I keep meaning to move my pendulums to some other part of the house, but somehow I can never get around to it, so I guess the easier solution is to make a computer controlled water dish.

You can download samples of books for free, so you can see the style of the writer, and to some extent the content, and then just borrow the ones you like.

Paying taxes is the price of admission to living in a country, the same way that paying rent is the price of admission to living in a house.

SD cards are not designed to be used like a hard drive and will swiftly wear out if used that way. Also it is unclear why this is better than having a regular size SD card which is available in higher speeds and capacities than the microSD format.

You don't need to replace every battery in the house to get good value. I just replace the ones that get discharged the most often ie electric toothbrush, remotes and flashlights.

Vigorously use the mallet on the opposite limb from the sting and you will hardly notice the sting.

Aha, from now on I will include Esperanto, Icelandic and Navajo in my passwords.

Perhaps you can send the NSA all of your pertinent email addresses and phone numbers along with your proof of citizenship, so they are legally prevented from spying on you.

I suspect that concatenating several small words would be better than an equivalent number of characters in large words, especially if one or more of the small words in not in a dictionary ie misspelling it or using an abbreviation.

Even with 30% less it would still be around 200mpg.

maybe they are including the return trip?

One solution to a problem? Think of the variety of shapes and sizes of living things in the world, and realize that they all are solving the problems of staying alive and reproducing.

About 5% of a cars drag can be subtracted using rear wheel skirts. Covering the front wheels has a similar benefit, but it is mechanically more difficult.

Ah well, it is from Miami. The entire state of Florida contradicts itself.

He probably kept turning the knob because the door wasn't unlocking.

That Chard was not from Cloudy Bay was it? I am not a big white wine fan but I had a Cloudy Bay Chardonnay around 93 that was amazing, spicy and deep flavors, but wonderfully refreshing. I can almost taste it now...

I can easily tell the difference between a $5 and $11 bottle, but my experience is that anything over $15 is a crapshoot, it can be great or so-so.

Mondavi Woodbridge Pinot Noir.

The solution has already been found in box wines and some types of baby bottles. Have the wine in a flexible bladder that can shrink as the wine is dispensed, and there is no opportunity for air to contaminate the container. There may be some refinement needed in the material of the bladder, but that is all that is…

This seems like a lot of trouble to avoid using the headphone jack, which would probably give better sound with no power usage. Make a nice holder for your phone that lines up the phone with the jack and you are all set.