You probably get quite a bit less than ten years on tires because the clock starts ticking when they were made not when you buy them. There’s a production date code on the side walls.

I really want someone to organize my lab. Lots and lots of little drawers with labels identifying the components in each one.

This might be a Dr. Nerdlove question but a girl once asked me to look in her mouth for one of these and at the time I thought she was BS’ing me because I had never heard of this condition. To this day, I wonder if this was a strange way of getting me to kiss her.

Does this thing have per-device bandwidth limiting? I, sadly, have a ridiculously low data cap on my ISP and streaming movies on my iPad is sucking up way too much data even though you can’t really appreciate HD movies on it.

Does this thing have per-device bandwidth limiting? I, sadly, have a ridiculously low data cap on my ISP and…

Yeah, it’s the same feeling some people get when they haven’t been to class all semester and haven’t studied for the final exam. That and the feeling some people get when they haven’t contributed a damn thing to the group project and the other people in the group are asked by the professor to grade project members’…

There’s a simple solution to this: privatize it. There’s a piece written about how comparing American airports to third-world countries is in fact insulting to privatized third-world airports.

I thought they were pining for the fjords.

Is it just me or is the above a “foreign policy” not a “defense policy”?

Many years ago, there was a piece on 20/20 where they put a bunch of guys in a sort of police line-up setting and asked a group of women which guys they found attractive and why. One of the guys was short. All the women chose the taller guys. Then they started describing various attributes about the guys e.g. what…

I highly recommend the Durango Silverton trip.

Nerd wallet seems to have a really low-ball estimate for how much money you’ll need in retirement. I monitor my parents’ expenses and it’s 3-4 times that and they don’t spend money unnecessarily. IMHO, the retirement calculators from Ameritrade and Scottrade are much more realistic.

For my Frosted Flakes. Obviously.

All of this streaming stuff is great if you happen to live in a major metropolitan area where you’ve got not just high bandwidth but a high-enough data cap that it doesn’t matter.
Sadly, for those of us who happen to enjoy living where there is room enough to swing a mountain lion, we’re still being milked hard for…

I just bought an inexpensive ($60) PCB heater and it’s worth every penny particularly when trying to deal with boards that have copper-pour ground planes.

I’ve been tormented by the Ghost of Christmas Past for many weeks now. It’s a whole Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind thing.

So, supposedly, if you want to get busy with a girl it helps to wear the same cologne her father uses. If this is true, is also true that you shouldn’t wear any if her father didn’t either?

Or fiance’ or husband for that matter. She’s using the orbiter as an escape hatch, safety net, Plan B. Someone she knows is crazy about her who she can go to when things in her primary relationship aren’t going well. It means that she’s not 100% commited to the primary guy. She’ll never figure out that it’s not…

RE: the driver’s license thing. Understandable IF you grew up and live in a major metropolitan area with great mass transit. Here’s the reality: most of the world isn’t like that and newsflash: doesn’t want to be.
But as to being a “real man” that’s a question I have and my guess is that it depends on who is judging.…

These are good for paninis but they’re terrible for pancakes.

These are good for paninis but they’re terrible for pancakes.

Speaking from personal experience, these often act as a flying gas station for Blackhawk helicopters. We were fortunate to have a search & rescue assist from two Blackhawks and a C-130 a few years back.