I recommend Judy Russell as the Legal Genealogist (see

I think of this for anything outside or not secured. Because life.

Visited DC last year and fell flat on the sidewalk outside of a station after some light rain. So not tiles but I got a ringing (in my head) reminder of how quickly life can go bad. A couple people passing asked if I was okay, but I just nodded in mild shock.

I know the movie isn’t in wider release yet, but I’ve already seen it and it’s brilliant!

I’m usually not this lucky but I have! I snagged early tickets from an online group to fill out essentially a company’s private event last week.

Sounds like a good plan. I have folders for each company/bill and pencil in the “retention” like 1 year. When filing I put in the most recent on top and then when I feel like it go through the back shredding any and all that’s old enough. I loved the day when I realized there was no long-term information of value on…

The glorious original from 1980s just had a soundtrack, no singing and generally seems like it could be rom-com.

Home has more than one floor with the main home office computer on one, the TV on another, and the iPad acting as a compromise in the middle (also where the sofa is). I watch YouTube, browse sites like this and Twitter. I like getting my steps as much as anyone else, but it’s handy while fixing dinner for instance.

My latest surprise upon visiting the UK after a two-decade break was that Kit Kats could taste good! They seemed to be everywhere during our visit, but I dismissed them because in the US Kit Kat chocolate is one of the worse, overly sweet ones. Our tour guide bought a bunch for us though and OH MY WORD that Kit Kat…

Except some library collections are based on donations, so if a classmate sent one in...

One of the main problems I see with a lot of this kind of advice is that we’re also told to regularly change passwords as good security practice or because of breaches. Even using a password manager, if I change the master password how many other manual things do I need to update too?

I grew up on the original and have watched the reboot. Maybe I was too young back then to notice details, but I don’t see much difference in the characters. The performances need to hit their groove still, but if a working class family stayed about the same (easily done with recent trends) this is what I’d expect to…

I professionally manage records/data/papers and my greatest joy is actually deleting and shredding. I think it comes from how much work I know goes into preserving long-term (a ton). It’s not worth the resources to keep everything. I know Gmail seems unlimited but 50 years from now? What will it all (services,…

You can build on the power of labels for this. We have Google Apps at work where we are expected to manage email correspondence including deleting non-permanent. I handle this by labeling before sending new messages or replies and anything that leaves the inbox. At regular intervals or as I choose I can do a search…

Vox put this into a pretty nice video too:

Just saw this, guessing it was matching an email address. I use a slightly modified version which helps me spot the source of spam or ads. Some of the companies I thought I might have used login with FB in the past.

As I replied to someone below, ethnicity estimates are not comparisons to other test takers. While always an estimate, it’s a comparison with a living reference population with several generations in the same place.

I saw that one too. Did a search and found out it was a mismatched fingerprint between an Oregon lawyer and the investigation into the Madrid terrorist bombing. This might be the episode in question:

Those tests are notoriously unreliable and are based on comparing samples to DNA they already have in their database, which is not a representative/proportionate sample of the world’s population.

I hope this generational tendency continues to fade away.