Agree on the machine park issue but I’d take a slow cooker over a rice cooker. I can cook rice in 20 minutes while awake, but I can melt an elk shank while I sleep with a slow cooker.

Take a nail, make several holes in the rim of the can where the lid fits. The excess paint will drain back into the can, and you won’t even need the rag.

Is Google gearing up to pull the plug on G+? I’Cause it seems like they are with uncoupling all their other services from G+.

I suspect this may be concerned with the EU’s proposed confiscation of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it isn’t the small green pieces of paper that are unhappy with this.

Not sure where you’re getting your information, but it’s not accurate. Genetics plays a huge part in how many muscle fibers someone has (for example), and metabolic rate, and many other factors (including your general muscular/skeletal build). Your genes also determine how well your thyroid functions, as well as your…

Michigan’s choice, Gwinn Michigan is hilarious. There are no jobs that pay more than minimum wage for 50 miles. Houses there are “affordable” because they cant sell them.

This “superfluous apology” thing is BS when what they’re talking about instead are expressions of sympathy. Sorry (sharing the same root word as the word “sorrow”) essentially means “I feel bad/sad”. When used in an apology or expression of contrition the subtext is “I feel bad for what -I- did.” When used…

I always have a smidgen of cooking guilt for not tying the legs of my whole chickens together while roasting them. Only a smidge. Because they always come out cooked just fine. Not too done, not underdone. 20 minutes per lb making sure it hits 165. I shove pats of butter under the skin. Maybe that keeps things juicy??

The brain’s single most important goal is efficiency. It accomplishes this by hardwiring a lot of things into rote routines in our heads, and we are pretty oblivious to it. Have you ever gotten to work and not remember the drive? It’s because our brains can essentially build an autopilot routine that complex. Most of…

We got married in August...

Hopefully the only people replying to this thread are those who actually DID it, whichever methods they used. I really don't care what your "opinion" is or what you think of Dave Ramsey if you haven't done the work. For us we used the Debt Snowball, smallest to largest. We paid off $154,000 in 6.5 years. As of last…

I so much do not agree with this article:

Or why not just feel why the silence is akward? Do we have to fill every moment with action, reaction and response? Perhaps the silence can teach us something? What are we afraid of?

A hybrid approach is a good idea, but I want to point out that picking the smallest debts first is not just about motivation: It's also about removing a minimum payment from the picture.

I found this article a while back, and it has completely changed how I think about taking lunch to work: http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/diy-in…

We allow our daughter to make as big a wish list as she wants, but let her know that if she asks for 1000 things she's still going to get five presents. If she asks for three things she's going to get five presents. If she ask for any number of things she's going to get five presents.

Just do 40.6cm. After drywall is up I doubt anyone will call you out on 0.02 inch difference.
I'm a lazy builder though. The last time I did a wall, I just cut a 14.5" piece of 2x4, and used that to measure.

Maybe the best advice would be to portion your foods before you freeze them. Refreezing shouldn't ever be necessary.

"The Equal Odds Rule says that the average publication of any particular scientist does not have any statistically different chance of having more of an impact than any other scientist's average publication." In other words, any given scientist is equally likely to create a game-changing piece of work as they are to…

The best question that always has my interviewers impressed: Is there anything in my qualifications that would make you hesitate to offer me the position? Shows initiative, that you really, really want the job and most importantly it allows you to address any misgivings the interviewer has before the end of the…