For people with a somewhat lower budget on the home purchase scale, apparently Public Storage is the brand to look for. It turns out they are really good at picking out sites on the cheap in about-to-improve areas. It’s not causative, but it is predictive: think of it as having somebody who is really good at…

Don’t peel carrots or any similar vegetables at all. Just scrape the outside with the edge of a knife to remove the coarsest material. It’s both quicker and less wasteful.

Is that an American thing? George Best got one, although that did cause a bit of a public backlash when he started drinking again.

I think you’re missing the intentional sarcasm of the “Trouble finds...” phrasing, and the implication that people like Manziel themselves often fail to see that the pattern is their own fault. They are like that ex-girlfriend who says she hates drama but “it always seems to find me”.

Is the answer “shit-faced”? Because that’s the only way I can imagine watching.

Yeah, my wife and I have completely different standards for spoiled food.

A long time ago in a country far, far away (OK, England), an award for “Initial Quality” would have really meant something. British-built cars in the 1970s and 1980s were shoddy crap, with minimal QA of vehicles leaving the production line. The purchaser was effectively the last line of QA, and you’d routinely assume…

Sweet — time to upgrade my son’s gaming rig. First though to the compatibility checker! I know just enough about modern PC tech specs to worry about compatibility and mixing memory products...

Sweet — time to upgrade my son’s gaming rig. First though to the compatibility checker! I know just enough about…

Rule 18: Once you have put something down, you are never going to pick it up again. So put it down where you want it to stay.

Do what I do: collect his stuff, put it in his room in a bag or a box. Tell him: “Anything you leave in our shared space belongs to me. No tears.”

What would it take to get your life decluttered and organized?

These are the baked boneless skinless chicken breasts of sex positions.

OK, now you are coming across like a 13 year old who just learned the words “marginal” and “effective” tax rates and thinks he’s clever. As I explained above I’m not using the word “effective” in the technical sense of “effective tax rate”but in the ordinary English sense of “in effect”. Go re-read my post: “it’s as…

The word “effective” has more than one meaning. In this case, the actual marginal tax rate might be 25%. However, the additional impact of losing benefits has the same effect as a higher marginal tax rate. For the person losing benefits, it’s as if the marginal tax rate is 90% because they lose 90% of the additional…

Apparently, I don’t have that filter.

This is known in the jargon as a “benefits trap” and yes, it can be an unforeseen consequence of the interplay between a complicated tax code and complicated means-tested benefits. One way to minimize the problem is to have benefits (or tax deductions) that phase out on a sliding scale as income increases, rather than…

Fortunately, I don’t think too many of those people were entrepreneur material to begin with.

That kind of idea comes either from people who struggle with math or people who are trying to mislead you.

Also, what does it take to get out of the greys around here?

Aaron Rodgers: “Dammit, Heads was going to be my second choice!”