Hell yeah! Homeworld and YES.... I totally forgot about that gem.

Yes! I hadn't even though of Ronald Jenkees or Nujabes. Thanks!

Big fan of orchestral classical music while long hauling in space lots of good youtube playlists, even a couple specifically for Elite. Wish there was an easy way to flip the playlist to metal the second I get attacked by pirates though. I just feel like a sociopath killing space pirates to Bach.

Also been pulling…

A friend got me one of those a couple years ago, they work great for organizing all the screws and stuff on small electronics (white board markers also a bonus) when you're in the process of tearing something apart and would like to be able to put it back together again. I also do a lot of work on bicycles, so I've…

No need for citation, greatly exaggerating ones argument to make a point is a classic example or a weak argument needing to be propped up by hyperbole and moral panics.

I know it used to not be the case, but gold has gone through the 'effing roof in the last 15 years.

Anyone else see those exaggerated numbers and think it's more likely to make some people think there's crazy money to be made hosting a torrent linking site? It's like when some local pot dealer gets busted with a handful of plants in his house and the DEA says they busted a guy with $300,000 worth of weed he was…

I worked for a now defunct beer distributor in Alaska and we would help clean the lines at some of the bars. It was beyond disgusting how far gone some bars would let their lines go to the point where you'd see beerstones in your beer when poured from the tap. It looked like someone had emptied an unlit cigarettes…

Ugh, those things are somewhere between absolutely awful and soul crushingly stupid. If you want no tactile feedback, lots of missed keystrokes and generally a slower typing experience than the touch interface on your tablet, then go ahead. I even hear they're giving away a free set of concrete running sneakers with…

When my father unexpectedly passed away 3 summers ago two of my sisters and my mother went to the doctor and got prescribed something to help them with their depression. They leaned on me really hard to go to the doctor as well since I was admittedly very, very depressed after my father passed away. I told them that…

Wow, I just read through this whole series of responses and all I can say is bravo digi99, you just presented me with a masters class in Trolling. Your name will be whispered in reverence by the willfully ignorant for literally dozens of minutes before they get distracted and go back to watching Honey Boo Boo reruns.

It's been done, it's called "Lukes Change" and it will open your eyes man. The whole thing was an inside job by one family that just wanted to watch an empire burn.

I thought when I was a kid (80's in Alaska) we weren't allowed to go to public school until we had all of our shots in order and copies of them for the school records. I could be totally wrong about this since I was just a kid, but was there a court decision that changed this or was it just a policy change by the…

Nothing wrong with cheap when it's also elegant and dead simple solution. Now I gotta go check out Adafruit and see what they have for NFC stuff because you just gave me a bunch of ideas with that simple NFC hack.

I always thought he looked like a fast food garbage bin with legs..

"Weapons of Peace" INGSOC couldn't have crafted a finer bit of doublespeak.

Be aware that older electronics and newer "cheaper" electronics still use the 2.4Ghz signal and are generally unable to pick up the 5Ghz range. When I switched to a newer router that supports 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz most of my stuff worked fine, but I had an old laptop that couldn't pick 5Ghz up and a couple of wireless…

The 2.4Ghz frequency is so heavily used by wireless devices that I get all kinds of weird issues before I upgraded to an ASUS 802.11 ac router. My neighbors (I'm in an apartment) all have the super cheap Uniden 2.4Ghz DECT 3.0 wireless landline phones that are given for free when you sign up for a landline from our…

Yeah, Halo is one of my guilty pleasures. I was a huge fan of Bungie when I was a kid I had a crappy Macintosh (Performa 600) with almost no games to play. Then I discovered "Pathways into Darkness" and then the Marathon series which was amazing and at the time Myth was released it was game changing. All great…

It took me a long time to get around to watching Firefly, the "western in space" idea and a few friends who wouldn't stop going on about it was really what kept me from getting into it for so long.