I've been scolded online for buying from Amazon. "Oh, if you look around enough you can get anything locally." I live in the Seattle area, and I certainly cannot get everything I want locally, unless by "locally" you mean taking an hour or two to drive a 40 mile round-trip to a suburb to the north. I know, of course, that Amazon is partly responsible for being unable to find some things locally, but if I want or need something and I can't get it here in town, yeah, I'm using Amazon.

Though I don't like shopping at Walmart, I still have to (no store in my area, even "supercenters," has everything I need), and their phone app is absolutely stellar at telling me where a particular product is. Especially handy where there's no staff on the floor (as often happens).

I don't miss cassettes, but they were an important thing to me in the 1980s. When my wife and I got married we were as poor as could be. Our first stereo was a little radio/cassette deck with four inch speakers. We played a lot of cassettes on that thing.

I moved to digital players as soon as I could afford them. The most memorable (before the iPod) was the Creative Nomad with its 5GB hard drive. It was too big to fit easily in my jacket pocket, but I shoved it in there anyway. I didn't have to choose the tapes I had on my long bus commute anymore. And when the second-gen iPod came along, it was like heaven.

I'd never go back to cassette...but it was great when there was little else available.

I had to clear a "We need to talk about your ad blocker" notice, after which it let me read the whole thing (without turning off my ad blocker).

I first encountered it in 2009, in Seattle, when I spent time in a hospital. I'd never heard the term before...but then, I'd never spent time in a hospital before, either.

The Neo has small storage, and is divided into documents, which I believe take up a fixed amount each of that total storage. Any decent-sized novel is going to strain the storage of the Neo. Still, it's a great little distraction-free writing tool.

Same with any weather app... you already know if it's rainy, sunny or snowing as well.

a weather app provides also forecasts and weather information for places you intend to visit in near future.

I had a friend in college in the mid-1970s. He was in engineering, and his dream was to get hired by one of the major shipyards near the beginning of development of a new aircraft carrier, because he knew design to delivery would take up the majority of his career.

My company is definitely not a startup, but my laptop has stickers from a corporate event from last year...cute little robots. No one complains.

And nuclear weapons. Don't forget the nuclear weapons.