When at all possible, go for a walk where there’s a lot of green and perhaps water. I find that relaxes me far better than grim, grey concrete and the noise of traffic. And relaxing gets those creative juices flowing.

It’s a marvelous app. But at 637 meg, it’s a bit too much to keep on my 16 gig iPhone. Perhaps Cornell could create a version that’s either regional or that only downloads high-resolution photos when needed.

Agreed. This looks like the left and right bulbs are only about 6 inches apart. A better design would use at least three bulbs to make arrows or, even better, turn on the lights, one at a time in the direction of the turn. In fact, all four lights could be used that way. It’d also get more attention from drivers. I’d…

I agree that the hardware an OS improvements seem to be flattening out. My iPhone 5 does everything I want it to do and does it so well that I’m dreading the day when it falls behind and I have to upgrade just so apps will run.

In short, for everything but hip pain, sleeping on your back is best.

When an employer takes up my time, he pays me. When my cable provider takes time away from me, why should I have to pay him. He should pay me.

Two alternatives:

Two alternatives:

Eric, the very criteria you give suggest this data is of little value. Murder rates vary enormously from community to community inside a state. Heck, they vary dramatically even within a city. Attempting to merge them all into one state-wide statistic makes no sense. The same it true for another recent article on rent…

Both winter and summer, by circulating heat or cool around each room, these fans also keep your heating or cooling system from cycling on and off as often, reducing wear and tear.

Try Honeyville online. They sell a 50# bag of steel-cut oats for about $50 with another $5 for shipping anywhere in the U.S.

This is bogus data contrived to get an inflated result. I lived in Seattle until recently and had a two-bedroom apartment. None of my part-time jobs paid over $14/hour and I still managed the rent. And that was in pricy north Seattle near the zoo and Green Lake. Much of Washington state is far cheaper.

I’m starting to come to the conclusion that the human race is divided into two groups:

I’ve lived next door to a job. I’ve commuted up to 45 minutes each way. I took the former job, in part, because it was next door. The long commute was in an industrial/commercial area devoid of housing. A great job can be in a lousy location to live. That easy, close-in commute may keep you working at a lousy job…

Increasingly, our society is getting swamped with laws while becoming more and more lacking in good sense.

A thermostat that works in the opposite fashion would be helpful. Where I live it often about 15 degrees cooler at night. I use timers to turn on two fans to draw in that cooler air from 2-6 am to cool my house down, but a thermostat would work as well.

If the Amazon reviews are correct, this Dell display is VGA only—no DVI. If your computer only had DVI output, you’ll need to add in the cost of an adapter.

If the Amazon reviews are correct, this Dell display is VGA only—no DVI. If your computer only had DVI output,…

I’ll join the chorus. Parallel parking does test in miniature the spacial awareness and car handling skills that driving on the road requires. Making it part of the test probably won’t keep people without those skills off the road forever, but it might delay their dreaded arrival for a few months and perhaps impress…

The list makes no sense. Your best chance at a job depends heavily on what sort of work you can do.

When I was in college, I left a very heavy duty chain on campus at a bike park and used that in conjunction with a heavy duty lock. It wasn’t unbreakable, just harder than any of the bikes around me.

Buying local also means you get real honey. Much of the “honey” that comes from a certain Asian country with a billion+ population apparently isn’t the real thing.