I guess I live in a great place to pass through, since I'm local to a Cabela's, several Waffle Houses, several Sheetz locations, and a bunch of Turkey Hills.

I've had a serious hatred for winter every since I was a teenager, and I've done a lot to cure it with my silverado. A good 4x4 truck with ground clearance and remote start just makes it easy. It's not that you NEED 4wd, my first several winters from 16 - 22 years old were done with 80's camaros and the next few…

Does anyone know if a controller case exists? I would love to pick one up to use my 2012 Nexus 7 as a MAME, SNES and Genesis emulator. I've done a lot of searching online and I've mostly found tablets like the Archos Gamepad (2), the jxd s7100/7300/7800 and even the wikipad. These are all comparable (or shittier)…

I had a ps2 with the credit card door trick.

I'm almost in the same boat as you. My phone is the better surfing device for laying on the couch or the bathroom, where if I need to type or do anything serious, I would rather go over to my all in one desktop machine.

I've found all fluorescent stuff, including the CFLs I'm using now, to take a ridiculously long time to warm up in winter temperatures. If I'm going out to the garage to do some 5 minute project, by the time I'm done, they aren't even at like 50% of their potential light. Are there any fluorescents specifically…

i've owned at least 4 of that style lamp - two just like that, and another two mounting on a post setup. I've never had a bulb last me even a year, even with only occasional use, and the bulbs aren't cheap either.

You have any recommendations on lighting?

I had a cheap wooden workbench that was starting to get stained and warped when I found they had a piece of diamond plate at lowes or home depot that was more than big enough for around ~$50. Since it's just aluminum too, I was able to cut around the edges with a grinder in a few minutes.

My girlfriend has a creative cloud subscription, so I've played with the newer Photoshop versions several times. There are some cool features, but I'm 99% content still with CS2, which is now "free." It's technically for people who already owned it (which I actually did from a previous job), but you can download and…

They're really cheap now - 04's can be had for very low teens.

This didn't really flop - it was selling fairly well and Pontiac had plans to add more options- stick to the GT's and the 3.6 SIDI engine instead of the non direct injected 3.6, and the government made GM pull the plug on Pontiac with the bailout.

I don't want to say it's completely sub-par. Compared to writing php code in notepad, it's obviously amazing.

I break a snow shovel every season or two. I guess because people want something lightweight, they're generally plastic and flimsy, so they break pretty easily. I would much rather have some heavier that I can abuse, but I guess there isn't a market for that?

I've been a web and (windows) application developer for 15 years, and I find Objective C an absolutely terrible language that feels left behind in the 90's (most because it is - the roots are in the NeXT OS from when Steve Jobs wasn't with Apple). I was very disappointed when I first started experimenting with…

40% Dell XPS 27 @ work (I'm a web developer)

I drove an open reared 88 camaro for my first 5 winters, and it was passably capable in winter, especially with decent tires on it and some weight in the trunk.

I replied to another commenter, but I wasn't looking to flip it. I bought it and lived in it for 10 years, slowly doing improvements as I went - one or two major projects every summer. This was always the plan. And the end game was to sell with enough equity toward buying a much nicer house.

The housing market has traditionally been a very stable market with slow growth, it at least generally keeps pace with inflation and for the last 30 years, home values have(had?) outpaced inflation - looking at long term trends at least. There have always been peaks and valleys. But as for the market of the last…

So the key to paying off a huge debt load from college is having an $80,000 a year plus job and a huge medical settlement. But you'll still have a shitload of student loans at 40. Sure, no problem ;)