Honestly, I'm amazed that my Book Overboard Count = 1. Not that there haven't been many near misses. I've even partially submerged my iPad before, but at least there I can put it inside a large ziploc bag and still be able to turn pages. My Dex score isn't nearly high enough to be able to do that with a book.

Anna, everyone makes bad calls on the internet now and then. People who are able to own their mistakes are few and far between. Even fewer are those who offer abject apologies. Kudos.

The only book I ever dropped in the tub as a kid was the first book of Tad Williams' Otherland series. Not a big loss.

It's scary how similar my story is.

And also radio jingles

I'll shoot for being the second mouse from now on then. I want all the cheese.

Stephen King's books. Like Dickens, Poe, and Shakespeare. Popular trash become future classics.

Looks like a dead roach.

Looks like a dead roach.

I think they'll be teaching Stephen King in lit classes. He's a prolific author who's been popular for 40 years and his new books are still best sellers. His writing has evolved over the years (you can argue for better or for worse); it has changed a lot as he's gotten older, fought with addiction, raised a family,…

They're baby-boomers. They'll be the ones to benefit from these innovations, but they'll also vote to scuttle this system on a five to ten year phase out schedule while complaining that it'll just be too expensive to continue these services.

What's really needed is to push up the retirement age. The retirement age has stayed the same for decades, while people are living longer and longer. Here in the UK, the retirement age is 65 while most people live to 80. The retirement age has stayed the same since when people were only living until their early '70s.…

VOTE: All-Ett Classic Leather

As someone who has never been to New York City, I have to admit, I have no desire to ever set foot in that state or city, ever.

Few things in film history are more boss than a drunk Doc flipping his guns in opposite directions while holding a cup.

A fine appraisal missing one minor detail. Ahem.

It depends. if you bash up your tools a lot like I do because they are used heavily on work sites, not worth it as I replace them every 2 years when the batteries start to lose capacity. If you barely use tools and they sit in a toolbox all nice and clean most of their lives, again I dont recommend spending the…

I pretty much do the same thing except with a PFSense custom firewall, just an old desktop with 2 NIC's. I can see the benefit to using one of those Ubiquiti units though, especially if you want to use the Ubiquiti access points, I'm sure that box gives you some sort of unified interface to control everything from. I…

In that case, you can't go wrong with a Ford E350. It will run forever, has space for everyone, and even has great amenities. MPG is decent if you get one of the smaller engines (Triton V8), and since they've had a long production cycle, there's one for any budget.

First make sure those quotes are itemized and out-the-door prices. Often dealers will quote a low price on the car only to make up for it with other fees. Once you have that take the lowest price and play it against the other dealers. See if they budge, but know that sometimes dealers will send you their lowest…

So scientists who ought to know better used limited information to rush a report out. Shocker. It sounds like they were more interested in an agenda rather than facts. This is the reason climate deniers have good cause to question everything that rolls out of the science community. Give people the facts after all due…