This should always be the first approach. “Yooo come pick me up out by the park... nah I’m not gay bro, I just wanted to burn one before we head out to the bar...” [15 minutes later] “Aight now let’s find a place to roll this up without getting cops called. Hey that girl over there at the picnic table looks crazy…

It’s also worth noting that the landlord might be amenable to you leaving some items behind, but get it in writing. Case in point, when I moved across country a couple years ago, I had a couch that I wasn’t going to take, and my landlord told me to just leave it there and he’d move it out himself if the next tenant…

You can still do powerline ethernet, but you’ll need two sets. One goes from your main house switch down to the main electrical panel where you’ll need a feeder outlet. Install another outlet next to it that connects to the workshop panel, and the second powerline set goes from there to the workshop - you’ll need a…

Tip for the electrical outlets - any outlets that are used primarily for temporary power, find a way to put some kind of strain relief next to them like an adjustable strap or tie down to help prevent a cord from pulling out of the socket unexpectedly - particularly any that are facing the floor, where the weight of…

If you’re in a decent financial situation and don’t live very close to the old/rental home, I would strongly consider using a property management company. That digs into your profits, but they handle getting the right tenants in there and taking care of the property.

Disclaimer - I did not look it up, I was just going on memory from Latin in high school. I don’t have time to do proper research at the moment but it seems I was looking for “venerari” - “venerate” which today means to love or respect but used to imply that it was more out of fear (thus beware/be aware), which is why…

Sure - I’m not saying that there is no difference at all, but claiming that the difference is so subtle that it doesn’t seem worth the effort to correct it and it’s almost just a stylistic choice, like the difference between “blended” and “mixed.”

I always thought that “beware” was a contraction for “be aware,” where the former developed the connotation long ago of increased risk compared to the latter, and people who draw a distinction between the two are kind of splitting hairs. They derive from the same Latin word “veneri” which meant something like “to be…

100% agreed - I would go as far as to get a vanity domain name for yourself, so you can have an email address like first@firstlast.com - $5-20/year is well worth it to look like a pro and have a place to host a portfolio if needed.

Similar story here. A natural disaster forced me to move, and I was couch surfing in another city with friends until I landed a job and a permanent place. If you’ve got no one to lean on, life is a whole lot tougher in many aspects.

I think it does. “Reminder - meeting starts in 5” definitely carries more weight than “just reminding blablah limp wrist please if you don’t mind try to show up on time if it’s not too much troubeddkadfassfakldfasdf;a”.

I wonder if the former popularity of Jeopardy! is the root cause of all this (phrase your answer in the form of a question).

I could see that. You are subtly communicating to your target that you don’t believe your request is important or that it’s up to them to determine if it is. Sometimes that’s appropriate (“Hey boss man, just wanted to remind you that Joe Smith is expecting that proposal this afternoon”), but not as often as some…

I have found this habit particularly prevalent on the west coast and in college towns. It’s like they are looking for me to approve what they just said to me, and distracts mightily from the conversation. My immediate mental reaction is “uh, ok sure - I have no reason not to believe what you just said...”

Honeywell makes a bunch of these, several of which are programmable. I don’t remember model #s off hand, but there were a couple that also had a trigger input to kick into a “vacation mode” that would drop to a user-defined setpoint; that way you could tie it in with your alarm, lighting, or whole-home control system…

Same idea here, I’ve got an 8-gallon rubbermaid container in the trunk of the car with emergency gear (jumpers, ropes, fluids, basic tools, blanket, Cliff bars, etc) along with a roll of shop towels and a spray bottle of Rain X cleaner

I keep a little pocket size notebook in my console to scribble down notes, such as what mileage the car was at for various milestones (oil change, tire rotation, fill ups to verify gas mileage, etc). About once a month I transcribe the notes into a spreadsheet, scan any relevant receipts and stick the originals in my…

It’s fine to be a hard ass and make your kid pay in full for whatever he or she can afford, but I don’t think you’re spoiling your kid too much if you do matching funds - as in kid saves up $2500, you match the $2500 so he’s got $5000 to spend. I think that if you’re chipping in any cash though, you’re well within…

Another good use if you have enough scrap is to ball it together and mold it into a little bread bowl. Perfect for soups or salads, and it’s compact enough that you might be able to throw it on the same pan as your primary dish to save time and another dish to clean.

Most test kits that I’m aware of have a monitor like this with simply a DVI-I or HDMI input to the display and a small bag full of various signal adapters (some require power themselves). When you get down to it, if you build a monitor with those connections hard-wired, you’re essentially just putting those adapters…