As of 11:30pm Monday, the launch window opening has slipped to 2:30am early Tuesday, with the window closing at 3:30am. Too late for me to stay up, although the rumble and eight minutes later the double boom-boom might wake me up. Maybe ;)

I live about fifteen miles away, so it’s a matter of just being awake that late and go look out my back door. Our local Spectrum cable news channel always carries all the launches and between that and spacex.com I’ve got lots of coverage.

Correcting my own post, the calculator I got in 1972 was an HP-35.

I can’t use a pocket protector

I used a slide rule in high school and my first year of college, but then dropped $300 for the first Hewlett-Packard hand held calculator. The model name HP-65 springs to mind but I might be wrong. A few months later I couldn’t sell it for $20 :(

Pay based on positions, so people don’t get favoritism.

Actually I liked the first Watch_Dogs, but not as much as the second one. I really liked the hacking mechanics and the stealth of both. Frankly from watching the YouTube videos of this new game I think it should be titled “We’re Hoping You Get Confused and Buy This Game Instead of Cyberpunk 2077". As if...

My wife and I are both pretty good at Jeopardy since we have a wide variety of interests, but she has the better reflexes. If there was ever Couples Jeopardy we’d do really well. For instance, I can’t spell worth a damn but she has that superpower.

Thanks for the info on the caller ID box, I'll take a look at it.

On a somewhat related, but still off-topic comment, it’s weird for me to read about treating mosquito bites. I live in Brevard county in Florida, near the Kennedy Space Center, in a small community. When I moved here 52 years ago, mosquitoes were a constant presence. I remember being awakened on the very first morning…

Excellent point! Automatically putting callers on a list sounds like something that could be easily abused. Like the FCC deciding that the Democratic National Committee’s outside line constitutes an unwanted caller.

What about landline users? Yes, I know, “who uses a land line anymore?”, etc. We use a landline. I’m tired of getting the president calling at dinnertime to rant about liberals.

+1 to your comment (it seems your star isn’t accepting my clicks, silly star). It’s the great thing about Jeopardy, no damn celebrities, except for the occasional fund raising week. Just folks you might run into anywhere and have a normal conversation, except that they are very, very well versed on trivia. And have…

Heck, I totally forgot about renting consoles, that was pretty cool too. I never did buy a PS1, just rented it from time to time.

My wife just made us bacon this morning with the method mentioned in the article, but lining the baking sheet with parchment paper. It makes cleanup a breeze.

No, I meant back in the day before there was Gamefly or Redbox, back as the article mentions when Blockbuster had gaming exclusives and discounted used games. I’m talking a couple of decades ago, back before there was a Gamestop either. Our local Blockbuster was run by a pretty cool guy who would call his favorite…

It’s one of the things I miss about my local Blockbuster, being able to rent games I might not be interested in buying, but just wanted to check out so I knew what people were talking about.

The choices are: Alexa, Amazon, Computer, Echo.

Forgive my ignorance (I don’t own an Echo), but isn’t there a way to have the device activate on some other word or set of words? This would seem to be a quicker method. You know, something like “bridge computer” or “M5"?

You left out the enjoyment of screaming the same command repeatedly at an inanimate object.