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For me, it depends on the weather and my activities, but sometimes I can get a 2nd wearing out of something. My dear darling of a wife can often be a little bit of OCD, so we use color-coded hangers. I will hang the "2nd-wearing-eligible" items up on a door-hook rather than in the closet...

I don't have a smart phone. I have a flip-top (clamshell) phone. All I ever need is to be able to make an emergency phone call. Anything else can wait. I have a small leather holster for the phone.

My wife dates everything she opens and anything she puts in the fridge. Freezer tape and a marker works wonders yet doesn't leave a jumble of overlapping dates. Rip the tap off, put on a new tape, date that. And label it. She also puts the date on our household A/C filters so we can remember...

With the U.S. Navy's New Orleans Data Center, we had a couple of ORACLE databases and more than one SQL Server database. We had a smattering of others, including perhaps one or two Sybase DBs. I don't recall any Informix or DB2 projects, but we were only the south-east regional data center...

"Cloud-based" is a thing for certain businesses, but people misuse it. I can only go by history. Nay-sayers and gloom-and-doom software types have predicted the end of Access at least four or five times, but the problem is always this: The technically superior solutions always have such a...

Just found this. Worth a look when you have time. Draw your own conclusions.

AI, of course I agree that your belief stems from what you can - and cannot - accept. Just as my own beliefs and non-beliefs are similarly derived. However, I feel obligated to point out that your position on improbable events is technically characterized as "belief from incredulity." You...

Love those super-bowl ads. Some of them border on genius-level brilliance. Two of my favorites don't even make the top-50 list, but they stood out to me. #1 - A Toyota commercial showing pigeons seeking a freshly washed car: #2 - A Budweiser commercial with brother/sister Dalmatian puppies...

Excellent choice of article, Uncle G. I noted in the body of that article that two of the researchers earned a Nobel Prize for their work. They are not the first to have earned one, though, in the field of superconductivity. John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer won the...

My position on God is documented elsewhere in this forum. But the video makes it clear that we have some snarls to untangle, and the true nature of time is one of them. The question - whether time is fundamental to the universe or a matter of how we perceive whatever is really happening - is...

Yep. I've got an appointment tomorrow with my primary care provider. Mine's upper respiratory, possibly a flu variant but no fever. Except for a dry cough, I don't feel bad.

Get well soon, Bee.

Part of our continued difficulty (and I am explicitly including myself in the mix) is that we don't understand the nature of matter at its lowest levels. We don't understand space-time. Therefore, the word "always" (as in "has always been there") is a time reference used without proper...

This viewpoint is emphasizing the particle nature of the electron beam when you must remember that they are moving at high speed and thus have a non-trivial DeBroglie wavelength as well. As such, they are moving bits of whatever a string becomes when it combines with other strings. Whatever it...

Locked out of it. Keys in ignition (not running) or on seat, but me outside with door already locked.

After a couple of incidents on the road involving calls to Sir Pop-a-Lock, I have taken to NEVER pressing the door lock button unless I do so with my car keys in that hand.

I will watch some sports on TV. Baseball and basketball are too boring so I don't bother with those much at all. Soccer is a once-in-a-while thing. I can watch an ice hockey game and more or less understand it. I will watch USA football more often then other seasonal sports, particularly...

In the USA, today (11/22/18) is Thanksgiving. Today, many people give thanks regarding their ability to gather friends and family, share a really good meal, and enjoy the day with an attitude of generosity. Regardless of your beliefs, I offer my best wishes to all of you in hopes that...

For instance, in the movie Shrek when Princess Fiona is accosted by "Monsieur Hood" and his "Merry Men." When she's finished defending herself, Shrek and Donkey are staring in a combination of wonder and fear. And by the way, my dear wife DID rescue me from some of my toxic beliefs. She was...

And therein lies the problem. Some of your answers trend towards "winners/losers" - and sadly, USA politics has gone that way. That is because these days, people hate the idea of compromise. They are greedy. They don't want half the pie. They want it all. As long as politics is about...