Not a big deal when I've had to do it - just plop down the max that you think it might take ($40?), fill up, go back to get your change.

People who have more cash on hand than is available in their account? Road-trippers with buddies pitching in cash for a tank?

Some casinos shuffle the deck after just a few hands, which resets the count. I've heard that some casinos actually count the cards themselves via automated systems and prompt the dealer for a shuffle when it is too far in favor of the players.

The casino can't "prove" that you're counting cards, but your betting behavior will give you away in short order - going from minimal bets when the count is against you and wildly swinging to large bets when its in your favor being one of the more obvious tells. They won't start paying attention until you are…

That is more of a reason to give them a hard time, in my opinion as a conventional-looking white man.

On what planet is Carmen Sandiego not sexy?

"...10 years served for the aggravated sexual molestation of a then 8-year-old relative..."

Well, when the ad specifies "outcalls only" you have to make do with whatever is available.

She's due in court for both this case, as well as an incident in September where she stole a man's credit cards and withdrew money from the ATM as he slept.

And how exactly did she slip the watch into her private area with no one noticing?

Same applies to a rough landing where the plane gets set down too hard.

Not an option for most people, but if you can find an inexpensive enterprise router on eBay or similar, it might have a serial or crossover port that you can use for configuration, and lock out all other access. The eternal battle between convenience and security continues.

I use Vudu a lot for renting movies and occasionally for buying if it's on sale. There are many movies that include special features/featurettes with purchase, and (not often but I've seen it) you can also pay $1 or whatever to rent them separately from the movie.

I agree on books - it's pretty common for me to buy a printed book* and then download the epub file to put it on my Kindle

Roku has a pretty decent search feature built in that will pull content from multiple apps and display the options to you (i.e. available on Netflix, available on Vudu from $2.99, available on Amazon from $2.99, etc.) with a single click to bring you to the relevant content inside the app. It's not foolproof but if…

Some of the newer text apps (e.g. Galaxy S5's stock one) have a feature that allows you to delay a "sent" message by a pre-defined amount of time from 3-30 seconds. When you send it, it appears in gray with an "X" on it that you can tap to pull it back into the compose box for editing.

Floating military ships have really advanced tracking gear onboard, the water is shallow enough so that the sub can't drop straight down and would have to instead pass close to one of the ships to get to open ocean, and submarines don't move all that fast, so they will probably get caught if they try that - and…

This is commonly referred to as a "dry run"

Yep. And you should reevaluate your big stuff every now and then as well. How much cash are you putting into the car for maintenance, fuel, insurance, etc and at what point you would be better off to get a new car with reduced recurring costs. Same for appliances

There's a part of me that kind of hopes it ends up being a Kaiju