Thoughts on an Airplane

We feature an original illustration by the lovely Mari Andrew every Friday morning. Here’s today’s.
P.S. When to get to the airport, and a nice thing to do for yourself.… Read more
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A Moment of Silence

After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, yesterday, we want to take a day of silence on Cup of Jo.
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The more often people worked nights, the more likely they were to have Type 2 diabetes.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/well/working-nights-may-raise-diabetes-risk.html?partner=rss

Back in 2005, you needed a standalone GPS device if you wanted a disembodied voice to yell at you when you made a wrong turn. Before smartphones existed, a pocket-size GPS device that was small enough to be convenient for motorcycle and bike use was novel and useful. However, such a device available on the shelf at Walmart in 2017 isn’t so impressive. It’s also not much of a deal.
Reader Patrick is one of the Raiders of the Lost Walmart, a brave team of retail archaeologists who comb through the electronics sections of big-box stores to find gadgets that aren’t just obsolete or just plain old, but are also comically overpriced.
Reader Patrick noticed the Garmin Quest 2, a device first released in 2005, for sale at Walmart. He looked back at the price stickers, noting the rich history. It had been marked $578.76 in May 2009 and in July 2016, and finally discounted a little bit to $350.00 in June of 2017, a few days before he unearthed this artifact.

If you don’t mind having a used unit and downloading the manual online, you can buy this same GPS on eBay for $84.
Or you could spend more than four times that much in the bizarro electronics universe of Walmart.
“Hey, that could just be a photo from 2008!” you might be saying — so here’s a close-up of the dated shelf tag.

Source: https://consumerist.com/2017/10/27/raiders-of-the-lost-walmart-uncover-ancient-and-mysterious-12-year-old-gps/