Our washer doesn't even fill with water unless the lid is closed. I'm supposed to stand there and wait for it to stop agitating so I can raise the lid? I don't think so.

Even filling our sink with water would take less water than filling the washing machine. And we never fill it completely when thawing anyway - just enough to cover the frozen item, and then a plate is put on top to keep it submerged.

Looks a lot like the Gmail app on a Honeycomb tablet. That's not a bad thing.

Given that the Internet used to be called the "information super highway," a better analogy is load restrictions found on highways. Any licensed driver can use them for as long as they want, but the amount of load any single user can pull along the asphalt is limited. Vehicles exceeding the load limit are penalized.

None of our key tags are magnetic. They're all bar codes.

Do you mean "just-boiled" as in "straight off the burner and just a hair cooler than 212°F"?

HP used to ship a similar attachment, made out of plastic with a metal reflector, as a stock item with some of its scanners. Compared to the dedicated negative scanner we had in the computer lab at that time, it was horrible.

I think it's more common that hard drives are removed and shredded. From two different universities, I've seen them sell off the PC (including RAM), but the hard drive is not included.

You mean those coveted and valuable cotton swabs that I bought so I could use them to clean things?

The USDA has determined that the counting of sheep as a hypnotic to assist in falling asleep is cruelty to animals, and has implemented regulations that make it excessively difficult to do legally in the US.

I make fire starters every few years using egg cartons and sawdust. I was never pleased with the way the dryer lint versions turned out. Mine burn slower, but they burn longer, in my experience. And that can be helpful when trying to get a fire started in wet weather.

I believe it was batteryrefill.com

I recently had to replace my Thinkpad X60 Tablet's battery. It didn't have a lot of wear on it, or else it probably would have failed during the "recall period" a couple of years back, and I'd have gotten a new battery. On the other hand, it was 4 years old.

I've bought batteries from a refill service. While functional, not all battery packs lend themselves to being refilled. My Thinkpad refill worked great, but the plastic housing was reassembled poorly and separated after very little use, once the batteries started getting hot from drain and charge.

It's funny how often information like this is rediscovered by accident. My mom taught me this "trick" in the 1970s. Beans and cornbread are an old family tradition.

It is "superfluous" in Windows 7, if your flash drive is NTFS. If it's FAT32, not ejecting the drive causes the OS to constantly ask you to scan the drive, unless you disable that notification. But not everyone has admin rights.

It's worthless to you, iyho. In my opinion, it's unfortunately necessary information. I work with a number of people who still struggle with what I consider to be basic computer use.

@korpo: The change in my diet wasn't "cutting sweets." My decision was to remove HFCS from the diet. Yes, that meant that my overall sugar intake went down. But the only sugar I cut was HFCS. It is entirely related. I continued to use honey and sugar as before.

I lost 15 pounds with one change to my diet. I've cut out HFCS, as much as possible. This includes HFCS sweetened pop and baked goods. Many breads have HFCS in them, which surprised me. Many vending machine pastries have HFCS, which doesn't surprise me.

I use fewer apps on a regular basis than I carry around with me on my phone.