I just bought this little shovel, very strong and cheap:

An Arduino seems a bit too expensive and complicated for this task. I was thinking you could use an LM35, a comparator, and a couple resistors to make a voltage divider. The voltage on the divider should be anything above .32V, then the comparator will turn on whatever (light, buzzer, relay to heater) when the LM35…

Just a few migraine-related comments:

It's a conspiracy between car manufacturers and salvage yards. The salvage yard people find the change that's been lost over the years and give a percentage of it back to the manufacturers.

I would just like to mention the leveraxe, the latest and greatest in axe technology. I have no idea how it compares to a maul, but it sure is neat.

I do what lifehacker suggested:

People's left over pizza was getting stolen. I bought a pizza for lunch, ate half, wrote "how's this taste?" in sharpie on the bottom of each slice, and covered the bottom with bitter apple spray from a pet store. Unfortunately it wasn't stolen the first day I did this, and I quit before I got a second chance.

I had to set my cell phone's password to my wife's cell phone number so I could remember it. It was just embarrassing not knowing it after we were married. I had just always hit the button with her picture on it, like a fast food cash register.

The Logitech 525 Navy/Gray model is $19.99 on amazon right now. I'm rather impressed with the feel of this mouse. It glides and tracks smoothly on most surfaces. it has rubber around the surface in all the right places. The scroll wheel is rubber with good shape and texture and a nice feel while scrolling, clicking,…

I hate to say it, but I have to disagree with just about everything in this article. My savings protocol is methods 1-4.

I did something similar in my Toyota Matrix. I was hoping to use a large arcade-style button, but there wasn't much room anywhere next to the radio so I had to use a smaller button. The remote itself is just underneath the dashboard, but my transmission range is about half of what it was. Mine used a 12V battery,…

I spent months trying to solve this problem on a Dell Venue 8 Pro. It would lose 50% of its battery life overnight. I created a .bat file (a text file ending in .bat, right click on it and run as admin) to diagnose the problem.

I learned to knit and made my own:

Don't date a coworker!

I dated a coworker for six months. I broke up with her. A week later her roommate told me she spent the next two days having sex with at least two other guys. Three weeks after that she tells me she's pregnant and I'm the only possible father. I call shenanigans and we end up not speaking to…

A memory card can be a tricky one. GS4 has a memory card but most apps can't write to it, so it's effectively useless. Google keeps modifying android to be able to use the memory card less and less. Notice how no nexus device has a memory card? Google considers a second form of storage to be "confusing" to…

Turn off data and wifi. Zoom in on the map somewhere you didn't cache it, you won't have street level detail. You will have that detail where you did cache it. This is assuming you used the built in map caching, I think 'okay maps' only caches the zoom level where you type it in, kind of like doing a screen shot.

It took me months to figure out if a surgery was covered by my insurance (Kaiser). As many people said it was definitely covered as said that it was definitely not covered. I was only able to get something in writing by scheduling the surgery which gave them a deadline. Even then the paperwork showed up the morning…

Go to an audiologist and get a hearing test, attention may only be part of the problem.

I recall dragging a widget. While still dragging it, hit the dashboard button. It'll show up on your desktop then.

I believe he means that $1000 shouldn't require an emergency fund withdrawal, just better short-term budgeting.