If you look in the picture, I’ve got a footrest elevated off the floor to allow for exactly the position you describe. Also pretty simple and cheap to install at home as a stationary device along with the stationary standing desk.

+1 million. Quite possibly the three* worst experiences of my life.

Adulthood sucks

One of my old managers had a motto something to the effect of “if you can’t figure out how to do your job in 40 hours a week, you probably don’t belong here”. There are several ways to interpret that and they are all correct.

Create a gantt chart in a spreadsheet (numerous templates abound) and actually use it. Not only will it help with your own sanity, but it’s easy to demonstrate how adding a new project/task will affect the rest of your workload and the delivery dates.

I guess it follows from the typical LifeHacker audience and the cost, but if you have some cash to spend I would strongly suggest a proper landscape audio system, such as those available from Sonance and James Loudspeaker. A typical system would be 8 satellite speakers disguised to look like uplights, and one buried…

The art of it is to be the office bitch* for a short amount of time until you can get your tentacles into a few critical areas of the business, and then turn the screws such that you eventually become indispensable. The bitch/hustle just helps open the door for you at the beginning.

So true - first, that other car has its own crumple zone and other safety features to protect its occupants and also you, providing a slightly less-rapid deceleration than if you ran into a telephone pole.

The only way I would ever consider taking that offer is if I were both a mechanic and a doctor and knew exactly how much damage was inflicted on me, and the other driver had that amount of cold hard cash immediately available.

All good advice - I would take it a step further and take a video walkaround of the entire accident scene just in case there is something you don't think to capture in the higher-resolution still photos that you also take.

There are many places where it is required by law to move the vehicles off of the road if they are able to be moved. Otherwise that's another ticket for you.

This is a “fun” hack but the proper way to do this is to take a few of your critical circuits (don’t forget your fridge/freezer!) and put them on a transfer switch that has inputs from grid electricity and a battery backup and/or a generator. The battery only has to have enough capacity to wait for the generator to…

There are plenty of places where a decent snow or thunderstorm may knock power out for at least a couple hours. Any area with above-ground powerlines and a lot of trees is going to have more unreliable power than if either of those conditions are not present.

That’s really just gambling, except you’re not using a small amount of cash, you’re using a small amount of your time & personal info. Some people enjoy that type of tiny thrill, which is the only way I can explain the popularity of state lotteries. You have to be willing to lose that $1 or 5 minutes, and it allows…

The biggest problem you’ll face as a specialized expert without a bunch of other complementary skills is that there is relatively low demand for a true expert in most business functions. That means that anything that actually does require a really high level of skill is also going to be highly competitive for the…

That's a pretty generic and also complex question, and the process would be about the same as determining the "compatibility" of an in-room speaker. Make note of the frequency response, sensitivity/power handling, maximum SPL, and sound dispersion angles for starters. That will help determine how the speaker will theor…

I salute you; that's a great accommodation to provide especially if they are paid fairly to begin with.

First of all, broccoli is fucking delicious.

If no one is living above you (noise) and you don't have an exotic finish on the ceiling, go ahead and hang it; it's very easy to patch the hole when you take the bag down. Otherwise yeah you might be screwed on that front.

Hit Craigslist and you can probably find a used punching bag pretty cheap, and very easy to hang from a ceiling joist so you don't have to buy one of those ludicrously expensive stands (you get what you pay for with those). No need to pay for a recurring gym membership just to punch things unless you want a coach or…