This is part of the reason why I switched to an HSA compatible plan when it was offered by my company last year. With the HSA, the money rolls over year to year, so that use it or lose it aspect goes away. The other benefit is that because the premiums are much lower for the HSA plan compared to a non-HSA plan offered…

I had to do a double take when I read your first sentence as I also had a grandma in Florida whom I called Oma and thought this might be written by one of my sisters.

Who says you can’t get a good car for cheap? While mine is not quite $200 per month, when I was shopping for a new-to-me car, my budget was for something under $300 per month. Same when we bought my wife’s van. Her’s ended up being just over $230 per month while mine came in around $270 per month. So we were able to…

I have a dash cam in my car and every time someone new gets in my car, they always ask what it is and, once they find out what it is, why I have it. Thankfully I have never had to use it for anything but I would rather have it running just in case. To me, it is an insurance policy. If someone tries to claim that…

A couple that I see very often are people turning from a middle lane and people on a main road turning onto a side street stopping and waiting for people on the side street to turn first.

Parking this on his lawn would probably have the effect of giving his HOA much more power into having it removed. I am on the board of my HOA and our HOA requires any exterior modification to be approved by the HOA (note, these rules were in place prior to my buying a house in my neighborhood. I got involved in my HOA…

The tricky part with Concorde is that they are severely limited where they can fly above the speed of sound. A lot of countries have restrictions on flying above the speed of sound due to the potential for damage on the ground. Because of this reason, there cannot be a transcontinental Concorde flight because you…

1 kph is 0.62 mph. I have been told by a state trooper that they cannot ticket someone unless they are going at least 5 mph over the posted speed limit as their equipment is not precise enough to measure a tiny speed difference. So while the main argument here is the method of measurement (estimation would not stand…

I just looked up my wife’s van on there and the results you get are complete crap. It says there is an accident found on record but then says there are no accident records and it says that the previous vehicle uses are clear for rental and taxi use when the carfax we got when we bought the van shows it was first used…

On my last two car purchases, I have opted for the 60 month loan. However, I put a decent amount down and had the means to go with a shorter loan term. My reasoning was that I can always pay extra on a longer term loan and then fall back to the minimum payment as needed if financials changed.

Best ending to a game.....ever.

My company uses this system as an emergency notification hotline. As most of my company’s offices are located throughout Florida, a very large portion of my company has been down for at least part of this week. While they did sent out email notifications throughout the week alerting people as to when various offices…

“Hurricane categories range from 1 (76 mile-an-hour winds) to 5 (174 157 mph and up). There is no category 6, not even for record breaking storms like Irma.” 

While I agree that a test drive might be required as part of the job, stopping to pick up food is not and therefore should not be done in a customer’s car. Saying that “THOUSANDS of technicians are doing it” is nowhere near a valid excuse. I could say the same thing about murder. THOUSANDS of people murder other…

Good point. However, even if the blood had been drawn, I would think that the patient would have a pretty good chance of having that evidence thrown out as it would have been obtained without a warrant.

My daughter was scared of these the first few times she used a public restroom with them. However, we have since just convinced her that it is magic (works well since we go to Disney a lot and they only have auto-flush toilets, so it fits with the Disney theming). No she doesn’t mind when it flushes with her still…

Charging a battery that size with a standard 15A, 120V outlet in 5 minutes is physically impossible. As Power = Amps * Volts, the most a standard 15A, 120V outlet can do is 1800 W (1.8 kW). Over 1 hour, this equates to 1.8 kWh. The battery pack on the car in this article has a capacity of 100 kWh. So using a…

Tesla showed off the ability to completely change out the battery pack in a car in around 5 minutes a while back. However, I don’t know how they could sustain that with a heavily utilized station (would need multiple battery packs of all different capacities charged and ready to be installed in a waiting car).

From the Sunday Times article: “And I can’t find the remote control for my television.” It turned out that these had to be rented at €30, or £27, a day. I’d have paid €3,000.” 

These are great. I just found them at Sam’s Club, so I have a bunch at home now. They are just enough for a light lunch at work or something quick on the go.