@timgray: If your devices play MP4 files, you can use XenonMKV to extract the video and reencode the audio and build an MP4. MKV is just a container, so its just extracting the video rather than reconverting it, and takes very little time, less than 15 minutes for a full 1080p movie. I use it to get MKVs into MP4s…

@sublimelazy: I love that the examples he used are actually accurate, whereas I know people have called him things like "Dickhole" (I know this because I called him that myself). He is not, in fact, a urethra. That might be worth getting hurt feelings over, but if you're going to be a bigot and homophobe, you…

@downstairs: On my podunk DSL, loading [CNN.com] takes too much bandwidth. Sending an email from thunderbird through google apps SMTP takes 15 seconds minimum. I have to preload Youtube videos at least 3/4 of the way before I even dare to start playing them. And forget gaming!

@ichiban1081: Yes please!

My wife called hers Rebecca. When we started dating she had to change the name. Rebecca is my mother's name.

@Stallion: Or dumb luck. I cooked a steak to near perfection once, better than I'd ever had in any restaurant (though I don't eat steak at restaurants very often), but haven't even come close since. :(

@illegalseagull: Smithies know how to riot. Ryan Sorba is still traumatized by his experience there nearly 2 years ago. My wife was one of the protesters at that event, and I'm so proud.

@mrmuskrat: I was about to post those. I live in the rainy northwest and always keep a couple of those in my bag. They work great and have a drawstring enclosure for the lens side, so you can tighten it down around the end of the lens (I tighten it around the middle of the lens hood).

Is that Comic Sans?

@modestmouse: See, that's the problem. If it wasn't for the App store's ridiculously poor navigation, this whole thing would be irrelevant. You could have a million fart apps and it wouldn't change anything. Instead of improving the app store itself, they're taking the easy way out and just rejecting apps.

@SmartedPander: Good excuse to buy a Tablet? :D

@SmartedPander: I don't know what your class situation is like, but some of the chairs at my old school were really uncomfortable for long periods so I ended up standing part of the time against the back of the class or against the side walls, away from my desk, bringing a book or notepad with me if necessary. I was…

@zeroprime: I was bouncing my leg when I read this and then realized I was bouncing my leg again.

@badmutha: I do too! But I've never read the book.

@n3rt: I bought my mom an AeroPress a couple years ago. She's been drinking coffee daily for a good 45 years now, and I knew the AeroPress made a great cup pretty simply.

@Dana Jordan: This is what I came here to say. I was staying in Orlando recently and was pretty thirsty but had just been driving for 18 hours and didn't feel like going out to find something to drink. I turn on the tap water and take a sip with a cup and instantly spit it out. I know it's perfectly safe and all,…

@Athensjail: I'm not convinced she actually eats the animals she kills.

@88i88: There was plenty of space when I was at Smith's commencement in '08. I mean, yeah, many of us were standing (usually those with cameras), but if you get there early there's plenty of seating available.

@pmerrick: Congratulations to your sister! My wife's a Smithie, graduated in 2008. She'll be at commencement this year to see a few of her friends.

@cayton: At first I thought you were referring to that Colin Farrel flick, which would be ridiculous.