I live in a small southern town but near enough to a larger city that we get transplants from yankeeland here a lot. One recient home buyer (who paid about 30% over the going rate because they didn’t know any better) just discovered there is no trash collection. I had to remind them that they are paying a far lower…

The advertising companies still refuse to accept responsibility for a business model that encourages malware distributors. I might consider removing my ad blocker when they show me they are serious about actually doing something about the problem they caused. I refuse to believe they are doing anything useful until I…

For all of those people that believed it when MS said that Win 10 was free - this is how you are paying for it. Advertising and stealing your personal information for advertising (and other) purposes. Unfortunately, the ad companies are far too agressive in their zeal to shove their crap in your face, and far too…

Like all Beth games FO4 was made for consoles. Then as an afterthought ported to PC. In their zeal to make the experience exactly the same on PC XBox and PS they purposely ignore the versatility of the PC. They forget we have at least 102 buttons (that we like to customize) plus a mouse with at least 3 more buttons.…

It looks just like every other euro styled station wagon. Why do they want evey car to look just like every other car? I miss the box back end of the REAL suv. The lowered rear cuts way down on the original intent of the SUV, a cargo carrier that could double as a people carrier. By lowering the rear, it does make it…

We had one of those stores in town. It traced its history back to when the town was founded in the 1800s. It even had one of the first telephones in town as a direct link to a nearby automobile factory. That link grew into a telephone company that is still in existance. They had anything and everything and the…

And for holiday trafic, you can add a few extra hours to that drive. There will be at least one wreck and probably more than one that backs up traffic for 20 miles, mostly with people slowing down to see what happened instead of moving along like they should.

Great hack.

A lawyer once told me that a verbal agreement is not worth the paper it’s not written on.

A friend recomended raisins soaked in Gin as a possible help for arthritus. I now keep a jar of gin soaked raisins on my bar and take a teaspoon daily. The raisins are plumped up by the gin and tast slightly spicy. I really don’t know if there is any scientific basis, but I haven’t had the neck pain from arthritis…

First do a cost benefit analysis.

Agred, this should not be a problem. But to lay all of the blame on the game maker is not the answer either. I see many PC players whining about not getting huge numbers for fps. The game was designed around the consoles that are fps capped. I’m not sure about this one, but previous games were typically capped at…

The only people that actually believe that a fax is somehow more secure than email are total idiots who have no clue how either fax or email work. An idiot lawyer once told me that it is more secure because you can sign a fax and somehow that makes it a legal thing. He insisted that he had to fax me a document to be…

My favorite way of saying no to a new busywork project was to ask which currently ongoing important project was I supposed to drop to work on the new one. By making it a drop the other project instead of just putting it on a back burner it quickly established the real priority of the new project. If you really want to…

A good alarm company will see to it you have their yard sign and window decals prominately displayed. Then call the cops if a break in does occur. The purpose of an alarm is not to catch the thief, but to hopefully discourage them from breaking in. The equipment installed and quality of service of an alarm company…

Based on the damage to your vehicle, the deer may have run off, but likely died later of internal injuries. Looking forward to seeing the results of your new front end.

Nope, And I don’t use my not so smart phone to play games either. I use my dumb phone for phone calls. And my Smart phone for a paper weight (it seems to spend most of its time plugged in on my desk). I have a computer that is far better than any pocket toy to play games.

Lets face it smart phone battery life sucks - I am lucky to get through a normal day without having to stop and recharge. On my old dumb phone I could go 3 to 4 days. I use my dumb phone more than my smartphone just becase of this. The dumb phone does 2 things better than my so called smart phone - it has a much…

I think that may the reason for the price hike. Sure some people will just bite the bullet and keep paying. But others will either cancel or move to a more profitable for Verizon plan - looks like a win-win for Verizon and a lose-lose for you. Unles you can find a better plan elsewhere.

Just by existing this should be a HUGE embarrassment to Comcast management. And they wonder why they get rated worst customer service in the entire country.