@iSmithx: Yes, provided your laptop has a 2.5" drive. Some smaller laptops and netbooks use 1.8" drives.

Always suspected that Frontier was slow but here's the proof! What seems to happen, is that the movie starts out just fine, then about 5 minutes in we get the "your connection has slowed" message, and it spends 10 minutes re-buffering. Then it's OK for the rest of the movie.

Ha Ha Ha.... "Briss" and "Trims" in the same sentence.

Can't remember where I found this, but its one of my favorites

@Orion126: Yeah but then if I get an email or a text during the night, it will vibrate and wake me up (I'm a very light sleeper).

No quick way to switch to airplane mode (e.g. when the iPhone is on the nightstand). Having to go into settings to do this is not good. Yeah I know there's SBSettings but that only works on jailbroken phones.

They spent so much on the scrabble board they can't afford a $20 table to put the laser printer on.

@wickedcupofjoe: From very recent experience... 1 + 1 does not equal 2, it's more like 2.5 or 3 times the work.

@RenRen: Bad analogy - you don't inject tap water, you don't drink flu vaccine. Different method of delivery.

@huh989: In my experience, getting a bit of air in there has never been much of a problem. I quite often remove the lid from the barrel just to see how things are progressing and if the foam has died down. And of course you'll be exposing it to air when you bottle it anyway. Hope it turns out well (and tasty!) Unless…

@Melde: If you're not averse to small names (i.e. not Dell, Toshiba, Sony), I can highly recommend CyberPower PC. They build good cheap systems and have decent customer support.

@dathbe: American academy of pediatrics recommends absolutely no television before 2 years of age, so I'm guessing this also applies to sitting in front of a screen with computer games, internet, you-tube etc. Thus, you have at least 2.5 years to think about this.

@gary_7vn: Just what I was thinking. Now, in some cases, that might not be a bad thing... Some tron pron would be pretty good.

I've found on older machines (<512 RAM, <1GHz processors) still running XP, it is the only AV solution that doesn't bring the OS to a grinding halt.

A good firesafe, big enough for a laptop, runs less than $100. Remember to bolt it to the floor - I've seen a few broken open safes on wasteland while out and about in less savory parts of town.

@gtheule: Agreed. If you're so desperate and know so little about a city you're about to visit, that you have to scam off of concierges, that's a pretty sad state to be in. Far better to spend 20 minutes with Google maps in hybrid view mode and see what looks interesting.

@Ben R: They sell big sheets of 1/8" acrylic at home depot for significantly less (IIRC a 36x36 sheet is only about $8).

You forgot the first step in any decent photoshopping adventure... shoot in RAW format.

@gamerjason88: Meh, who uses a fax any more? Just get WinFax and delete the incoming crap from your screen.

@MikeS: It goes in a whisky bottle, then at the end of the year we count it all up and make a donation to a charity for the holdays. It typically runs about $300. Now we have kids, the "charity" will probably end up being their college savings account.