There are literally millions of ways to part hipsters from their cash. I get dizzy just thinking about it.

I DRIVE with chopsticks. A pair in each hand.

Well since there are a number of reasons why you are not sleeping then it's hard to say. There are two other natural sleeping aids that I know of though:

I've taken melatonin for years to regulate my sleep patterns. The other day I made the mistake of buying a brand that comes with vitamin B6. For some reason, even though it's supposed to increase the absorption of the melatonin, I ended up tossing and turning for 8 hours without sleep.

One word - melatonin.

Back in the old rave days there were a few multiple party "benders" in which we ended up going without sleep for 4 or 5 days at a time. It's fascinating to experience the effect it has on your mind (the copious amounts of speed and hallucinogens probably didn't help). I remember that by the 3rd or 4th night things got…

I'm completely over phones. A couple of years ago I would have jumped on my scheduled upgrade on the day, and would have looked forward to it for weeks with endless research and mind changing. This year, my upgrade was back in May. It came and went without any desire to upgrade my trusty iPhone 4S. There was just…

I used to see comedian/actor Jim Gaffigan at the Bowery YMCA in New York all the time. He'd be giving it full pelt on an elliptical machine, while reading what looked like a script or new material - and making notes at the same time. I admired his ability to do this....I cannot so much as flick through a magazine when…

I have unlimited storage space in my Hostgator web domain, and figure that would be ideal to keep small backups (documents etc). However, it would be a pain to have to upload stuff with Filezilla every time. Does anyone know of an app which would allow me to sync folders to my own domain space?

Google Drive and Sky Drive are very much limited in that you have to have a designated folder on your hard drive into which you store stuff that you want to keep in the cloud. It sucks that Microsoft got rid of Live Mesh, because with that baby you could specify which of your folders you wanted to keep in sync, and it…

Yeah it's good, but comparing the VRM box (with modeling off) to my lowly M-Audio C400 interface, I definitely notice an improvement in sound in the C400. But I guess if you were just making music "in the box" and not recording any instruments, the VRM box would work fine for a DAC.

On the left is my Grado SR80's, my favorite sounding headphones of all time and my first choice for leisurely listening. They're so focused and open sounding, everything is a joy to listen to on them. Not for people who want an exaggerated, colored bass. The bass in these is tamed and natural sounding. But most of…

In the case of meat, perhaps. There is no benefit to eating raw meat. But cooking the bejesus out of vegetables destroys or reduces many important nutrients.

I recently had a problem by which my Time Warner Cable connection would slow down to a crawl and even stop working between the hours of 11pm and 2am. It cursed me for weeks and I couldn't get an answer from the clueless operators at Time Warner Cable, who kept trying to talk me through the usual BS "fixes" (reset your…

Yes apartment cleaning is the ideal way to put off paperwork, especially taxes.

Myth #5: clutter. While I would agree that a tidy workspace isn't necessary to be creative or productive, I would argue that a tidy workspace is necessary to get you started. When my desk looks like a bomb hit it, I cannot bring myself to start a project. I don't feel good about it, and the mess seems like it's…

Not entirely true. Raw pineapple, for example, contains bromelain, which digests protein.

Who are you responding to? It can't be me, since I didn't claim that the majority of the energy in cooked food is used to digest it. I said a large chunk.

1) Melatonin works wonders for a good night's sleep

I dabbled in BASIC when I was younger but didn't touch coding for another 25 years, when I decided to learn Python on a whim. I really enjoyed it, and the book "Python Programming - An Introduction To Computer Science" by John Zelle was possibly the best start I could have gotten - but it wasn't long before I was…