By the way, never forget one other thing, the value of ‘e’ in finance (approx. 2.7) is the general multiplier you pay when you finance on simple interest. Therefore, the reciprocal of ‘e’ is 0.37, or 37 percent. This means that if you buy a $20k car, you are actually buying a $50k car (once financed), or only getting…

Now 61, and having owned 9 homes and 42 vehicles during my life, as well as three college degrees (2 of which I had to ‘finance’), I can address, with confidence, the fact that ‘no debt sure does beat good credit’, anyday. At times in my life, I had north of $300k in what would be deemed ‘durable goods’ or ‘good…

Funny, but when I see ‘Sous Vide’ I imagine ‘Banquet TV Boiling Bag Dinners’, specifically ‘chipped-beef-gravy’ (you add your own toast). What no youth enamoured with ‘Sous Vide’ seem to understand, is that we’ve been cooking in boiling bags for a LONG TIME. Just goes to prove, if you put a French phrase on the…

I’m not sure what you mean by ‘better keyboard and mouse’, Personally, in the $100 range, I don’t think there’s a better keyboard than the Logitech K400 or 400+, and the M3-series Logitech mice are about the most-robust, ‘battery-last-a-year’ mice I’ve ever used, period. That the Logitech HID package is wireless also…

Oops...left out that $10 for the thin-HDMI cable, but still, $89 is a far-sight better than $130.

While it can be said, ‘about time’, the ‘package’ is still pitiful compared to other 3rd parties, like Vilros or Canakit. I mean, the last RPi3 I bought, I was setting up for someone else, and the Vilros kit came with adapter, RPi3, power adapter and case for $39. I had to add a HDMI cable (something that none do so…

Careful with any acid used for cleaning knives, as this is exactly how the brand names, icons, images, etc. are usually engraved on a knife. Acid etching (not to be confused with galvanic etching or electrolysis) is normally done with something stronger, like Ferric Acid, but to ‘drop it into vinegar overnight’ to…

While most hand-sanitizers already stopped using triclosan, you might want to re-read the article you wrote. This ruling DOES NOT apply to sanitizers, merely soap. At the same time, you might want to read the info on Triethanolamine, the surfactant in both soaps and sanitizers. While it is cited as a ‘pH adjuster’, it…

Sous Vide may have its ‘place’ in cooking, but just like microwaves and steamers, there’s a sane limit to what you can ‘cook’ with it. In-effect, it is ‘poaching’ (sans direct contact with the water, in most instances). I’d guess most ‘pan or cassarole’ dishes would suffer like this, while surprising things (can we…

While it sounds like a lot of details have been left-out of this report, one thing really jumps out at me in reading this: Why would you go to a party and ‘hang out’ with someone who you know ‘raped you’ two weeks earlier, and not call the police on him then? Why would it take a second rape for you to report BOTH…

Pretty-consistently, the ‘worst’ offenders of ‘inappropriate work use’ of computers is the IT department itself. Before retiring, I saw ‘indiscretions’ ranging from pornography (on IT employees’ screens) to finding out that they were keeping a 9,000+ MP3 music ‘server’ hidden on an engineering server that…

Science has now proven, life is a death-sentence. That said, most-things in moderation aren’t as ‘dreadful’ as sensationalism would claim. Do this with vinegar, tomato sauce and those horrifically hot tortilla chips you just ate, and you’ll find that Mountain Dew has some serious competitors. Let’s not forget that…

You could stop most people from paying dearly for most drinks if you simply point out, as any engineer would already know, that ‘elecrolyte’ is nothing but a liquid that carries electrical current. Electrolytes by default, resemble liquids like ‘salt water’. Sodium and potassium are the base elements to most…

No experience with face-to-face wolf-attacks, but in 1978 while cutting firewood in a very remote family-owned area, my father and I encounted a pack of 12-15 wild dogs. They were on us so fast, there was no time to do a ‘1-2-3' step of how-to-survive. I was able to jump inside the truck, he ended up killing 6 with…

Possibly, but then you have the watt-hour, as is still used to measure power consumption in every household in America, then. Again, there’s that British Engineering System at work. Actually, the point was more to the fact that J. Joule wasn’t the ‘founder’ of this energy principle, simply a name that the SI gave the…

Sadly, the metric system has obviously over-written actual history. The British or English Engineering System (aka the ‘American’ Engineering System) was developed pre-1818 (year of Joule’s birth), and within it, the ‘Foot-Pound’ measure of mechanical force was already employed. Joule is merely the name given to a…

My wife got me to make ‘mini cracker crust pizzas’ like this a few years back, and it was the greatest thing since ice cream! Forget the oil in a cast-iron skillet, just a quick spray (and I mean a light one) of canola oil, then throw in a store-bought flour tortilla, spread some sauce on it, little cheese, then the…

Well spoken, by one who is part of a nation that is 1/10th the size of the U.S., 90-percent of the population lives within 65-miles of the U.S., and depends on its very sovereign survival being based on U.S. business, jobs and manufacturing. Where I come from, we call that parasitic. All hail the queen (British) who…

Well said, I thought the same thing while reading this. Why buy the PiZ, then spend another $20 for the USB ports that, ahem, bring it to the size of a RPi3? Me thinks part of this was ‘over-thought’, and yet wasn’t thought out enough.

You do realize, that thanks to pop-unders, pop-overs, masks, auto-play music, etc., that MOST networks simply add a ‘BLOCK’ to these various websites, right? My company’s network bans over 1700 URLs and various domains because of this very thing. This means your ads aren’t reaching a LOT of people, because no one…