A few years ago, I had a 2008 Scion xB that was near the end of its life and needed a Virginia state inspection. I took it to one mechanic who told me a headlight housing needed to be replaced for it to pass, and then he said something like “Heh, they sure do make it hard on this car to get to it, so it’s going to be…

Installing and balancing tires and wheel alignments can be done at tire shops, who are pretty competitive. I’ve always had luck waiting for a good deal like 4 for 3 and free mounting at a place like farm and fleet, who aren’t interested in changing your air filters. In general, just be extremely skeptical of a…

Yep, this is why I use camelcamelcamel.  Their history graph helps show you when they pull some BS like somebody mentioned below, raising the price a few days before so they can “discount” it on Monday.

Nah. Prime Day has always been awful. I have no reason to believe that that’ll change this year. But if it does, color me surprised.

Great, more data about me in a one-stop-shop database for the hackers to take advantage of. Sounds good.

Can you define “Fascist” for us? Because it feels like people are using it to mean “Person i dont agree with”.

You know “These people arent welcome in my ideal society and so will be confronted with exclusion, intimidation or violence” is pretty much textbook fascism, right?

American Airlines is just thrilled they have a temporary scapegoat for just being American Airlines.

The Broken Windows theory applies to cars too. Once you let little things go, things go downhill at an very quick pace. If you stay on top of repairs and maintenance, you end up with a car with 200k miles that looks brand new. If you neglect small stuff and let it snowball, soon you are selling your car for scrap with…

Maybe it was the class or maybe it was my kid but I found those one year old swim lessons pretty useless. Three or four years old seems to make more sense in my experience of one and just using some sort of flotation device with close parental supervision in the meantime.

That chicken in salsa recipe I mention is pretty sharp, unless you also don’t have one of those jar-opener thingies.

Step four: put up a big sign by/on your desk:

I don’t know if there’s any evidence that open-space office schemes actually facilitate creativity and collaboration, as they are supposedly designed to do.

Headphones start to irritate my ears after a while (doesn’t matter if it is ear buds or over-ear). Granted, I can wear them for 2-3 hours at a stretch, but I need to take breaks.

Open offices are another example of management consultants trying to ‘create value’ with a concept that enables corporations to cram more people into the same space by touting soft benefits not supported by any data.

I work at the headquarters of a very large corporation. A couple of years ago they started converting to an open office concept with no assigned seating. Budget issues came up and the project was suspended before it reached my floor. If it had gone forward I would seriously have looked for a new job. I could not…

The only article that I want to see on Lifehacker about the lottery is “Life Hack: Save Money by Not Ever Buying Lottery Tickets”

I remember those days, when my wife would get clogged milk ducks.  I’d make some hot compresses, and I’d have to chase the little bastards around the living room, finally pinning them down and trying to hold the warm wash cloths and hot water bottles onto the squirmy, squishy little guys. Then after a few minutes, my…

Milk DUCKS?? Really editors? 

A hospital in Brooklyn once charged my insurance carrier for a CT scan I didn’t have. I made sure to let the company know. I have no idea what happened afterwards, but I can’t imagine they just paid it.

@atomicrabbit: an ARM after everything hit the fan? what is the cap on your percentage rate?