If you think of a "garden timer" as a device used to schedule the watering of a garden, my poor attempt at humor makes more sense. In the context of resetting a router, a "garden timer" of that type would only be useful with a water-powered router.

I'm a fan of eBay and holding on to devices past their "expiration date." All of our laptops at home come from "corporate lease" sell offs. The devices are typically in excellent shape and are completely functional, and all I do is up the RAM and replace the hard drive for more storage.

If we're going to talk about tax rates, we need to remember the two kids who make this a family of four. In the US, the Child Tax Credit and Additional Child Tax Credit give families $1000/child. So the final income tax liability will be $2000 less.

12 years old when dad bought the Commodore 64. Within a couple of years, I was using spreadsheets and databases to track the subscribers on my paper route. I had a monopoly on all 120 houses in the neighborhood.

"Organ Trail" - "you have died of septicemia following a forced kidney extraction. Your body was found in a tub filled with ice in a seedy hotel in Las Vegas."

Turning it off sounds better, but you might find yourself limited by your phone. I had an HTC phone that would boot if it was off when the USB cable was inserted. It took rooting and a custom bootloader to let me charge it without rebooting the phone.

My work computer gets shut down every night, per employer policy. (Employer is very power-use conscious.) Home computer schedule is vastly different depending up on the device.

But I am free. I've never been able to develop a skill set for which people would pay me. :)

Only about 20 states require safety inspections with an accompanying sticker. So, um, yes.

Most states require current-year stickers on the license plates. It makes it easier for the police to pull you over and cite you for driving with expired tags, thus making a little money.

In Missouri, they moved the tags to the center of the plate because people were clipping the corners off and gluing them on their own cars.

I put together a RaspBMC for work. We use it to run a background video at our display/exhibit/booth. It works great for that, except that I wish the looping reload was a little faster. It's more convenient than a laptop, since it resides in the case with the display at all times.

Yep. Because, here in the Good Ol' U. S. of A., we don't start with an entreé . We start with an appetizer.

We bought a house this year. I had to clean the dryer duct because it was so clogged that I couldn't see from one end to the other. This made a major improvement to how well the dryer worked. I can't believe that people don't clean these things out.

I still try to use WP5.1 key strokes to format text, and I haven't used it in 15+ years. I'm pretty sure that typing habits learned early are the ones that stick around.

Another mistake that writers make is following the guidance of online writers without critical consideration of its applicability.

My problem with Matt's answer is that he talks about statistical significance related to a subjective experience.

From my experience, I'm sure that the loose leaf tea in my pot tastes better than the same tea in bags. Yes, it makes a difference.

They all have security issues, if you want to err on the conservative side. Boxcryptor helps.

Love the size. This size'd be great for stocking our camp kitchen.