I can agree that travelling West is easier. For me, I find I need about zero adjustment going to Japan - if you get the right flight out of the US, it's just like the day simply won't end (since you're chasing the sun). You get into Tokyo in the evening, stay up a few more hours (will this day never END?) and hit…

The lumberyard or hardware store.

A lot of the fixes for drafts and air leaks are quick, cheap and require few or no tools. It's often easier to drop a couple bucks and 15 minutes of your time to do it yourself rather than try to get it on your landlord's radar (especially if you're the one paying the heating bill). Most landlords would really…

That ended up being my personal choice when we had to replace a car. The added bonus is that the passenger space - especially rear-passenger legroom - is ENORMOUS.

The chances of this happening are low, but as Mythbusters says, it could happen at least a few times around the world, as more of us are using microwaves to make cups of tea and more. While making tea in a microwave isn't ideal because you can't control the temperature, if you need to use the microwave instead of a…

I've always like the "switchblade" style of keys like VW uses. press, snick, fold. press, snick, fold. press, snick, fold.

Nope, still a Kinja aiming failure.

Things utterly wrong with this design:

(Used to be: things wrong with the computer desk design; Now: things wrong with Kinja)

I'm so trendy and avant garde I can't be arsed to clean up my loose thread ends from the buttons on the other side!

True 'dat.

Nexus 10 on eBay shows as $375 for me.

Mine has a little pop-out "detail trimmer" and less color. It's lasted me something like 10 years now.

As you say: beards are just hair. Standard hair clippers work fine unless you are trying to do some uber-detailed landscaping up there in which case the only thing I can recommend to you is a week-long camping trip to bring you back to your manly senses.

I'd recommend picking up a full set of Wahl clippers with all the various guards. Works on beards, gives you the option to do your own hair, too. Something like this.

...all of which amounts to zilch if

No loss to the rest of the states - your vehicle purchase taxes are all based on where you will register the vehicle; doesn't matter if you buy in in NY, WY, OR or CA, your state of residency will still get its cut.

That's basically the research I do whenever cable/dish/directv suggest that I should give them money.

Working on it this week, actually. Comcast just encrypted Limited Basic in my area, cutting off my easy access to HD feeds of the local network affiliates and wanting about a 50% price bump to get back to HD signals.

This is nothing to be ashamed of. Language is power and Words have Meaning. These are two facts that are getting increasingly ignored in "modern" communication.