Hard to say. They usually make less than minimum wage. If they end up having made less than minimum wage including tips at the end of the pay period, then they are supposed to get paid the difference. I usually do tip them a dollar or two, more if I caused them trouble (recently, I was at fancy hotel buffet for…

Do this and you're a saint in their eyes, fyi.

Pawn shops can be another good place, especially for non-power tools. There is a small pawnshop in my town near a working class neighborhood that is consistently stocked with a TON of sturdy tools like hammers, wrenches, etc.

Do games count? Because I still play a lot of PC games from the mid to late '90s.

Question: Can I still run Windows on this computer? I have a computer I'm wanting to turn into a NAS, but I'd like to occasionally be able to use it as a computer, too (mostly just for printing and quick document editing prior to printing).

I always build my computers. My current gaming PC / HTPC was built about a year-and-a-half ago. It cost me around $600.

After my dad died, the bill collectors came at me to try and settle his debts. Some of them got pretty nasty, one even somehow getting a warrant out for his arrest, leading a sheriff depute coming to my door and saying that he had a warrant for MY arrest (he didn't - I very politely refused him entry to my house and…

Yeah, I use the Kodak kiosk at my local drugstore to print photos to put in frames around the house or to give as gifts, especially now that I have a son. I have a pretty nice digital camera (not a DSLR), but I do 99.9% of my photos with my phone and print from there.

Glad to see this, looking forward to trying Tweetdark and Hootsuite. I've been using Seesmic since TweetDeck went under; I'm in the "want something for Twitter and Facebook at once" camp. The big issue with Seesmic isn't the ads - in my opinion, they aren't at all intrusive - but that it doesn't do a good job with…

Evernote is also a supported channel in IFTTT, though it's still pretty limited. This IFTTT recipe, for instance, creates a new Google Calendar event whenever you share a public note link in Evernote...but what is that? I've never messed with sharing notes in Evernote, and that's the only trigger available right now.

That picture is awesome on so many levels. It's like you somehow found a picture that perfectly reflects what you said.

Cut out satellite/cable about 2 years ago. I don't miss it.

Yes. I decided when I was in the 10th grade that I wanted to be a high school history teacher. Today, I'm a high school history teacher / community college adjunct professor. I'm passionate about history and teaching, so, yes.

In terms of "jobs" (something you do for money), I've worked at large, multinational corporations, small businesses, and government entities. In terms of my "career" (what you do with your life), I've worked for both a middling sized business (perhaps 500-1000 employees) and government entities.

Nope. I eat a Cliff bar while driving to work. On weekends (and vacation days), I either eat a Cliff bar while standing in my kitchen or perhaps have a bowl of oatmeal or grits in my recliner. I DO at least sit and sip my morning coffee either at my desk or in my recliner pretty much every single day.

No. I don't even have any chat apps on my phone. The closest thing I have is GoogleVoice, which I almost never use. I used to use it so that I could send SMS from my computer while at work, but I fell out of the habit at least a year ago.

I use GoogleCalendar for just about everything. I also keep a paper calendar just for my workflow, but that is also on GoogleCalendar.

A friend put in a good word for me. I got an interview (possibly as a result of that); nailed it. Three years later, it's the best job I've ever had in about 15 years of working.

That's great!

I used to have a very similar Jim Beam mug that a friend gave me in grad school, but I dropped and broke it a few weeks ago :(