A backup app that requires root isn't really a backup app that's useful. I just went though a huge mess trying to unroot my phone, bricking it, and finally replacing it. If I can't restore the phone without root, it's not a backup, IMO. Helium stopped working reliably with 4.4, so that's out. Another backup utility…

This doesn't work for real gift cards, only debit or credit card #. At least I couldn't get Google Wallet to recognize the Radioshack gift card I've got.

I'm listening to a audiobook where a family of three eat out 6 nights a week. Both parents are small town lawyers and neither cook, so I can see where this would be expedient. But if you can cook and have the time, there are plenty of meals you can make in 60 minutes. AmTK just came out with a Cooking for Two cookbook…

Alton Brown did a whole show on the 'art' of the church casserole. Several were made from leftovers (chinese shrimp and walnut casserole—yum) with a few added ingredients to make something that could easily satisfy 4 adults. Yes, making your lunch and bringing it to the office is much cheaper than going out. Local…

When my partner passed away over 20 years ago, I did the prescribed things to cope at the time. I sewed a NAMES Quilt panel for him, did the memorial service, attended the last big display of the Quilt in DC and said Kadish for him on his Yartzeit for a few years. But it didn't cover all of it. I just recently…

It could be worse. I had a side-business for the last 15 years in manual therapy. I go to classes, usually as part of a short vacation (e.g. Hawaii for a Visceral class, New Orleans for low backpain or Marin for "the pelvis").

We recently had a software issue at work where all the developers couldn't do anything. We narrowed it down to a NAS box that had "splikis in the genekctazoink", or so I told a developers. Ultimately we found a patch that, even though it rebooted stuff *yet again* fixed the problem. But the head of IT was working…

Dan Savage talked about this in his book AMERICAN SAVAGE. If found the topic of GGG most interesting. Another topic he mentions is exactly this one—investigating your partner's "kinks" and even if you're not that into it—play to give your partner a good time. I think this was how Dan discovered that his husband Terry…

While not exactly a tangent, I do a form a manual therapy which involves working inside the nose and the mouth (no, not together and I wear gloves). When discussing the "nose work", one instructor turned my perspective on it 180º.

I've only been called into the jury pool a couple times in the 10 years I've been getting notices regularly. For some reason, I didn't get anything in the 80s and 90s. I'm in a fairly large geographic area but I've only been summoned to the court that's a 90minute drive once. The rest of the time, it was a much more…

There's no mention of uVerse or FiOS. From the equipment uVerse left, it's a wireless router and access point rather than a modem. I'm being charged $2/mo for their equipment fee which includes the router and their HD DVR. I don't think that's to bad.

Dan Savage, sex advice columnist for the Seattle Weekly The Stranger talks about "GGG" in his book American Savage. It means "Good", "Giving", and "Game". See the Wikipedia article on it (yes it's short, but it's enough).

It should have happened after the session finale with that giant gremaldi device. Instead I stuck around until Michael was rumored to be an enemy agent and hit with a car. I'm still trying to scrub ALIAS out of my brain. All except for Jennifer Garner.

Or when they descended into the Bunker on LOST.

Since those two,…

Thank you for making this distinction.

Actually, I'm a long-time Social Fixer user. Facebook and SFX have been having a series of run-ins with FB cutting off SFX's FB page. To get it re-instated, SFX had to remove features that FB didn't agree with. One was the Friends Status List that show who last friended/unfriend you. So, SFX can't do this any more.

There are also lots of pediatricians who are opting-out of treating children who are unvaccinated. They send letters to the parents to bring them in for their vaccinations or find another doctor. There's to much risk of having a sick child sitting in their waiting room and possibly infecting other non-vaccinated,…

My sister-in-law asked me this question because her son kept cracking his neck and it really bugged her. I asked how he was making the cracking sound.

I bought a product from Quirty (their Power Pivot for $30). It took over a month to get it, apparently because their shipping department doesn't record the shipping info in their database so there was no way to track it.

OK, so my gaydar isn't so broken after all. Or maybe your knowledge of certain topics mentioned in passing to get Whitson's goat on the podcast was a little more than I'd expect for a het-boy from the midwest. Or maybe I'm stereotyping. I grew up in the The Valley after all.

I really hesitant to respond to a recruiter's email when the job description is "close, but a stretch" in terms of experience and skills. Usually I just lay out my experience and skills and let the recruiter decide. Usually, they pass, which is fine.