There’s a particular kind of “NOT A QUESTION” which can be summarized as “I’d like your presentation more if it were my presentation.” It masquerades as questions like “have you considered a completely different theoretical basis for your argument” or “why aren’t you using a tech stack I’m more interested in” or “what…

What do you think the FBI’s hold music is? Montovani Strings perform “Bad Boys”? The Four Freshmen singing “I Fought The Law (And The Law Won)“?

You know, this sounds like a really good example of where video won’t help. Call the PD and say “hey, your officers run a speed trap in this location, and they litter, can you get them to cut it out?” And when they say “you don’t know it’s our guys,” you say “well, they’re there a lot, can you at least talk to them…

One of the interesting problems with Nosek’s reproducibility project, of course, is that it forces the question of whether it’s the original research or the reproduction which is wrong. It might be more accurate to say that “only 30-40% of them were reproduced” than “were reproducible.” This isn’t to minimize the…

Depends on how they’re tracking. Over a whole mall, they’d be able to at least get a sense of where you are from which access point you’re connected to (and how long you’ve been there, and which one you hit last, and probably strength of connection to any other close access points). That’s just about using their…

Interesting to note that managers in a position to grant raises are more conservative than those who aren’t. In other words, the person who will actually get the job of saying no (or negotiating you down) wishes you’d ask for less. (While the person, like me, who will just kick it up the chain is more likely to say…

In fairness, I’ve had that happen more times than I can count with formal taxi cabs too. Can’t remember it happening with an airport shuttle or bus driver, though.

The time served doesn’t particularly distress me. But the Washington Post reported that they are also banished from the county when they get out... and while there’s a big loud voice in my head going “couldn’t happen to a nicer couple”, I admit that I’m really distressed by banishment being a punishment we still mete…

Yeah, between this one and the beef Wellington article, I’m really rethinking my position on sous vide.

Well, now you’ve got me wondering if I actually managed to get my old Roku into the electronics recycling or if it’s still in my house. And if I can find my old remote. (And if you can trigger the Old Roku Secret Screen options from the Roku app.)

I see that I can unlink a device from my account on Roku.com. I assume…

The design is the big improvement? Come on. Group texts on Google Voice were a damned nightmare, with every user in an independent thread. And getting a text to tell me that an MMS picture had been delivered to my email was always a frustration. Google Voice having the basic functionality of a modern phone - that’s…

I thought it was mandatory that D&D games were played to the sounds of Rush, Yes, or Kraftwerk, and the smug looks of kids who listened to them.

Was that just the people I played with? I thought it was in the rules.

God, I’m old.

As a guy who was past 30 before he got his license, that is some weak tea. If you can’t drive the truck, you got to load it. You might even have to ride in the back and hold stuff down. (Which, by the way, feels all kind of manly.)

Why, it blocks 24 trackers on this very page alone!
(But thanks for reminding people about this great tool. I don’t mind looking at ads to fund free content, I just don’t want them tracking me all over the web.)

This is a great new writing rule. “If a sentence would look silly as hell in a blockquote on a website, ADD A FRICKING PERIOD OR TWO. And maybe delete some SAT words.”

For some reason, every time I look at that Sheriff’s Badge cake I read the headline as a “David Bundy” cake. Which sums up this goddamn year pretty well, actually.

You can save a ton of money by telling people on your presents list what you really think of their politics / religion / significant other / lack of significant other / booger-eating kids / lack of booger-eating kids / ugly face.

Why, all the time you save not going to parties where you might see those people or…

So, cops and reporters say this all the time - but are there any actual confirmed accounts of people breaking into strangers’ houses based on social media reports that the owners weren’t home? Last time I looked, there were zero - but it has been a couple of years.

And of course, that would only be a sample of _caught_…

I was going to lodge my standard complaint against any drink which mixes anything into a stout. God didn’t make Guinness perfect so people can go mixing it with champagne and cider and amber ales.

And then I thought about all those sweet milk stouts and imperial stouts which are usually too malty for my taste, and…

Autofill works on iOS browsers now. You have to install a Safari plugin and I find it a little counter-intuitive to use, but it’s functional.