One thing I learned from a particularly terrible place: make sure the apartment has its own water heater. Seriously. Sharing a water heater is one of the worst things. You don't know if your shower will be (or stay) hot, you don't know when you can do dishes or other cleaning that needs hot water, and other seemingly…

Yup. I hate when people talk up the half-Windsor. It's the ugliest knot. Want a thinner knot? Pull the knot tighter. I've gotten very thick ties to have fairly small knots just by pulling tighter. If you can't pull it tight enough, you're probably also trying to tie it too far up anyway (unless you have a crazy short…

Makes sense. Gatorade is also great at night, but DO NOT drink it if you wake up nauseated. It just makes you puke more (too much sugar).

Just remember, we who are not lightweights spend far more money on drinks. The almost total lack of hangovers is great, but god I wish I could buy fewer than three drinks to even begin feeling a buzz. I don't really care to get shit-faced most of the time, but whenever I do, I regret it the next day because my wallet…

If you live near ski resorts, they are generally open and not too crowded on Christmas as well. It's generally a good day to go skiing/riding based on snow, too.

I do the same as well. Maybe it's just because I grew up Christian, or it's an understanding that few of the traditions are even remotely Christian, but I just never saw a reason to stop celebrating Christmas when I stopped being Christian.

I usually wake up 30 minutes before my alarm. Which is often fairly annoying, because I so want that last 30 minutes of sleep.

Anyone know an Android equivalent?

It might be a bit of a pain to hook this up to the battery without them noticing.

No clue. I was with one of them once, and it went like this -

Cop (this is the first thing he said, no shit): Were you born in this country?

I've had friends get pulled over for passing a cop while doing under the speed limit. They never get tickets, but it's just a pain in the ass to deal with. It's usually cops who are assholes and are just bored (or something), so they pull someone over for bullshit like that.

If you're making your own blackout shades make sure there is ventilation to the window. Particularly if it's a South facing window that gets a lot of sun. When I was younger I created my own blackout shades to allow me to sleep in later (and to keep my room cooler), and I ended up warping the vinyl windowpanes due to…

I work for Fossil and I was just showing a manager I'm helping to train this trick today.

A lot of this is incorrect, actually. Feelings actually can be feedback about your mental health, the state of your life, and your dietary habits. Emotions are not just feedback from conscious though. In fact, emotions far predate conscious thought. They reside in the limbic system, which was around far earlier in our…

It could just be caused by a congenital over-tightening of the IT band. That's what mine is. I've had ITBS since I was around 12, which has also caused rather severe chondramalacia patella, particularly in my right knee. I think the ITBS actually causes pronation more than the other way around, as I don't think I did…

My whole life I've dealt with low self-esteem and other insecurities. About a year and a half ago, I had a very short-lived romantic fling with a girl that I recognized was short-lived completely because I was too insecure to be myself around her. This was the first moment that made me decide to change, but it wasn't…

Seeing as 75% of all startups fail, the fact that 44% of those carmakers are still around is actually rather astounding. Whoops! Did I just put your statistics into perspective thereby reversing the meaning? My bad.

It always surprises me how sore my knees get after a jog or even a long walk. Comparatively, if I run for the same amount of time as otherwise, but I add in just a few minutes of sprinting throughout (or even just at the end), my knees hurt much less. I'm not really sure why.

I've been intentionally wearing ties that don't match the shirt I'm wearing recently. The odd thing is, I also keep getting complimented on my ties when I do it. The lesson: just because it doesn't fit within the "rules" doesn't mean it can't look good.

I've found a very helpful way to end procrastination is to get rid of the phrase "I need to." Replace it with "I will." At least for me, when I stop saying, "I need to do the dishes," and say, "I will do the dishes," I'm forced to decide when I'll do it as well. Whether it's right away, or later that day, or the next…