A lot of the confusion could be avoided by a slight deformation of the masks to make it obvious that the noise should be covered. A round mask is a problem, but then it costs less...

I switched to Macrium after finding out the hard way that Windows 10 wouldn’t let me restore a DriveImage backup because the recovery disk it created wouldn’t boot (no operating system). I swear to God Microsoft doesn’t want me to keep a drive image backup. Macrium does the job and it is fast - I can save two copies…

Which brings up an interesting point. I just got a new phone after my last one committed hara-kiri. As usual, the facebook app is baked into the damn thing and can’t be gotten rid of. How can I be sure that even if I never run it the app is not getting information about me, perhaps by interfacing with Google?

Take a look at that picture. The spigot is no more than half an inch from the edge of the sink. How are we supposed to thoroughly wet our hands without going through some ridiculous contortions with something like that?

So much for the university’s “Accelerated Bridge Construction Center.” No matter what the investigation reveals they’re not going to have too many students now.  

I had a friend who would do this. I was astonished at the number of returns he would take to Fry’s, Best Buy, etc. with the flimsiest of excuses. Finally Best Buy caught on to his scam and refused to take his returns. For the next five years he refused to enter their stores.

Hell, it took me literally ten years to learn to like liver - and just when I learned to like it some study came out and said it wasn’t all that good for you.

Actually the problem goes much deeper than that. The reason why economists always get it so wrong is because they can’t get it into their heads that they’re dealing with people, not numbers. It’s a concept that has to be hammered into their heads repeatedly with a 2x4. They were so excited about trickle-down economics…

That’s what I said - in the time of President Ronald Reagan. Trouble was it caught on and never left.l

Now they don’t. Back then when Reagan proposed it they all thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread though most people were scratching their heads and thinking “What the hell..?”

A long time ago I was flying on Swissair and was bumped up to first class (a tour group in coach miscounted their number or something). I’ll never forget that. Lobster thermidor, cheateaubriand... it was a four hour flight and we were eating through three of it. I mourned when Swissair went under.

Trickle-down economics was the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the American people. That economists bought into it is the biggest indictment against their field being called a “science”.

Sorry, I just realized it’s been a (really) long time since I’ve been to Europe.via British Airways.

Cathay Pacific isn’t bad, their service is great but they’re not always prepared for unexpected events like canceled flights, etc. I haven’t flown Eva Air in quite a few years, but I really used to like them. My current favorite is Singapore Airlines. .

If you’re flying international don’t fly a US airline. Many international flights will have better meals and you may not even want a second meal after the first. . For Asia, fly Singapore Airlines. For Europe, British Airways. For the Middle East, Etihad.

Given the time frame we’re talking about, by the time the Tesla hits Mars it will have been terraformed and all martian biota wiped out long before. This entire subject is, I’m sorry to say, ridiculous.

When I lived in SoCal my friend’s youngest didn’t see rain for real till he was three and a half, and it freaked him out badly. His parents won’t be having that problem.

Except when it comes to security updates to fix holes they left in.

You know what gets me about this is that people who own high end phones like the Pixel 2 and the Galaxy S9 who run into annoying bugs like this can expect them to get fixed, but the rest of us who can’t afford such luxuries can’t. We don’t even get security fixes. The last security fix - much less a bug fix - on my…

I thought that was against the law?