Every year the NFL makes it too hard for me to give them my money. I’m certain someone out there has done the math, and that this is the most profitable way to handle it, but it looks like another season of watching via less than legitimate means.

I’m honestly confused which of those ingredients you think “crunches?”

So, whatever anyone thinks of the racist nature of this event, I can see your point, but I think people are forgetting that the minister of culture didn’t set up the cake or see it in advance. Once she walked in the door, her options were to just walk out on an event designed to demonstrate against female genital…

I know lots of people would hate this, but if you’re up for it, visiting outdoor attractions when the weather isn’t perfect can free up a lot of space.

Also, vote heavily in favor of assisted suicide laws.

I knew a guy (an athlete friend of mine) who used to say that “if you are trying to decide whether or not you should go work out today, the answer is always yes, because you wouldn’t be debating it if you didn’t already know that you have the time and were physically able.”

Very impressive, no doubt, but that 1500 year gap in olympic games might have helped him out a little.

This probably doesn’t need to be said, the article obviously wasn’t meant to apply to motorcycles, but to everyone who regularly rides a bike, just remember that they don’t really correlate with one another.

If you’re moving into a new home and don’t have the full 20%, there’s an easy end around mortgage insurance. You finance the 90% as two loans, a 60% and a 30% refi. Only your first loan is considered when assessing mortgage insurance, so it’s as though you have 40% equity in the home. You can do it the first day with…

I really liked blue, but pikachu popularity being what it is, I think most people would say yellow. The one cool/stupid thing about yellow, depending on your perspective, is that pikachu actually follows you around on screen. It’s sort of like Tails in the original Sonic & Tails except you can’t lose him. He stays one…

I really liked blue, but pikachu popularity being what it is, I think most people would say yellow. The one…

I can’t seem to find the article right now, but as I remember it, Amazon claimed that their newest font would actually improve battery life on e-ink screens by a not insignificant amount. I guess it has something to do with the amount of change required between each page (I’ll admit to having skimmed the article more…

That’s an interesting question. I’m going to give a qualified “yes.”

Excellent list. I can’t tell you how many roommates have had a problem with my perfectly reasonable habit of starting and ending each day with a few brackets on the great highland bagpipes. Who doesn’t want the sun to set to Scotland the Brave?

Disabling haptic feedback can’t hurt either. A vibration on every input is sort of rough on the battery.

Don’t anyone tell amazon, but these are extremely hackable too. GREAT fun if you’re in the mood to do some do it yourself household automation.

Don’t anyone tell amazon, but these are extremely hackable too. GREAT fun if you’re in the mood to do some do it…

I’ve tried this and a few other things like it, the most drastic being the six day week, and I’ve found the biggest impairment is being essentially self ostracized from the rest of the world.

Yup, With ingress, every microbrewery in town is a portal as well. They just want easy to reach locations, they don’t care what kind of significance we feel the need to pretend is there.

They did the exact same thing with Ingress. It’s just an easily mapped location that (in theory) most people will have unfettered access to. With ingress they started with post offices and libraries for the exact same reason. It was easy to make sure that every local had at least one portal more or less nearby, and…

So, I’m going to be that jerk real quick, then apologize for doing it.

The podcast/article needs to be called “building a pc aint that hard . . 99.9% of the time.” Then suddenly there is some strange intermittent issue that you can’t replicate reliably that could be hardware or software related or even freaking sunspots and now you don’t even get the satisfaction of yelling at the tech…