#1 is so true. My brother had his wedding last year - he is a great artist and carpenter (you can see where this is going). He tried to create and build a lot of the parts of the ceremony, but in the end he ran out of time (and sleep) - most of it ended up being tossed out at the zero hour - resulting in loss of time…

I see this constantly where I live in PA - people that drive those kinds of trucks just have a habit of tailgating until you move (in either lane). Yesterday I exited the PA turnpike (above speed limit) and a guy in a similar truck whipped around me, startled the person in front of him who hit the brakes, and just…

woops - I stand corrected - guess I'm a grandfather - damn I feel old now...

Be cautious with HP laptops. I inherited 2 from friends and after I tried to remove some HP softwares (which I assumed were bloat) I ran into all kinds of system issues/lockups. Windows restore helped out to fix it, but sometimes best to leave them.

Can you stream directly from this service? Have had issues with that on GD.

very cool - I'll check it out - thanks!

Be productive by planning time to rest and relax - it's important to your health. So many people try to fill every waking moment with "productivity". The 2 things that are huge after work hours are rest and (conversely) exercise. I think I could be a lot more productive on the latter with my new running partner:

I'm not a gamer, but using the OUYA as an HTPC for my office sounds good - anyone have good experiences with that - the Amazon reviews are all over the place.

I uploaded an mp4 video files that I wanted to share with a friend who is traveling. Sending a link to it was Ok, but I cannot play it without downloading it directly - you can't stream video directly from Google Drive? Lame - plus now I seriously doubt my friend will be able to view it.

I'm intrigued by 2 things from this list - CFL bulbs and the low flow "bottle in the toilet" method.

Are we really shocked at this? It's still "reality" TV - hence it isn't real and is produced entertainment. American idol has long be exposed that it is totally fixed - why not this show.

Was using Crashplan for the last 2 years (free version backing up to other PC on my network). No complaints until...recently for some unknown reason, all of my backups failed to connect to each other over my network. I hadn't installed anything new and haven't found a solution or workaround. Very odd - anyone else…

Sharlto Copley as the king has me worried - he was terrible in his last 2 films (Old Boy and Elisium)...fingers crossed. No worries about Angelina and the effects - maybe that's all this needs.

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly people can dole out cash to people they don't even know (like this case) or people who they know after like 1 or 2 dates (or even emails/phone calls). I have seen it go both ways (men and women being duped) - there must be some psychological reasoning besides being lonely.

20/20 or Dateline did a story about this a while ago - they removed one spark plug and brought cars into various shops. Not one found the easy problem - all of them worked up crazy estimates for engine work.

TaxAct user for the last 5 years - never had an issue with it. Prior to that I had used tax "professionals" and had issues - sometimes had to re-file due to missing/wrong info. In the end, using tax software was cheaper and easier with zero issues and electronic tax files a login away.

The Monoprice 5.1 looks great, but if you don't have a receiver or some audio adapters/cables...dunno...I guess you could pay $20 for an optical to stereo converter (my HDTV only has optical out) - has anyone worked with this and/or had good results without a receiver?

While the details have yet to be completely sorted through...

Meh - what a world we live in where you can achieve some level of fame for taking pics at the right angle.

How long of a cable did you use?