Noticed a weird thing at the airport charging station yesterday

I was at Denver International and saw a bunch of people just plugging their phones straight into the public USB ports. That's a big risk for 'juice jacking' where bad stuff can get on your phone. Do you guys use those portable battery packs instead?

I set up a honeypot server in my home office expecting nothing, it got hit by a botnet in under 12 hours.

Just realized everyone overpacks for the John Muir Trail

I kept seeing people with these huge 50 pound packs and thought that was normal, but after my own trip I saw so much unused gear left in bear boxes. My buddy who does the trail every year finally told me 'If you don't use it by day three, you never will.' What's one piece of gear you always end up mailing home?

PSA: I used to ignore credit card statements until the due date

I'd just pay the minimum and move on, which kept my score stuck around 620. After my car loan got denied in March, I started paying the full balance the day I get the email. My score jumped 40 points in 4 months. Anyone else see a big change from just paying earlier in the cycle?

My neighbor's kid made me rethink my whole 'no magic' rule for stories.

I was telling him my fantasy idea needed to be 'realistic' and he just said 'but your guy has a sword, that's already pretend'. It made me realize I was limiting my own ideas before they even started. Do you ever have a hard rule for your writing that you later realized was just holding you back?

Just realized I've spent over $2,000 on replacement keys in the last five years.

I was cleaning out my junk drawer and found a pile of key fob receipts from the dealership. I lock myself out of my truck at least twice a year, and the last time cost me $380. Is this just a me problem, or is there a cheaper way to be this forgetful?

I was working a shift at the downtown coffee shop when a regular customer asked me to fix their website.

Spent $400 on a 'professional' knife sharpener that just wrecked my edges

It was a slick online ad, but the angle guide was off and it ground my best boning knife down to nothing. Anyone know a good local sharpening service in the Cleveland area?

I finally figured out why the coffee grinder sounded so weird for a week

A customer asked for 'espresso' and I'd been using the 'French press' setting this whole time, which a barista friend pointed out after hearing it from across the shop. Has anyone else had a machine setting mix-up that you didn't notice until someone called it out?

Just learned the original X-Men #1 cover had a printing error that's super rare now

I was reading this old blog post from a comic historian and they pointed out something wild. In the very first print run of X-Men #1 from 1963, the word 'mutants' on the cover is spelled wrong on a bunch of copies. It says 'mutnats' instead. I always thought my eyes were just bad when I looked at scans online. The blog said maybe only a few hundred copies got out before they fixed it, and most got sent back or destroyed. Finding a real one now would be crazy. It's the kind of tiny detail you'd never notice unless someone told you. Makes you wonder what other little mistakes are hiding in plain sight on classic covers. Has anyone else stumbled on a weird printing goof like that in their own collection?