Step one: don't buy your teenager Beats just because they ask for them. It's just because all the cool kids are using them, not because they're worth it (as you have now realized).

I'm a substitute teacher, which means that I am afforded a lot of personal reading time (Subbing for high school kids is glorified babysitting and I need something to do while they work on their assignment). I used to bring books, but after lugging a hardcover edition of Under the Dome back and forth to work for a…

I've been using iOS since iPhone OS 2.0, so I didn't expect to find much new here, but 3 and 4 were new to me. Granted I don't often move things around in my calendar, nor do I save a lot of drafts in Mail, so maybe that's why those ones were new to me. As noted at the end of the video, most of these are old hat for…

My wife is allergic to mint, and her best friend is highly allergic to coconut. I don't think either of them should use the Chocolate Mint Love Butter.

Generally not bad advice, but the author of the article has clearly never had to deal with my mother. Just fixing it for her is easier than the fight that will ensue if I try to educate and train her how to fix it herself.

I also had a bit of a waste problem when we weren't sticking to our plan, so I started planning 3-4 nights at a time and going to the grocery store twice a week (typically on Sunday/Monday and then again on Wednesday/Thursday). It allows enough flexibility without being a huge waste of time. I also make an effort to…

Not a bad way to go. My wife does not cook at all, so we have a general agreement that I cook and she cleans. Occasionally we run into this issue, but between me doing cleaning during the cooking process when I can (during the wait times), and her cleaning later that evening or the next day, we manage to make the…

Ultimately, I think that this is the part that people get or they don't. Personally, I love to cook and see it as a creative outlet. Generally speaking my wife and I try our best to limit eating out or ordering in to once or twice a week, at the very most. Of course there are those evenings when I "just don't feel…

That's actually exactly what the sales guy at the dealership said!

Generally seems like a good infographic, but I would disagree on the point about firearms. For example, I have a concealed carry permit in my state and regularly carry a handgun on me. In my state it is neither required to notify an officer making a traffic stop that you have such a permit, or that you have a firearm…

Generally speaking, I think you're absolutely right. That being said, my wife and I are getting a car for Christmas this year, from her grandfather. He's elderly and wealthy and wants to see his family enjoy his money before he goes (he's in his mid 90s). We're both underemployed and underpaid for our respective…

Don't rush and don't cook when you're about to fall asleep or have been drinking too much.

My drunk kitchen anyone?

I'm sorry, I thought I heard "your iPhone's 30 pin connector. Sorry, all I have on my iPhone is a Lightning port. =p

A note in regards to new runners and Zombies! Run as an app: It works very well into the "run for 5 minutes, walk for 2" routine or so. You can easily to a workout where you run during your songs and walk during the "story" elements of the mission. That combined with the zombie chases every other song or so makes for…

I wonder if a lot of that is just that when we hear how we actually sound it doesn't mesh well with our internal identity of our voice.

Good luck w/ them trying that when it's 108 degrees F here in the summer and I'm using the outdoor drive up ATM.

I'm not too lazy to learn. I'm too poor to afford. A DSLR is on my "wishlist", but other things have priority.

Exactly. I'm not sure why you can't just set the watch based on the Atomic Clock, and then check the watch 24 hours later (or a few days later to really figure it out) and see if it's still accurate.

I'm particularly amused by the "Top Sekret" item in the debug menu. How very un-Apple of them. I wonder how that got past Steve, even as a joke, and even if it is "hidden away" in the debug menu. This is the man who cared how computers looked on the inside after all.

A couple of things I think are worth mentioning: