She looks a bit young for a fryer…

These little suckers are not only great for breaking down all the cardboard boxes you get with your Amazon shipments, they turn out to be a terrific way to tear through ‘ballistic nylon’ straps, duffels, and laptop bags (a power I’ve used only for good…). Much faster than knives or shears, especially for extracting strap and clasp hardware.

In theory, they’re disposable; in practice, they last quite a while.

Pro tip: when disposing of old duffels and laptop bags, check all pockets for leftover cash, gaffer tape, screen cleaner, and tools. I’d been wondering where that old SOG multitool had gotten to…

Never change.

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant lawsuit for the hotel…”

(via)

So, let me see if I’ve got this straight: all your remarkably expensive phones are soooo thin and light that they have terrible battery life, so now you’ve released big chunky battery packs that make them even more expensive, but also clumsier to use and store in pockets.

Y’know, product design isn’t just about fashion and marketing bullet points. Sometimes ya have to provide value for the price…

A little random selection to stir up my recommendations page…

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Your appeal is becoming more selective. This is rarely a way to improve sales.

Seriously, do you honestly think there’s a large potential audience that has passed this game over because the PvP isn’t obnoxious enough? That’s the hill you choose to die on in this franchise?

…to my sanity.

Manager set up a Perforce client on his Windows box, then we changed the directory that was set for its root. We could not get p4v to use the new directory. Even deleting the workspace, restarting the client, refreshing the workspaces, and creating a brand new workspace with the same name didn’t work. It still thought the files should be located in the non-existent directory from the earlier incarnation of the client.

We had to use a different client name to avoid this over-aggressive local cache of data it had no business caching in the first place.

Also, to make the process more funtedious, the client-editing window kept spontaneously resizing itself to be slightly taller than the screen, every time we opened it or tried to resize it to fit.