I have a cat who'll be 18 in May. He knows he wants something but he's seldom sure what. So he has to come get me to figure it out for him. That insures I get up from my desk many, many times during the day.

That's what our Caller ID boxes do. The phone rings once, the box picks up and plays a "We don't accept calls from your number" message and hangs up on them.

No VoIP here. Strictly old fashioned land line for a couple of old geezers who don't like the idea of the phone going dead when the power goes out. :)

Get Mailwasher Pro. It is worth the money. Even if you insist on using the inefficient online method of reading your mail instead of using an email client, you can dump all the spam with Mailwasher. You can even bounce stuff back with a fake "no such address" message if you want, but I doubt it's effective against…

A friend of mine recently had a brand new bike stolen out of the locked, gated parking garage in their building, where she had locked the bike up with a good solid Kryptonite lock. Some people will steal anything that IS nailed down.

Sounds like something someone ought to tell the 1%.

Here ya go. I replaced the tweezers in mine with a toothpick.

Now that you've regurgitated the Fox News talking points, do yourself a favor and go find the facts. Otherwise your claim to not be a zombie is invalid.

You do know how Medicare works, right? Universal health care is Medicare for everyone. Paid for by everyone. Just like it works in every civilized nation in the world. And a bunch of uncivilized ones, too. You could look up the list of nations that don't provide health care for their citizens. It won't take you long…

I found a beautiful Barlow knife stuck into a window frame of a house we moved into. I kept it for years. It was a real treasure. I don't know what happened to it, and I wish I still had it. It'd probably be at least 100 years old now.

There's a Mini Champ. That's what I carry.

Political rant? I think you're looking in the mirror, bro. Fox News zombie alert!

The Car Talk brothers always said "It's the stingy person who spends the most."

We have a beat-up set of plain old rabbit ears that we used with our very first TV back in 1972. They pick up all the stations we want to watch—but we live in Los Angeles, where almost all the TV towers are on top of Mt.Wilson and even with a mountain range between them and us we get plenty of signal strength. I use…

Hmm. We don't have shower doors, but we do have ceramic tiles around the tub, and getting the soap scum off them is a royal pain (btw, if anyone else has this problem, a razor blade scraper designed for scraping paint does a dandy job of soap removal). I think once we get the whole shower stall completely scraped and…

Ooooooooooooooooo.... I know just the people to give that to. Thanks Giz!

The cat can definitely watch videos. Unfortuately, I did not have the web cam going while she was sitting here staring intently at the screen.

By the shape of the tail feathers, I think that's actually a raven. And my cat really got a charge out of watching the video.

My dad learned to smoke when he was in the Army because that's what soldiers did in WWII and there were cigarettes included in the rations.

My mother started smoking when she was 14 because it was "the sophisticated thing to do." She tried quitting after the Surgeon General's report came out in the 60s but didn't manage to do it. Later on she quit for seven years and then started smoking again. There was always some perfectly good excuse why she had to.