Lee DeRaud
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Weight limit varies by size. They don't have a lb/sqft rating as such, but the smallest one is actually rated for the most weight. ...

If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long does it take a one-legged monkey to kick the seeds out of a dill...

The thing that makes fixed pensions work is that they're in addition to, not instead of, a 401K/IRA.

Yup. The obvious exceptions were shop and science classes, although we usually had to pay for shop project materials. "Read chapter 9 and don't...

I never quite understood that argument. If you don't trust the edit/correction/whatever, why would you trust the original text from the same source?...

I graduated in '68 and actually remember quite a bit of it, but I don't recall needing any crayons or construction paper those four years... :D

And now, this:

It's a good-news, bad-news deal. I currently read about a book per week, which makes about a 12-year backlog of unread stuff already on the Kindle....

I suspect that's what works best with whatever OCR software they use. There's a push here to get court stuff filed electronically, and eventually...

That's the "killer app" for Kindle. If you like doorstop-sized books (fiction or other mostly-text), your wrists and hands will be much happier in...

Works for me: compact storage, never goes bad... :)

Many good things can come from sweet potatoes, but I'm not sure I even know enough people to burn through 160lbs of them before they go bad.

Context matters:

Here ya go: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.hipercalc&hl=en_US&gl=US

I had a physics prof who despised calculators, and insisted we do all calculations to, as he put it, "slide-rule accuracy". Of course, he had a...

Of course, if it was an empty cardboard box, I'd check to see if your cat had hacked your account. <rimshot>

Agreed (that it's easy), but where in the process would that happen? Only way it makes sense is if the driver steals it, reseals the package, and...

Well, obvious answer is to go online and check your orders...see what they think was supposed to be in the package.

And (unless things have changed since I retired) some fairly pricey specialist tools.

Most of the time with spammers/scammers, the delay is because their system dials multiple numbers at once and the calls are routed to operators as...

I can see someone stealing both plates to put on a 'getaway car', but here the front one alone won't help them much: the stickers are back-plate only.

I'm trying really hard to come up with a reply to this post that doesn't either (1) raise my blood pressure to dangerous levels or (2) violate the...

Not really sure I needed another reason not to go to Olive Garden, but there it is.

My ex moved out in 1986, moved to Idaho in 1998, still gets spam here: I'm not sure those databases ever get updated.

For GM, that goes back at least to the early 1990s: bit of a shock when I discovered my '94 Olds had metric hardware for everything. (Could have been...

Heh. I've got the ringers turned off on the landline phones. The message got changed to "This number is for outgoing calls only. Please call on my...

I'm vaguely surprised that the VIN-reader isn't already a thing. The toll-road "transponder" on my car is a sticker about the same size as the VIN...

Unless they're really bored, few cops will pull a car over just for a missing front plate, but it'll get added on to to any "real" ticket you happen...

Nothing by phone, but I'm getting 2-3 snail-mail offers every day. But more than half of them aren't even for me. I still live in the same house...

A lot of cars these days can be switched between miles and kilometers by the owner (or a fumble-fingered mechanic). A friend of mine is dealing...