Very informative. I’ve been told time is relevant to our age. So at 4 years old, a year is very long (a quarter of our entire life); but at 40, a year seems shorter since we have experienced 40 of them. Simple solution: extend a calendar year to 48 months :)

I also tend to hold a finger food/hors d’oeuvre plate with my right hand at a gathering so that I’m eating with my left hand. This way, when a handshake comes along, I can quickly switch the plate to my left hand and extend the clean, non-greasy handshake. Also does double duty to keep your “eating” hand free of…

I gave this a test run and found it to be very limited in functionality (by design, it would appear). If the end goal is to be reminded of something at a certain time of day with a short message, a long quote, or a photo of some kind I would think IFTTT could achieve this just fine.

I love the Twitter anger. It’s a football game. Laugh it off and get over it. 99% of people’s problems would go away if they’d unplug their electronics.

Nights dictate your mornings more than anything else. You get to bed at 11:30pm and you’ll have a heck of a time consistently getting up at 6am (or earlier). Also, take note of the time of year. 6am will be much different in July than it is in November. Plan accordingly with an automatic lamp timer. For me:

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We use mint.com to set annual, recurring expenses aside (e.g. Vacation money, Christmas gifts, anniversary gifts and personal property taxes). Since it’s then out of our residual income, it’s not spent until it’s needed. As with any budgeted item though, discipline is needed and I’ve found having a watchful spouse is…

I bought my Merkur about 3 years ago ($40 at the time) along with 100 Persona razors for $12 (same price today). So $52 has lasted me 3+ years and I still have 60 or so blades left. I try and get my friends on the safety razor bandwagon every few months, but the world is resistant for whatever odd reason.

I bought my Merkur about 3 years ago ($40 at the time) along with 100 Persona razors for $12 (same price today). So…

Undoubtedly shoes and men’s dress shirts and dress pants. A $20 dress shirt from Kohl’s might seem like a decent deal, but won’t last as long (or look as good) as an $80 shirt from, say, Express or Bonobos. I’ve had cheap dress shirts from department stores that I’ll literally wear once, realize it’s cheap looking,…

I went on the same quest last year in grad school, after sending and sharing Office files with peers/instructors proved difficult on my MacBook Pro using Office for Mac. I set out researching cheap Windows PCs when I stumbled across a $300 Asus tablet running 8.1 that came with Microsoft Office 2013 (a necessity).…

PdaNet worked great for me the past few years, but now that Verizon's 4GB data + hotspot plan is relatively inexpensive, I definitely go that route. My data usage falls between 2.5 and 3.5 GB per month and VZW's plans for 4GB+hotspot is $50 which is the same price as its 5GB tier w/o HS. The next best thing would have…

Whenever I see apps like these I wonder why people don't just download and utilize Tasker. It's a relatively "hefty" purchase ($7-$8), but it allows the user to receive calls from certain numbers, block calls from certain numbers, pickup and hangup (one of my favorites), along with a slew of other context/action…