One of the workarounds I’ve been using for apps that store my CC info — Starbucks, Chipotle, Panera, etc. — is to change the payment method to use Google Pay instead. My Google Pay settings are such that either my password or my biometrics are required to Auth the payment, and I only use my biometrics on the apps.…

And don’t even think about trying to take The Metro in to Nats Park on a busy game day. Whoo. It’s brutal.

I’ve taken the Northeast corridor train from BWI to NYC once, and that was only because my flight out of BWI was cancelled and I was able to scramble over to the Amtrak station and buy a ticket.

All told, from D.C. to Manhattan the time is about the same on the train as it is fighting through airport security,…

On the 40 mile stretch of I-95 south of The D.C. Beltway, I have the interesting phenomena where driving the speed limit on cruise control means that trucks pass me driving downhill, then I pass them again driving uphill. It’s an uncomfortable game of catch and release that often has me moving left another lane and…

In 2011 in St. Pete, FL, my wife and I watched a lot near our house that had a 2002 Lexus IS 300 for sale. That car sat for months, as we watched the price slowly fall from $9000 all the way to $3000. It sat because the previous owner had tuned it, then ripped all the mods out before selling it. The air intake wasn’t…

I was working late a few weeks back and created an entire artist playlist from my Android phone without a problem. I wanted all of their music in a single playlist that I could download, so I searched for the artist, pulled up their page, scrolled down to Albums, selected “See All Albums”, and on the three-dots…

You left out BT, Orbital, and Paul Oakenfold there.

We are just naming producer DJs who make complex, layered, well orchestrated music that produces entire soundscapes, yes?

I’ve lived in Houston. I’ve lived in St. Pete. The air in St. Pete gets more hot, more humid, and more mosquito filled than Houston, on average.

When I lived in St. Pete, I wanted the Rays out, the Trop demolished, and a nice extension of the budding local markets and restaurant scene built out where the Trop is now.

Bas…

“I don’t agree with the LGBT lifestyle” is akin to saying “I don’t agree with the black lifestyle” or “I don’t agree with the blue-eyed lifestyle”. It’s how people are born, mate. What’s next, not agreeing with the Air Breathing Lifestyle?

That you fail to see people for who they are and instead try to tell yourself…

WHICH Lutheran?

‘Cause I’ll tell you right now, raised in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod inside the U.S., I was told loud and clear that anybody who has sex outside of marriage is going to hell, and that marriage is only between a man and a woman, and it’s not that they hate gay people they just don’t approve of…

Po-Tip for shoppers new to Publix (as it slowly expands through Virginia and northward after that): the produce, bakery, and deli are all in the same front corner of the store. That’s where you’ll pick up your Publix Subs, or fried/roasted chicken meal. If you’re trying to keep your chicken as hot as possible, that…

When I travel for work and the company card is covering the meal I may have my card in hand, but I’ll take the bill, do a quick review to confirm nothing has been incorrectly add to or removed from the bill, put my card in the slot, and immediately hand it back to the server.

I’m less likely to do this when I’m out…

Once upon a time I had several hundred books on my bookshelves. In the past decade, however, I have moved 8 times. Transporting hundred of pounds of books is exhausting and expensive, so I donated 80% of my books to libraries and used book stores, keeping only the titles that I cannot find digitally or are in special…

I stopped watching WWE about the same time Christian announced he was showing up at Impact. The in-ring action was more exciting, the shoots were more concise, and it just felt more fun there.

Then Bischoff and Hogan showed up, the ring was shifted from hexagon to square, and it got bad too.

Maybe AEW can bring in…

Are we basically looking at Gretzky v Lemieux for the current generation of players?

How wild is it that the Penguins have a player involved in both of those discussions?

The only beach close enough to The Ice Palace that could conceivably be large enough for this is Clearwater Beach, close to Pier 60, and there’s nowhere near enough parking or traffic flow over the causeways to allow for that. People would be parking in Ybor and riding a bus for 3 hours to get to the game.

Good thing…

Maury says the test results have come back, and the system is, in fact, rigged af.

I used to live in St. Pete. There’s not a single store anywhere in that city where I would dare lay hands on an employee, McDonald’s or otherwise.

I lived in St. Pete for years. The only times traffic to or from The Trop was bad was if the Yankees or Red Sox were in town.

Florida just isn’t a baseball state. It’s barely a Pro Sports state. How many times have the Jags, the Bucs, and the Dolphins been on local blackout conditions due to poor attendance? How often…

That Washington Team still uses a slur for the team name. They deserve all the bad karma that descends upon them.