I’m going to guess that leaving your hairbrush out in the sun long enough to really clean it would cause some significant UV degradation of the plastic.

It would be possible to add wake word activation to the RasPi Alexa machine, but it seems that no one has yet tackled that project. I think the first person to publish that is going to win about a billion internets.

Unfortunately, this project misses out on the best feature of Alexa/Echo devices, which is hands-free voice control (you have to press a button to activate the RasPi version). I use an Echo Dot as my alarm clock, and love being able to say “Alexa, stop” without having to move.

I’m not sure I’d count on something that doesn’t require at least a 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 scrubbing. My favorite toilet cleaner is The Works (http://www.theworkscleans.com/toiletcleaner.…), which is cheap & very effective. I buy it at that big orange store, but it’s available from lots of places.

Would this work on my brother? He’s the biggest leech I know.

OMG, a broken PSP? No Lumines?! Don’t gut it—repair at all costs!

3. “It’s just naively hopeless.” Would you prefer expertly hopeless?

Inversion always gets me hot.

Perhaps we could cultivate a more abrupt, skip-the-superfluous telephone style similar to that typically used in writing. Then I might tolerate the damn things.

The GIFs I make using this tool work in my desktop graphics editor (GraphicConverter), but appear as just a single frame (no play option) when I upload them to Facebook. I haven’t had problems using any other animated GIFs in FB.

Imagine what that does to your chair... (or not, if you’re about to eat something.)

Couldn’t you have just pretended to be your twin?

Ugh, telephones. A remnant of the dark days whenever everything had to be dealt with in real time. It’s like not being able to timeshift your TV viewing, if you can imagine such a thing.

And ten long straws.

woosh on me! nevermind

Then you should go back to Mars, J’onn J’onzz.

Every morning I resolve that this will be the day I begin my diet. Then I open Lifehacker, and my resolution becomes “just one more day...”

While I’m reading this, there’s a link to Patrick’s “The Most Unhealthy Foods You Can Find On Restaurant Chain Menus Right Now” article in the sidebar. Seems appropriate, given the photo above.

I used to use hot glue for stuff all over my house. Then I discovered that after a while it loses its grip (except on very porous surfaces). Bummer.

Absolutely not. If Apple really pulls this fascist crap, then the next time I want to upgrade my phone I’m going to become a Switcher—to Android.