And the display of Google Reader on my iGoogle home page is totally hosed. FAIL.

Top of the class. Probably before you were born.

Carl Sagan told us that a LONG time ago. Where have these guys been?

I've been carrying a PacSafe purse for years. You can lock the strap around the cart handle and lock the zipper pull to the strap, and it doesn't look like a third grader's lunchbox.

Hmmm... does that garage-door unlocker work if you don't have a garage door opener?

While I would never advocate shining a laser at a helicopter and I hope everyone who does it gets caught immediately, after listening to the flocks of heli-vultures that pollute the skies over Los Angeles I can sure understand why people target them with lasers.

I've never tried to buy anything without a card, so I have no idea if that's true.

You can't check out without the card, as far as I know. But if you want to just go in and look around and see if you want to buy a memberhsip, that's no problem at all.

Where do you get the idea that all hospitals operate for profit? Probably from some for-profit fabricators like Fox News.

And, of course, the entire plot of "Avatar" was lifted from Clifford Simak's short story "Desertion" from the 1940s.

You can enter without a membership. Tell the person at the door you're going to talk to customer service about a membership, if they ask. It's perfectly OK to browse around in there a much as you want.

If you have Charter and you have problems with your internet service going down, do not waste your time calling them. The people on the phone read from scripts and they simply cannot handle anything that deviates from the script. They are not equipped to deal with anyone who actually knows what they're talking about…

Sure. You can bake or broil them instead of grilling.

A girl my kids went to high school with had a reasonable career as a porn star, but she blew her boobs up to such ridiculous proportions that I can't imagine the kind of person who'd think she was still hot. People with soccer ball fetishes, maybe.

I marinate chicken breasts in a mixture of olive oil, lemon juice and lemon pepper for about 30 mins at room temperature. Then I grill them (about 4 minutes per side). We eat a few the first night and I put the rest in the fridge. Use them within a week, cut up for salads, and they taste just as good as when they're…

You don't need batter. Just roll the chicken pieces in cornstarch and cook them in a wok with oil.

I have yet to find a loyalty-card store that would not let you just give them your phone number.

Not surprised. My mom drank, smoked, and didn't eat right. I look younger now at 60 than she did in photos when she was 40.

If the dirt comes from setting it on the floor, get yourself a purse hanger.

Not me. The only thing I do while watching TV is read books.