Nope, no problems like that in my building.

What I'm describing isn't an "extreme." It's simply appreciating the weather as it is, instead of going to great lengths to force the indoor climate into the opposite of what it is outside.

I shut off all heating for the winter. Even during the recent polar vortex when it got down to 8F at night, I was fine with long johns, socks and t-shirt in bed. Very long and cosy sleeps. Dry radiator heat makes me feel dead. I get sick all the time and feel miserable. I cannot understand people who want to walk…

Can it host VST plugins? I've yet to find a music player that can do this quickly and reliably.

Whether Fox News or the Koch brothers or the Tea Party are bad is neither here nor there. The point is that whenever tedious lefties like you get into an argument with someone who disagrees with you, they're always invoked as if they're some kind of magic spell that's going to win an argument. The irony of you saying…

That's right, when in doubt, just throw in the words "Tea Party" and hope for the best. If that doesn't work, try "Koch Brothers," "Faux News" or the old favorite "Boooooosh!"

I have read up on climate change. For years. I've read very convincing scientific arguments for and against the idea that man is mostly to blame for it. Plus, scientific truth is ultimately not about consensus, and it is arrogant beyond belief to claim that our current abilities are the last word in mathematical…

But the fact is that fracking is generally accepted by science as being safe. Sure, there are a lot of learned people who disagree with this, just as there are a lot of people who disagree with the "consensus" on the causes of climate change, too. I especially love the part where you complain about "false equivalency"…

The idea that belief in God/creation and science/evolution is firmly divided on conservative/liberal lines is just another one of those myths that liberals love to roll out in order to strengthen their fantasy that right = dumb while left = intelligent. In fact, there are a quite sizable proportions of both liberals…

Practicing perfect technique slowly is absolutely essential for mastery of the instrument. When you listen to some of these super-fast guitar "shredders" from the 80's onward, it's amazing how awful their tone and accuracy is when you slow the record down, and many of them sound like shit when they try to play without…

In the last 7 years I (a man) have had no less than FIVE hateful, malicious and libelous online campaigns waged against me and my business by thoroughly psychotic and demented ex-clients who became so enraged over the most trivial of disagreements that they decided that they wouldn't stop until they'd destroyed both…

The only EQ worth doing is the ARC room correction system (currently on sale at Sweetwater for $150) which takes sound measurements with the included microphone and uses them to build an EQ preset perfectly tailored for your room and listening position. Producers use them in mixing studios to hear their music how it's…

A similar tip for taking photos of pets is to get the camera down to their level. There's nothing lamer than when people take photos looking down at their pets.

I'll be on Facebook until someone comes up with something that is so revolutionary and incredible that it compels me to abandon the 5+ years of memories that I have invested in Facebook. I can't even imagine any such thing, and Google+ doesn't come anywhere close. Basically I have virtually no problems with Facebook…

Facebook is far more entrenched in the general psyche than MySpace ever was, it's more popular than MySpace ever was and more people have more of their lives uploaded onto Facebook than was every uploaded onto MySpace. So I get the gist of your point, but I don't agree that Facebook isn't a completely different…

Realistically, the only people I hear raving about Google+ are techie people of the kind who love to feel like they're privy to a higher plane of understanding about things, unlike those homogeneous peons who just don't "get it." It's the Linux equivalent of social media.

You couldn't get me to eat soy if you paid me. Horrible nasty stuff that does more harm than good. I stopped eating dairy a year ago and have never felt better. Fewer colds, more energy. Almond milk is my tipple. Honestly, the best one is Whole Food's own brand.

My main problem with listening to music on an iPhone is the lack of volume adjustment resolution. It moves up or down in large steps, and invariably what happens is that one level is too loud and the next step down is just a little too quiet. It's rare that I find my ideal volume. How hard would it be for them to give…

I once edited the Wikipedia page of jazz drummer Dannie Richmond to add that he'd played drums on Bert Jansch's Moonshine album. I was convinced that jazz buffs wouldn't consider it important enough to his career and would edit it out, and I forgot about it. Just checked after this article reminded me about it, and…

So you're one of the lucky ones. Plenty of people have reported the double click problem with Logitech mice, and the static clearing method was actually cited by a Logitech technician on their forums. So they're well aware of the issue.