Been standing for over a year. As many have said: a good floor mat is not optional. Another commented that good shoes are necessary and I concur. However, standing all day is bad for some people (e.g. check out varicose veins). I sit regularly. For example, if I need to read something, I print it out (if I can) and sit and read it. I highly recommend it. Ease into it and figure out ways to sit regularly. (I'm over age 60.)

Motorola has an Assist app that detects when you are in motion. If enabled and a call comes in, it will identify the caller and ask you if you want to ignore it. You reply verbally. If you say "ignore," it will ask if you want to send a text "I'm driving I'll call later" (something like that) or have you create a message. Also, you can have it read text messages as they arrive. If you aren't the driver, you can simply turn it off. I find it to be a nice compromise between a nanny app and nothing.

Here is an alternative idea: a Silicon Valley school without technology

Cars used to have multiple busses, but they unified them to save weight to improve fuel efficiency.

That is, they chose fuel efficiency over security. Remember, right now fuel efficiency will sell more cars than a more nebulous "security" that few can appreciate (until something really bad happens).

The Redwall series by Brian Jacques is excellent for young kids. The characters are animals, and the stories are engaging. There are quite a few titles in the series. Many of the suggestions are excellent suggestions, but in my opinion are better for slightly older kids, YMMV. My son is now a young adult and started with Redwall. He has read many classics such as LOTR, is into the Game of Thrones (happens to be reading Lolita at the moment and loves Hemmingway).

Kahn's math videos are excellent, but the Python ones are not, especially for someone who hasn't programmed before.

Classmates has notified me weekly of multiple sign-ins to my guest book for years, adding up to more guest book sign-ins than students in my graduating class. Apparently I had not realized how popular I was! Being a nerd led to a reluctance to socialize that saved me from this fraud.

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One point missed on all posts is that overheated brakes don't work. If brake operation allows them to heat up too much before enough stopping occurs, you will get to complete failure. I can see it possible to be racing down the road, get the brakes heated, and then fail to generate enough braking to stop the vehicle.

Having said that, I'm on the side of "user error" in these cases.

I grew up in NH and spent my youth hiking and camping in the White Mountains. I like the proposed glass "old man". It is a nice memorial to the fallen face, and both the viewing platform and the internal water fall are clever ideas. If you have to hike to get in it, I would be in favor of it. However, if a road is going to be built to it, I'm not in favor. That part of the plan is not specified in the linked article, but presumably it would be car accessible. A lot of back-country territory would be spoiled to make that spot car accessible and that would be a shame. I now qualify for some senior-citizen discounts but would rather struggle up the slope than drive, and it won't be too long before I won't even be able to do that.

Here is a better, brief summary of the work. It shows a standard, deterministic processor with the probabilistic processor as a co-processor.