I got my takata airbag notice a few months ago. I’ve been meaning to get it done, it’s just a matter of setting aside the time to schedule it and bring it in. I’m kind of bad about setting things up like that. I decided to take some time off at the end of this month, burn some vacation days I’d be losing over my…

I skimmed through this, but I didn’t see the step where you hum the theme song through the entire process.

Aaaaand that’s why I haven’t bought a new 3ds yet. The combination of “my old 3ds continues to work” and “that metroid game I want to play may have a special edition”

Man, talk about inflation. Marge Simpson only paid $90

A self-portrait is a portrait of that person’s self, produced (painted, photographed, etc) by the subject of the portrait; You could have someone else take a portrait photograph of you, but it isn’t a self portrait because it wasn’t self shot. If you take a picture of yourself, it is a self portrait.

In a world where “not literally” is acceptable as a definition for the word “literally,” is it really a surprise that the word “selfie” is used to describe a portrait of one’s self, rather than a self-portrait?

I like the idea of the iVTEC in my car, which I understand to be a fuel economy feature; when you are at a cruising speed, not varying your gas pedal and the engine load is under a threshold (or some combination of factors, i forget), it switches to less aggressive cams.

I’ve got one of those too. After years of using cheaper to midrange rice cookers, I bought one of those expensive zojirushi rice cookers (one of the $200 midrange models from them though, not the super expensive inductive heating pressure cooking models) from a williams sonoma that was closing, and I decided washing…

I do wish that the amazon prime discount applied to digital versions of the game, or failing that publishers would release “physical” editions of the game that consist of digital redemption keys on a card in a case; from what I’ve read Splatoon 2 had such a release, but not in the US. If it’s a game you are likely to…

I do wish that the amazon prime discount applied to digital versions of the game, or failing that publishers would…

So this will join Orphan Black in being described by me as “gritty reboot of The Patty Duke Show”

Oh, new idea, emboss half of everything with “poison,” and half with “antidote,” and just eat one of the latter before the party starts so there isn’t an even number

Emboss everything but one piece “not poison”

I actually just bought a new smartwatch; my original Pebble was having another round of graphical glitches, and since they aren’t a company anymore, I ended up going with a Fossil Q Marshal. I miss the buttons of the pebble, but I’m sure I’ll learn to tap the right part of the touchscreen to control music on my…

Is there a Diamond Head I’m not thinking of, or by flip flops, did you mean slipper?

The company I work for moved the department I work in from one location to another ~30-40 miles further. They had the idea to allow us to work from home for part of the week to make up for the increased commute for a lot of people, so now I work from home 3 days/week, and am in the office for 2. They provided us with…

Is this missing some information about malls and China? Like are the husbands there because the wives aren’t licensed to drive or do they need to be there to “approve” large financial transactions for credit cards or other financials services under their name or something? Or are the shopping habits there so wildly…

Incidentally, if you have a mount you already like, you can activate this by sticking it to something magnetic; like one of the stick-on metal stickers it comes with. It is a bluetooth device that turns on via a magnetic switch, and I’d rather use my iOttie onetouch mount with wireless charging.

Quick question; I notice you refer to it as as $30 mount, but logitech lists it for $59.99, and amazon has it for $55.00. I know I bought mine recently when it was a lightning deal for $30, so I’m wondering if you got yours at a discount as well, or if this is a new pricepoint that isn’t reflected on the store page…

I think I saw this at PAX East, it looked like a party game then.

I mean, have you never done a puzzle by assembling it face-down?