Free food? Yet another reason I don't want to take a cruise ship. I'd pig out, and hardly be able to walk off the ship at the end of the cruise.

Yet another illustration of how badly the F-35 was designed. If warm fuel creates problems for electronics that needs that fuel for cooling, what happens when the plane itself is sitting on a hot runway? What happens when fuel gets low and there's too little of it to dissipate heat.

Thanks for what strikes me as excellent advice. At one time I cared for children with leukemia, the most common cancer among children. Our chemotherapy often meant they'd been vomiting as their bodies sensed what has happening. I'd be with them, holding a bucket to spare their parents that ordeal.

Readers should note that few people probably visit the website mentioned above. I've never even heard of it. But this Jezebel article gives out more that enough information—all of it unnecessary—that it took me but Google and 15 seconds to find the article. If there's guilt in revealing her name, Jezebel and its…

Let's hope the universal flu vaccine being developed in Israel proves successful. We might need a specialized booster each year, but these misses might become a thing of the past.

Many, many thanks for your article. I own what is perhaps the dullest car ever made, not just a 1981 Toyota Corolla, but the station wagon model in beige. I keep it because it just keeps going and going and going. I doubt I average over $100 a year in repairs. So many were made, parts are still easy to get.

I fail to see the point of most of these efforts. Driving simply isn't that hard and most trips we make are over such short distances, the programming is more bother than the driving.

Interesting thoughts and new ideas keep me awake not anxiety. I guess I'm not the worrying type. But I do find that, when all else fails, a warm shower will put me to sleep.

I've used 'not a step' steps before. Just be ready to jump well clear of the ladder if it tips over using that next-to-last step. If you come down on the ladder, you're likely to sprain or break your ankle. In my case, I kicked the ladder in one direction as a jumped in the other.

I've got a similar problem with gutters than need cleaning. I've not done it yet, but my solution is likely to be to come at those gutters from the opposite side of the house, where the ground is flat.

As someone who spent a college summer repairing untold numbers of window air-conditioners ten hours a day, six days a week, I might offer some advice.

As someone who spent a college summer repairing untold numbers of window air-conditioners ten hours a day, six days…

Quote: "Apple really needs to add Touch ID to their Mac product line. Would come in really handy."

Not really genetic, at least in my case. As a kid, I was a night owl, barely stumbling out of bed at 7 a.m. for school. Now I'm an early bird, often waking up alert and ready to go at 5 a.m.

If you've got a ceiling fan, use it when drying those clothes. They'll dry faster and the humidity will move around the house more quickly.

Drinking lots of water not only helps cope with the dry air and keep clots from developing, it forces you to get up and walk to the toilet more often.

I've got a different solution. Socks and shirts go in the dryer, while my sheets are hung on a drying rack in front of a sunny window, where they dry quickly.

The Fire Phone itself is unimpressive, but if you've planned to get Prime anyway, that drops the cost to $100. For that you get a tolerably good smartphone and being unlocked, you can save quite a bit of money going with contract-free prepay cellular plans or third-party resellers. It's GSM-only though, so that limits…

The Fire Phone itself is unimpressive, but if you've planned to get Prime anyway, that drops the cost to $100. For…

The avoiding rule perhaps applies best to attractive young women, who often need to act as if they're deaf. Some guys are creeps.

I'd suggest also teaching them to apply some sensible standards to what they buy. The girl above—dark-eyed and dark-haired—doesn't need toys that have a hidden message that beautiful means blonde and blue-eyed. She's quite lovely as she is.

If I tried really, really hard, I might come up with a automobile UI that's stupider than a touch screen. It's dreadful problems include: