I'm not sure if it was corporate wide or not but my division of Lockheed required that all meetings have a published agenda and published notes.

I'm an admin and I haven't actually touched a machine besides my laptop for three years now.

I've often thought that rich people are rich because they do things like buy really nice cars and keep them for twenty years. Check around the parking garage of a luxury condo. You'll be surprised how many cars need a paint job because the are so old.

Twenty years ago it was quite common. When you got on the airplane, the attendants would just take your suit bag and hang it up for you. I don't know if planes now even have a place to hang a suit bag.

My experience has been that you get much better deals at no-haggle places. The only minuses I've seen with no-haggle dealerships is that the sales people aren't very well informed and you might not be able to test drive the car you are interested in. They tend to be low margin operations all the way around.

I have a "sit down" job that is causing health problems. I thought a standing desk would help but my doctors told me it would be fine to use a standing desk but I shouldn't stand at it for too long. They said that people with jobs where they stand all day have worse problems. The advice I've been getting is…

"aside from an internet connection" - that's a big aside. You're not really "cutting the cable" if you're getting internet from a cable company.

I've been trying to get by lately with just a Kindle Fire HD, a Logitech keyboard and an iPhone. I'm a UNIX guy though, so I just need a VPN app and an SSH client and I'm pretty happy. For notes, I use Evernote. I can only open one SSH session at a time so I can't do any serious work but for overnights or…

I don't need to, it's working just fine.

Having more than one cat is a sign of mental illness.

Where I live, laundry chutes fall into the same safety category as elevators. When I remodeled a bathroom, we had to take a basic laundry chute out because it would have been so expensive to get it up to code.

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.