Think of awareness like a shoe box. You can only put so much stuff in there until it is full. Consequently, you can only hold just so many things in your box (okay, this post is taking a naughty bent I had not anticipated).

Two extensions that I would highly recommend are: ThunderBirthDay and Shrunked Image Resizer. If you have Lightning installed, this extension will add their spawn-date to your calendar. The image manipulator will set your e-mails to a manageable size. There is just too much to love about having your own e-mail client!

Well... Everybody's heard about the bird...

From that show: "leave it to Bieber".

How about a flexible fresnel lens that you can put in your wallet?

It's the format that came before the DVD, the micro-cards and flash drives, and the HDDs/SSDs and the computer compression algorithms. Before that we used to pirate all our music via cassette tape. Our 'rents used to listen to records (vinyl that played with a sharp needle/stylus dropped on top of it). There was also…

What a pain. Just buy some storm-proof matches like the kind sold at REI. Three bucks is a small price to pay for convenience. Better yet, just opt for a lighter. When I am in the wildlands, I also pack a Magnesium/Flint Mini Survival Fire Starter.

Definitely run your music player's tagging feature. If your files are still haywire, know that it is the files meta-data that is probably causing you distress. Fix it by running third party software such as EasyTAG and placing your cover art in the same folder as your album. Also, rename your cover art so your app…

I had never heard of Beets. Definately worth checking out. Kind of a Linux CLI (Command Line Interface, id est: terminal) newbie. Thanks for the heads up!

What a nightmare. I'll walk out of the grocery store with my two pints of Swirled Lard Butt ice cream, all the while oblivious to the fact that the place had been playing pure evil Musak through some hidden speakers somewhere and then it will hit me on the way out: At the Copa (Copa!), Copacabana (Copacabana)...

Some say that the bird is the word. Gotta love the Trashmen. They are from Minneapolis, ya know dat dare den... Surfer music in the heart of the midwest, who knew?

I have had good luck with KeePassX. It seems to work well cross-platform and on flash drives as a portable application. I haven't tried it on tablets or phones though.

Cool terminal command; runs okay. I saved it because I am trying to learn more shell commands.

Yeah, I hear you. An olympic style lift or some other really heavy clean, press, and hold the starch might require that you go big or go home. I just don't like some bumble-head dropping something he/she had total control over a second ago. Okay, I am done ranting now.

It's nice to see photo wallpaper again as many featured desktops have been the simple two-tone designs. I should work on my Linux Mint XFCE desktop. One little thing at a time. Conky can take up the whole weekend for me, sadly.

The dropping weights thing really gets my goat, there is no reason for this whatsoever. I tend to not let anything bang or slam because I want to use good form while lifting.

I don't use my tools as much as I used to but it is nice to have a few that you can rely on. Being a home owner you probably use more tools than I do. Some of my tools end up at my mother's place where I need them to fix stuff at her house.

Thanks for all that new info, I think. I did not know that airport ground was so filthy but it makes sense. I forgot about all those contact surfaces. Maybe they could supply wipes like you see at some grocery stores now (knowing the airlines it might be five bucks a sheet though).

This gets a lot of press from every kid commiting a violent act and the whole On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman thing. Systematic Desensitization. Also, if you have an elevated heart rate (e.g.: you are hot, you slammed too much caffeine, your wife/girlfriend…

I hear you! I was about to crush my nuts over a simple Linux problem last week.