Add kitty litter to the garbage bag before doing your business. Solidifies the waste and kills the smell.

Have a boat and a pool... wouldn’t want it any other way. Went fishing Saturday morning, went to the beach in the afternoon, came home and jumped in the pool. Owning both has been pretty fantastic.

One of the most important things to understand about a 401k is that it reduces your AGI. 401k investments take taxable income from that highest tax bracket and shelters it. So by putting money into a 401k that person is immediately saving the difference between their top tax bracket (when they put it in) and probably…

Cutting into meat to check doneness causes so little juice to leak out of most meats it is imperceptible. The same with using a fork to turn over a steak or similar. More importantly jabbing a meat thermometer into a slab of meat is the best way to tell if it is done. A procedure which does not release all the juice…

Long article for an easy solution. Frats and the like simply do not belong on a modern college campus.

This opens the door for Brienne or Theon to redeem themselves or for Sansa to rise above and take control of her life. It also solidifies Ramsay as the new Geoffrey. You can make a compelling argument about the Cersei rape being pointless (and it was), but this event is likely going to be a major plot point.

I am surprised to read so many pro-warranty posts here. Maybe I am lucky but I have bought about a dozen used cars. Of those dozen cars, I bought two with 3rd party warranties. The first I never used and ended up wasting money. The second I spent an inordinate amount of time getting a $600 dollar repair taken care of…

Of all the learn to code articles I have looked over, this is one of the few that offers a really good way to start coding. Solving problems is the fundamental key to picking a language up. Regurgitating barely understood syntax with no context is a horrible way to learn.

Such a stupid place for a school to take a stand. Its pants... seriously pants are what is causing all this ruckus. Any number of LGBT groups will fund a lawsuit over this and the school simply cannot win on any front. They already look like a bunch of discriminating backwards asshats, why double down on that image?

More failure points than an air cooled system and offers only a fractional gain in performance. Take the money spent on water cooling and buy higher end PC parts and the performance gains vanish. As a hobby, I can understand it. As a performance booster, too dangerous and fussy.

If the plan is for short term weight loss then yes the move more eat less mantra works. However people are fighting millions of years of evolution telling them to work less, eat more. Winning that primal drive isn't nearly so easy for most people. Then we pile on that the food industry long ago figured out how to…

He had three downs, one timeout and not enough time to run three run plays. He was probably going to have to take one shot at a passing TD if he couldn't get in via a run. So he called the passing shot on the 2nd down rather than the 3rd. The guy that made the call won the year before, got the Superbowl this year and…

Here is what I have learned from 25+ years of experience in the industry, more than a dozen languages and countless "frameworks". Most frameworks are overly complicated, the architectures used are formed on top of a dozen half baked ideas and most coders are writing code around learning new useless paradigms rather…

There is no magic way to learn programming. It takes years to master debugging, modifying other peoples code, writing code that people behind you can follow and most certainly takes years to understand a language and its frameworks fully. Nobody can teach you how to be a good programmer it is a learned skill through…

The biggest advantage is simple. It is easy forced savings. This is particularly true when employees use their raises to increase their 401k investments. It is easy to argue that 401k returns even with the pre-tax growth cannot outpace likely tax bracket increases compared to a Roth but given how easy they are to…

This is why everyone should be armed. They probably would have killed this guy in the ensuing gun fire. The only minor issue would of course be the other people hit by random return gunfire but that is just collateral civic damage.

Happily married to my wife that I found through an online dating site almost ten years ago. That said, I had a lot of misfires from online dating... A LOT. For me and I suspect many people dating "in the office" is complicated and finding a match at a bar is pretty difficult. Online worked for me because I had a small…

When I switched away from income to net worth management I quickly learned that earned income is the hardest way to build wealth. Rich people stay rich because they make most of their money outside of salary or work income.

We have lost several dogs over the years (two this year 15 and 16). The worst was when our Haley developed a growth on her spine that cut off signals to her back half which was caused her rear paws to turn under. We took her to the vet thinking it would be surgery or similar to find out there wasn't any practical…

My wife and I buy a 4-5 year old BMWs. The advantage is that most premium cars are purchased by people that take great care of their cars since they now so often come with 3 year dealer maintenance. Finding a solid used one is pretty easy. Even with a costly repair, a 5 year old BMW purchaser is still going to be way…