Also, don’t listen to conventional wisdom about time of day, not letting them out alone, etc. When I lived in an area where there were a lot of coyotes, we were attacked twice, both times in the middle of a sunny day, both times while I was there and my dogs were near me. Both times, the coyote jumped onto a trail out…

I LOVE my Schwinn AirDyne AD7, which has arm movement. 

I extensively researched this topic when I bought my Schwinn AirDyne AD7 bike (I’m very happy with it!), and a key factor with ellipticals (which is what I originally wanted) is that, if you’re used to the ones at the gym and want something high-quality, it will be VERY heavy — 300 or 400 pounds. Part of that is…

Yes, think before you tweet, but I also wanted to offer a good “just in case” solution, which is to use Tweet Delete or a similar service to regularly delete old tweets. All of my tweets are automatically deleted when they become more than a week old. You can also set that to longer intervals, like 3 months. Of…

As someone with multiple friends who are teachers, I thank you for saying this. Kids will recover from missing in-person school, but teachers won’t recover from dying of COVID, and by the time the next academic year starts, it should be completely safe for *everyone* to go back to in-person education.

“It costs you quite literally nothing to wear your mask” — spoken like a true couch potato! It’s actually very difficult to wear a mask when running or doing any heavy cardio workout. If you work out early in the morning and live in an area that’s not dense, as I do, there’s absolutely no increase to anyone’s safety…

It’s also important to know your value as a customer. I looked at rates online but then I called up the banks that looked the most promising and said basically, “I am an extremely good credit risk (high credit score, high income, no significant other debt, etc.) and the loan-to-value ratio on our house is very low…

1) We have the luxury of having a home office, but both desks were in it (we rarely worked from home at the same time), and I’m on video calls all day long. We bought a new standing desk, which he had wanted anyway, and put it upstairs in the guest room. We’re slowly converting that to a second home office, because…

N95 masks (valve or not) are still the best option for protecting *yourself,* and I think all this talk can just end up confusing people. If you have a used (i.e. non-donatable) valved N95 mask, by all means wear it to get groceries or in other high-risk areas, just tie a bandana or other cloth mask over it so others…

Right, what I said was to check your company’s policy. If the policy says they can, I can guarantee that they have the technological ability to do it (probably only available to the Legal Dept., not people in IT). Source: I’m a lawyer and have been in this position.

“The number of people I know in SF who have never been to Yosemite is unreal to me.” I don’t know what kind of people you’re hanging out with, but one of the many wonderful reasons to live in SF is that you could spend the rest of your life only vacationing at the countless spectacular locations within a 4-hour drive,…

First of all, I am grateful for having made it to a senior level in my career but I did have a wistful moment of fantasizing about what it would like to not need to have work messaging apps on my phone! :) One thing I did want to call out, is that if you have work apps on your personal phone, your employer likely has…

Thank you so much for this. There will always be the life-is-a-zero-sum-game jerks who comment with complaints that every single donation dollar should go to help humans, without realizing that sometimes those humans’ #1 priority is finding and reuniting with the animals they love after they’ve lost literally…

It’s true, it worked for me at the San Francisco (Hallidie Plaza) location! The catch is that the large drink cost $4.74 and comes in a plastic cup, which isn’t great for those of us who are vegetarian because we care about the environment (although I’m sure you could just tell them you don’t want the drink, which I…

Other activities that carry health risks: Going outside, eating food, driving a car, exposing skin to the sun, breathing potentially polluted air, drinking potentially polluted tap water... being alive is quite risky, it turns out. Luckily most of these risks are worth the benefit and are sufficiently remote to…

I’ve spent much of today engaged in a Kafkaesque nightmare of trying to wrest a package from the claws of the USPS after they left me a slip saying they wouldn’t leave it without a signature, so this doesn’t surprise me at all. My day has included 1 hour spent on hold with the USPS and driving to a post office where…

Came here to say this. A thousand times yes. 

Came here to say this. “Red-eyes leave my body no choice but to get some sleep....” in that case you are the very lucky traveler who is able to sleep on planes. Red-eyes may be a good choice for those people, but presumably they already know that. Many of us can’t sleep on a plane, which means we *can’t sleep on a…

(1) Can you please grant us permission to murder anyone who conducts a cellphone conversation on the cardio equipment (always at the machine next to me)?

Glen Canyon is the best park in San Francisco (I’m not counting Fort Funston, since a beach feels different than a park), and I’m surprised how few people have been there. The natural landscape is gorgeous and there are a lot of different trails, it’s great for dogs (watch for coyotes, though) and for the kid people,…