I worked with a professor while in grad school, and he told students to understand that his inbox filled up quickly and they had to be creative if they wanted to get his attention.

One student emailed him with the subject line, “Dr. So-and-so, I’m having your baby!”. He read that one.

That would be the every popular and rarely trusted Microsoft Word 2013. My point was that copying and pasting the questionable text from this article into Word and pressing F7 did NOT reveal a grammar error over and, but it didn’t like the capitalized “Make” in the last sentence of the paragraph.

Actually, F7 wouldn’t have caught that error. It’s spelled correctly, and the grammar filter doesn’t catch it.

If I can extend battery life and still be able to read my calendar, I’m good. I don’t really need 1080p ‘cept in games and movies.

Actually, I’m pretty sure the Blade Nano QX *does* have swappable batteries. You can buy extra ones from Blade, which is what I’ve intended to do when I get around to buying another RC craft.

Also, the Blade Glimpse has a camera that streams over WiFi direct to your phone. That will might get my actual money when I…

Your tax "refund" can be "free money" if you have kids. The Child Tax Credit can pay out more than families owe from the tax tables. Nevertheless, even that "free money" should be used to pay down personal debt or be put aside for personal financial goals.

Most people don't have a savings cushion for emergencies, and…

To the first question, no, because I've not seen a place to set that. But stride length shouldn't matter since it's responding to changes in the movement of my arm. To the second question, yes.

I don't mind that it counts "some" non-steps as steps. My problem is that I've watched it count arm movements as way to many…

Well, how very scientific! If you don't think so, it must not be true!!

It doesn't. It counts arm swings, which is why, since I teach "demonstrably," I rack up so many steps in a couple of hours in class.

My experience was the reverse. It was telling me I slept well, when I knew I'd had trouble actually getting to sleep and staying asleep.

But you're right about the alarm. That is a great feature. I uses it specifically when I've got to get up really early to travel and want to avoid alarming my wife.

It's buried in the settings under "Devices." For each FitBit device, there's a "sleep tracking" setting.

On its normal setting, it was telling me that I slept for 9 hours, almost solidly, even when I know I had a rough night and slept poorly, waking up several times. The "Sensitive" setting does a better job of…

You're welcome. I had a student introduce me to that site this semester. Bunch of sick twisted people passing as undergraduates on this campus. I like 'em!

I was given a Fitbit Flex for Christmas. I'm unimpressed with it's "steps" count, as it easily records hand movements as steps. There's no way I've added 4000 steps just by walking around for 2.5 hours in one class room.

It's sleep measurement was more believable when I increased its sensitivity setting. It does a much…

Say, have you visited anti-joke.com?

It's not my field of study, so I don't really know if HFCS is better/worse than sugar.

I do know that HFCS rips my gut up in ways that sugar doesn't. "Coca Cola Classic" causes gastrointestinal distress for me that I don't experience with "Mexican Cokes" or even "Coca Cola Life" (cane sugar and stevia).

That's true. However, do we know that the caffeine knows to wait 4 minutes before binding with the thearubigins? How much difference is there between 4 and five minutes? (I honestly don't know).

HOWEVER, put the two ideas together, and you could to a short steep with less water to get most of the caffeine out and then…

But one doesn't drink tea simply for the caffeine. One also drinks it for the flavor. An excessively short steep might provide more caffeine and yet taste like an overly diluted cup.

I bought one of these and liked it so much I ordered one for my dad. I'm not coordinated enough for a nailset.

One thing I've noticed that young professional women seem to be oblivious to is the length of their hems. I've made this point to female graduate students preparing for interviews, and I don't know why I'm still surprised by their surprise.

Unfortunately, I don't have a local hobby shop. Nearest one is 45 minutes away.

Well, I guess in "rural America" that still counts as local. But the nearest good one is 1.5 hours away.