More than once I’ve seen a rattlesnake in the ‘big blue box’ garden section in the summer, lounging around the ‘potted flowers’ area. BEWARE the potted plants and garden walkway stones - if it’s cool and shaded, those bad-boys are glad to go ‘rv-ing’ for the day. Then again, I live a stone’s throw from the border, and…

Quit complaining, this ‘buzzer circuit’ beats the old ‘clacker’ anyday - the rest is nothing but details.

Had an MFC-420 about 10-years ago, worst piece of rubbish I ever owned. Constantly printing ‘printer settings’ pages, constantly slamming the print head against the frame, and it sure was unfriendly to commercially filled ‘replacement’ cartridges, not to mention, you were ALWAYS in it for replacing red or blue,…

Had an MFC-420 about 10-years ago, worst piece of rubbish I ever owned. Constantly printing ‘printer settings’…

While I know this is an ‘info-merical’ for Brother, FYI, the best printers for home-dorm use are actually Canon. They have the classic black-color two cartridge configuration, the ink is far cheaper (both in the box, and for the ‘mileage’) than HP, they are very robust and dependable, and unlike Brother, you won’t be…

While I know this is an ‘info-merical’ for Brother, FYI, the best printers for home-dorm use are actually Canon.…

Actually, I ‘jumped this shark’ (the super-large display) years ago when setting up an ‘all-house’ system. I built the monster-PC, arranged the living room like I wanted for my media-security-alarm-smart-system, and then based on some geometry, went with a 32" 1080p monitor for it. While the system worked GREAT, the…

And with a simple rebuttal, the word ‘healthy’ now goes the same path as great heroes before it, like ‘quality’, ‘wholesome’, ‘natural’ and ‘best’. I would want to jump up and market a health cracker called ‘Soylent Green’, but (I kid you not), a company is already using ‘Soylent’ for a drink name!

Agree, fully.

Oops...my arrow didn’t carry over from my Equation Editor. Let’s try that again, using a ‘homemade arrow’.

Ok, reading the ‘how it does it’, doesn’t really make a lot of sense compared to just using sodium hydroxide (lye).

Great, now when the wife gets home and I show her this, she’s going to want to dig out that infernal little ASUS Chrome chip and connect it all up to see if she can now get to the app-store! Lovely. Get her an RPi3, build it up rather nicely for her, teach her to use Linux comfortably, and she STILL won’t leave that…

Quite interesting how a ‘domestic problem’ turned into a divorce filing, and suddenly the rubber-neckers are trying to instantly turn this into a GENDER ISSUE! Get OVER it people, it’s a divorce. You don’t file for divorce if you’re happy, and being unhappy seldom has much to do with gender. Women can be dogs just as…

Sadly, no videos appear to exist. There’s this montage of videos on YT that are a group of still-frame images of Johnson here, there, yonder; all with this speech-synth voice reading the same AP news article and massive down-votes - but no video of this specific ‘knock out’.

True, most cheating is driven by ‘easier’, ‘more-compatible’, ‘more alike’, ‘more understanding’ and ‘more passionate’. This, of course, speaks to the absence of all those qualities in what you have, and how most ‘affairs’ burn up and burn out within 2-years, often as the result of the same ‘cooling effect’ that took…

Ok, then I’ll say it, Cotillard isn’t beautiful. There, fixed. (and we won’t talk about that 20+year age difference between them - you know, that’s illegal in some states?)

Drinking before noon isn’t necessarily bad, depending on when you woke up. It’s the ‘beer-before-breakfast (or for breakfast)‘ that you have to worry about. I only mention this, because one of my alma maters is Oklahoma State, and well, like the old saying goes, ‘if they have to mention it, it means it was an issue at…

By the way, never forget one other thing, the value of ‘e’ in finance (approx. 2.7) is the general multiplier you pay when you finance on simple interest. Therefore, the reciprocal of ‘e’ is 0.37, or 37 percent. This means that if you buy a $20k car, you are actually buying a $50k car (once financed), or only getting…

Now 61, and having owned 9 homes and 42 vehicles during my life, as well as three college degrees (2 of which I had to ‘finance’), I can address, with confidence, the fact that ‘no debt sure does beat good credit’, anyday. At times in my life, I had north of $300k in what would be deemed ‘durable goods’ or ‘good…

Funny, but when I see ‘Sous Vide’ I imagine ‘Banquet TV Boiling Bag Dinners’, specifically ‘chipped-beef-gravy’ (you add your own toast). What no youth enamoured with ‘Sous Vide’ seem to understand, is that we’ve been cooking in boiling bags for a LONG TIME. Just goes to prove, if you put a French phrase on the…

I’m not sure what you mean by ‘better keyboard and mouse’, Personally, in the $100 range, I don’t think there’s a better keyboard than the Logitech K400 or 400+, and the M3-series Logitech mice are about the most-robust, ‘battery-last-a-year’ mice I’ve ever used, period. That the Logitech HID package is wireless also…

Oops...left out that $10 for the thin-HDMI cable, but still, $89 is a far-sight better than $130.