Oh, nertz. That's right up the road from here. I've got co-workers who live there.

I'll have to ask about the worms today. I'm sure they won't mind. :)

My solution was to marry her. With one pot of money, there's no real need to argue who pays when we go out. Plus, with 3 kids and a mortgage, there's usually no money to go out anyway.

That probably depends more on the mattress quality than anything else. A good mattress with solid support underneath will be comfortable.

It looks like someone asked Google to convert 2°C to °F, which it does as 35.6°F. That's true, since 0°C = 32°F.

All true, but the lien from a mortgage means that someone else has a vested interest in your "assets." They're not just yours.

A home is an investment, but only to the extent that one is able to build equity.

Most of us don't actually "own" our home. We hold a mortgage that lets us live in our house until we pay it off or sell it. But that mortgate remains a liability.

The whole housing bubble revolved around people whose liability for their…

Actually, owning a house is an asset.

Most of us don't own houses. We hold mortgages. Mortgages are liabilities.

Interesting idea, but only useful for situations where you don't close the drain.

A particular problem with data, particularly in Sarah Murnaghan's case, is that the analysis of existing data may be based on obsolete understandings.

There is a very GOOD reason why 12-year-olds are not given adult lungs. It also happens to be a reason that was applicable when the rules were created, but has been…

I didn't realize they could be used for floating desalination plants. This'd be a double boon for cities in Southern California, where brown-outs happen and water is scarce. They could reduce reliance on the Colorado River, for one thing. (I wrote "reduce," not "eliminate.") It might also address issues with nuclear…

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.