Ending up at a place in life where you have the knowledge of what the right place and time is, or having the opportunity to network with someone besides the cashier at Starbucks and your landlord - that is luck in and of itself. Just to try and subtract out the ‘who your parents are’ part - let’s pretend you are a HS…

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…

#notallsocialists

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…

I was kinda confused by that scene in IT too. That was weird! As for His Dark Materials, the fatal flaw for me was the rather preachy tone Pullman took about religion. I’m agnostic (tending towards atheist), but Pullman just kept banging on the theme that I kind of found it offputting. I think he could’ve gone about…

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…

No, that's a common misunderstanding of quantum entanglement. Quantum teleportation is indeed a thing, but it needs to be coupled with classical communication (with its speed of light limitations) in order to work.

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.