I must have turned on the computer an hour earlier than you that day.

Common Core is the problem. We went from teaching math using traditional proven methods to doing things like "how do you feel about this equation?" and "write it all out like a sentence" instead of simply "7 x 8 = 56".

I've seen a lot of young teachers who felt compelled to leave their mark on education, proposed things just "to disrupt", and then left education to get law degrees. Seriously. In my limited sphere, I can name 3 or 4, and I'm not in education.

I've known that mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide (CO2) for years - I mean, that's what those mosquito traps are doing.

So when I talk to people who don't know about the CO2 thing, I mention that some people emit more CO2 than others, and since we exhale CO2 then it means that I'm just full of hot air.

Incidentally, the XBox 360 couldn't mount NTFS volumes, but HFS+ was fine. I always thought that was odd.

I think the HFS+ bit probably has to do with the idea that Microsoft used PowerMac G5 machines to develop the Xbox 360 because of the PowerPC processor. I'd imagine there were some development steps that might have required mounting an HFS+ drive to pull code over to the 360.

A better question would be, does the district also contain charter schools? Households can get vouchers to offset the cost of charters, which sounds all wonderful until you realize it is taking funds away from the public school system. Charters are privatized schooling despite how they're advertised. They don't follow state standards, they take away from the public school system's resources, and aren't under any obligation to accept (or keep) your kid into their school. Maybe in some places it works, but in general it is simply taking away from the public education system.

+1 on the Canon color laser for home use and drug store / Kinkos / Whatever for printing pictures I want to frame.

That said, I've preferred Canon printers because their scanners are better quality than Brother and don't have as much restrictions as HP.

But the big decision is how much you want to spend on laser toner. If you're not particularly fussy about print quality, you can go with cheap 3rd party toners (~$50 for the 4 color set). They'll work, but it is really a crap shoot as to how good a cheap toner is; when one is "bad", it can leave streaks or some random spots on your printout. This is NOT the printer, it is the toner cartridge. If quality is important to you, the manufacturer brands tend to be top notch. For comparison, a 4-color set for my Canon MF644CDw is about $390 on Amazon (054H set) compared to 3rd party which runs $50-70. But the quality is consistent versus the gamble with 3rd party brands.

If it is about your kids printing out 20 pictures of their cat, go 3rd party.

Maybe there is a cutoff date, but one of the presumed triggers of Alzheimers is stress and to someone who didn't grow up playing with digital electronics, Smartphones are the worst thing.

I knew someone who was in their early 70s and was talked into going from a semi-smartphone to an iPhone. Couldn't wrap his head around it. Sure, he could make calls and text but it was visibly "work" for him and obviously wasn't intuitive; pocket dials, accidental texts, emails as texts and vise-versa, things like that. Now add in that most everyone and most everything practically requires you to have a smartphone to do anything these days, and you're forcing a level of non-intuitive stress on people like him.

He had some minor surgery that needed to get done which wouldn't have normally been a big deal, but I'm convinced that it combined with the daily stress he was experiencing with having to use a smartphone flipped the switch and he died within two years from complications related to Alzheimers.

So I'm sure it is probably measuring people in the 50-65 range, but the people 70+ weren't "wired that way" and struggle with technology as it is. From the few people I've known who got dementia, it was stress related.

So will they retroactively path Airplay to run over Bluetooth even in older vehicles?

It isn't the phone that won't AirPlay, it is the car. Only until the last model year or two of automobiles have we seen wireless AirPlay, as far as I can tell. If you have an older car that only supports wired AirPlay, there are dongles you can plug into the car for ~$35 which will do the trick.

I agree that Trump is once again guilty of treason.