It listens to your voice the same way the Clapper(TM) does. It looks for an audio signature and upon detecting it activates the unit. The Echo operates the same way, though it has a far more detailed analysis to detect various accents and variations on the work “Alexa”.

Heck, with the modified version, it could be…

How about a proximity sensor that turns on the listening function when there is someone within 3-5 feet of the mirror. It doesn’t need to be accurate. Does your mirror need to be more discriminating? (imaging incorporating a blind login using Windows Hello and letting it take you to a customized feature set based on…

<quote>I don’t know... I could make an extra $50 if I meet a stranger off the internet...</quote>

Hey, man - $50 is $50, amiright?

I’ve always wondered why the hip-push out of bounds isn’t a foul. Per the rules:

I was hoping somebody would post this. Bit of a bummer when you could have spent a dollar more and had Amazon ship you a handful of AAAAs all ready to go.

As I pointed out - you WILL get better at doing it incorrectly. Take my above referenced golf game. I practived it so much one summer I could regularly score within 5 shots of 100. Every time. In case you don’t play golf - that’s a shitty score. But I was damned consistent. I could call a strong fade off the tee just…

“Doing something over and over again does not necessarily make you better at it.”

This does seem like an odd study. If we presume that the averages are correct and that the typical human needs 7.5 hours of sleep (5-90 minutes cycles) per night, then they’ve identified that reducing by 1 your sleep cycle needs will have a cumulative effect which catches up with you in a bit over a week, and robbing…

You’re going to die.*

Actually, the hotel analogy is pretty appropriate.In fact, it’s true for nearly all travel related fees. Car rental companies don’t charge change fees, greyhound is $20 if you bought a non-refundable ticket, and $0 if it was refundable, Amtrak doesn’t charge for changes, and all but the least expensive, non-ref.…

If you use anything other than Century Schoolbook or Copperplate I will think less of you. In/Toner quantity be damned.

This is (one reason) why people who start with money tend to make more. If you don’t need the money, it’s easy to say no to opportunities which aren’t necessarily in your long term best interest. If you need the money to live on right now, then you’ll give up future potential for immediate needs. Employers also tend…

18 months. You should be able to survive without income for about that time. And, if in 18 months you’re not paying yourself a reasonable (not lavish) salary, it’s time to pack it in a go get a 9-5. At least, that’s what I was told 13 years ago when I went out on my own. The first 8 months I made $0; the next year I…

One word: incorporate

Yeah, and Hitachi still calls that wand a massager.

Yeah, and Hitachi still calls that wand a massager.

Roth IRA.

Ha - I’d probably try and roll my truffles in these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00…

“...so you’d be forgiven for completely ignoring it.”

Ugh, yeah - probably true.

It wasn’t my story, I swear. I looked on google for the whole thing but couldn’t find it. It was a pretty extended story, and the guy asked the parents several times to deal with it, which they didn’t and they finally told the person, “you deal with it.” So he did.