I was once driving out of Miami to alligator alley in the rain, stopped at a red light, and out of f*ckin nowhere this CAT dump truck taller than a semi flies past in the right turn lane, nearly clipping the side of my car, locks up the wheels half way into the intersection and slides sideways out the other side,…

You might be surprised how rare sick days, PTO, health / dental care and other benefits can be these days. The last time I had a job that offered sick days was in 2003. Health insurance, 2009. My career progression keeps going forward, but my pay and benefits are going the other way. More people than not these days…

Do you know what sarcasm is?

Somehow I don't think the TSA will be too happy about you bringing velcro on an airplane.

That was an intentional ditch for insurance fraud. The guy was in over his head with the cost of that car, and decided to try and take the easy way out. Someone caught him sinking it on camera though and the gig was up.

The bike deserves better, but when bieber does us all a favor and eats it, it'll be taking one for the team!

The night vision is interesting, but good headlights such as HID projectors are a good substitute too, and yet another thing you don't see offered on base model cars, which to this day come equipped with the same weak yellowish white halogens as they did 20 years ago despite huge advances in technology available in…

I sweat like a pig when I work out, and I totally sympathize with you there. It gets in your eyes and itches and it's just not fun!

You should only lift every other day, or 3 times a week at most. Your muscles need time to regenerate. Soreness shouldn't be a major issue if you're not pushing yourself too hard, although some minor soreness and burning is normal, and part of your body adjusting to the extra work. That burning (caused by lactic acid…

Any sport that helps you move is good for you. If you get bored with more traditional ones, find a more extreme one you enjoy.

Doing sequential read of things like music isn't going to noticeably shorten the life of any modern drive. Keeping the system seperate from data is always good because it minimizes disk thrashing and improves performance, but even so is not necessary. Keeping everything on one big drive is still preferable to the…

RAID has its place, but it's definitely never a good idea to suggest it to people for the reasons that most people like to suggest it. If you know what you're doing, RAID can be good. If you have to ask or be told what RAID is, you shouldn't be using it, which is why whenever the subject comes up in a place like this,…

By the way, protip on moving Steam games to another drive in Windows: you can copy your steamapps folder to the new location (i.e., C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps to G:\Steam\SteamApps , making sure you give SteamApps a parent directory in which to install Steam), and then just uninstall and re-install steam,…

There's a saying: RAID is munchkin for backup.

TJs is a great way to get novelty and convenience food cheaper than novelty and convenience food at other locations, but it's still more expensive than just shopping for regular groceries at a regular grocery store.

MW M3 GTR is all special kinds of crazy.

I probably missed this one already, but an insurance expert would be nice, particularly in medical insurance with the whole obama care thing, since a lot of folks without are going to soon need to be with.

Heh heh... my advice: don't. It's not a good industry to try and push your way into right now, unless you're not in America.

I don't know, I've been 100% successful in my goals of immortality thus far.

I'm a little skeptical of the Diabetes claim. I can see where a poorly regulated survey or test could draw an association between "more cups of coffee a day" and lower risk of type II diabetes, however, this could mean nothing more than people who are drinking more cups of coffee are drinking fewer cups of soda or…