We live in LA, and one of my big regrets is that we never made it to Edwards AFB to see a shuttle land. Heard all those sonic booms!

The machine is fine, but the person wearing the mask has rather narrow nasal passages. The strip helps the air flow more smoothly.

Alas, I think you're right. Poor kidlets just don't know what they missed.

I wonder how many Giz readers are old enough to actually remember that flight. Judging by the incessant older-person bashing that goes on here... not many.

A nose strip can help if you wear a CPAP mask for sleep apnea.

No. Use nonadhesive, thick plastic shelf liner. If something spills, pull out the liner, wash it off, and put it back.

I've carried that case through multiple US airports. Nobody's even asked me to open it.

I bought a metal cigarette case on eBay years ago. All my important cards fit in there perfectly. And it even came with a built-in lighter, so if I want to set the world on fire while shielding my cards, I can. :)

That's a laundromat, and it's a whole different situation. You have to take your clothes there and put money in the washers and dryers to use them.

I love drying clothes on the line. When we lived in Kansas, we had a huge clothesline that was nearly as long as the back yard and I used to take the kids out to play, then hang basket after basket of laundry on the line. With the way the wind blew in Kansas, by the time I got the last load of laundry hung up, the…

My parents and my inlaws grew up during the Depression. My dad's parents were rich so he never had to be frugal, and my mom grew up in a series of boarding schools so she was insulated from the economy. Neither one ever had a clue about money.

Reminds me of an old SNL sketch about a package delivery company for packages that really should have been there last week.

Here's how we store pots and pans and dry dishes in our small kitchen. This picture was taken before we got rid of the broken soap dish, pulled out all that gross grout around the sink and replaced it.

Adam Sandler just makes crappy movies that aren't even worth a Netflix rental. Ben Stiller makes creatively stupid movies. I laughed myself silly over Zoolander.

I am so glad my kids rented the Lord of the Rings movies because that meant that when I got bored after about half an hour I could get up and go do something else.

I think Casablanca is the best movie ever made. No matter how often I see that "Play La Marseillaise!" scene I always get goosebumps.

When I was a disk jockey decades ago, if we called the Chief Engineer for help, the first thing he always asked was "What have you done to try to fix it?" We were expected to know the simple things to try. It's not difficult to do the same thing with computers. And I know, because I'm probably older than the…

Single cup coffee brew = Aeropress. Period.

My kids better not iron me with the bottom of their computers. I like my wrinkles just the way they are.

If the record companies would go through their vaults and put every last tune all the way back to Edison barking into a wax cylinder on sale for 59¢ they'd have so much money they'd be able to fund every garage band in America and forget about the pirates.