For a few years I had a Compaq “portable” computer. It had a built-in CRT green screen and two 5-1/4" floppy drives, and weighed in at close to thirty pounds. And when folded up (the keyboard latched into place over the screen and floppy drives, thus serving as the computer’s base), it looked very much like a sewing…

I don’t want to scrape ice/sweep snow and a car that’s behind a garage door is a car that’s less likely to get broken into/stolen. When I lived in North Dakota I was blown away by how many people preferred digging their car out of snow to getting rid of enough stuff to put their car in their garage.

I try not to be, because then I’m just like every other smug-ass minimalist that everyone hates. But I’m super smug over using my garage to house my car, not store my excess crap. It’s a family thing - we’re all “car goes in garage, not on driveway or street” people.

Good piece. Wish Gizmodo would do more stuff like this and less of the anti-Trump crap I keep seeing every single day. You’re not a political site—or are you? It’s just nice to read something that actually has to do with technology for a change.

I love how we just accept the tech of today like its no big deal but if you showed it to yourself when you were a kid and this kind of stuff was rampant you would have thought the future was full of wizards.

Thats why you gotta keep em offshore

Do you have a 401K as well?

As long as she gets direct deposit, I’m sure you’ll be fine.

Judging by the number of lures that I’ve seen in Chicago’s Loop this past week during the Valentine’s celebration I’d say there’s quite a few people still playing. Seriously, like 70-80% of the stops had lures on them all day at work. It helps that many overlap.

That’s very simple to circumvent: develop a “schedule” when you step on the scale. Let’s say once a day/week right after you wake up and go to the bathroom. Don’t drink water or eat until then.

In addition to what others have said (purchase history, top result, etc.) there are also a list of “Alexa Deals” each week, and each of them is assigned an ordering title. Initially, these seemed to be quite general, like “Alexa, order LED Lights.” More recently these have been specific, so you’d have to say “Alexa,…

So if you order something generic, like a dollhouse, it will automatically ask if you want to purchase the top search result/highest rated one for a lot of things.

Alexa picks a top result, then asks if it’s okay, you say yes or no, then she repeats. So it would go:

Echo responds with the most likely predicted match and asks if that’s OK. You can confirm it, or it will try again with the next few options.

IIRC it works if you have ordered a dollhouse before on Amazon. It just reorders that same one.

It does a search through your order history and things that are Prime items, then it gives you voice-feedback about the item, how much it costs, when it will be delivered, etc. Then you have to give it a voice confirmation or cancellation.

Any chocolate + any wine = some Valentines sex.

I agree with all of this but (and I’m just being contrarian here) the “don’t loan the government money” argument always kinda bugs me. How much is the average person really going to earn from that in a savings account? I mean, it’s cool to break even and all, but I think people make this out to be a bigger priority…

I find popping it in the toaster oven and just toasting cold pizza works great.

We must be married to the same woman.