She also has no savings. “I know that I need an emergency fund—if something were to happen, I’d be screwed,” she admits. That said, Erinn is trying to be more financially savvy in one area of her life: Now that she's planning to go back to school to get her master’s degree, she's putting any extra money that she saves…

I think this is a great idea to get rid of the "problem" of CxOs getting paid disproportionately to what they they actually do. I don't truly consider this as a problem as its not like they can just assign how much money they get. If the people that assign salaries decide that the individual is worth that amount, then…

While I wasn't born handicapped, I got arthritis at a really young age. When I was 20, it got so bad for a while that my doctor gave me a handicap placard to use until I could get it under control again. My muscles were still in the shape of the international caliber soccer player that I was, but my joints would not…

When I was 20, I had a really bad time with my arthritis, to the point where I could barely shuffle one foot past the other when taking steps. It made walking anywhere a serious hindrance. My doctor gave me a handicap placard to use until I could get the arthritis back under control. On more than one occasion I had…

My favorite thing to do at Drive-throughs:
"Can I have a cup of melted ice?"

My favorite thing to do at Drive-throughs:
"Can I have a cup of melted ice?"

​So, I thought I'd send you some screengrabs from my iPad. I used to have trouble remembering which screen a particular app was on. Then I color-coordinated all my apps and different screens. Now I only need to remember that Twitter is a blue app and Instapaper is a white app. This is a sneaky time saver. No more…

I always found the "use the curb as a chock" thing slightly humorous. In theory, it makes sense, but if you are in a truck or SUV, odds are your wheels are big enough that the vehicle wont notice the curb all that much. Although I guess it is being used as a secondary restraint, and your parking brake is not supposed…

Little bit OT:

Now tractor pulls on the other hand...

What I did actually managed to help me find some of my longest lasting college friends. I lived in a dorm where every person (except the RA) shared a room with 1 other person. There were 10 occupied floors, and roughly 20 to 30 rooms per floor. The first week, my roommate and I decided we were going to go door to…

My freshman year of college I had a roommate who would come back to the room around 1AM every day, work until 3, and then wake up at 5AM and blast music while he finished any homework for classes. Then he would sleep all day long when he wasn't in class. It was quite maddening.

I find that one of the best feelings when you are sore is to work those muscles out again. It's not always the best idea to work them out too hard again, as the soreness means that there are small tears in the muscles and they are trying to heal. But, when you start to work them out again, they realize that they have…

My favorite example:

When I was in college, we caught wind of how detailed of a view of the network the school had because of the file sharing of songs that we did. It was trivial to connect to a different person's iTunes library and copy all of the files over. We had one person that bought a couple of terabyte external drives and let…

My problem with leasing a vehicle is that I drive way too much. I did out the math on just travel to and from work on the daily, and I would almost reach the maximum limit on most leases. That would mean I couldn't drive the car on the weekends, or even to the store, if I didn't want to pay extra for going over the…

You also have to remember that Tesla is a California company. In CA, if you have AWD and tires that are rated for the snow at all, you don't have to strap on chains. If you don't have AWD, even with snow tires on, you must put on chains.

He downplayed the theory that teens care more about their smartphones and Internet access than vehicles as auto sales stall among younger people. “I don’t see any evidence that the young people are losing interest in cars,” he said. The bigger problem, he said, is that young are having a challenging time finding jobs.…

I imagine if they started making these, I would see even more of them on a daily basis. I actually find it surprising that Tesla is losing money since I literally cannot go an entire day without seeing one on the road.

Zip ties are magical. My truck's trailer wiring harness managed to shear its bolts 2 years into it's life. Zip ties have been holding it on since. They also replaced the clips allowing me to open the tailgate and the handle to release the parking brake. There are only 3 things you need in life. If it doesn't move and…