Just get a do-rag.

Darn. We'll have to get a deal on a Blu-Ray player first.

When I was a kid, I had lots of cavities. I also had a mom who ended up, so help me, being late to her own funeral. She made a career out of being late. Getting any place on time was just not in her neural net. Period.

Thank you! I had not heard of that before and it looks like just what I need.

Just rub on some baking soda. It doesn't sting or smell bad.

You know how it is, we old people get confused between our megas and our gigas. :)

Awww, gee, Whitson, it's so nice to know you're thinking of me and my mesozoic hardware. :)

I'll check that out, thanks!

It is a titanium "gigabit ethernet" model that was top of the line in its day. But the processor is only 667Ghz. Can't do much with that in this day and age. It does run Tiger, at least.

Those are pegged pants. High fashion in those days. Polo shirts weren't anything out of the ordinary either. Shades are probably Ray-Ban aviators or imitations thereof.

I inherited a necklace from my grandmother that is alleged to have a very small bit of moon rock in it. The story is that the artist who created the necklace got a very small moon rock legally and used bits of it in jewelry.

I was hoping to do that with my HP Pavilion, but alas, the motherboard bit the dust. (I'm an A+ certified tech and have brought many a computer back from the dead, but not this one.)

Switch to Scrivener for your writing, because it's a lot faster and more versatile. If it's got an Intel chip, use Chrome instead of Safari. Probably OpenOffice for spreadsheets and graphs. Audacity for audio recording.

I don't think there's anything much I can do with my trusty Powerbook G4, manufactured ten years ago. I just have to be patient and wait for it to work.

Keeping track of paper manuals isn't so doggone difficult. As you get each gizmo, staple the receipt to the manual and put it in a file folder marked with the name of the room it's used in most often (portable devices get their own folder). Put those in a file drawer or box and you're done.

Cook's Illustrated does that, with the weight measurement preferred.

Go and buy a Betty Crocker cookbook. Those start off with the assumption that the cook knows nothing about the technique, and walk you through everything without getting snotty about it.

If I could find a way to keep the other people in this house from automatically turning the burners on the stove up to high and leaving them there (and then wondering why stuff gets burnt) I'd be in heaven.

A lot of landlords are really picky about things like that. You might actually be able to get away with this if you have cabinets on both sides of your kitchen sink AND if the landlord or building manager don't come to inspect your place. The shelves are supported by L shaped hooks, but the spacing between the…

When my kids were little we lived in a low-income neighborhood where there were a lot of break-ins. We protected our house by drilling holes through the double-hung windows in two places, one fully closed and one opened enough to let in air but not a person, and then we put a thick eye bolt through the holes.