You know, I don't normally find comments useful or relevant but yours was totally both of that! Much appreciated!

I give a lot of presentations, and I can tell you this is excellent advice. One of the hidden benefits is that it forces you to speak to different areas of the audience, instead of the beginner's mistake of talking to a single segment/person or - even worse - being focused on their own feet or notes (I refer to this…

Like wearing clothing and taking modern medicine.

I'll further this, with this conversation in mind. Without hashtags, Twitter would be absolutely useless for me. The hashtags narrow my focus to what interests me b/c (possibly unusually) I use Twitter to follow topics, not people (with a few exceptions). My follows generate from people who usually talk about my…

I wasn't disagreeing with you, just using a scenario that actually happened. Because the original comments are about Google removing an open-based service so that you'll use their privately-owned service.

No, it's like the US motor companies ripping up all the trolly and train lines in cities to get people to buy cars.

I never disliked him. A bit foolish, yes, but I still liked him.

Exactly, welcome to the internet 1995. I just do not understand the retro flat UI. It only exists to make life easier for lazy graphic artists, but as passed off as "new"

Damn it, Alan. I LOVE carrot cake.

"too fast for conditions"

Can you assist me in a money exchanging program? I am trying to convert my current Canadian money for either USD or Silver. I will sell at a deeply discounted rate of up to 5:1 ($5 of mine for $1 of yours). All transactions will be handled through my associate Julian, who lives in Dartmouth, NS. Thank you!

Winters only matter in deep snow?

So, are there no evil women out there, or they simply suck at making good quotes?

...but don't think I'll include it in the top five. ;)

Dollar for pound, nothing beats the Dremel when it comes to portability. With a wide variety of attachments and handy travel case that comes with most Dremel tools, it's perfect for small projects on the go.

The fact that this debate exists (and people take it so seriously) is one of those things that really makes me hate people.

Really ... you're going to get all exercised and indignant about how a fucking toilet paper roll is mounted? Talk about your self indulgent, obnoxious "First World Problems".

The hardest part for me in reading literary fiction is remembering to slow down. For pop fiction the words and sentences are just a way to convey story. You can read as fast as you can because the story is all you care about. But with literature, every freaking sentence is intentional and the story is just one…

And I thought plans here in Canada were terrible... Suddenly, Canadian carriers seem reasonably priced, at least compared to AT&T and Verizon.

It's what you use to connect the lightning rod on your roof to the ground. Apple got into the business several months ago. Their rooftop rods are nice (and slim) and really look great on my roof but they really should have let people use a standard cable instead of the apple Lghtning cable to wire it to the ground.