I used to love Dorman's Iceland cheese. They had some pretty good Baby Swiss also.

Actually, the last small kitchen gadget I bought came with a card telling me how to get freebies to review. Small kitchen stuff seems like a category that is teeming with shills. I deliberately look for quality reviews, especially as the price climbs.

Power factor correction for electronics is old news, here's an article from 2010 - http://www.edn.com/electronics...

Presumably the cells contain the original information. If so, it's just a matter of formatting the columns to display properly. First encountered this 20-plus years ago when Excel was popping up dates for my numerical data. That's when I learned about Julioan dates!

I worked at a new car dealer for a miserable year. None of this sounds unfamiliar.

Obviously doesn't have the chops of the Beastie Boys, who recorded an entire concert with phones supplied to fans, in 2006.

And yet, I get Sunday afternoon Amazon deliveries from a USPS truck. I'd be perfectly willing to wait an extra day. Hopefully I'm not the only house they're driving to!

Knew a lobsterman who used loran - he said he'd cut his throttle coming up on a waypoint, and stick his gaff out the port side and grab his trawl in the dark. Pretty damn accurate, without a GUI.

The local stations need more time to yammer about this law firm and that garden center that are valued sponsors. And to pretend that the guy who's his own engineer and producer is a host of All Things Considered.

I'm old enough to remember a pundit writing that Sorcim (WordStar), Ashton-Tate (dBase 2) and Lotus had the world tied up and were unassailable.

Forty years later, I still have my beloved CRC math handbook. Offered it to my son when he followed me into physics, but he was using wikipedia for derivatives and integrals. I still like browsing databooks, which were like baseball card collections back in the day. They were often like unobtainium, but - I made time for a TI factory rep, and he sent me everything they had. Likewise, I returned a woman's call at Motorola, and she was so happy I received two large boxes a couple days later. Doesn't hurt to be nice once in a while.

I'll just keep watching reruns of Bar Rescue, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, and Airplane Repo until there's a new season of Firefly.

Why does it posit keeping people semi-vertical? I'm sure we could be better-packed as logs. And stripping to put on bunnysuits, rather than a 3-D scan.

I keep getting hounded by things I've already bought. Maybe I should return them.

"Really heavy boots" is the one that breaks my heart.