On good use for an old tablet or smartphone is as a weather display. Find a weather app you like, set the device not to sleep, and run it off AC power.

I love my Polar Bottle Steel Thermos. It keep fluids cold or hot for a long time. Once you master the twist-to-drink technique, it’s easy to sip from while driving, biking or whatever.

I love my Polar Bottle Steel Thermos. It keep fluids cold or hot for a long time. Once you master the twist-to-drink…

Many thanks for your gutsy stand. I’m hoping you’ll have the opportunity to explore this in greater depth, perhaps a series of articles that become a bestselling book.

Quote: “You can complain about the crisis all you want—but you can only carry on to the people who are outside you in the ring. To the people closer to the center than you, you should provide comfort only. That’s it.

Mothers like you give motherhood a bad name. Let them read what they like not what mommy wants to read.

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.”

Quote: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is not caused by putting an early stop to a prescribed course of antibiotics, but by antibiotic overuse, argue a team of infectious disease experts in The British Medical Journal.

Roomba robots roaming about as spies brings to mind this scary scene from Minority Report.

Roomba robots roaming about as spies brings to mind this scary scene from Minority Report.

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.