#12 Hold portal. Very handy if you just need a turn or so to make good a getaway from some more powerful monster, or for that lazy thief to dig through his pack for a spike and something to drive it with to hold the portal a bit longer. It takes time you may not have for the thief to pound in a spike, if the spell was…

I fall into the 65 -74 category, and Wouldn’t miss TV much at all. I would miss my computer most, followed a very distant second by my cell, which is an older flip phone that is only used for phone calls. But even then most of my phoning unless I am away from home is through the computer. Radio? I have Pandora on the…

And most will not whether you use the discounter or the actual hotel booking service. But when problems do happen, As I said you are not the hotel’s customer, the discounter is. If there is a problem with billing, you will have to go to the discounter, because the hotel cannot help you. Not because they don’t want to,…

How about just going to bed at a reasonable time and you will be able to get up at a reasonable time without waking the dead. I haven’t used an alarm for over 20 years and have not been late yet. I know I can wake up at whatever time I choose by seting the time I want to be up in my mind before I go to bed. One of the…

I have never understood the intense desire to see the leaked videos, What is the diference between that and having some idiot tell you the plot of a movie you were planning to see? Wait for it, let the game be a suprise when you play it the first time. It will be a lot more fun. I have been doing my best to not listen…

Be very careful when booking on line. The discounters will try to make you think you are booking directly with the hotel when you are not. I once needed a room unexpectedy. And as I was driving, had to use my cel phone I used Google to search for the exact hotel I wanted. Then dialed the number it gave. The person I…

I really don’t remember. I do remember taking it through customs inspection and the inspectors wanting to play with it. I carried it in a little black envelope type bag with a pack of 4 spare batteries and some cables. One cable was a 2 foot long ribbon printer cable that I could plug into the standard Epson type…

One of our sales people had the Osbourne. He thought it was fabulous. The company wouldn’t pay for it so he bought it himself.

I carried one of those for several years as my first real laptop. The only other option for travel was a suitcase sized Compaq ‘portable’. The TRS 100 was lightweight, simple, smaller than most current laptops, and ran for 20 hours on 4 AA batteries. It was a revolutionary device in its time. Mine still works, plug in…

My family has always wondered how the first one here, a transportee in the Oglethorpe colony, managed to get an English wife. The time frame is about right. My guess is I may be decended from one of those women who had their death sentence commuted to be sent to the colonies, then passed out to the settlers based on…

As a decendent of a convict sent to the US in the 1700s. I Would like to thank the British government of that time. There is not much real data beyond he was a transportee. No record of where his wife came from or how she got here. The family oral traditon says he was a Scottish rebel. But also there is some…

The drone operator is claiming that he has some right to fly over this pier, well, I think that flying over people fishing carries a right for the fishermen to try to catch it as well. If he hadn’t been so close, there wouldn’t have been a possibility that someone would even make this very low probibility attempt.…

This stupid use of DCMA is not going to stop until there is some monitary penalty for false take downs. I suggest starting at $10,000 for each bogus take down to be split between the author of the video taken down and me for the suggestion. And because the bogus take downs are automatic, the fine should also be…

Personally I have found Metacritic nearly useless in their ratings - not everyone likes the same things in a game, and not every gamer is a zombie that follows the herd. But that is exactly how Metacritic treats consumers. I see far too many ways this can be gamed by the publishers - including a few well placed bribes…

Then grandma comes over to watch the kids and it’s, “Oh well. I guess you can play video games now and do chores later.” - and somehow the chores never get done. Then to cover for them, grandma does the chores for the kids. Because her daughter will bitch at granny for not making the kids do their chores. Then,…

I didn’t know a lot about what I was getting into either. But luckily I had a neighbor who did. And for a few beers gave me a lot of useful advice. He was laid up with a broken rib at the time so couldn’t really do much more than give advice. As he got better, he did help some in the latter stages, Without his help…

The IHG review seems to say they are only located in major cities and business destinations. It doesn’t say that points are given at ANY Holiday Inn, ANY Holiday Inn Express, and several other hotels anywhere in the world as well as the higher end Intercontinental and Crowne Plaza hotels. You can nearly always find a…

The toilet was wobbling just a little. I figured I could remove it and patch the floor in just that spot and put it back in a few hours. 3 weeks and lots of cash later. I had to replace the entire floor, several floor joists were rotted nearly through, the dry rot went under the tub and up 2 walls. I removed the…

I once worked in a large open office that was about 85% women. The thermostat was near the center of a long wall. There were several women who were constantly fiddling with it. One would turn it up a few degrees, then another would turn it down a few degrees. As an engineer I was asked to check the tempreture, hoping…

I understand perfectly. I use my older moto flip phone far more than my newer Samsung Android. Why? Because it just works. It is a better telephone than the Samsung, and for my personal lifestyle I need a telephone not a pocket computer that does a lot of things, but none well. The Samsung is a better texting device,…