I find the free shipping bit is something that deserves more attention. Most people just compare paid shipping to free 2-day Prime shipping as justification, but if you weren’t paying for Prime, you’d choose the free option every time. So it’s really only saving you time, not money. On top of that, if you live near…

This is definitely my problem. I’m a slave to the numbers and like to see my pace slowly improving. It’s so hard to ignore that in the short term when you hear that it’s supposed to help your overall pace in the end. One of the best things to slow us down would probably be run with other people, but that doesn’t…

I need tips on how to MAKE myself run slower. I’ve been a runner since I was a kid and ran varsity cross country in High School, but I’ve always had a hard time pacing myself in workouts. When I run by myself, I almost always start WAY too fast (because I’m used to a faster pace) and when I run with others, I’m really …

For a lot of people your internet connection is still the chokepoint, so 10gbps or 46gbps, the speed alone, is completely irrelevant.

Most modern contractors use cat 5 or 6 as phone lines. That means if you're wired for a landline that you don't use, it may be as trivial as replacing the outlets and sticking a switch in the garage, no wall-opening necessary. That's what I did in my last 2 houses.

Agree with the article - it’s still highly useful to hardwire ethernet these days.

Before you go to all the trouble of running Ethernet throughout your home do one thing first- TEST your wifi! As someone who worked for an ISP, I can tell you allot of folks don’t do this. It’s pretty easy to do. Use your phone or laptop and run speed tests throughout your home. You will see where your wifi signal is…

I AM VINDICATED.

I’d just call that direct, and personally I’d prefer it to the P-A crap that is so prevalent in emails.

Yup. There’s no way to win. I use a handful of these on the list, and I will say that some of them are not necessarily passive aggressive. For example, I use “just a gentle reminder” sometimes with my students and it really is just a gentle reminder. Like, hey, don’t forget you’ve got this due date coming up.

Just go out and buy some 11 x 17 paper and have at it. There is something about getting away from a computer and mind-mapping using your own hands that makes this especially powerful.

Have you tried Claritin or Nasacort? If you need a good night’s sleep, try the 12-hour nasal spray (Oxymetazoline). Just shoot it into one nostril. That should be enough for one night.

Someone taught me a way recently that I found easy for the first time in my life: just memorize that 68 is 20, and 86 is 30. This is mnemonic because 68 and 86 are just the same digits flipped

Kelvin. It has the same scale as Celsius, but starts at absolute zero, which is -273.15 Celsius. So water freezes 0 Celsius / 273.15 Kelvin while it boils at 100 Celsius / 373.15 Kelvin

The reason I already knew that Celsius and Fahrenheit meet at -40 degrees was because I visited Saskatchewan in December once. Once.

It stays plenty dry in MN in the winters, when it snows close to 32 F is when the snow is wet and heavy.

I’ve long argued that imperial measurements are generally nonsensical and terrible and the metric system is far better. However, a particular hill that I am willing to die on is that Fahrenheit is a much better system for describing weather. The outside air temperature has next to nothing to do with the boiling point…

My high school science teacher (can’t remember if it was chemistry or physics) showed me another easy way to convert C to F:Take the number (Say 12C) double it, then subtract the 1st digit then add 32 (so 12 x 2 = 24 - 2 = 22 + 32 = 54). It’s super easy math and you’re always within a degree.

If you’re just looking for a rough idea to decide what clothes to wear all you need to know is that 0 Celsius is when water freezes and the 82/28. Most air temperatures are going to be in range of those numbers. I don’t need to know the exact temperature, the closer it is to one of those two gives me enough info.

Yeah, I’m much more of a fan of the double and thirty method, personally. Memorizing two numbers to get a close-enough guess for human habitation is significantly easier than memorizing, effectively, eight numbers that only give you good benchmarks.