C'mon, Google, UPDATE ME!!! (cue Jeopardy music).

Yeah, to each his/her own. I guess in my case I regard the stress of packing more things, paying extra money to check the bag, worrying that the airline will lose the bag, lugging extra baggage to and from the car, airport, taxi, hotel, worrying about what the cleaning staff will/won't steal, being stranded because of…

It's something I learned from hardcore backpackers and hikers. Buy all clothes that dry quickly a-la Under Armor type gear. You can reduce the amount of packing by 75% if you have only 3 shirts and 3 pair of undergarments. Use hotel shampoo or buy biodegradable laundry soap from REI to wash them in the sink. Bring a…

If you're just using it as a DVR then it doesn't have to be as powerful as you might think. That MacMini would probably be good enough for record and playback, though I'm not as familiar with the DVR and HDMI capabilities of those devices. The computer starts to bog down if you're doing a lot of streaming or Blu-Ray…

Wife made us cut it in 2004. I missed the sports, and still kind of do. Turns out that sports also suck time and money away from your life. Once you get both of those back you realize how little sports actually adds to your life and don't miss them anymore. The sports that want my money won't make me pay for it up…

I built a Media Center computer (less than $800), hooked it up to the TV through HDMI, installed Windows with Windows Media Center and a TV tuner card, and voila! Instant DVR, media streaming box, and Skype on 42 glorious inches of HD plasma.

Are you sure, Lee?

I never said it was ethical or even legal ;-)

So in other words you're telling me that the phone company is sending power into my home that I can tap into, and I don't have to pay extra for it? I mean, as long as I have phone service I can hack into their power source? Yeah, I know it's not enough to power anything significant like a microwave or my plasma TV.…

So basically, give yourself 1/3 of a haircut. IMHO, if you can't afford it, Bic it.

+1

I just turned down a huge salary increase and better benefits for the following reasons:

For as awful as Melanie makes #2 sound, she still doesn't do it justice. When she says torture, she's not kidding. This is not someone trying to be funny. It is 100% absolute scarring and mentally damaging torture. It's even worse if you don't have anyone nearby who can help unless you pay them. My family and my…

The irony is people using Google, who data mines everything about a person for what Google will only admit is with the intent of "doing no evil", complaining about another service that could possibly but likely isn't data mining and more likely just using what it's accessing (note I didn't say "collecting") for added…

I don't disagree. I'm just pointing out the irony.

I always find it ironic when Android users complain about the level of permissions for an app. Google pretty much as permissions to your entire life on the web, even to systems that you don't use but someone else uses to create information about you. I'm a Google and Android evangelist, so I'm not Android or Google…

What is this, a middle school lunch room?

Lesson #1 when you move up from high school officiating into Big Boy Pants officiating is that you communicate with your crew. A look, a glance, a signal, that's not communication. If you have more than one official covering, get together. Come up with the same call. "What did you see?" Not, "Uhh, I thinks that there…

Who goes to the Google home page? Are these the same people who use the Google toolbar to Google Google?

I'm drinking as much coffee as I always have after reading this, which is about 1/3 of a standard pot per day. That said I wish the article would have mentioned that there are studies that have shown a negative impact on health in certain areas. We still don't know if coffee is a net benefit, detriment, or neutral to…