Years ago, when the symptoms were really severe, I used a lightbox to artificially lengthen the day. I used a timer to turn it on at about 7am (a jarring sunrise, yes) and shut it off when I left work. The timer would turn it on again at about 4pm (it's pitch black at 430pm here in mid-winter) and off again at…

I suspect you're right - it's fine for 1080p video (over VLC) and just about anything else I do but, ya know, Ubuntu [Wine [Firefox [whateverthehellextensionforNetflix]]] might be more than it can handle.

Several friends use unblock.us - the "DNS trick" it uses is perfect for game consoles. Giganews' Vyprvpn serves my needs quite nicely.

OH MY GOD - If you all cut men's hair, I lived in Decatur and I still had hair, I would SO get you to cut it. Aggressive? maybe. Fun? Oh yeah. Hope the salon makes you a fortune.

I'm quite sure the cat platter will be 2013's "must have" accessory.

I'd add:

Funny thing - when the Chronus clock showed up on my Nexus 7 after an update, I had a complete panic attack. (I was on the road and thought the update had borked the machine!) Within hours I found an app to "fix" the clock - not a fan of that "two font" design.

How about shopping for toothpaste when you get there? Worked for us in Japan.

I didn't know there was a name for it because I've always done this. A project manager once said he loved having me on his projects - if something started to slip or go wrong I'd have a couple of remedies in my back pocket that'd minimize the damage.

I started Coursera's "Computational Methods for Data Analysis" on Monday but I'm not sure - I only have a vague notion about the underlying "bones" of Fourier Transforms but that appears to be important from moment one! My old brain may be a little under-powered for what's required. I'll hang in there, there's…

At our end of Canada, all provincial govt programs (including our version of DMV) share a single service office with multiple staff - some for Licensing, some for Land related (property taxes, water fees, etc), some for misc (Wedding Licenses, etc). For ages, you arrived and hit the button marked with type of visit…

Hey, Ref! Wave when you get to the bridge!

Some Newspaper Somewhere - June 8th, 2013

"... an elegant, gesture-friendly way to get Google Reader onto your Android ..."

I know, eh. The least we could have gotten was an Alpaca-lypse. Millions of alpacas appearing worldwide would have taught people a few things. But, no.

I think God's twitter said it best re: The Apocalypse

It can also be wise if something goes wrong after the 90 day period but before the 1yr standard warranty. Back in the day, I had a iPod Touch's battery go nutzo after about 8mo's of use. In a nutshell, because I was still under warranty but without Applecare I could:

It's weird. There's a little coffee shop in the building where I work and the tiny, grandmotherly, lady who runs it is driven to strings of curse words when she's trying to count them out. (She said once she had to count what should have been 25 of them 8 times before she got 25 bills.) Maybe with use they'll start…

This. Scrooged is our house's Christmas tradition. It's the only DVD we don't cut off at the closing credits - Murray's 'engaging' the audience doesn't work at home (d'uh) but Annie Lennox and Al Green's "Put a Little Love in Your Heart"! If any of y'all ever visit during a screening, dancing to Annie and Al is NOT…

Oh for pity's sake - just because you can add colour to your bills doesn't mean you have to add ALL of them. In case no one else added it, a sample of our Canuck bills. The colour lets you identify the bill instantly. (Blue is a $5 and a stack of green $20's is nice to find when you look in your wallet.) We're in…