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Maybe 15 years ago I bought an old Mazda Protege, having downsized from a Dodge Dakota. I still needed to haul stuff occasionally, so I outfitted the Protege with a trailer hitch a…

Heh. Another great performance by the late Fred Gwynne.

Not as small, but my car is a Prius C. I feel dwarfed by most cars on the roads these days. I'm always needing to inch out juuuust a little further for a turn just so I can see if …

I rant every time this comes up. I've cancelled solely because of this annoying feature. The Amazon Video app on my Roku may not be as slick, but at least it doesn't force me to mu…

This has happened in every state I've ever lived. I had always assumed it was the Post Office that was responsible.

Different strokes for different folks, and all that. My sole car is a Prius C, which I think is in the neighborhood of combined gas/electric 100HP. A co-worker of mine has a Charge…

I have a dev license and I can register 16 systems. Your mileage may vary, but it never hurts to try.

Yeah, I know. I'll probably roll over my 401k into an IRA at Merrill Edge for the free trades and 75% perk on their cash back cards. I was just highlighting the horrible rates that…

I know, right? I'm soooo tempted to hoard $100k with BoA for that 20% extra bonus to their crappy interest rate.

I'm gonna guess Lehi? I lived 17 years in Utah, and spent about 10 of that working remotely for a handful of very small clients (remote unix sysadmin). Spent some time in Delta, th…

Wouldn't strategic reserves be a solution to this? Hoard enough to cover ramp-up time for domestic production.

I went the opposite route and started wearing blue blocking glasses 1-hr before I go to sleep. Seemed way easier than trying to address each device and rouge blue LEDs around the h…

It wasn't stated that the blades were necessarily better, but the fact these "science grade" blades were chosen over name brands implies there may be some benefit. This was totally…

Got a link, brand, or model number for these "science" grade blades? I've been an on-and-off DE shaver for some years, and I've never heard of this option. I settled on Feather bla…

Yeah, if I had that much I'd be much less conservative for sure. You work for a European company or do you just have clout to ask for that much? Compounding this is the fact that I…

The place (federal government) is great, but my current contract employer has some puzzling policies. I've never had a better work/life balance than this place. In a few years, the…

I think this is a big part of it. I currently have 15 PTO days per year, which includes sick leave. If I'm feeling off, I'll ask if I can work from home, which I always get denied …

I joined up about a year ago at $30/month. For 3 months, I averaged about 5 flicks per month, which was a net gain over the cost of the individual tickets. Then I got a notice that…

Check out Postum and Pero, the former being primarily wheat/barley, the latter mostly chicory.

Yes.

I love the minimal and efficient app mindset. Back in the 90s I used this DOS text editor that fit on a single floppy sector (512B). I forget the name, but it was a part of my stan…

Someone from Purdue (I think) did research on being able to identify printers that used stepping motors due to unique characteristics in various models as well as individual printe…

We're just gonna have to respectfully agree to disagree on some of this. I don't go out of my way to be insensitive, but I'm not going to flush my DVD of The Matrix down the Memory…

I think he meant exactly what he meant. Wasn't Manning still identifying as "he" when the leaks were done? Or was she already transitioned at that point? I hate this whole walking …

Milk is a funny thing, being a rich medium for bacteria. Take a pint of fresh-from-the-cow milk and a pint of your typical store-bought pasteurized milk and leave them open on the …