MyTechnobabble
Mark Schaffner
MyTechnobabble

@Homerjay has ABSA Fever: That's what I was thinking. I always thought most "shiny" spots like that on a keyboard or trackpad are just worn down to smooth, not shiny from the oils you've left due to years of use. The friction of your finger eventually rubs the little textured bumps on the surface until they're

@bivariate: You seem to misunderstand... they didn't tell people that one was Bud and get them to guess which one was, they said "here are two different kinds of beer, which one do you like more".

@Zing: An even easier way, for me personally, is to reach up and over my shoulder, grab the back of the collar of my shirt, and in one pull, with my other hand in the air, essentially do the same thing this guy just did. Difference with mine is that I didn't have to waste a second futzing with the sleeve on my other

@highwaykind: I think the knot you end up with is still a square knot. Which, if so, is the same as if you tie your shoes correctly using the whole loopy method. It's the same end result, just a different, quicker way to do it. If it's coming untied at that point, well, I don't really know what else you'd do but

@Jamie Edwards: I've wondered that myself enough times that I probably could've saved 8 days of my life if I hadn't bothered!

Maybe I don't go to as many concerts or overly crowded events as others, but I've never once lost my car, no matter what I was driving. If, by chance, I do forget where I generally parked my vehicle I just look for the bigass Decepticon symbol that's on the back window of my truck, and if I don't see that then I, as

@Jason Scott: I'm planning to get a Droid of one type or another, honestly, and will likely get it through Verizon due to the fact that their network, at least where I live, actually works 95% of the time, compared to AT&T's 50/50 chances of things working.

@Michael Li: No, I'm saying it still is the thing it originally was whether or not it's being used for a different purpose. sheepguy42, however, is saying that it would no longer be a paperclip because it's not being used for its intended purpose, which is clipping paper together.

"The app only works in some browsers, and even then it seems like sometimes it doesn't quite render the way it's supposed to (see the screenshot above, which is the best I could get this morning)."

I've been planning to leave AT&T for quite some time due to the absolutely horrible service I receive in general. My iPhone randomly cuts out, will literally go from "No Service" to "4 bars" without me having moved, and will drop calls on a whim while claiming I still have a decent signal.

@Knoland: Except that, by letting you keep your current plan, they're NOT increasing the price of any of the services to which you subscribe, thereby keeping their end of the contract. You'd only pay a different price if you renewed with a new contract.

I don't think Vista was bad to begin with. I ran the 64-bit Vista on my current computer until Windows 7 came out, bought 7, and was at all times very happy with BOTH OS's. I believe Windows 7 is a significant improvement over Vista, but that doesn't somehow mean that I suddenly "hated" Vista, or at any time liked

@moe52: Agreed. I added significant weight in the 5 years between the year I'm relatively sure I started being affected by sleep apnea through the year I was diagnosed with it.

@sheepguy42: "An iPhone running Android is no longer an iPhone."

@Frisbee: Agreed. Thankfully everything I own is running Win7 or Snow Leopard now, but still. That would've pissed me right off to have a supposedly-helpful piece of software make my machine unusable.

@edmicman: You're saying you don't see why there isn't a free contender, and that Ultramon costs too much, while DisplayFusion, sitting at the top of the list, does pretty much everything UltraMon does (and with the aero peek abilities on the second monitor it looks like more from a few other comments people have

@Whitson Gordon: It's cool, I actually looked it up just to make sure I hadn't had a very bad case of deja-vu.

@dotyoureyes: That's exactly what I was thinking. Alpha =/= stable. It crashing shouldn't be considered an "annoyance" it should be considered "expected".