This.

Every place that allows a long password with spaces gets a phrase that I can easily associate with that site, but is not related to that site. Each phrase is a minimum of 22 characters. Nothing fancy, just a particular grouping of words that has personal significance and is highly unlikely to be guessed.

It’s when…

I think it’s because in baseball tradition, whenever a shot on goal occurs outside the wickets then the quarterback advances one base.

I was leaving my apartment complex to go to the airport. The road on which my apartment complex sat had a divided major road — not a highway — with 2 northbound lanes, a grassy median about 20 feet wide, and 2 southbound lanes. I don’t remember the crash, but here’s what we pieced together from photos, damage to the…

On my 2011 MacBook Pro, listening to this with my eyes closed trying only to hear the audio, I hear a computerized voice in the mid-tenor range saying “Yeah, me.” If I let it loop for a few minutes, it starts turning into Whammy, which I think we’ve all been if we’ve spent more than a few loops listening to this thing.

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My wife has fibromyalgia and anemia. I work long hours and often face a long commute. Dinner that needs less than 15 minutes of standing / prep time is ideal. In out house we have a pretty even mix of grabbing something made elsewhere while I’m on the way home, putting something together in the Instant Pot, or making…

I have a one of those keys, on a 2011 Lexus SUV (that I picked up used in 2015). If I fail to turn off the car and then try to lock it, it will emit an awful extended beep that will not stop until I push the “unlock” button. Since I refuse to leave my car sitting unlocked (even inside the garage), I am then reminded…

How does one have “subsequent rude interruptions” at a place where the job of the server is to ask if you’re getting proper service?

Nobody there can read your mind. Are you bringing in a rider when you sit, with demands and expectations clearly laid out in fine details to ensure that your water is filled to exactly…

I’m in North Central VA (that deadzone between Richmond and Quantico that neither Northern nor Central Virginia want to claim as their own) and there’s eff-all for food open 24 hours up here. There’s 1 Steak-n-Shake and a 24 hour Starbucks down on the south side of Fredericksburg, and that’s pretty much it.

I was…

I saw this film as a teenager with my girlfriend. The fact that we watched the entire movie instead of making out like teenagers the entire time spoke volumes to the quality of the film to me then, and perhaps more so now in retrospect.

I love the way every tiny little trope gets undercut just a bit to help remind…

Spoiler Paradox (yeah, it’s real) says that knowing the outcome of a film or show before watching increases the pleasure obtained during the watching. Probably something to do with seeing what’s in your imagination come to life as you view it.

This is one of many reasons why The Lord of the Rings films were viewed as…

I haven’t even seen the movie yet and I’m already dead. Thanks, Stark!

Hey L3,

I don’t know if you’ll see this comment, but maybe it will help for extending your social circle while staying within some of your comfort zone. It’s worked for my wife and me when we’ve been trying to branch out and find more friends (and more friends leads to more opportunities to meet people who may become…

Mrs. CMDer and I met when she was 30 and I was 29. She hadn’t experienced an orgasm from oral sex before I came along, partially from a string of partners who were never enthusiastic about such things but more so because she gets a bit self-conscious when her upper half is exposed and unattended to while she’s being…

Work used to send me to Miami pretty regularly. The Versailles inside Miami International (Terminal E, public side) is every bit as good and strong and sweet as that on Calle Ocho, but lacks the lovely ambiance of being surrounded by the people who have lived there for years.

It beats the pants off of Starbucks, no…

Well ... here’s to hoping that Apple updates the DVD Player app for my Late 2011 MacBook Pro, since that’s only 32-bit right now.

My wife grew up in Tampa and was attending raves and clubs the same time Channing was stripping there. Those who remembered him after he became famous could recall him being big into neon and glowsticks/gloves in the clubs, and dating men in the scene, but it’s all officially hearsay. He’s never confirmed anything…

Maybe Channing just wants the freedom to slip back into his Glow Boy days, like when he was openly Bi and raving in the Tampa Dance scene between stripper gigs?

(Hey, a guy can dream!)

No love for 8bbit.com, snesfun.com, gbafun.com, etc? I may have looked very busy at my desk at work while actually playing Tecmo Bowl on more than one occasion ...

I lived in Orlando off and on from mid-2003 to mid-2017 (with a 4-year stint between 2010 and 2014 in Tampa / St. Pete / Clearwater).

The Airport
Orlando International Airport (IATA Code MCO) is both lovely and a pain. All the gates are in their own mini-terminals, split off from the main building and connected by…

I loved “The Ice Storm” when it came out (my unabashed crush on Christina Ricci helped, I’m sure) and as a late teen on the cusp of leaving high school behind me I was particularly struck by the story arc of Tobey Maguire’s character — home, uncomfortable with his family, seeking any form of escape even if it takes…