If your budget is tight, check thrift stores for art/craft/drawing desks. Many will elevate high enough to be a standing desk and the price is likely to be in the $20-25 range rather than $200+.

Blame Microsoft marketing. People in that field think of names as manipulative tools, i.e Premium means really good, rather than simplicity and clarity. They want you to buy not to understand.

Be careful about publicity. Movie companies have spies looking for situations where showing a movie, even for free and in a backyard, moves into the realm of a theater performance. I’m not sure what criteria their lawyers use, but what they never hear about won’t bring hurt to you.

Try thrift stores. T-shirts are donated by the hundreds, so they’re often sold very cheaply. The sheer quantity will let you find ones you like. You’ll also find that they typically come in two grades, the ‘tissue’ ones you hate and a more rugged cotton. It’s easy to tell the difference.

Quote: The truth is that Brock Turner will spend more time in jail than 97 percent of rapists.... only three out of every 100 rapists will ever go to jail.

I’ve been known to ask people who listen to a lot of Michael Jackson’s music if they really want to become as weird as he was. That doesn’t seem to make them happy, but what you listen to does shape who your are.

There’s a similar trick if, like me, your freeze food bought on sale to eat later. Don’t move that food to your kitchen counter to thaw and then back in the refrigerator section to cool again. Move it directly from the freezer to the refrigerator section. As it thaws, it’ll save you electricity.

Take that 30-mile range as a best case scenario. That antennas is not going to be nearly as high or directional as an outdoor or attic one. If there are any hills or tall buildings in the way or if your window is on the wrong side of your house, forget it.

Take that 30-mile range as a best case scenario. That antennas is not going to be nearly as high or directional as…

Forget waterboarding. If a group of terrorists want to make me reveal some deep secret, they’ll have to adopt either of two torture methods so awful they should be banned by international convention:

For me this debate is irrelevant. It’s pointless for me to write only a very short, carefully letter note. Anything longer and I can’t read it.

I’d trust Consumers Report over the CDC any day. The former refuses lucrative advertising to keep its objectivity. The latter seems to get more politicized—and thus incompetent—by the year.

Time matters. 4 years, 7 years, 15 years, even 40 years out address someone’s ability to avoid crippling debt, as well as their ability to pay back new debts.

Add one more reason for heels. They are extremely loud on hardwood floors. When I worked security in an art museum, I often heard a very loud, “klunk, kunk” steps approaching. It was almost always a petite, 120-pound woman. Her accompanying 220-pound boy friend wasn’t making a sound.

Breaking this down at the state level is absurd. Seattle is a vastly more expensive place to live that a small town in Eastern Washington. Presenting this data by MSAs would make more sense, with a separate figure for the non-metropolitian areas of each state.

Quote: “After watching a safety video, you’re treated to non-stop propaganda via state-approved entertainment.”

In the late 1980s, I worked in social science research managing databases. I found the studies so poorly planned and done, I was quite happy to move on to other work.

I suspect that if Item 1 in your job description is “Kill People,” then you need these high-jinks like these to let off steam.

Great article. Looking back, I can see when I studied pre-engineering in the late 1960s, it was a lot like Beast Barracks. It deliberately weeded out those who couldn’t think clearly under a lot of stress. Those who couldn’t became business majors.

Glad to hear of this. Youtube’s design is so cluttered, almost any change would be an improvement.

For most information that you’d like to display, an old smartphone or tablet is a better solution, given that there’s an appropriate app. I’ve got an old iPhone 3gs that I used to display the current weather.