8/4/19: “Google does store transcripts on its servers.” 

I only buy battery packs with integrated wall chargers. The last thing I need in my life is dying pack that needs to plug into a dying pc that needs to plug into an outlet.

I only buy battery packs with integrated wall chargers. The last thing I need in my life is dying pack that needs to…

Hardly. I ate there most days.

Without missing your implication, I think I just asked what they called those things.

This might be common knowledge to many here, but it wasn’t to me...

Ever see the movie adaptation of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal”?

Yes, by all means, let’s use the same seven words over and over again in every sentence of every paragraph of every piece written from this day forward.

Maybe stick to criticizing his labor practices, cheating, and terrible sexting technique and leave off the lookism.

“Glorious”?

I’m a big proponent of the middle brake light: without it, you have to pray that the phone/radio addled idiot behind you in the afternoon rain will immediately notice that your tail lights got brighter in the seconds they were fiddling with the radio or sending that text.

Joking or not, my ‘01 Highlander *is* an appliance.

Yeah, definitely skewed in the direction of people who don’t want to break down on the side of the road at midnight.

Yep, I know about those, but in those cases, what’s released is sewer gas that’s already in the vent pipe and easily recognized by a reasonably intelligent person (i.e., anyone brighter than my sister and her idiot boyfriend). But, not being in the business, I wouldn’t have expected *exhaust* fumes from a drain pipe.

I think I just experienced an odd example of this

That was not at all my experience. I never received better than a C in my two or three college French classes but I was able to get by in Paris for 5 days speaking nothing else.

Me too. The morning I started following my doctor’s advice to drink tea instead of coffee coincided with a conference call I got up early to dial into from home. Not being awake enough to think clearly, I too decided to heat my water in a pyrex measuring cup, while chatting with few colleagues who were waiting for the…

I’m not trying to reject or discount dispiriting revelations about Democratic politicians, but are you corroborating the respondents’ bona fides?

Apparently there’s no intellectual property too small or too obvious for China to steal.

This is why I don’t follow flatbeds and other trucks for any longer than absolutely necessary.

Thanks to my best friend’s brother, who didn’t want to go, I was on that cruise.