I really like their boxed butter chicken mix (rice, with a sauce pack you pour over chicken), but I haven't eaten the real thing often enough to judge it on authenticity.

He might mean the Archer's Farm bagged grounds, not the canned stuff they showed. I recall the AF blends getting high marks somewhere. I've bought that kind a few times and thought it was pretty good.

I'm on Ting and keep my Nexus 5's cell data turned off unless I need it. Yay for only paying for what you actually use. Then again, I'm old enough that I see my smartphone primarily as a device to make phone calls with, with web/texting functions as secondary features. For today's whippersnappers, it's the opposite.…

Queen Slug-for-a-butt is not impressed.

The article specifically cites HTPC usage. Home Theater PC. That, by definition, is a media consumption device, not one for production. Not that you'd be able to do anything on this Dorito of a CPU — according to the specs, these are NOT the current batch of good, Baytrail Atoms.

The article specifically cites HTPC usage. Home Theater PC. That, by definition, is a media consumption device, not…

Windows Media Center is also the only game in town if you want to use a CableCard tuner device with encrypted channels. (It's a "bargain" of $100 to add it back to Windows 8.)

Windows Media Center is also the only game in town if you want to use a CableCard tuner device with encrypted…

Or file for bankruptcy four times like Donald Trump to let other people eat the cost of your failures. Then go on a PR offensive to make people equate your name with infallibility. Bonus points for spitting on the poor and mocking those who lack your "business acumen."

IPhone users were up in arms about the very same thing a couple weeks back, but with third-party keyboards. For some reason, it was incomprehensible that a keyboard like Swift Key, whose main selling point is a predictive algorithm that learns your writing style to better predict the words you mean, would monitor what…

I consider it more of an expedition into a land of wonderment and horror. Just last night, for instance, I noticed a little jug of buttermilk I had made a single batch of biscuits with... whose "best by" date was back in January. Or the time I started boiling water for macaroni and cheese, which I never make anymore,…

The bigger issue is being able to use all the space. If your phone says it supports SDHC, it'll max out at 32GB. If it says SDXC, it's good for 64GB and up.

The bigger issue is being able to use all the space. If your phone says it supports SDHC, it'll max out at 32GB. If…

Man, the bousouzoku were a staple of 1980s Japan. I had no idea they were fading away. Maybe the ultranationalist noise trucks will follow suit.

"Hep cats getting funky in unison," as Dave Barry put it.

Was Grublik's posse chanting his name, like in I'm Gonna Get You, Sucka? Is getting your own theme music a level perk or part of a skill tree?

Short-term profit over long-term growth, the new American way.

Or just do what my neighbors do with their unsocialized, 100% leash-free yappy rat: open the door, let it run outside, and then start yelling for it to come back after ten or fifteen minutes, even if it's 3AM. Because shouting "ROMEO! ROMEO!" in the dead of night won't bother anyone, nosirree...

Another biggie is to learn the difference between "need" and "want." And when you do buy something, that you're often better off spending a little more to get something that will last you a lot longer.

"You become who you surround yourself with."

There are reports of high school and college athletes having them, and my own dad died of one at the ripe old age of 32, so age is no barrier.

I've had my score go plummet from zeroing out my credit cards, and have it go up twice as much the very next month due to having a balance of $100. It's utterly freaking random and insane, and it rules our lives as consumers.

Minor correction: a COVERED skillet. Place in cold skillet, cover, set to 3 or 4 if it's an electric range, and wait patiently. It takes longer than a microwave, but it comes out nearly as good as new. When you hear sizzling and smell cheese browning, it's ready.