You're OK with paying more than you need to? It makes me angry that the credit cards are siphoning off several percent of our economy. They bought off politicians and passed crooked laws making it illegal to offer cash discounts or to charge extra to cover their fees, knowing that consumers won't care if it is hidden from them.

There are numerous programs for free cremation for whole body donation. There is a grisly one around here where they harvest all the medically useful parts such as skin, bones, etc. and then cremate what is left over. It's about 20 lbs, often less.

I think it makes a lot of sense. Nobody is using the body anymore, why not put it to use? Why not spare the estate the cost of cremation?

I've noticed that people who use moisturizer regularly blow through keyboards like crazy. I think the oils are slightly corrosive to the plastic and the ink. Our receptionist uses her keyboard less than anyone else around here, and her keyboards barely last a few months before many of the keys have no legible text and are pitted and eroding. Meanwhile I hammer 140WPM all day long on my $10 3 year old thing that looks like new.

It was for an application that was targeting 35F (I didn't pick the units) and I couldn't understand why if it overshot it would keep the compressor running, this only happened when the system was not loaded. Then it struck me that something special might be happening at 0C and that turned out to be the problem. It seemed humorous that in this one narrow instance Fahrenheit was the less difficult unit to use.

Celcius is such BS. 0 and 100 are too hard to remember. Give me good old 32 and 212 or whatever they are at sea level.

Seriously, I was programming some temperature sensors and ran into some overflow error due to negative temperatures. For that application Fahrenheit would have not failed.

Capacitors should outlast the equipment they are in. There was a problem with poor quality Taiwanese capacitors that exploded after a few months/years, but that isn't an inherent problem with the technology.

I've had to replace batteries many times, they fail more quickly in general than capacitors.

A capacitor could hold enough power to finish a write cycle on SSD no problem. It wouldn't even have to be very large.

You may find your perspective changes when people you care about die. What they're doing now is pretty uninteresting and generally less than before. The past is all there is of them. When that happens it may be good to have a few photos or scribblings.

12345 is in the dictionary

I guess I'm old. I completely don't get the most popular definition. The one I'm familiar with, an idiotic luggage combination, is second.

I used Backup Exec for many years and never had any complaints about it. It was tricky to get the tape and library drivers right (don't use the manufacturer's ones, use Backup Exec's) but once I got everything humming it worked great. I set up daily, weekly, monthly, and manual backups and managed tape rotations. I kept a set of onsite disk backups so I could restore files deleted in error quickly, and the software would automatically overwrite the oldest ones with no oversight. I spent very little time administering it, and restored countless files as well as one entire server no sweat.

Now we're forced to use Networker. I'm not impressed so far, stuff that was intuitive before now requires me to look up how to do it. I've also run into a bug where it appears to be running a restore but in reality will never complete. No error message.

I did not know that! The last time I had coffee at McDonalds was with a coupon for a free McCafe cappuccino which was fairly good. They may have upped their coffee quality when they did that transition.

I appreciate a good cup, but honestly anything tastes good to me as long as it is fresh brewed in somewhat clean equipment. Even Farmer Bros.

Some mechanics like to disconnect the battery before doing much of anything, and some procedures indicate this. If your wrench slips or you find some bad insulation and smash a live wire into the frame you might blow a fuse or waste a fusable link.

I know what you mean about stereos. I think part of it is how good and customized stock stereos have gotten, there just isn't much demand for a used stereo that probably won't fit your car properly.

I left my blackberry in my car and somebody smashed the window and left another one next to it.

Is it super stainy? A lot of the strong teas I've had are like brown dye.

McDonald's coffee seems to have a decent dosage of caffeine. Say what you want about the color, flavor, or strength, it does provide an average amount of caffeine according to my sensors.

I think this is due to the type of beans and the roast. Lighter roasts don't break down as much of the caffeine as a darker roast, and cheaper robusta beans contain more caffeine to begin with. A cup of strong tasting dark roast arabica coffee will typically have less caffeine than a watery cup of light roast robusta truck stop coffee.

What a humorous example! I've run into numerous stereos that have an antitheft feature where it requires a code after losing power. Some dealerships will provide the code for free, most won't. The real bad ones demand that you bring the car in for service and pay an hour of labor. Sometimes the code was provided to the original owner of the car, sometimes not. Good luck finding it, you're not supposed to keep it in the car.

BTW, I've seen manufacturer's procedures for changing spark plugs call for disconnecting the battery. You'd literally have to phone them and re-activate your stereo every time you replaced your plugs. This has been going on since the 90s, and it is obvious you've never heard of it.