Oh, pretty! I'm not going to buy them, but I am going to be very jealous of the first person I see riding around town with that rig.

I don't know if I have the best filters, but when I use Adblock Plus on Hulu, the ad is replaced with a page saying, "we are unable to load a message from our sponsors" for 30 to 60 seconds. I've just installed this, and it skips the whole thing, jumping straight back into the show with no delay.

If someone who knows me uses my real name online, I ask them to change it. I know I really am a bit paranoid, but I just don't want my real life mixed up with the internet. I feel gross just thinking about it.

Oh, so happy. I can't stand on-screen keyboards. I've been looking forward to the Droid 3 since it started leaking, but since Verizon's decided they don't want customers anymore, I've been looking around for a new carrier. I will go with whoever has the best Android slider, and this one will probably be hard to top.

The hospital at which my sister and her husband work was rated something like 53 out of 55 in the state for patient satisfaction, and at the same time one of the top two or three hospitals of its type in the entire US for patient survival.

It's not greed to give away somewhat less of a luxury item for free is it? Supposedly there are limits on the free US version, or there will be, but I have been completely frustrated trying to find any information on what they are.

If Google had agreements, they'd be able to mirror instead of forcing us to choke our connections with hours and hours of uploading. To me, that's its biggest weakness.

I imagine a lot of people use a combination of services... I have Google for my music collection, Pandora for discovering new music, and Spotify for looking up specific music I don't already have. All totally legal, all for $0. The future is awesome.

I wear a watch. My black plastic analog Timex isn't a style statement; I wear it because it is very fucking good at what it does. It's faster, more convenient, and less fragile than my phone. It takes up no pockets, weighs nothing, and is never farther away than a quick glance, no matter what my hands are doing. …

Steady, low heat is a lot more difficult to achieve, and more useful, than super-high heat.

NYC bagels are good, but they aren't as good as the ones in Jerusalem.

I like bourbon, too!

As 99% of the complaints I hear from habitual shit-talkers about other people are painfully self-oblivious and stupid, it almost sounds like it would be refreshing to work somewhere where negativity is banned. I can't stand working with complainers. Everybody's an idiot to somebody else, whiny guy, you and me…

I am having a nice giggle about this one.

Ha, I thought the same thing. "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"

"I don't want to trivialize the inhumane horrors that African slaves endured on slave ships, but I'm going to do it anyway."

I completely understand and agree with what you're saying, but I also know what it's like to need money desperately.

Lately I've been using a battery-powered travel alarm clock instead of a normal, plug-in type. I've found it very, very effective to turn on the alarm at night, and then toss it randomly across the [carpeted] room instead of setting it on my bedside table. No choice but to get up in the morning!

I'll trade you Hulu for Spotify!