At my house they've gotten worse every year.

So that's what you call it. I've done a similar thing since grade school. When I told my teachers about it they told me it was God talking to me. This was rural Alabama in the 1960's.

I'm a night owl. Even when having to arise at 6 am, as I did as a youngster on the farm, I perked up about 10 pm after slogging through a miserable day. I didn't like farm work but other jobs requiring daytime hours were no better. Now that I can mostly set my schedule it's bed at 2 am and up at 11 am. Still must suffer derision when saying a 10 am meeting is too early for me.

Enroll as an editor for Open Street Maps. My accepted submissions to OSM appear on Google a few days later. Google may be protective of their intellectual property but don't mind stealing from others.

+1

I had to check my calendar to be sure.

In Nashville, TN. I switched from Comcast to ATT Uverse internet and my effective download speed doubled. That was about 3 years ago and I don't remember having a tier option for Comcast. I have no need for really fast downloads. The reason I switched was the frequent service outages with Comcast. Zero upload and download is intolerable. Outages are much less frequent with ATT and those outages have so far been solved by a hard reset of my modem/router. ATT has its flaws but for me in a head to head with Comcast it is the lesser bad.

+1 for iview

I guess you never buy anything online. Online purchases and motel reservations are the main reason I got two credit cards but now charge a lot of things for the convenience.

Just ask to friend the former owner on Facebook. A lot easier and you'll get more data.

As far as I can see all traffic enforcement is about revenue generation. Everybody speeds, everybody rolls through stop signs. We do this because most of the time there is little danger in doing so. Fewer people blow through red lights because that is more dangerous. Traffic laws and policing have nothing to do with safety. We have the police and technology to assure that most of us do not speed or consistently break any other traffic laws, but if they were consistently applied the political pressure would result in a change in the laws. As it is, they give enough tickets to generate revenue without causing public outcry. I used to think it was terrible that most first encounters with the legal system was this obvious money grab under the guise of safety. As I've had more experience with our legal system as a whole, traffic enforcement looks to be a good primer.

I loved the original Star Wars, now AKA New Hope, when it first came out. It was the first Sci Fi movie I'd seen that aspired to A movie status. Now if I re-watch any Star Wars related media it's The Family Guy with Blue Harvest my favorite.

Because of all the things promised to be done "By next week."

In a fit of pique at Comcast bricking my Motorola modem I signed up for ATT Uverse including digital voice. Overall I've been pleased with the speed and reliability of the internet and can't say I've noticed much decreased call quality but now none of my fax equipment works and caller ID is hit and miss. Not that fax is a big deal, scan and email is much better, but some institutions require that I accept a fax. I really miss the caller ID. Both are known issues ATT seems to have no interest in fixing. maybe if everyone was last mile digital folks would finally stop faxing, or less likely, the telcos would fix it. Up time has been as reliable as POTS, much better than Comcast whose "qualified technicians" were always in need.

I changed my wife from ATT/Yahoo just yesterday. She seldom uses email so when we got ATT Uverse I left here with the att.net email address. It's been constant trouble. I was one of those who adopted Yahoo back about 2003 as a disposable email account for such things as registering software etc. and wound up using it quite a bit for its access anywhere facility. With most ISPs of that time email only worked when you were logged in on their service. I changed to Gmail about 4 years ago when all my Yahoo contacts got phished. Don't know if it was me or Yahoo. It took me three days to update my registered email address for 90% of banks and merchants. Ten per cent were unchangeable and required a new account. Changing a decades old email address is not trivial.