Remember this article at all times. When people talk about terrorism, drugs, gun control, car crashes, airplane crashes, and every time a politician opens his or her mouth. They may be using stats incorrectly on purpose or may be falling prey to these paradoxes.

1) Gifts are gifts. They should be happy with whatever you give

I've done it before - it can be pretty awesome, but depending on what you do, you get home extremely exhausted. So you just end up shifting all your little things to your day off. Whether or not that bugs you depends on how your mind works. For me, I like to tick at least one thing off the TODO every day so that I…

My work offers that flexibility - but I choose to save up my vacation time since Paternity leave means using your accrued time off and sick time and I plan to have at least one more kid.

OK, George Jetson.... q;o)

I thought it was the other way around. People started job hopping when the jobs stopped supporting us.

When the battery stops being able to hold a charge

I hope so. I just kept thinking - that's what they do to torture people - remove their nails.

Here's the easiest answer: If you don't have impulse control issues - NEVER USE A DEBIT CARD. They put you at huge risk of fraud and someone wiping out your bank account.

Don't worry about the exact number of your credit score unless you're buying a house or car. Otherwise, just pay off your bills every month and never not on time and you'll be fine.

Your last sentence is awesome. Because my instinct would be to use it for groceries there. Great idea!

Read this comic when it was first posted and all I could think was - why would you do something that would cause your toenails to fall off?!? HORROR!

but they don't have to be.

I was ready to offer the same advice I have been thinking of working on - going with an MVNO might yield affordable prices. In my case, there's a Sprint MVNO that a local blogger seems to like and Sprint has good coverage in my area. For less than what I'm paying for voice and no text and no data, I'd be able to have…

Ah, I thought it was about letting the RAM, which can have capacitor like effects, clear completely.

I know people really hate when people include links in their replies, but a year ago I did a comprehensive look at the difference between Adobe's Lightroom and KDE's Digikam. http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2012/02/1… It might be helpful if you think you can't switch to Linux because you are into photography.

A good point. Although I wonder for everyone who does what you do, how many people make claims on that insurance such that it pays for the annual fee over all the years.

Very very easy (depending on your level of impulse control). DO NOT SPEND MORE THAN YOU EARN PER MONTH. Ideally, spend less than that since you want to save for retirement and a rainy day.

when you say free do you mean FLOSS or just free - including shareware? Because some shareware is/was awesome, but most of it was crap. With FLOSS, depending on the software category there are some programs that rival closed source, some the keep up, and some that aren't quite there yet.

Companies who have shareholders will always charge the maximum the market will allow them to.