What about pasta? Manufacturers use water to make the dough, then they dry it all out and we use large pots of it to cook it again. Granted, the drying process returns the water to the atmosphere, but it is a much easier way to see how much water we use than to imagine how a t-shirt is made.

Justin Russo? Well, he is a talented wizard.

As soon as I heard about this game, I knew it was going to take over. I've done 43/47 achievements and every mission on Tiny Tower, so I'm pretty much as far as I feel I need to go. Combine my love of travel and airports and this could keep me busy for a very long time.

It's a decent idea, but it can smear easily and make more of a mess/hazard, especially if you have curious pets or small children. Also, I reckon that it would get covered in dust/dirt whether indoors or outdoors rather quickly, losing its sticky surface qualities, so reapplication would be frequent.

Here's a photo I took in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Clouds plus sunset looks like nuclear explosion.

When I hear someone use the word "like" too often, I have to ask if the speaker means to pause or is using it in a simile. Is the speaker using it as a modifier meaning "similar to, but not exactly", throwing in a degree of separation? Most of the time, the person is just overusing it and has come to rely on it in…

Anthony Bourdain also hosted a documentary about Adria, called Decoding Ferran Adria (released in 2006), which I found at my local library.

I'm visiting Pittsburgh and was just there Wednesday (Strip district), and it was good.

San Francisco used to have a fighter jet in Larsen Park playground along 19th Avenue (Sunset District) for years until it was taken away about 10 years ago for risk of lead poisoning. It was recently added to the Pacific Coast Air Museum.

But best of all was when the internet RickRoll'd the crowd at a New York Mets game.

My mom has a one year-old granddaughter on the other side of the country and to see her grow up, so she was planning to buy two iPhones and a family plan to share with the new parents. None of them are well-versed in technology. The new parents have one old laptop and no internet, not even dial-up, so they take it…

Blame the producer who chooses which camera feed to show, not the cameradude.

So now men and women can recreate the L-shaped bedsheet while camping? Aww, they are just vent slits, not actual peel-away panels.

Part 2: 2002-today (StarTac was the only one I could find again, I wanted to assemble the full timeline.)

My phone history from 1996-2002

I love that plan. I recently cancelled my T-mobile $20/month for 60 minutes plan that I've had for 10 years (meaning I was well out of contract anyway) and upgraded from Nexus One to Galaxy Nexus. More minutes and unlimited data for only $10 more? Thank you very much. Just to add a data package to my original plan…

Fly JetBlue or Virgin America through SFO and you use the international terminal.

Mom Day is why I probably won't be able to go. I just moved back to the US (and Marin County) after 3+ years, having missed all 3 Mom Days, so I should visit instead. Boo, Saturday would have been much better.

Check out the Olympic Torch Relay map to see if it might pass by wherever you happen to be.

In addition, the benefit over making a tourniquet is that you might have a wound where a tourniquet would not work, say bullet/shrapnel to the chest/stomach or back (or upper thigh where a tourniquet would be challenging to tie). Use this to close the wound until you get to a hospital.