I'm excited to see the TV box + 1TB storage box that comes with the Google Fiber internet/tv package in action. Damn you Kansas City!!

Yea I don't use the iPad for 'power user' stuff, can pop open the laptop or use my phone for more specific stuff. Which kind of cements the iPad as a luxury item, at least in our household. Couch and toilet surfing, the final frontier (of excess)!

My wife is the main user of the iPad, so she is logged into her stuff on Safari/Mail/Calendar/Facebook/etc. I use Atomic Browser and stay logged in there for email, Facebook and whatnot. Works fine.

"But you can't tell me that the 50m head start allows him to run the 100m split in .8 seconds faster than a standing start."

You can buy an AeroVac bin for the 500 series Roombas - it was only $30-$40 and dramatically improved the performance of my 530 that I had purchased on Woot a few years back for $150. Before it would get choked up after just one room on my dog's fur, now it can go through all the rooms on a floor without crapping out…

Our bedroom is in the basement, so nice to have a cool sleeping area w/o having to crank the AC when it's been 90+ degrees all summer.

Well it would certainly through a wrench in the illegal alien debate.

Wait, didn't it take place in 2010? We're totally not cool!!

Or at least "and here's 2.7 billion more to take a submarine robot to [Jupiter's moon] Europa."

Getting enough sleep probably goes a long way in being able to get up without too much pain.

I have my Thinkpad on a docking station; through that I have it connected to an external monitor, wireless mouse dongle, external keyboard, router via ethernet cable, printer (yes I occasionally have to scan/print for work!), speakers/subwoofer, and a usb cable that I use to plug in misc items - external hard drive,…

Yea I see that now, my bad.

Agree. I know it gets a bad rap in some circles, but for me it still captures a lot of the wonderment that reading/listening to Sagan produces. First saw it in high school and it never fails to give me the goosebumps, particularly those scenes you referenced.

"and thirdly...isn't it sad that on the average, 24 years of our lives are sleeping? jesus...that seems to wasteful."

His avg. speed for his WR 19.19 comes out to 10.42 m/s (although his speed for the last part of the race would be a bit faster). That means to knock off 0.2 seconds he'd have to finish more than 2m ahead of himself in his best race. A little extra effort at the end is not going to make that up; perhaps he could but…

I work from home (going on about 5 years now), and concur it takes discipline. I actually make an effort not to work late into the evenings;I feel like it becomes a slippery slope as far as blending work w/ my personal life too much. It does help that I live in a time zone 2-hrs behind most of the other folks in my…

I'd be curious to see statistics ... are there any studies published showing email volume (across different sectors perhaps)? Folks commenting at Lifehacker seem to trend more towards IT/web-design/etc. based work, which obviously means a lot of email.

And I usually only have a handful of emails in the morning. People's jobs are different, crazy right!?

A good starting point for Mexican fare in NY area ... Serious Eats knows what they're talking about:

Contact - this scene gives me the chills too, not sure which I'd pick vs the one you posted.