Their recommendations were decent, but it hate that style tire lever. Nashbar has some long ones that are awesome, but they might not fit in a saddle bag. Whatever you end up with, practice at home first. Learning how to use a co2 inflator roadside sucks and will probably waste a cartridge.

I use my iPad 2 a surprising amount. I really don't use my phone at all when I'm at home since web browsing is so much better on the iPad. It's also the "display" for my Mac Mini and goto device when working in the garage. I haven't had any need to upgrade, but retina would be nice (along with moving everything to…

My wife's entire family does this. As a single spacer, I find it annoying, though mostly because sometimes it's two spaces, sometimes three or more. Spaces, to them, are used for dramatic effect or character alignment (to force a new line, for example).

I put 0 miles on my car from May to September (in/around Minneapolis). Depending on how much I drive over the winter, the wife and I will decide if we replace whichever one of our vehicles dies first. We'd be perfect candidates for a plug-in hybrid, so I'm going to push towards a single hybrid car on the condition…

I don't go out to eat often, but I do this every time. I'll usually have a couple of dishes picked out, then make up my mind after seeing it in real life or asking the waiter/waitress for their opinion. This is great for anyone trying to stick to a budget or diet as well as someone with food allergies. Works for…

Applying some sort of labor rate to time saved/spent.

Some people also choose to put contact information in obscure places on the bike (rim strips, tubes, underneath the headset cap, etc). The idea being that a mechanic might stumble upon this information and get in touch with you.

Duplicates!

Works with toddlers too!

I've done this a bunch of times at the dog park and it's worked every time (as far as I can remember). Playing with another dog tends to work well too.

One of our former manufacturing supervisors was like this. He'd help out during changeovers, new/changed instructions, or processes that had recently been done incorrectly. He would also orchestrate shift changes so things were handed off smoothly. Awesome guy.

We did the same thing with the pet fee. The were asking $50/month per pet (2). We talked the landlord into switching to a pet deposit instead ($250 or something - basically the cost of turf repair) since their monthly expenses wouldn't change whether we had pets or not. I think they required renter's insurance along…

Any idea how someone would go about becoming a futurist?

About the only recurring arguments that comes up are around cleaning. The primary one is the definition of "clean" as it applies to various items in the house. I could understand if we were running a laboratory or restaurant, but I still don't see why the countertops have to smell like bleach to be considered clean.

The kids program we use the most is the Kids Club at Whole Foods. With the laminated card you get for signing up, kids get a free apple or banana each visit. Our (2 year old) son loves it so much that he'll wake up on weekends and say "Apple" repeatedly until I agree to take him there.

This is a good one. We've been working with our 2 year old (human), and two ~3 year old dogs (labs) on playing nicely with each other since before the human was born. The dogs are extremely tolerant with him but he's also very generous when I leave the treat jar within his reach.

We stuck with more corporate names, so we each have our personal funds that are sometimes used for fun things and then we have a 'Team building' fund that applies to all sorts of things - renting movies, babysitter + dinner, short adventures.

I was a soccer referee throughout middle and high school and would highly recommend it. Also delivered newspapers as a kid; surprised that didn't make the list.

I was wondering about that. We were paying $250/week for daycare, so when the study mentioned education/child care costs increasing as the child grew older I knew something fishy was going on. There are a lot of assumptions that references to this paper leave out (each child having their own room, for example) that…

Screws make poor clamps though; they spread a small amount of force over a tiny area. You'd have to use a ton to get somewhat even pressure on the joint.