to depend on a decent home machine with a big monitor, a real keyboard and one that is beefy enough to run a VM with Linux on it. For portablity, you've always got your phone for email and doing most info lookups, so I see a tablet as a luxury item. Overall, a netbook is a…

For arm curls, trainers have told me to shoot for 60% of my maximum, so ballpark, your max should be about 50lbs.