Next time you’re about to deliver a witticism to someone who’s doing their job—or make a joke about their name, or about their physical appearance or something else they can’t control

I have a *very* unusual last name. (How unusual? Several genealogy sites think I’m globally unique). You have no idea how often people point that out to me. For a while I would respond to “that’s an unusual name!” with “Is it? I never noticed. Everybody in my family is called that”, but pretty soon I got even more…

FIFA needs to suspend Israel under it’s political interference rules.

I recommend that airpod owners put them in the cutlery basket of their dishwasher.

Good article. I disliked Gladwell long before this, so now I can add “disgusted” to “disliked”. Gladwell is a stupid person’s idea of what a smart person sounds like.

Google Play Music is great as an additional backup of my CDs, but awful as a podcast player. I tried a lot of apps before finding one that did the basics well: play podcasts in sequence, auto-download new ones, auto-delete old ones, etc. Castbox was where I landed. YMMV but I don’t think any of the streaming services…

I once volunteered my exit row seat — the one with about four feet of space in front of it — to the guy behind me who really looked like he needed it. I later found out that he was a moderately well-known college basketball player (I don’t follow the game, don’t ask me his name).

When my kid was small, we shopped there for the things we went through in bulk: diapers, baby wipes, formula, wine, paper towels. Once he went to school, we dropped our membership. 

My hit rate up went up considerably when I started self-censoring one out of three of the things that normally come out of my mouth...

1. Be a regular

Historical footnote: the penis is bigger than it used to be. When the Giant was first created, he had a navel and the penis ended a few feet below there. During one of the restorations that have taken place from time to time, the penis accidentally got extended, with the navel becoming the head of the penis.

Abu is a video and podcast producer...

Can I get paid in Bitcoin?

Tried that, no joy :-(

the only USB devices I have are the keyboard and mouse, so that’s going to be tricky...

I’ve been trying for weeks. It gets beyond the first reboot then stops with a cryptic message that it can’t update some system component. I have not been able to figure out which component is the issue, or find a relevant log file.

A related concept is “care for the carer”. For example, if a friend is taking care of an aging and ailing parent, that carer could probably do with some help too. Bring them meals -- for themselves, not the parent; offer to shop for them; give them a chance to talk -- or in terms of the ring theory, explicitly make…

Dear Millennials: Not everything is about you. Many of us Gen-Xers have already been dealing with this issue for years. I don’t even use our own “good” china, let alone the stuff my wife’s aunt, parents, and grandparents left us. Unfortunately my wife is the absolute archetype of the combination of guilt and…

Counterpoint: bosses come, and bosses go. I’ve been in my current role for six years and in that time I’ve burned through three directors and three VPs (one of them twice). The last director was a constant source of people asking me “how can you work for that asshole?”, but I knew I just had to wait him out. Having…

542 horsepower and sleek looks that help propel it to a still-eye-watering 217 mph