Let me count the ways...Comcast just upgraded me to 60mb for no extra money, my phone service is now far more reliable than Verizon ever was, and I just enjoyed the best Winter Olympics coverage I can remember.

How do you get to the internet?

Amazon Prime has Perfect Bacon Bowls for $11.50! Too bad they didn't have that deal going for Valentine's Day!

Ha! Me too. I cried once during a movie but it was because a dog died. Maybe I just don't like most people?

Wikipedia says, "The Boss 429 is arguably one of the rarest and most valued muscle cars to date." I have no idea what my father was thinking, but I learned to drive in a 1969 429 Mustang.

Easier than setting up a dual boot is just running Vmware's Vmware Player. You can load pretty much anything you want onto a virtual machine on the Vmware Player and the virtual and the physical machine can even share a folder so you can copy files back and forth.

The really odd thing about email is that a lot of college age kids don't use it. College professors have to make a point of telling their students that they will be sending out notices via email and that everyone should check their email every day.

Yes, that looks like one of the Trash-80s, probably the TRS-80 Color Computer. It used a color TV as a monitor and you could back it up to an audio cassette player. It ran a special version of Basic. It was my first home computer. It was great for homework. I remember using it like kids use graphing calculators…

I always carry $200 in cash tucked away in my car. Also, whenever I get a new car, I always check out how I'm going to change a tire. I've had a couple of cars and one truck that came with a jack that didn't really work.

I actually carry an iPhone because of iTunes. It just works. I got tired of fooling with the other media managers every time something changed or got upgraded. Media Monkey does a good job too but it is very weak at identifying cds when you rip them. iTunes doesn't have many options for ripping cds but again, it…

I also vote for the TomTom. I've used mine many times when I had no phone service. Also, you can download POIs (points of interest) or tables of POIs for a vacation or any activity to easily find locations. Also, my TomTom is voice activated, I can say, "Navigate to nearest Panaera Bread" and it gives me accurate…

ahh, SunOS, those were happy days. However, my favorite OS was Solaris 2.8. Everything just worked. If you had a question, you could go on SunSolve and figure it out yourself.

There are a number of online sites that review TVs and do a good job,

I'm an IT guy and my phone gets a workout 24x7. I use it as an alarm clock, for reminders, reading the news, checking the weather and if the commute gets ugly, "Waze" does a great job navigating around the mess. Also, I love having Bluetooth in my car so I can listen to either my own playlists or Pandora. If the…

You're the parent, you don't need to discuss everything with your children.

You are on the right track with "Let Them Be In Charge" I found a great way to get children to cooperate is to give them a clear choice, "We can go to the store now, or we can have cream of tomato soup for dinner." "We can leave now or we can decide to never come back to this playground, your choice."

Have you ever noticed that a grilled cheese sandwich prepared by someone else is always much better than a grilled cheese sandwich that you have cooked? I call it "The Grilled Cheese Sandwich Effect" and it also seems apply to to hot dogs. It's why hot dogs at a ball park are always better than the hot dogs you…

When they were under 16, we gave our kids a regular allowance so they would learn a little bit about staying on a budget. They were expected to help with certain jobs around the house and they were also given optional jobs for extra money. Mostly, I just wanted them to have their own money. The most important…

I always use smoots when I want to impress people.

This is what I use, it sounds great: