I want to say TWO words to you. Beanie Babies. Think about that.

"Mr. Steele? He doesn't exist. I invented him. Follow. I always loved excitement, so I studied, and apprenticed, and put my name on an office. But absolutely nobody knocked down my door. A female private investigator seemed so... feminine. So I invented a superior. A decidedly MASCULINE superior. Suddenly there were cases around the block. It was working like a charm... until the day HE walked in, with his blue eyes and mysterious past. And before I knew it, he assumed Mr. Steele's identity. Now I do the work, and he takes the bows. It's a dangerous way to live, but as long as people buy it, I can get the job done. We never mix business with pleasure. Well, almost never. I don't even know his real name! "

Keyless entry fob for my Prius has a physical key built into it. They can't be the only manufacturer that does this.

Buy blocks or big Lego bricks. Puzzles with big pieces are good. Is the app-for-the-kid really for her or for you? Things with glass are not for small children (unless it's the Bag O' Glass from Saturday Night Live: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/irwin-mainway/1185611/).

Old bathtubs lasted longer than old hard drives. Now it's the other way around.

While my daughter was growing up, I had a random choice of what to step on if I went walking barefoot around the apartment in the middle of the night. I could step on a Lego, which is quite painful, or step on one of her goldfish that had jumped out of the tank. If you can see in the dark, pick the Lego. They won't die if you squash them and you don't have to explain to a little girl how you killed her pet fish. She is 40 years old now and still reminds me of this. You would think people would move on... Personally, I think the fish was depressed.

Military handles security and civilian technical community handles operations. Each one thinks they are in charge.

Moore's Law for morons: Morons increase at the rate of 1000% per year.

Your distinguishing between queue and cue is a mute point.

Can't wait to hang an IBM air freshener in my iCar!

Silly human. There is no Chinese cheese. (And if there is, I want to hear about it.)

The reason there are silly rules is because people will cheat. Someone will come in and buy ALL the phones if there is profit to be made selling them elsewhere. This is similar to when bots buy up all the tickets to a concert 5ms after they go on sale and then you have to spend $300 for a $75 ticket.

A123 had actual contracts to put batteries in cars and had actual products. Does this mean that electric car batteries are not expensive enough? This is pitiful.

Paypal doesn't create its own currency. There are no "PalBucks". This is just baffling.

I guess those people working for Lions International or Rotary or the Salvation Army or Building Minds in Sudan will have nothing to do. The impoverished will be advertised out of poverty.