I’ve been doing for instruction manuals for years. It’s great because I know where they all are and when I give a device to someone, I just email them the manual. I also use filethis.com and don’t worry about keeping bills anymore.

This is an excellent idea. We have a clutter of menus in a folder in the kitchen next to the cookbooks. Weird since I stash everything else in Evernote.

I keep getting myself into more trouble and should learn to just shut up and walk away but I’m kinda hard-headed.

No. It just powers it off. I’m 99% sure it’s the equivalent of pulling the plug on it. For some reason my RaspPi (OpenELEC) freezes on occasion or goes to “sleep” and the only way to get it going is to reboot it which you can’t do without a switch. So I pull the plug from the board but I’m afraid that eventually it’ll…

I apologized for this statement later in the thread and I’ll trust that you didn’t see it. Asshole was the wrong word. I still think anytime someone is dismissed based on their least consistent and likely hardest to change trait, their appearance, then the person dismissing them may seriously want to think twice about…

I remember seeing this shitty flick in theaters when I was fifteen. I will give them credit, it’s a fucking great poster and it looks like what I would want a He-Man movie to look like. Which is more than I can say for GI Joe, Transformers, Battleship and Jem and the Holograms.

Since the posters are generally designed by ad firms who’ve never seen the movie, they wouldn’t know if it was horrible or not.

This was frustrating me so I went on eBay and bought a $6 USB switch that works great and looks as good as can be expected. What I really want is an enclosure that has all the ports accessible, intergrated IR and a power switch. If it came with enough space to put a 2.5 HDD inside that would be sweet.

Thanks. Unlike most people I sometimes say things on the internet without thinking them through. Oh wait, that’s everybody including me.

But let’s say you have an occupation that has compensated you extremely well. You know putting “I invented Pinterest” or CEO of anything may attract the type of people who are there just for that. If you’re a professional cheerleader and post yourself as Postal Worker to dodge the dirty dogs who want to say they…

That was poor wording on my part. My apologies. What it does is weed out the people who value appearance more than personality.

I read a story of a woman who lost 80 pounds one year and used all of her ‘before’ photos in her profile. When she showed up most people were surprised and few of them felt cheated. Her math was that if they were willing to go out with the fat her, they would probably be okay with the thin her. Excellent asshole…

There is a part of me that thinks when an artist wants something forgotten, it should stay that way. There is another part of me that would love there to be some kind of network where established writers could take their orphaned ideas and trade them. Anne Rice looks at something King discarded and says, “No no no...…

I think there is a program here in the naming. Apple’s pricing method has made us believe apps cost 99 cents and now we’re used to it. They only cost that because that’s the price Apple has set (I know some are a few dollars more but none are less). When you call a Desktop program an app, don’t be surprised when…

I do the divided thing all the time to justify the price of something. I do PC work on the side and have clients with eight year old PCs and I tell them you need a new PC and they balk at me. Nobody ever wants to spend $500 on something. Then I tell them $500 divided by sixty months is $8.33 a month for something you…

I know I’m dating myself but I can’t be the only one who grew up with Slim Goodbody?

This difference would be hopefully your roommate doesn’t hold any public office and make decisions for other people.

I worked Best Buy Geek Squad. A kid calls me at 8:00p asking about having memory installed in his Desktop. We close at 9:00p. I tell him if he can get there before 8:40p I’ll do it right then and he won’t go into the queue and get his PC back two days later. He had bought the memory and couldn’t figure out how to…

That’s what I thought and had explained to people but a lot of co-workers didn’t believe me because I wasn’t 100%. That being said, even I erred in the side of caution because when you talk shit about the people you work for, you should.

It’s what I eventually did. Actually what I did was keep their iPhone in a drawer in my office and gave everyone a Google Voice number instead of my assigned work number that rang on both my mobiles and my desk line.