This works with journaling/writing as well if you don't have someone around when you need them. I'm an artist who needs constant inspiration and I have close to a dozen journals floating around my place. They're really invaluable.

Read: LeVar Burton had it right. Reading can help build new neural connections in your brain, and encourage greater plasticity.

Yeah, the first few times are tricky. I cheat a little with those ;) For the example of cleaning the room for instance, I would start to clean the room with my daughter or turn it into a fun game, but when almost done, I'd start to back off so she *finishes* it. And then make a big deal about it. Over a period of…

My grandson is 11 and like all 11 year olds sometimes aims for negative attention. I don't get mad and yell at him for being "bad," I just ask him a simple question: how do you think this is going to turn out? Do you think you're going to get something you want out of it?

This is what happens when you're impatient. I got me a Nexus 5 and running it on Straight Talk. I may have to order the X and test the phone AND networks head to head...

Glacier makes sense for smaller data sets. But >1TB with different data types, things can get complex real fast. It's just that glacier isn't a backup — it's an archive. And as an archive, recovery performance is always going to suffer.

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It's pretty great. I've been up here for a little over a year from Tennessee. Free shipping from Amazon has been a lifesaver.

We're really on top of things around here.

I'm a long time keyboard shortcut user, I find it much more comfortable than using a mouse; Ctrl + F8 lets you access the right side of the menu bar (or whatever it's called, the one with sound and wifi) on OS X. Quicksilver works great for launching apps with keyboard "triggers", could never get an equivalent to work…

Soap, hot water and a little elbow grease accomplishes much...

Check out the Chrome extension Vimium for a similar experience. It is inspired by Linux program, vim. Love it, especially on my netbook. It makes for a better experience than using the trackpad.

My child doesn't have one of those.

No wonder my coffee tastes weird. My grinder never gives out nickels.

Stole my thunder. I was gonna say FLOSS while in the shower. And I think it's better than brushing. Hear me out:

Brush your teeth in the shower!

Floss while you poop. FWYP. It's the only way.

I did stable a length of red ribbon around the outside edge to give it a little more "pop". I don't think that's something they talked about in the Instructable. I just thought it would look better.

I have one of those too, much bigger frame, hanging by my dining room table.

I've used Rasterbator many times to decorate my walls or HUGE walls in my studio, and it always gave me fantastic, awe-inspiring results. You can use it online or download it for free. The program creates a tiled image (your input can be any size and resolution), where you can set the number of paper sheets you want…