Guys used to grab each others' balls when swearing an oath too. Thankfully that's not a trope that has survived into fantasy today. (Well, maybe in the kind of fanfic I'd rather not think about.)

Yeah, I think so. I do the same.

A recirculator is one option... but first, have your water heater checked. We had an old, inefficient one that was actually leaking hot water into cold water, with the results that (A) water at the shower took longer to get hot enough to use, and (B) it didn't stay hot for long and (C) higher energy bills. All those…

You've got to be kidding. Swiping from the left of the screen to the center, without doing it accidentally while trying to interact with the app that's currently visible — instead of just long-pressing the Home button — is somehow worth installing an app?

I like it a lot. The configuration is pretty much scattered all over the interface, but once it's set up to your liking it's very spiffy.

Well, yes. You can't look at someone and tell whether they're German or French, which is essentially the same thing as trying to tell apart a Korean from a Japanese.

I'm amused that this came up so close to "What to Look for in a Pressure Cooker."

Looks good to me. I want to play this right now.

I was going to post that if someone else didn't.

I've heard one person ever call them that, and she was crazy anyway.

Same here. There's a Polaroid somewhere of my high score in that game. It was a very Zen-like rhythmic thing, easy not to screw up once you were in the groove. The main danger was boredom.

Unless you like the idea of grinding or getting sucked into raiding guilds and so forth, it's time to move on. I recommend Guild Wars 2. If you play just enough to get daily achievements, maybe monthlies if you're into WvW, it's not a huge time sink but provides plenty of non-grindy entertainment.

Or they guess the password of a high-security system in three tries based on glancing around the person's office.

Ah. I was going to comment on how utterly ridiculous it is for a living person to wear a giant funerary mask that goes over a coffin. But, Stargate. Heh.

As with many wallpaper designs, I feel most of them would be better with no text. Filenames are good enough for titles.

Without technology, we'd be apes.

The other advantage of a recirculator is it keeps your pipes flowing and warmer, making them less prone to freezing. (Though if you have trouble with freezing pipes there might be an insulation-related fix anyway... which will help with the water.)

He should have called the eagles to bring the ring to Mount Doom.

I read somewhere that something like 40% of guns used in crime are borrowed or stolen from friends or relatives who had legally attained them. So, yes and no.

There were people speaking out against penny dreadfuls. It wouldn't surprise me if there were people claiming going to the Globe Theater for a bit of Shakespeare, or down to the amphiteatre for some Aeschylus, contributed to murders.