[...] Different devices with overlapping but different use cases.

You. I like you.

J-walkers

Wasn't this in an episode of The Simpsons? Homer realized he had an unexpanded "J" and traveled to places of his youth in search of answers, only to find out the full spelling was "Jaywalkers"?

I was gonna bust your chops over the extra apostrophes, but I decided not to. The mental image of a person, on whatever the near-future version of YouTube is, telling his boat to get a fish then watching it happen is just too amusing to me!

If I had a nickel for every time we ran out of something, then later went to Target (less than 10 minutes' drive and a regular "kill time" destination anyway), then came home only to hear my wife say, "I forgot to buy the thing I went to the store for!", I'd be eating like a king at Taco Bell.

Honestly, even /with/ a smartphone and sundries-managment apps, she can't be arsed to keep a list. These buttons would go a long way to making sure key items were easily replenished at the time awareness of need hits.

Also, also, didn't the article say the button could be relinked to another product if the default wasn't to one's liking?

I once paid $6,500 for an excellent car [...]

Did you? What kind of car is it?

I laughed, I cried, I remembered what day it was, I sighed.

/Thank/ you! Somebody gets it! Well, you and sconeu below ^^

More insight from Independence Day, the film that taught me about plausible deniability.

It would be if I were deliberately eating more than a sane portion. I eat so many leftovers and such because I break up servings. Or when we cook at home I pack the leftovers up for myself and my wife and spread them out that way. My ideal is that we buy food / ingredients economically and use a high percentage of them, avoiding waste and reducing the number of purchased meals. Doesn't always work out but hey...

There are definitely times when I eat waaay too much, and I usually suffer for it. But I try not to by spreading a meal out or by snacking rather than eating another meal.

Occasionally take more than you want to eat and then THROW IT OUT

I... I cannot do this. I joke with my family that I have a food-waste neurosis. It is incredibly difficult for me to toss out viable food. I used "viable" specifically because I eat a lot of leftovers and will eat food that's bordering on expired rather than throw it out.

The upside is that for places that pack in two meals' worth in one order I get two meals out of it (usually dinner the day I ordered and lunch at work the next). I also have an amazingly-tolerant tummy in terms of food quality - I rarely get sick from eating whatever, whenever. I have some hardy flora in there. Maybe some fauna too.

The downside is that I have occasionally crossed the "expired" line and wind up with no lunch at all...

More context: I'm early 40s, cut out sugary sodas about 5 years ago and dropped about 45 pounds off that alone (I take about 5 sodas a day). Got to a good weight years ago and maintained it for a long time until this past November when I had some major life events stressing me out, which led to stress-eating and the gain of about one stone over 4 months. Got most of the stress sorted and am actively trying to regain control of my eating...

Thiiiiis!

proportions of choco-candy-to-filling

I detest M&M Mini's for this exact reason! The candy shell overpowers the chocolate inside at that scale.

I know, right? I had this great idea for "Exploding Krytens" but it seems nobody much wants to see a droid blow up. And the hardlight projector was proving troublesome to produce in affordable numbers...

SO am I the only person who absolutely LOVES those table-tablets? I can't count the number of times a waitperson made us wait (ha!) to pay, even when all the food was eaten and the drinks were empty. I love good service, and don't mind recognizing it with a nice tip. But certain parts of the transaction don't really enhance either of our experiences.

That said, I'm looking forward to seeing what Taco Bell and McDonalds do with their web / app-based ordering and payment in advance systems...

Somehow, over a half-lifetime reading sci-fi and fantasy, I'm not sure I can say with conviction that I ever read *any* of Sir Pratchett's work. Now I feel bad. Aside from DiscWorld itself, any "essential Pratchett" I should educate myself with?

Once they hire Billywitchdoctor.com, they'll be ready to roll!