If it’s that easy to identify the assholes, why don’t the credit card issuers pull their charging privileges? And if a lot of them are being serviced by the same “see no evil, hear no evil” bank, you drop that bank from the network. And so on up the chain.

Larry has $69 billion, he’s worth the same as any of his employees, which is basically what his parts would fetch on the black market.

I bought a spool of white speaker cable that has a ridge along one side so you can easily tell by feel...

I bought a spool of white speaker cable that has a ridge along one side so you can easily tell by feel...

Step 1: Kill your parents for the inheritance

Amen to passive speakers. I’m still loving the Wharfedale Laser 80s I bought in the early 1980s with the money from my first real job. These days they are hooked up to a Denon amp connected to a Chromecast Audio over optical. Thoroughly simple streaming from any source I can bring up in a browser. And those readers…

Amen to passive speakers. I’m still loving the Wharfedale Laser 80s I bought in the early 1980s with the money from…

The owner of my regular pizzeria recommends the air fryer for refreshing leftovers, so +1 to that hack.

Thank you. What finally got through to Netflix? The deafening chorus of booing, or the subscriber cancellations?

To my surprise, I’m actually pretty up to see this, despite having no interest at all in the original animated story. I guess I’m a sucker for good wirework regardless of where it comes from. 

Lifehack: For Valentine’s Day, buy heavily marked-down Christmas chocolates. In many supermarkets, you’ll find them right next to each other. Same chocolate, different wrapper.

Lifehack: For Valentine’s Day, buy heavily marked-down Christmas chocolates. In many supermarkets, you’ll find them…

My wife tried out a new restaurant last month and it was a bit of MCF, to be honest. The appetizer took so long to come up that they comped it without us even saying anything. The entrees then also took forever to arrive, with my wife’s lamb wildly undercooked (and we’ve lived in France, so we’re not afraid of…

With Dish Network I assume you’ll need a recent DVR box such as Hopper. I’m pretty sure older boxes will only output 1080p, and since Dish insists on an extra $5 a month to move to Hopper, I’m hanging on to my 622 until it dies (again).

People who advocate population reduction never seem to be willing to take the first step themselves.

Exception applies if you’re the kind of person who really doesn’t care how well (or even whether) something works, you just need to hear other people saying “Wow, is that the new <X>?” and you’re willing to drop several hundred dollars for that experience.

none of those exceptions include watching illegal streams of sporting events

As soon as he was old enough to get out of bed and open the bedroom door by himself, my son started coming to my room to wake me to come and play with him the moment he woke up - which was usually somewhere between 4 and 5am. I tried explaining to him that he should stay in his room in the morning until I fetched him,…

What I really need is something to crush or finely chop garlic that doesn’t end up with more garlic on the device than in the dish, and that you don’t spend more time cleaning than using.

What I really need is something to crush or finely chop garlic that doesn’t end up with more garlic on the device…

I’m also a dollar short. Story of my life ;-)

No, most people are not “chronically dehydrated”. Your body has a finely tuned precision mechanism that determines your state of hydration, and triggers you when you need more fluids. It’s called “feeling thirsty”.

Good list, but disappointed Faraday didn’t make the cut. It’s a company that combines a second-rate version of the Tesla Cult, the persistent futility of Fisker, and financial engineering of Elio. Maybe you could have fit a bitingly snide side-comment into the Tesla or Fisker pieces?

Arguably, Last Tango in Paris is also a movie about prime real estate. It’s basically the story of two people who want the same apartment in Paris...