Hear hear. I'm a big proponent of both of these (but as a Marine veteran I am admittedly biased). Whenever I'm dealing with an over-the-phone support situation and I have to, say, read off a device serial number, I always have a somewhat higher measure of respect for the support person when I hear them use NATO…

For some reason my parents contemplated naming me "Jubal", like from the Old Testament. I find this largely inexplicable since I am neither Jewish nor African-American, i.e. - two groups wherein I understand this name occurs with a little more frequency.

Having eaten a few of these in my lifetime I can tell you that there's not much substance to a dead scorpion at all. The body is generally dessicated before being added into food. There's no real taste, but the texture is no different than a giant pile of popcorn skins, so yes, it's hardly a pleasurable eating…

Trying to imagine the used car market in King's Landing...

We have a telephone museum in my town staffed by volunteers who are all retired AT&T'ers going back to the "Ma Bell" era. I took my daughter (then 12) there last year. One of the exhibits had a bunch of novelty phones behind glass with connections running through an old PBX trunk, and the idea was to call them up on…

Because you can only play Settlers of Catan for so many hours before someone gets knifed.

Ticket to Ride? Yes, but I'd hardly call it "difficult". It's a big hit with my kids, who are between 9 and 13.

Maybe the article's sentiment that "computers are killing the car hobby" was borne more out of the phenomenon - previously reported on Jalopnik, if I remember - that the overall growth in numbers of car enthusiasts is on the decline as increasing numbers of millenials enter into their 20s content to sit on their…

Except for the caramel these all sound fantastic.

...as Britney had Jamie, and Jessica had Ashlee.

I once worked for a big name IT service provider with lots of major clients. I got a service call to head to the local offices of this investment firm to replace the apparently loud cooling fan in this one secretary's desktop; very pud work for a tech. A few days later I got a call to go back out to the same desktop…

All good advice. I manage my company's travel loaner laptop pool and we pretty much do/recommend all of this for our travelers.

there was still something a little jarring about seeing a stage plastered in Swastikas on network TV.

Oldies but goodies:Shift+Tab and Alt+Tab for cycling in between fields or applications.

That's a good point. Maybe it would seem less annoying if you thought of it as a simple contraction, which is how I suspect most people intend it, rather than a forced patois.

I am not even from the South and yet I comfortably use "y'all" in regular conversation because I think English should have a plural second-person pronoun.

Guilty on the Isabella. But my daughter was born in 2000 so you could say we were into the name way before anyone else was. (/Hipster parent)

I quipped to my wife recently that it seems like these days in our state (New Mexico) we name all our boys for Old Testament prophets and all our girls for stripper stage names. This map proves it in part.

In my early computer support days I used to explain to customers that restarting the PC was like flushing the toilet: Sometimes you've just got to freshen up the bowl instead of just going on top of the same old mess. Then one day I was pulled aside by management and asked to stop using this analogy because I had…

These are great. I've longed preached the adage that nearly anything you can do with a mouse can be done much faster with a keyboard shortcut. My PC experience goes back to the days of MS-DOS 5.0 where keyboard-fu was far more fundamental, and I've been perpetually grateful to Microsoft that they've retained so many…