I believe it's common courtesy to pretend you didn't see someone's failed suicide attempt, because it will make them feel even worse. Which is saying something when they already felt bad enough to kill themselves.

Hell yeah! Alaska (Juneau) bike commuter here! Winter riding is brutal, but it's finally getting above freezing in the mornings.

One nice thing about leaning bookshelves is that they don't end up sitting on the tack rail for the carpet. If you're trying to push a normal bookcase up against the wall the tack rail makes it lean forward and look like it's always about to fall away from the wall. Sure you could use a few bits of wood to shim up…

What!?!!!? Where was this post six months ago when I first moved in with my girlfriend. It would have saved me from so many painful nights of holding in my farts until I'd be able to think of an excuse to leave the apartment for 5-10 minutes. Usually I'd take the garbage out or run down to the corner store to pick…

I've looked at EL wire for making my bike stand out at night, but I ended up going the simple route and bought some 3M Stealth Reflective tape. It's black and hardly noticeable on a dark bike, but when headlights for cars hit it at night it reflects white light brilliantly. That with a front facing light and red LED…

Learned about this a long time ago and have generally either owed or gotten back less than $50 each year. This year I got back $15, I just can't decide if I should buy a new car or go on a South American vacation with all that sweet, sweet tax money.

Bibles and Guns! </sarcasm>

HENCH-4-LIFE!

That thing must have nine lives. Every time I'm sure its dead it pops up somewhere... it was awesome in the day for cataloging your movies, games and books. Now I just use a smartphone app for it's convenience. Still back in the day when it came out it was a godsend for those of us with large collections that we…

They totally could be set up as just a free bar code reader. I used it to inventory and set up a lending library of all my video games and books. When someone borrowed a game I'd scan it and add their name and time they checked it out. Now days you can do the same quite easily with a smartphones camera and tons of…

VOTE: Blue Icicle XLR to USB adapter

I work in I.T. and would like to thank you for this article. I've added it to my list of bookmarks for frequent questions from users. In the last year I've gotten back a couple laptops from users that had left them on in their bag during a trip. One actually had discoloration and warping on the back of it around…

Maybe I'm a bit too much of a pessimist, the bag of nails is so they get a flat tire after running me over.... that will teach 'em! *sigh*

Pricing in Juneau Alaska is really high for nearly everything. Most stuff is around 20-25% more and some things are waaaaaay more than that. My girlfriend was living in an old dilapidated efficiency apartment and she was paying $950 a month. When I was living down in Phoenix a nice modern two bedroom apartment went…

Asshole Juice.... I think I've found the name for a new energy drink!

Carry a bag of nails in your backpack? We have a large country rode in my town I ride on often since it's almost a perfect 5 mile loop. It has very large paved shoulders that I use when riding. Yet even though I'm nearly eight feet away from the line I still have cars actually swerve towards me quite regularly. I…

I predominately drink coffee, but I drink energy drinks ooccasionally too. One thing I did notice is most energy drinks are pretty high priced. A Rockstar 16oz can runs nearly $4 in Juneau, AK and that $4 can lasts me just a little past my lunch before I finish it. On the other hand the $12 bag of coffee beans I…

I see what you're doing, but I'm not a fan of tragically stupid comedies.

It still is a Keurig though, so decide if you want to support a company that wants to add DRM to coffee pods... Personally, I hope they crash and burn on this.

I work in IT, self censorship is a survival skill. I understand that a big part of IT is really customer service skills with users, being able to keep that "smile in your voice" while they're freaking out at you over some presentation they can't get to work that they needed 5 minutes ago. It can be really…