On August 3, I traded in my $75/month no-data Verizon plan for the unlimited everything plan offered by Republic Wireless, a one-year-old subsidiary of Bandwidth.com headquartered in Cary, NC. Their current business model is one plan, one phone, one price. $19/month. No contract. Yes, the phone (a Motorola Defy XT) is running Android V2.3, not […]
Instinct tells me that, if the Ocean X salvage team had discovered a crashed UFO at the bottom of the Baltic Sea last year, there’d be no Ocean X salvage team this year to talk about it. So when experts on one side opine “pillow basalt” and “marketing ploy” and experts on the other side […]
Onychectomy (on-uh-KEK-tuh-mee) is the procedure’s medical name, but opponents of declawing call it amputation. They’re right as rain. However it’s done, whether by scalpel or laser or the discomfitingly named “guillotine” tool, declawing is, put simply, the complete removal of phalange #3, analogous to removal of the fingernail and last bone of a human finger. […]
