Once House ends next week, I will no longer be watching a single show on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, or CW any more. And after all the one or two season cancellation disappointments of the last decade plus, I will never watch a first season show again from any of them until it gets a full second season order at minimum. I…

I'd say the lack of mail slot in the front is the dead giveaway

I couldn't help but think of this when I saw your post

Not only this, but may places will bank credit card tips and divide them up equally among employees, not according to who had what tips specifically.

My retina iPad is definitely a massive battery pig compared to my iPad 1. I don't even have a data version, so it's wifi only, and I can easily burn through 15-20% of battery life in an hour. My old one? Maybe 10% in an hour, MAX.

I'm officially pulling the plug on the DC "new 52" comic universe. Maybe I'll give Earth Two a try and I did enjoy Superman Earth One and I'm looking forward to Batman Earth One and Superman Earth One book two.

Except you probably have to pay a lot of money up front for the equipment and the sim card, so for a one time vacation it would be a fortune. And since data technology seems to advance pretty quickly, it's not like you're going to make up for it over a decade of vacations. By that point we'll be on 6g or something.

Are all the prepaid style data plans like this?

I would very much consider a hotspot like this, but the monthly plans are ludicrous! When is mobile data going to start coming down in price? 4g plans especially right now are idiotic. You spend $50 or more for an amount of data you can burn up in an hour or two.

I think we're arguing two different points here. My point was that the thing did pretty well, despite having the cards stacked against it. The car wasn't the issue, the circumstances were.

"They did. It didn't take." I disagree. They didn't even give it a chance. They sold 30,000 of the things in about 1 year and they were highly rated by magazines, despite being rolled out during the death of Pontiac and difficulty getting options pushed out (a lot of people were waiting for manual transmission…

Cutting your nails takes maybe 60 seconds every 10-15 days. Filing would have to take at least a minute or two a day I would think

Wow, sounds a bit familiar. I don't know how some people sleep at night. A manager is supposed to defend their people to the death, much like a captain going down with his ship. I don't know how the world got so far away from that.

Hurry up science....as my age moves forward my hairline moves backward, my time is limited!

Yes, that's pretty much exactly what I meant. I had a similar problem in the past. I had a co-worker that was effectively a net loss for usefulness. She would come in and do more harm than good every time she touched code, so not only were her contributions not helping, but it would take time away from other team…

It's almost hard to justify being outstanding at many jobs anymore. Here are a number of reasons why I've encountered:

When I went to the UK in 1996 for a trip, I ate a lot of fast food. I have some food allergies and I couldn't trust a lot of my other options, so I ate BK and McDonalds quite a few times.

I'm fortunate enough with my house layout that my computer and both the bedroom and living room TV are all reasonably close to each other. So I have the hdmi computer output going into an HDMI splitter, feeding my 27" LCD monitor and both the bedroom and living room tv's. It's convenient to have at times.

I finally retired my 8 year old Philips rear projection this past fall. Mine too only had component for HD - and one at that. I had simplified the setup quite a bit by using a powered switch with a remote (from monoprice I think) that had 5 component and coax (orange 5.1, not red/white stereo) audio connections. …

You hit the nail on the head - the only way I could be happy with a peer getting paid more to do a similar job is if they can do it as well as I can or better.