I always thought that the subsidy model distorted the market because it gave phone manufacturers an artificial reason to keep prices high when the economies of scale should have forced smartphone prices down a long time ago in spite of the high demand. I’m not sure if Sprint’s lease model will do the same but I hope…

Parking can be a real rip if you’re in a city campus. I remember that the parking meters maxed out at 60 minutes while my classes were 90 minutes long. You can easily accumulate a thick was of parking tickets over the course of a semester. It was during one of these semesters that I vowed that if time travel ever…

This probably works best if you’re in a region with low humidity, or have your hotel room’s A/C cranked up all the way. If the humidity is above ~60% spraying your clothes will just leave them soggy.

Okay, how can you tell if your applications are completely or incompletely compatible with Win 10 without installing it first? I suppose you could go ask the developers, but some shareware/freeware developers don’t seem to read their emails, especially if it concerns an application program that’s been in the field for…

Just keep the “Rabbi Herbie Principle” in mind: your chances of actually winning the lottery improve tremendously if you actually go out and buy a ticket. So feel lucky and buy that ticket!

They made their bed, they can lie in it. Besides the unemployment rate is still too high. This should help bring it it down.

Hell yes! If Microsoft is going to take away my ability to reject updates they can damn well tell me which installed apps (when did we stop calling them "programs"?) on my machine their updates are going to mess with.

I’ve been doing it since I moved to my own place while in college. After fifty years I couldn’t do it any other way.

But what’s the point? Even in the wide - open spaces of the upper Midwest Going to Ludicrous mode will attract the attention of every cop in six counties surrounding your position. Sure you could try to outrun them, but that’s why spike strips were invented. Fast the Tesla might be but it can’t outrun a radio call to…

In addition I’d like for Windows to say something like, “The latest updates have been installed and and will likely mess up/disable/wipe the following installed applications on your computer :” followed by a list. It’s damn annoying when applications you use suddenly stop working after an update. And don’t say it…

I was visiting a friend of mine in a hospital a few years back. He was in a double room and while we were shooting the breeze orderliness came in and literally whisked the other guy out as fast as they could — bed and all. Then a nurse came in and told my friend he had tested positive for MRSA. I got out of there…

Just get a hazmat suit and wear it to the convention. No one will even notice — they’ll all think you’re just cosplaying.

Standing desks: Not large enough. Fail. No drawers. Fail again.

I hope these guys realize they just shortened their lives by about a decade.

Keeping joint and individual accounts is a great idea, but I find that keeping a petty cash box into which we dump loose change and any spare cash the end of the day and use for incidentals also help a lot.

I would restate number 1 as, “You don’t carry a balance on your credit cards and don’t stress out about paying them in full each month.”

Instead of salt or dressing, I jut dump salsa onto my homemade salads. Yummy!

This isn’t just incompetence any more, it’s criminal malfeasance. When is Homeland Security going to realize that TSA is nothing more than a jobs program for idiots and abolish it once and for all? The sheer scale of this boondoggle is why I don’t travel much anymore. The hassles can’t even be justified in the name of…

Some people are into aerobic dancing. Me, I’m into aerobic sitting.

Viking raid leader to his people, who were bringing back charred remains of treasure: “You brainless morons! How many times do I have to tell you — FIRST you pillage, THEN you burn!”