I am lucky enough to share a house with a female orange tabby, a four-year-old idiot named Zoe, named after David Bowie, the first singer I heard in my car when I was bringing her home. I saw her and held her in front of me, and she stuck her tongue up my nose. Classic case of you break it, you bought it. She's hidden in the crawl space of my office drop ceiling twice, but is very loving to everyone, including the various repairmen, plumbers and electricians who visit every so often. I will have to tell her she's exceptional, but I think she knows that already.

It's 27" but if you rub it it's 42".

Hogs will figure that into the cost. Either make it much more--I remember after-school sessions for my son where they charged a dollar a minute if I didn't pick him at 5, and that was 25 years ago--or change the configuration of chargers to include more parking spots around them and multiple cables that start charging your car once the one before you hits 80%. Also, mandate text messages when your car is done, and ban users who abuse the process.

I think I spelled that right. I've been MS free for two years ever since a security update hosed all my printers (the old Brother workhorse, the NEW Brother printer I bought because I thought the old one was broken, and the cheapo POS color printer I bought for the occasional photo). I'm no Mac fanboy, and yes I've had the occasional glitch with my M1 Mini, but nothing like I experienced with Windows.

I can see how AI itself could be useful in some specialized fields, especially medicine, but the few times I've used server-side AI it's been little more than a hyped-up search engine. I truly don't see what any user who is the least bit literate (which is a point) needs it on the CPU running their home computer.

I'm going to start looking for a new small car for local driving in 18 months, and I'm not sure if the greater cost of an EV along with a home charger would outweigh the nearly 50% less for a small used ICE or Hybrid. I currently drive a (paid for) 2013 Kia Soul, top of the line, never had problem in the 7 years I've owned it (bought it used). At this point, I don't know what I'm going to do. I might just rut the Kia into the ground until it dies. By that time, the charging station mess might be closer to a solution, and the cost of EVs might come down a bit.

I know it's not the techiest thing out there, but my wife's been using my 10 year old i5-3200 with Chrome Flex for very basic email and web browsing. It was a good Windows box in its day, 12GB RAM and an upgraded 250GB SSD. (I moved to a Mac when MS hosed all my printers with a "security update"--it was so secure even I couldn't use it.) Serves its purpose well, and she's happy. My marriage is intact.

I want to see a movie based on this movie.

I've been saying this for a while. Sell a monitor or laptop shell with an iPhone dock in the back. For the monitor, the phone already takes a Bluetooth keyboard, mouse and speaker anyway. It's really all some people need. I think Verizon did this with their phones many many years ago.

Now THIS is something I am an actual expert on. I used to work on the sixth floor of the Commerce Department building (the OTHER Hoover building) at 14th and Pennsylvania in downtown DC. When I started in the early 1990s, I had a real office with a desk, a bookcase, four walls and a door. I was a GS-13, the highest you can get without being a manager. I was responsible for getting the news releases cleared and disseminated from a pretty large agency. By the time I retired 30 years later, I had a chair and a board in not a cube but a "cubby" that was 5 foot by 7 foot. Everyone was smushed together so we could hear each others' phone calls from across the room, which had no sound baffling. (Luckily, Covid came and I worked from home for 18 months until I retired.) I always figured, what are they going to do with all the extra room in the building, which was 7 floors high and a city block large, from 14th to 15th Streets and Constitution to Pennsylvania Avenues? As my father would have said, What can do they--put in a Nordstrom? Most of the older DC buildings are built for other modes of working--offices with doors, desks with conference tables and chairs, privacy. The FBI building on Pennsylvania Avenue was built to house a lot of paper files. That's all in the cloud now, as are all my news release archives. Commercial real estate itself needs a major rethinking, but government office real estate, where there are confidentiality and security questions to deal with, really needs one, and fast.

Totally killed my connection on an M1 Mac Mini running Ventura 13.3.1. Luckily I could roll back and all is well. Worked fine on my iPhone 13 though.

Eventually, downtowns will be like shopping malls - some high end shopping, some boutique stores, but most importantly, dining and entertainment (think big venues like downtown stadiums, arenas, live theaters, concert halls). You'll go downtown for recreation and to meet people. Like a reverse commute. Sounds pretty good to me.

Exactly. I'm a playwright, and I regularly print jobs of 50 pages or more double sided to my Brother laser. I go through maybe two generic cartridges a year, so maybe $50 a year. If I used even a high end inkjet, it would be probably ten times that amount, and much slower.

As Harlan Ellison said, Pay The Writer: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

As an author, what would be my incentive to write, except for my own enjoyment?