Years ago, my father and I were both astonished to discover that hotmail was supposed to be a legitimate mail service. We'd both received so much porn spam from hotmail addresses (hot mail, right?) and didn't know anyone who actually used it. I can't believe that anyone would intentionally switch to it.

MiniDisc and Zip disks were the most successful storage mediums of all time? By what criteria

I know it's not popularity because Zip disks were popular for about four years. I've never used a MiniDisc. Compared to CD or floppy disks both are losers.

It can't be by durability because Zip disk is on the list.

I don't carry a cell phone because I don't like to talk on the phone. (And I have a land line at home and one at work.)

I work at a university and I don't think they care if my wife sends me email asking me to pick up milk on my way home from work and I return a message saying that I will. In a similar way, I don't care if the work system snoops and discovers patterns in my family's milk-buying habits.

More important personal stuff is either transmitted over the phone or waits until I get home.

do you really want to work for a company that requires you to know your legal status prior to a job interview?

As someone who has wasted his time interviewing people who seemed fantastic but turned out not to have visa sponsorships (no, my company isn't going to deal with the paperwork), I kind of wished someone has asked that question before the person came to my office. If you can't work here, please don't waste my time.

As someone who's arranged the correct visas and papers to work in foreign countries myself, I'm okay with someone asking me the same exact same question.

You'll see both the MBTA police working alone as well as with conjunction with TSA folks. And I mean actual TSA folks, with the uniform and everything. Both of them will rub the patch on your bag, run it through the sniffer machine and send you on your way.

Patty Hearst and the paper industry were responsible for outlawing marijuana in the first place

When she wasn't out robbing banks, of course.

QNX is probably the best operating system ever.

I think you forgot to insert the "Imma let you finish" part.

That happened to me after I got back from a vacation and I suddenly understood why the guy who swiped my card at the gas station "had" to use a new reader.

Funnily enough, the credit card statement not only had plane tickets on there, but also the names of the people for whom they had been issued. I did a quick search for the names in the same state as the departing airport and found their address.

If I were more of an Internet tough guy I would have called them and told them that I knew where they lived and I was going to beat my money out of them. Instead, I gave all the information to the credit card company with the fond wishes that they'd do time.

Is that with, or without the roaches and rats? I vote with.

I vote by marking a ballot with a felt-tip marker then feeding it into a machine. Are you sure your voting place is legit?

My wife and I have done Netflix since '04. Started with 3 DVDs, then moved it down to 2 when they raised the price (and I realized that the third disc always just sat around).

The streaming was barely okay (we have lousy DSL) and the selection is a small subset, so it wasn't a difficult decision to reduce the plan to two DVDs.