Have you ever noticed that all the best jobs start with “arch”? Architect. Archaeologist. Archvillain.

Have you ever noticed that all the best jobs start with “arch”? Architect. Archaeologist. Archvillain.

I’m really tempted, but I don’t know if I should hold out for a 3.1 channel setup (separate center channel for dialog)...

I’m really tempted, but I don’t know if I should hold out for a 3.1 channel setup (separate center channel for…

I don’t need one: I already have a baby registry at Amazon, according to the email they sent me.

I moved house a couple of weeks ago and haven’t found the box with my power tools yet. Is that a good excuse to buy a new drill?

I moved house a couple of weeks ago and haven’t found the box with my power tools yet. Is that a good excuse to buy…

....that was supposed to be a joke about Segways. Of all the incredible things going on in the background of the Eureka pilot, the one that seemed least plausible was the Segway...

You might be right re. my overrating Dark Matter, I got into when there was a real dearth of original / amusing sci-fi on TV and I really wanted to like it despite the Annoying Teenager. But I would put it on par with Warehouse 13.

This. I tried to get into Killjoys (when I ran out of Dark Matter episodes) and so much about it felt clunky, forced, and constructed out of the leftover parts of other better shows. Dark Matter, by contrast, is clever, funny, textured, and self-aware... and I guess I just answered my own question.

Still the best ex-president the US has had in a very long time.

Related: my son only ever once asked “Are we there yet?”. I said Yes. He looked out the car window and said, emphatically, “No we aren’t!”. I said “Oh, OK, will you tell me when we do get there?”. He said “Sure!” and didn’t ask again — not that trip, not ever. I felt like a child-raising genius.

Any chance they can put this into a rotary Wankel configuration?

I had the same reaction, and started to freak out that gizmodo was going through my medicine cabinet

By the age of 7 or 8, my mother was sending me out to fetch her booze and cigarettes (and keep the change for going). That was a strange time when stores would unblinkingly sell that staff to young kids, simply assuming they were fetching it for the parents.

One thing I highly recommend: be generous with public praise for your colleagues — provided you are authentic about it. Whether it’s in a team meeting or a Reply All email, responding to praise from your boss with “it was a team effort and X deserves a ton of the credit” is incredibly powerful. If you genuinely are a…

This is why we need a travel ban on CEOs coming to this country.

For reasons I can’t well articulate, it makes me simultaneously angry and sad that Kaballah was hijacked by such a list of people, and for most people all they know about it is “Madonna and that red band thing”.

assistant professor of accounting

Finally got this running (had to futz around with the audio settings to get my old mic to work...). But now I can’t figure out — how does Alexa decide what my location is? It seems to think I’m in Seattle...

Let’s not over-react. It’s probably just their hormones.

...amd then there’s the Hard But Ethical way of getting people to agree to help you: Take the time to figure out what their best alternative to an agreement is, and then show them that your offer is even better for them. It’s more work, but you’ll sleep better at night.

If what you have is “more of a comment,” keep it to yourself