Silence is, indeed, golden. Back in the day, I once owned a CompuAdd 386. Nice machine, but a little too loud, so I bought a Silencer power supply from PC Power & Cooling, and the difference was worth every one of the $150 or so I spent.

This just happened to me! I ordered a new router, at Spouse’s request, on Sunday morning; it arrived Monday afternoon.

Yay for SPDs! I have size 13 feet, and have never experienced the “dreaded hot spot.” Cheap and effective.

1. Put clipless pedals on bike.

My point is that the connector, either on the PC side or the drive side, may not be perfectly “in spec.” Sometimes, adding a USB extension can make the difference. My example was microUSB charging, but the same theory applies when you’re dealing with signal lines—if the copper/gold/aluminum/whatever doesn’t make a…

How often do you reboot your phone? Sometimes things get confused. I have an iPhone SE, and yesterday couldn’t get bluetooth to work at all. Rebooted the phone and all is well.

Have you tried an extension cable? There’s a reason I ask:

USB cables and ports are surprisingly variable. I have a couple of devices that need microUSB connections to charge. They will only charge with certain cables...it’s not that the cables are different electrically—it’s apparently a difference in the physical…

Many years ago (we’re talking NT 3.51 days) I worked, inter alia, PC phone support for a company that built a high-end engineering product that ran on multiple platforms. One day I got a call from a user who couldn’t get her number pad to work. She said our software was not responding correctly—when she pressed a…

Back in the day (let me be specific: late 1970s), Yoplait (which you could then buy as plain yogurt in the small containers) was actually a much less firm product than, say, Dannon, and was much tastier—a sharp, sour-ish taste. So I don’t exactly know what they mean by “cup set,” though I suppose I’ll have to try it.

I want to reiterate Fichman’s sentiment—I recently was approached by the owner of a small company. He had a deal with someone who had a deal with someone else...etc. But of course, none of this was on paper.

I saw that too, and was shocked.

Pretty much nailed it.

Could be. But From now on, he’ll be known as “the judge with an asterisk.” That’s a difficult legacy to live with. And it will reduce his value as a lobbyist or speaker or writer or teacher or attorney (assuming he isn’t disbarred) for the rest of his life. I think at this point, stick a fork in him.

I am an old (almost 60) and I have used salted butter exclusively for many decades—quiche crusts and ch0c0late chip cookies being among the fruits. I have yet to see a convincing case made for butter sans salt.

My apologies for the misspelling—I tend to spell phonetically and rely on spell checkers to clean things up. I won’t mess up your name again.

Roo, many good points—I agree that the statute of limitations is a major problem in all of this.

I agree, but the statute doesn’t, and needs to be changed. However, he’s clearly subject to criminal and civil prosecution, and I hope he gets it.

Well, he did retire in an awful hurry. The problem is that the particular Judicial Council in question is limited to investigating sitting judges (which is undoubtedly the reason that Kozinski resigned as quickly as he did). This part of the document is telling:

It’s like the old joke: “What’s the second most boring sport in the world? ________. (whatever your target enjoys). And the most boring? ________ on television.”

TVs are one of the reasons why, when I lived in Chicago, I used to go to Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap. They didn’t have one.