Boy does that ever work. By simply sounding like you’re in charge, you become in charge. I suspect there’s something deep down in the psyche of humanity that instinctually rolls over in the presense of an Alpha.

The lead picture bugs me.

At the very least he should spend a couple of bucks and get a draft-blocker setup under the man-entry door. That cold, blue light you’re seeing - that’s not really light, that’s just pure COLD working its way under the door.

I have one right above my garage workbench that I use to hold all the tools I’m using for a particular job. I might have 4 different wrenches and a couple of screwdrivers out to do this one task - whichever ones aren’t in my hand get put on the knife bar so they don’t “wander off”.

The difference here is that your Zune would still happily play music and do all sorts of things that didn’t require the defunct online store.

Old-school ones certainly are (little case with a swinging indicator inside). Newer electronic ones use some sensors to detect changes in density/capacitance (says Wikipedia) which usually indicates the change from (drywall+air) to (drywall+lumber).

Two quickly-spinning wheels plus all the engine mass whirling around is actually a hell of a lot of gyroscopic force. ...and yet they still lean quite readily. They have to - in a turn, the centrifugal force that wants your mass to keep going in a straight line has to be accounted for. If you turn the handlebars…

Leaning into turns isn’t the issue, there. Leaning’s easy.

Well, that’s hard to argue with. The 1125 was a motorcycle that... well, it probably had a good personality.

One! One cherished childhood memory!

As a parent of children right now, I sorely miss The Good Old Days of Sesame Street (read as: “before it became the all-Elmo-all-the-time show with which to pacify infants”).

No, but on top of the airbag, you also lost your power assist for the steering and brakes which (in an emergency) generally means you’re going to wish you had the airbags. Lights, too, I think.

We had one Yamaha dealer in the county for a long time and they were... difficult to work with. A few years back a nearby used-bike-and-repairs shop just a few miles down the highway from the Yamaha place became a licensed Yamaha dealer. THEY are absolute joys to deal with - I took out a FZ-07, FZ-09 and FZ-10…

Helpful ergonomic tip: keep the business end of the baby aimed AWAY from you - a gassy baby is an effective replacement for a can of ugly yellow spray paint.

I had a burner account with a much more clever name... to which I promptly lost the key. This one lives on in tribute to that account. Its key lives on buried in an email folder somewhere that gets dredged up whenever my cookies get cleared out.

Unless your baby is formula fed, you can save that trip to the Army surplus store until they get to solid foods. ;-)

We got one like this (I think it’s discontinued now) and it works well both as a changing table and as a dresser post-diapers. Diapers/wipes/supplies can go in the right-hand drawer or in bins on top, right where you need them.

$40? $45? $75?? Um... if not for the “Comcast is evil and shouldn’t get my money” part of the equation, boy, a lot of these prices are perilously close to the price of the cable/satellite service you’re supposed to be trying to give up!

I do this when making a batch of home-brew beer.

Helpful tip: in many houses there is a metal “cap” along the edge of a wall where drywall comes together at a corner. I’ve hung lots of things on that hidden metal strip on the kitchen window over our sink.

Helpful tip: in many houses there is a metal “cap” along the edge of a wall where drywall comes together at a…