You can use another state’s plan. I hear Georgia’s is very good. I did use a plan Tennessee offered years ago, a prepaid. Then, of course, when the economy crashed in 2007, it didn’t take long for the state to decide to dismantle it. The years of prepaid credits? Gone. Penalty for early withdrawal? You bet! It was a…

I wouldn’t claim my sushi rice ever gets near art, but it’s certainly an improvement over where it was a year or so ago. Plus, those black sesame seeds are brilliant at covering flaws.

For sushi rice, I do all of these things in extreme detail. It took a while for me to get that right, and I don’t vary. The Nishiki sushi rice needs extra love—presoak 30 min, bring water boil with rice already in there then simmer at least 20 min and never lift that lid till after the final step, let stand in steamy…

We do put our kids to bed a little early on Walking Dead nights. They’re 10 and 5, though, and we just tell them the show is scary, and we want to watch it. They can read or play with a toy or something if they don’t feel like sleeping till the normal bed time. We just tell them if they absolutely must come downstairs…

It never ceases to amaze me what brings out the anger and salty language in people. Getting angry and complaining about having gotten money as children is staggering. People are weird. I love this idea, and like everything it isn’t for everyone. What? What a concept, don’t like it don’t do it. I will say I grew up…

That’s exactly one of the things I love about my work laptop (Dell). The arrow keys are half keys, and they’re out of alignment with the rest of the bottom row PLUS there is a bump on the down arrow so it’s stupid easy for me to find (something I appreciate in many aspects of my life). Plus, there’s a bump on the 5…

Maybe the argument that sales equals quality is dubious. How many Lifehacker writers would call Linux garbage versus Windows or MacOS? I personally love all the different brands of tablets for different reasons, but I use Android more for work for a simple reason, the Google ecosystem let’s me access everything on…

Strange thread here. Either way, I have some of your same concerns. I have started plugging my yard with Zoysia grass. It’s a slow growing, thick, highly durable, drought resistant, self-repairing grass that makes a nice, low to the ground rug in the yard. As TN gets much warmer and drier, fescue is not surviving as…

Great post and great comment thread. A movie doesn’t have to be brilliant to be loved. Hell, I’m kind of doofus, but my wife and kids love me (pretty sure). I love several of the movies on this list, and I’d throw Push on the list also. Huge failure, and I think it’s the coolest. Sure, it has issues, but c’mon!

I’ve learned how to maintain that weird line between recognizing it’s a dream, setting up my fantasy reality and letting myself slip into it so I don’t wake up quite as fast. It doesn’t always work and sometimes the intended fantasy goes awry, but it works enough of the time. I wish I could explain how to let yourself…

I will have one of these burgers and uh, one of each thing mentioned in the replies to your burger, and uh, I guess a house salad and Diet Coke.

I rely on these darn things quite a bit for all the reasons you mentioned, but I haven’t tried the slicing while frozen-ish. I’ve done it once about half or even slighly less defrosted and cut into cubes for having with whatever but never really thin.

Rain-X Latitude are my favorite so far.

Rain-X Latitude are my favorite so far.

Honestly, if they did a version that was strictly Pinyin for conversational Mandarin, I’d be ecstatic. I could recover the small amount of spoken Mandarin I once had. Reading and writing are less important to me personally so I’d be happy to wait on that.

Thanks! I will look at that.

Love this idea. Going to try it after a quick trip to the store later. BTW, my grocery bill is getting a little out of hand because of wonderful suggestions from you and others. Dang.

I really hope this means Chinese isn’t far behind. I realize it’s not a simple thing, but it would just be fantastic. I would gladly pay for the app to have that. It would be understandable if they wanted to charge for Asian languages given the massive difference in their core offering. It’s a fantastic program.

I certainly don’t mean to offend anyone, but I will be having margaritas and eating an assortment of Americanized Mexican food today. To be fair, this is not uncommon for me. Similarly, it is not uncommon for me to drink beer, grill hamburgers, and blow things up on dates other than July 4.

I have to throw another vote in for the people suggesting feed the pig first. I am a dedicated saver now, but like others I wish I had taken action on that advice when I was much younger. My parents gave me great advice. I knew it was good. I was just dumb.

In the Upper Cumberland area of Middle Tennessee, chocolate gravy on biscuits is a way of life. So is diabetes and heart disease. Either way, I’ve never seen it anywhere else.