I'm actually pretty good at finding my way around when alone, the problem is if someone else is driving I tend to not pay attention to the route we're taking.

This got really embarrassing when I first started driving (I didn't start driving regularly until I was in my 20s because frankly I didn't need a car until then) because I would make ridiculous wrong turns in areas I'd been travelling around regularly for years.

I have a tendency to explore off the beaten track which definitely helps in learning how to navigate.

I'll agree with other posters, I moved from the UK to the US and was screwed up for several months because the stars where in a different place (relatively speaking).

I recall buying a 512Mb thumb drive in 2004 for something approaching $60. Now you can pick up 2Gb ones at Wal-Mart for $15. I've ditched USB thumb drives now I have an SD converter since those cards are even cheaper.

They're useful if I want to transfer large files from work to home since they can be a little touchy about me throwing gigabytes of data over the network, but beyond that they spend most of their time gathering dust.

My baby toys are at my parent's house and my nephews play with them. The Fisher Price ones from the 70s have survived nearly 40 years being played with by dozens of kids and are still good as new! They will probably be excavated intact by some future society thousands of years from now, long after the rest of our civilisation has crumbled.

In spite of all the many controversies his music was groundbreaking and inspired multiple generations. If the allegations against him are true, well he's already paid the price now and there's nothing we can do about it.

Let's not forget a larger than usual number of celebrities and notables died in the last few days also. A sad week for the entertainment industry as a whole.

Up until I was 7 years old we lived in an old house with an upstairs attic that had the same floorspace as the two bedrooms combined. You could only get up there with a stepladder. I remember it as this big room that hadn't been decorated in decades so the wallpaper was peeling and the carpet was all torn up. No electricity other than a light. The only furniture was some old mattresses we pulled up there and an ever rotating supply of toys.

Coolest. Den. Ever.

The new owners turned it into a third bedroom. Idiots.

Well, depends on what you call "primary".

-My laptop at work gets shut down every day but it's not technically a reboot, it gets "rebooted" whenever I install a patch or software that needs it.

-My 2008 box which I also use as my desktop I reboot only if I really, really have to since it has so many VMs running on it. In practise it starts acting weird if I leave it on for more than a couple of months and needs to be rebooted. Probably a memory leak somewhere.

-My UNIX boxes gets rebooted about twice a year if an important patch comes out, or I'm testing something.

I gave up the penis growing max uptime game years ago, I hit 450 days on a Linux box once and it only went down after a powercut. I'd rather have a current security patch, thanks.

One side of my family all seem to die young from cancer, but then again they all had unhealthy lifestyles.

The other side live well into their 80s and 90s. I'm hoping for 100+ but we'll see. If I don't see my Grandkids I'll be very upset.

A couple of my CFLs are approaching the 4 year mark (they stay on all night) and they take about 2 minutes to get to full brightness now. When they where new it was more or less instant.

Call me strange, but I have a Sun Model 6 (one of the newer USB ones) and it's the best keyboard I've ever owned. I've been clocked at 145 wpm and my fingers never feel tired.

We do that already, but you still don't get proper rest. Bear in mind also our kids are all below the age of 6.

Yep, been there done that. Driving home after a 36 hour shift I blinked as I was pulling out of work and suddenly I was half way home. I blinked again and I was in the driveway.

I did surreptitiously check for dings in my truck afterwards but apparently I didn't hit anything (I hope!).

The next time my work made me do that, I got someone to come pick me up instead.

Anyone who has kids will understand this, 3 sick children recently meant we both went about 5 days with maybe 8 hours sleep total :-) Of course, by that time THEY were fine and wanting to be happy active kids again and WE got sick. The joys of parenting!

I think the longest I've gone without any sleep at all is 4 days. I used to regularly go 24-48 hours in college, but that was due to staying up all night partying.

Tried it, the local gun range said "HELL no!". I wish I knew someone with a bunch of land somewhere who didn't mind me doing target practise.

So, anyone in Central Florida who has a bunch of land and doesn't mind - please drop me a line :).

Securely wipe them if you must, then just give them to your local recycling plant. Personally, I dismantle old drives, give the magnets to my kids to play with and send the rest to the local recycling plant. There's really little else use for a 50Gb drive these days!!

My coworkers think I'm crazy, but I just prefer the old school way of doing things. Makes for a great conversation piece too.