For the small darters, get a child harness and ignore the stares. Your kid is safe. That’s what matters.

I suspect you’re suspicions are right, at least enough so that I’m holding off on all Apple purchases. I got stuck with the old connector with my iPad 3. I’m not going to repeat that.

Mute when I’m on hold? Then I can’t insult them for the bad music and inane messages. I want my holds to be silent at their end.

No Nick, no one has appointed you our linguistic fuhrer. We’ll use whatever term we want. If you don’t like it, you can pick up YOUR purse and storm out of the room. Have yourself a good cry and then you’ll feel all better.

How to avoid getting sick on a cruise ship?

Avoid Atlanta. Being the home of CNN, it’s almost impossible to get away from blaring CNN TVs.

Quote: “If the nicotine were removed, or reduced to non-addictive or minimally addictive levels, the FDA is betting that far fewer people would end up smoking cigarettes and suffering the consequences.”

Ah, this is great. For once Apple is doing a tweak, however tiny, for those of us who write.

I’d add another suggestion. If the place where someone is shopping is obvious. i.e. a huge Walmart parking lot, you might see if they’ll do a PA announcement. Anyone would prefer that to a broken window. That’s likely to cost hundreds of dollars.

Here’s how The Lord of the Rings movie made hobbits and dwarfs look smaller even when the camera was moving.

Ah, yet another illustration of why I stopped watching network TV years ago. It was almost “we interrupt this series of commercials to give you a tiny snippet of the show.”

Like you, I like Overcast’s ability to speed up podcast by about 25-30% and eliminate the pauses in speaking. That makes even the most amateur of podcasts sound professional. Since it allows the speed up to be different for each podcast, it lets me adjust the speed to the subject matter.

Wouldn’t it be easier to create a check list and, before you go check off all the items that should be off. And then if you’re the paranoid type, carry that sheet with you.

Doesn’t the 2014 Mac mini have the RAM soldered in? If so, forget that RAM upgrade if you’re stuck with that loser. The 2014 Mac mini is so bad that 2012 Mac minis often sell now for more than I paid for mine new five years ago.

If you’re a woman, simply ask yourself, “Does this guy remind me of Bill Clinton?” If the answer is “yes,” turn and flee.

Someone should make arrow keys whose upper surface is an arrow pointing in the appropriate direction.

Blacklisting will do little good. These people have lots of numbers. They’re cheap to get.

I feel sorry for the third of Americans who enter their twenties without a drivers license. I may not have been the world’s best driver at 16, but learning to drive in the mid-teens is like learning to ride a bike as a kid. New skills are easier when you’re young.

Muggers will love this. No longer will they be restricted to what you have in your wallet. Now they can go after your entire back account or how much credit you have.

Cancer rates are heavily dependent on age. Is this map adjusted for that?