Before you book an extra seat, double check how much more it would cost to fly First Class. Sometimes it’s much cheaper to buy a First Class ticket than a second seat. And especially on long haul/international flights where your seat is basically a bed, might as well go First Class and get that than an adjacent seat.

Domestic first class seats are rarely more than 2x economy prices (if you’re more than 2 weeks out). Probably makes sense to just book that ticket in most cases. Unless you’re on Alaska and want to roll the dice that you’ll get a refund.

my wife had a blighted ovum on our first try, then an ectopic on our second. The first required surgery, the second we got lucky with the methotrexate. They were both technically medially required abortions. They were both devastating for us and we were obviously extremely concerned about being able to ever have…

The people who write bills like this aren’t interested in science or medicine.

This is deliberate.

Another reason why we need a comprehensive overhaul of our medical system. Doctors should be in the business of treating patients and patients should not have to worry about the bill and should not need a training in medical billing and coding to get treatment.

Because billing people, like blog writers, rarely bother to check the accuracy of their work . . . they just try to get it done as fast as possible and hope no one pays attention.

I’ve always found family member’s ears to be the best way to discharge static electricity.   Sure, my finger might hurt, but I won’t notice because I’m laughing at them.  I’ve been doing that since I was 5 and found my 15 year old sister sleeping on the couch.

I found holding a key and poking something metal (or some other thing where you’d zap if you touched it) discharges the static painlessly.

Not to mention that it’s slower and, now that it’s a universal app, it’s harder to create a shortcut for it.

Counterpoint: the Snip & Sketch adds more steps, making it more cumbersome than Snipping. It may offer more options, but I was perfectly happy with the old flow-through.

Mechanical keyboards are distractingly loud, but they were still much quieter than the IBM Selectrics and other electrified typewriters of the time. Cram a dozen of these in an office and suddenly it sounds like a factory.

Mechanical keyboards are distractingly loud, but they were still much quieter than the IBM Selectrics and other…

What would you have done when IBM Model F and Model M keyboards were industry standards?

What would you have done when IBM Model F and Model M keyboards were industry standards?

The problem with Tulsa and that whole middle part of the country is that it is culturally sterile. It has the culture of No Culture. It is like visiting a half empty strip mall where the only stores left are a Mailboxes Etc and a Hallmark store. It is the Unflavored Ice Milk of culture.

I had a bar at college I loathed that my friends loved going to. I really wasn’t feeling it one week so I went to the jukebox with $5 and selected “Octavarium” by Dream Theater. Five times in a row. While I have nothing against Dream Theatre, Octavarium is a song that goes on over 20 minutes. None of my friends were…

But most of the fun is actually being there and seeing it:

I do this shit all the time and I love it... most of the local watering holes I visit are loaded with a backlog of country songs. The old coots playing the same shit over and over... Like a silent assassin i’ll fastpass and drop a Purple Lamborghini by Rick Ross, some Korn or a even a good smattering of Slipknot (all…

I’m pretty sure my standards for “good” are higher, or at least different, than what that chart assumes. Or maybe I’m biased because I’ve watched most of the movies on Netflix that I’m interested in, and new ones get added relatively slowly. But there are way more movies on Disney+ that I’m interested in than there…

“Users can hardly be blamed”

They can, actually.  100 percent. 

I purposely book window seats because I LIKE to look out the window.  I do not have the ability to sleep on planes.