I would be nice to leave comcrud but it looks like I am just shy of the coverage. I think this is awesome though. Even if I end up moving out of the area by the time it gets more coverage this really should be public utility.

You only get the advertised sale price if you use their "club card" which has your personal identifying information plus now your spending habits, etc.

You could do what I do, find one on the street and use it. Oh sure I don't get the gas bonus from QFC but they get crap for their data. Also a lot of cashiers are happy to hand you a card and throw away the information sheet. So yes you get tracked but as anonymous coward basically.

Or they do what the did to me, Hey you used your credit card with us to buy some gas at a place near work instead of home and that is suspicious so we are locking your account. Can't dispute, can't close it. It is here forever locked down till your grandkids die (or paypal dies whichever comes first).
At least I didn't actually have any funds in it.
I hope they die soon.

Yeah 4 days a week the commute is amble down the stairs with coffee in my jammies and crank up the vpn. On Friday I get up early shower, etc. and commute about 20 to 40 minutes depending on traffic to the local data center to be a rotating warm body on site in case someone actually needs to touch a server.

Fashion has more to do with men wearing wrist watches in general, they were considered too feminine till WWI when the watches worn by the pilots caught on. I honesty have been considering a pocket watch to replace my 10+ year old Fossil. We don't think too much about it as we grew up with it being normal.

Hell half of my high school teachers would have been fucking well expelled as well.

Heck privacy shield, vpn, NO DO NOT LOOK OVER MY SHOULDER AT MY SCREEN, etc are all basic telecommute rules for my day job. So yeah I guess if I have to check something and use the work laptop to do it when I am out and using the library/starbucks/whatever I guess I am a terrorist.

Exactly,
There are expert level players from various Asian countries who have a basic grasp of english but they sure know what is and is not a valid string of letters to play.

I used to play in tournaments and even have been to the open National tourney but was never that good. My wife is good but she doesn't like tournaments anymore but she can make the letters just dance in her head in half a second for what will take me 15 seconds of shuffling the tiles around on the rack. At that level the definition is just extra stuff that isn't relevant to the game.

Doc even though there were a few comic books is more of a Pulp Hero. It amazes me that a lot of the fantastic gadgets and such in those stories are now commonplace technology.

The only thing driving my want for a new laptop is a better graphics card for a few games that overall I can actually wait till this one dies to purchase and play. But I have had it 3.5 years now and it chugs along just fine probably because it mostly stays in the same place but I do take it out on occasion so the semi portability of the 17" monster that it is comes in handy. (I really really like screen real estate) And even when it is time to replace it I am sure I will give it a once over and maybe throw a new drive in it put linux on it and let the kid have it to replace the hand me down desktop he is currently using.

My mp3 player is the same age and will probably last even longer as I have one with a user replaceable battery and barring out and out losing it or breaking it I can't see a reason to replace it with a new one just for the shiny factor as it does what I want an mp3 player to do. Heck my wife only replaced her gen1 ipod nano because she lost it though it really was due for a new battery and that probably would have been as much as the replacement she bought.

I don't know I can just think of other stuff to spend my $$$ on than gadgets I don't actually need.

I won't. Their selection sucked when they were pretty much my only choice at the time. They sucked even worse about 6 years ago the last time I had a chance to check them out.
Happily I have lived near enough to Scarecrow video for rentals and they have damn near everything. At least there has not been anything unavailable yet that was to be had on media. Scarecrow is the reason I have not gone to netflix.
Screw em. I won't miss them.