From someone who uses knives professionally to do meat cutting, here is a news flash: All use of a knife dulls the blade. Plastic cutting boards are the worst. Go ahead and enjoy your dishwasher, but get something like a Chef’s Choice electric sharpener and touch up the blade with one pull through it each day before…

I’ve had to do that when I stripped the grip screw bushing on my 1911. very VERY carefully with a dremel. that tool is indispensable

Adjustable wrenches have always been a crap shoot for me. But nothing escapes the vice grip, penetrating lubricant, and a torch.

I find liquid bandages work really well for my dry fingernail cuticles if they get caught on something or too dry and crack/bleed. A regular bandage would work, but not nearly as well: pressure on the back of the finger can still pull the cuticle enough to irritate it, and the bandage around the front of the finger…

Going to a crowded or chaotic public place? Write your phone number on your child’s arm with ball point and cover with liquid bandage. It will wash off but not easily.

For the record, I agree with you. Just because there’s much more interest in, and many many more flights to Mexico, Canada, and Europe, that’s no reason not to include Africa.

Perhaps the most invasive species... IS MAN!

This from Taste Cooking is probably my favorite on the subject, but there’s also pieces from Chowhound and NYT. (Taste in general publishes such great stuff, definitely check them out if you haven’t read much from them yet!)

Has Pittsburgh spent the past fifty to seventy years actively voting against all infrastructure, public transport, and affordable housing initiatives on the assumption that the population will never grow, and then adopted a “gosh we hope people stop moving here” approach once it did anyways? And did you build your…

you would also win all of the 5 number prizes and 4 number prizes, etc.

It’s really not that great here. You’re going to want to stock up on rain gear since it rains every single day here. We even made up an extra day of the week (happy bumberday!) in order to fit more days of rain into the calendar. The old-timey locals have trained the native deer to run out in front of cars with…

The first sentence was a little harsh, but I think he has a point. Both Lifehacker and TheInquirer just seem to be regurgitating an article in iDropNews, but leaving out key details. This article is a bit misleading by calling “Apple Pay Cash” an app — as in a standalone app that can accidentally be deleted. As others…

This post may have been sponsored by Netgear, was hard to tell...
In a nutshell, high-density areas is where wifi is the most vulnerable.
So, if you live in a flat, apartment, condo, dorm, or next to a bunch of nerds... well, you might want to pay attention.

We already have debt. We already have a deficit. The solution to those things was increased revenue (higher taxes for *everyone*) and decreased spending (decreases in service for *everyone*). That is the adult’s solution to that problem. We rang up a stupid tab and we all have to deal with it by tightening our belts.…

Sure. Chase Ultimate Reward points are the best points to use when Chase is paying you to write about how great they are to use.

Point valuations by folks like TPG and OMAAT revolve around aspirational spend: business or first class flights, luxury hotels, etc.

If you have the Chase Freedom Unlimited, you earn at least 1.5 points per dollar spent. If you also have the Chase Sapphire Reserve, these points are worth 1.5 cents each.

At first I thought this measured the % of menu items that contained cheese and I thought it was incredibly low. After realizing it measures the % of items with cheese in the name it makes a lot more sense. I guess the way the sentence is written in the article, “Dorothy Gambrell ranks fast-food chains by the…

Is the influenza vaccine the best vaccine ever? No. Does it give immunity to all of the people who get it? No. Will it protect you, as an individual, from getting the flu this winter? Probably, but there are some years when its effectiveness is less than 50%.

What is “something that never happened”?