Not going to lie - When I first read this, I wondered why Robert Pattinson was weighing in on the subject.

In one of my old apartments, there was a smoke alarm right outside the door to a relatively small bathroom. Every winter, it would go off if someone took a particularly steamy shower and then opened the bathroom door. My guess is that the small volume of the bathroom coupled with the drop in interior temperature…

I’ll second having experienced this issue. I actually exchanged a pair because of it, noticed it with the new pair, and then just assumed I was slightly deaf in one ear. Since then, I’ve tried a couple other brands and discovered that it was the headphones and I’m not deaf. Or, if I am, I’m equally deaf in both ears.

For what it’s worth, when I was just a wee lad, my cat Cringer (don’t judge. I was, like, five years old and He-Man was life), went missing from our ninth-story apartment one night. After searching every inch of that place for her, we went out on the balcony with a flashlight to look out there. The balcony could see…

In fairness, I believe the National Fire Protection Association estimates that one in four fatal fires are due to cigarettes, so even though some vape devices might blow up in your face, they probably are safer (in the sense that they'll only kill you). 

I certainly understand where you’re coming from with that analogy. There are probably a bunch of things, though, that figure into a price of an item rather than just the cost of the components and work required to assemble it. Marketing efforts need to be accounted for. They may be looking to offset future development…

I agree with you guys on this, but I do think it’s interesting to consider this from a price-per-usage hour standpoint. I have a laptop that I paid around $1.5k for three years ago. And I have a phone that I paid about $750 for two years ago. I don’t have the exact figures, but I imagine my usage hours on the phone…

An ex-girlfriend’s parents bought one of these almost right before I visited their house for the first time. I remember them explaining to me how it cost more than the car I owned at that time (this was my own comparison - they were wonderful people who would never say anything like that).

Totally this. I run an email marketing department, and have pointed out that most of the things I get recognized for (like automating reporting systems or streamlining workflow) is because, at heart, I’m basically a very lazy individual who will invest a ton of work into making it easier to do boring tasks. This could…

I desperately want to find a video of a silent disco without any music overlaid on top of it. But I can’t. And I feel like my life is poorer for it.

I have these and agree with much of the review — these things are pretty great! But there’s one big deal breaker for me: the radio interference from the treadmill is crazy.

Whoa! I remembered the main four and Kiefer Sutherland from that movie, but I totally forgot Cusack was in it also. I bow to your Stephen King/Cusack movie knowledge.

Hasn’t Cusack only been in two King movies? I remember 1408 and Cell... is there some other one that I’m forgetting?

I’ve had this happen intermittently, usually when sending pictures to a contact. At least for me, the most frustrating part is that, when it appears to be endlessly sending a picture, any MMS sent after that is also put into the endless loop. Eventually, they’ll fail and I try to resend, the same thing will happen.

A girl I dated once told me that it wasn’t until after I took her out on photography excursions that she actually believed all of the photos I posted on social media we really taken by me, largely because I wasn’t in them (I do a lot of landscape and time-lapse star photography and what not). She then pointed out that…

Is the issue that you’re having with this the fact that they can’t spend the income they’re being taxed on? Think about an example where a person has their wages garnished because they owe a judgment. That individual would owe money on all of their income, regardless of whether it was instantly being removed to pay…

For what it’s worth, as a former Los Angeles resident that moved to the East Coast, I get a secret glee out of reading stories like this. And then I repost them for all my Los Angeles friends to see. And then they send me picture of themselves sunning themselves during every major winter storm we have.

Something similar happened to one of my high school friends a few years back. He had a headache and went to the doctor. They didn’t find anything wrong, gave him some medication and sent him home. He posted about it on social media. The next day his condition deteriorated and they took him back to the hospital and the…

Thanks for the detailed response to this. That’s very, very interesting. I never considered that HVAC might be a limiting factor in mobile service during an emergency.

Interesting! Thanks for enlightening me.