Long ago, back in my bachelor days, I had built some 8-bit NES sprites out of Lego and hung them on the wall. Recently, my wife asked me, “What happened to those?” and “Why did you never hang them up here?” She doesn’t realize it, but she just gave me permission to nerd out for the next few weekends. This weekend I pulled out the old Legos and learned more than I expected.

You know what really grinds my gears? When I’m signing up for a service that requires an email account and they don’t know how to properly validate email addresses. The + is valid in an email address. It’s not only legit, it’s really useful. What do you do about it? I use the dots if it’s something I really need to sign up for. Also, any message I get from a website that doesn’t have the jamespryor+something@gmail.