Solid “recommend” with one possible caveat.

Solid “recommend” with one possible caveat.

Cannot recommend this product - the design is pretty flawed and it’s virtually impossible to keep the stands level with any kind of weight on them.

Cannot recommend this product - the design is pretty flawed and it’s virtually impossible to keep the stands level…

What’d they /drop/ compared to a normal Android install?  I’m a bit irritated at Motorola for disabling USB-C->HDMI converters and the Wireless Display (miracast) abilities on the Z2 Force, so I’ve gotten suspicious of Motorola lately.

Woo! Just in time for me to cancel the lower-powered one I’d ordered for a gift at the same price!

Woo! Just in time for me to cancel the lower-powered one I’d ordered for a gift at the same price!

I dunno. Unless you can find a dimmable strand (maybe some of those fairy lights over on Kinja Deals), I’d think that even a single strand of regulra LED lights is going to be incredibly bright in a bedroom overnight.

It’s a very pretty watch, and the strap idea is pretty nice. I own one of the straps, even.

It’s a very pretty watch, and the strap idea is pretty nice. I own one of the straps, even.

Cross-post to Offspring: “Hey Billy - look at this cool new watch Daddy got!  Wanna wear it today?” (Attach watch to hyperactive toddler; profit).

An oldie but a goodie: Rinkworks’ Book-A-Minute ultra-condensed books.  For when Nick’s summaries start dragging on a bit.

Sadly not just limited to charging cables. Amazon’s nothing but products from (two random english words glued together) that are surprisingly identical to the products from (two different random english words glued together) which in turn are extremely identical to the products from (six or seven random letters…

Let’s take this idea to 11: The moisture sensor would provide some direct feedback into your playlist to select a song that’s got a BPM appropriate to the wiper rate necessary for the amount of rain falling.

Mildred: Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?

If nothing else, it makes it appreciably more dramatic when you’ve got everythign all hung and decorated and you can say “ I hereby declare that Christmas is upon us!” and subtly flick ‘em on from your phone in your pocket.

Um... the “Prius V” is a wagon-y-shaped Prius - you know, the kind with a piddly small battery mated to a piddly small gasoline engine? The kind that doesn’t plug in to anything? The kind that spends all day doing taxicab duty? I don’t know what you’re on wth this “wait 4 hours to get the battery charged” stuff...

For car owners: the gallons of gas remaining in your tank after the “low fuel” indicator lights up. Always nice to know how far you’ve really got left before you really have an issue.

I’ve got two of these at my house that have proven useful:

My kids have this “cat piano” which is my nemesis. Yes, it’s a lovely one-octave piano thingy w/ a couple of voices including a really amusing “meow” for each note. It can also play various songs (with vocal track). Here’s the problems with it:

75-90W synthetic gear oil qualifies. That stuff smells awful and I will gladly call it “gross”. I hate that part of my motorcycle service (shaft-drive motorcycle).

Yeah... sounds familiar. The alley behind my childhood home’s garage was reliably weed free and had no blowing dust problems. Only thing that grew back there was a massive wild rose bush. I don’t know how, mind you, but you didn’t mess with that bush.

Right. For the same $9, you could get a dozen razor-blade box cutters that do pretty much the same thing but with cheaper replacement blades which are useful themselves for all sorts of non-box-cutting adventures (like scraping stickers off of windows or doing lines of cocaine).

Right. For the same $9, you could get a dozen razor-blade box cutters that do pretty much the same thing but with…

I grabbed a bag of the bacon-wrapped jalapeno popper chips at Subway on a whim.  I was wildly unimpressed - no real flavor of bacon or jalapeno at all. It was just... eh.