the "rule of thumb" comes from this: wearing your suit jacket, if you make an 'thumbs up sign' with your hand, put your arm down at your side, and rotate your wrist - your thumb should touch the very bottom of your jacket. that's how you know it's the right size (length) for your torso

Thank you for your thoughtful reply, Simon!

I'm new(-ish) to comics and as a whole the The New 52 reboot has helped make their universe more approachable — BUT it is rapidly becoming a convoluted mess. They've reintroduced the Silver Age heroes from Earth2 so now there are multiple versions of Green Lantern, Flash, et al just as there were before. Also, there…

prolly in the minority here... but I LOATHE the Aeron chair. It's too hard, too stiff, too uncomfortable and too uncompromising – not to mention too expensive. Every chair in our company is Aeron and it's sad to think that all that moolah sepnt could have gone to something better. Everytime I have to sit in one, I'm…

One thing I hate about life with soundbars is that I have to turn up the volume so loud to hear dialog (especially during the summer months when a/c is going) that then music and effects are so over-the-top loud. Basically, I end up shifting the volume up and down like a brides nightie then entire movie.

Silver Swan anyone?

Not a smoker (anymore) but I love the bygone era it represents. "Hey! Come over to my house and we'll get boozy, play Tripoli and smoke like chimneys." There's just such graciousness in the act of asking guests over to come and damage themselves. And I felt this way long before "Mad Men".

I flew the Air France A380 in June. It is a behemoth. But the smoothest takeoff, and flight, I've ever experienced. You barely feel anything. Cons: Longest boarding queue lines I've ever experienced. But commercially, it doesn't hold 850+ passengers; AF has it configured for just under 600 I believe. But look at it...…

great logo visual, rather bland type

to paraphrase Thomas Dolby: "All those tubes and wires...!"

It's not pretentious... it's correct. "Resumé" is incorrect, as is "resume" which means to continue after a pause. Somehow knowing about correct grammar and its proper usage became pretentious in America today and that saddens me.

what about all those hideous extraneous unremoveable stickers on Windows powered laptops??! I've never understood that. I don't like advertising for the processor or any of the features I'm buying in a machine. It's like old Toyotas or cheaper cars that use to tout "ABS" or 5 speed on the outside branding of a car; no…

love that somebody else here knows/plays Bang!.

First and foremost, when being pulled over - ALWAYS keep both hands on the steering wheel where the officier can see them. Then, and only then, when the officier asks you for ID or insurance or whatever, say, "Officier, I need to get my ID in my back pocket" or "... in my glove compartment." Police are always…

they've never been able to plausibly explain why or how the webbing differentiates between a line to swing on versus a spread-out web to trap villains. Because for all intents and purposes, he's shooting at a fixed point, whether to swing from a line or if he wants a splayed-out "spider's web" to catch flies/crooks. I…

the type layout and style is not so good on these.

how long before they realize that Spidey's webbing is actually Oscorp tensile cable and come a'calling?

you're not. He's indeed from NZ

what i really want to know is how much CG is there? Marc Webb made a big deal (intially) about wanting to do/use as much practical effects as possible. Did he succumb – or stick to his guns?

I don't think he really understands the concept of "tidy"