Comments from Panhandler

Panhandler commented on Best Start Pages?

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:55:46 EDT

ABOUT:BLANK

Panhandler commented on Top 10 Amazon Power Shopper Tools

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:46:53 EDT

this may not be quite on target, but I sometimes find books on Amazon that I want to read, but maybe just get from the library instead of buy from Amazon. Using this site as a guide, I built a bookmarket for the Leon County library, so when I'm on a book's page, I click my bookmark and a window from the library pops up letting me know if they have the book. If they do, it's a two-click process to reserve the book. When they email me that it's arrived, I walk over during lunch and get my book.

Panhandler commented on Make Your Own Infused Vodka

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:26:41 EDT

@Halloway - I concur. Chili pepper vodka is extraordinary.

Panhandler commented on Just Because It Says "Organic" Doesn't Mean It Won't Give You A Ton Of Cancer

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:31:40 EDT

So I have a related question: I was eating a breakfast bar the other day and it said "70% Organic!" WTF is the other 30%, Poison Frog Ass or something?

Panhandler commented on Mimic Vista's File Rename Feature in XP

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:58:04 EST

Hey neat, F2 lets you rename files easily!

/not all of us know even the basic tricks. (:

Panhandler commented on Why You Should Read Ebooks

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:36:15 EST

I dropped my ebook in the tub, and now all the zeros and ones are all wrinkly.

Panhandler commented on Best LEGO Sets in History

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:16:53 EST

If you look at the back of 493 (Space Command Center) you can see a "monitor" painted on a big square brick -- it makes up the left side of the back wall. I don't have any Legos anymore except that single square "monitor" brick. I put it on an ornament hook; it goes on my Christmas tree now.

Panhandler commented on Getting Gifts Done with Amazon Gift Organizer

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:44:56 EST

I print out the compact version of my own Amazon wish list and take it to the used book store once a month. Obviously I don't find everything I want, but it works for me.... browse @ Amazon, buy at the Paperback Rack.

Panhandler commented on Do You Use Social Networks on the Web?

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:54:00 EST

Grampa, circa 2038:

"When I was a boy, a 'friend' was a person you knew, for real, in the street, or down the block! Real people I tell ya! Ya didn't have 4,246 friends 'cause there weren't room in front of the Atari for more than two! Waaa! Where's me apple sauce! Tell the nurse my MAME cabinet is broke again!"

Panhandler commented on Manage Your Money with Quicken Online

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:55:05 EST

For lightweight needs, Bank of America (I know, I know) customers should checkout the free 'My Portfolio' tools on that site. It's primitive compared to a 'full' Quicken or MS Money app, but it does basic reports, charts, etc (and its categorization guesses are more accurate than my MS Money ones ever were).

Panhandler commented on Tron's Creator Kvetsches Against The Machine

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:50:09 EST

BMS74,

I find your post unique and interesting, and I look forward to its sequel.

{grin}

Panhandler commented on Get to Sleep Faster by Tensing Up and Repeating "The"

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:38:34 EST

"Tenser," said the Tensor.

Panhandler commented on Hype Sheet: Buy This Computer or You're the Worst Parent Ever

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:31:42 EST

Using graph paper and hex codes to plug in my own sprites, then moving them around the screen in primitive BASIC... and folks say there wasn't enough for a nerdy 4th grader to do with a 99/4a? C'mon! The cartridges were the LEAST interesting thing this machine did.

10 PRINT "I miss my TI"
20 GOTO 10

Panhandler commented on Yahoo Mail Innovates, Gmail Stagnates

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:50:01 EDT

great overview. i wouldn't have expected to ever use Yahoo mail again, but in the last 2 weeks i've found myself leaving a gmail AND a yahoo tab open.

Panhandler commented on Monster Announces Cheaper "Speed-Rated" HDMI Cables

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:45:25 EDT

Strider: "but then I feel so...compensated."

I'm using this line for the next 6 to 8 months. I won't possibly be sick of it before then. Hilarious!

Panhandler commented on Comcast has started throttling

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:05:12 EDT

well, this will probably get me flamed to death, but I'm going to say it anyway....

If we GOT RID OF, rather than ADDED MORE, regulation, maybe a dozen new ISP's would crop up, each with its own cool and different traffic-shaping. You could join the ISP that optimizes WoW traffic, or the one that optimizes Skype. Or the one that optimizes regular browsing all day, then goes WoW-heavy from 5pm to midnight, then Stickam-optimizes from midight to 6am, etc etc etc....

Let a thousand roses bloom? Nah, let's demand a thousand more pages in the Federal Register and another billion-dollar tax sink for additional regulatory enforcement (which, once you get it in place, will immediately be corrupted by the oligopoly you all already hate).

I agree with most of you on the dismal state of current ISPs. I just differ on the means to sink their ships.

Panhandler commented on Sputtering Network Card Strands 17,000 People at LAX

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:09:08 EDT

"It makes us wonder what other important pieces of infrastructure hang by such a delicate thread."

You really don't want to think about this issue too much. You might reach some very terrifying conclusions about the fragility of the First World's energy, food, and transportation systems. Those Stand on Zanzibar and Soylent Green dystopias start to creep in on ya.

It's fun while it lasts though, huh?! I think I can make this coffeepot over here run Doom....

Panhandler commented on Backpack Laser...not for Killing (Yet)

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:33:53 EDT

Question for the ages: Why was Terri Garr in that video?

Panhandler commented on Drag and drop an iTunes playlist's songs into a folder

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:34:51 EDT

Nepkarel's BTW is an important one. It's common sense once you know it, but you can scramble your library the first time, if you don't!
I only use iTunes's drag-n-drop to manually sync podcasts to a non-iPod mp3player, but it's a very handy trick.

Panhandler commented on iBotics Stingray Up Against it in a San Diego Swimming Pool

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:58:06 EDT

UCF did NOT win last year. The University of Florida is the defending champ, as in some many areas of life (grin).
More here.

Panhandler commented on How to organize Windows' Start menu

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:59:29 EDT

AcidReign: Me too. Except why put shortcuts to feq. used apps on the desktop AND the quicklaunch? I use the quicklaunch bar for apps and the desktop for drive icons. Not sure if there's a rational reason for that but it seems right. To me.

Panhandler commented on iPhone Lust, From a Female Perspective

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:28:36 EDT

I loved her in Vacation, with her big dark glasses and a Zip-Loc with a pound of doobage.

Panhandler commented on Cardboard Audio Gear is Coolest Useless Thing Ever

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:22:44 EDT

You could totally compose "Let's Run Over Lionel Ritchie With a Tank" on this thing!

Panhandler commented on Retailers report XBOX 360

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:07:50 EDT

Mine's 6 months old (3 months on its side, 3 months 'standing'), sounds like a farking jet plane taking off, but not yet dead. I guess I'm the only one.

Panhandler commented on Navy Looking Into Bomb-Predicting Technology

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:03:44 EDT

Mandatory Gravity's Rainbow reference.

Panhandler commented on Show Us Your Firefox, Part 1

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:15:38 EDT

Looking at several of these caused me to spontaneously blurt out the word "buttons" in the nasty sarcastic way Randall says it in Clerks.

"Jesus, Dante, we push bu'ins."

No offense, of course. It's just... so many bu'ins!

Panhandler commented on Enormous Home-Made Margarita Mixer Means You Can Say 'Mine's A Large One'

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:41:20 EDT

But The Other Two are Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris! (That's a New Order joke, folks.)

Panhandler commented on What Is the Greatest Gadget of Alllll Tiiiimmmmeeee?

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:48:59 EDT

Greatest gadget ever? The (lower) human horn.

Panhandler commented on Magnetic Father & Son

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:17:52 EDT

@stirgeon - I came to make the same joke, but you did it with a scary word! I was going to be more specific and say, "I expected them to be purplish."

Panhandler commented on Sony's Eco-Friendly odo Line: No Plugs Required

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:20:05 EDT

Does that thing play ViewMaster discs? G-ddamned format wars.