Where I come from, that was always called a Frito pie.

Nope. Haven't seen any of them. Ads, yes. Actual items, no.

Make the little brats work at a homeless shelter for a year and take the bus there and back. And every time they show up late, one of their gadgets gets donated to someone who will appreciate it.

Wow. I haven't seen a single one of those items.

Chrome will not run on my first-gen Mac Mini. Sad but true.

Go get a list of Billboard top singles from 1962 and see how many of those people you would have wanted to shape the course of music in the 60s instead of the Beatles.

The fact that a lot of people buy something says nothing about its quality. Did you guys forget all the people who came in here wailing and moaning when the iPhones they stood in line for six days to get didn't work right? Have you ever looked up how many people bought Pet Rocks?

Music would have progressed, but take a look at what artists were popular just before the advent of the Beatles. It would have been those people leading the progression... ew.

Priced any decent version of Win7 lately? THAT'S why.

Or there's this from the Container Store. Someone's putting a lot of faith in the coefficient of friction.

If you live in the Los Angeles megalopolis, the safest ATM in the county is in the lobby of the Burbank police/fire building. Open 24/7.

I discovered this on my own this afternoon, and found a message someone sent to me back in September that I really needed to answer.

Guys, if you don't put Scrivener at the top of the list it's clear you don't do much writing on a Mac.

I took an Epson laser printer in for repairs sometime in the mid-1990s, before I learned to fix them myself, and the first thing the tech said when he got it apart was "I see you have cats."

Kvass. Fermented rye bread. Lordy, that stuff's nasty.

Thanks, that definitely looks like it's worth checking out.

Timely topic. My venerable Olympus Stylus 400 is on its last legs. I need a new camera and have no idea where to start. I'm very fond of Olympus cameras (have owned them since the OM-1). Is there a good and relatively inexpensive model anyone could recommend?

And to think, the whole thing could have been done with just one Commodore 64. :)

The people you talk with on the phone are mostly idiots. Seriously, @Charter on Twitter will get you through to the people who do know what they're doing.

If you've got Charter, @Charter is the ONLY way to go for any kind of problem. Those guys know what they're talking about, don't read from scripts and don't treat you like you're stupid when it's their stuff that's gone flooie.