One of each:
I bought a bottom end professional laser printer that does duplex printing and scanning. It costs me on the order of a penny or two a page.
I then keep an inkjet printer that is just good enough to print the occasional photo or color document when I need it in a hurry. I've had the laser for 5 years and its…

Beat me to the punch - most say on the package not to enclose them even in ceiling fixtures. Most LEDs would be fine though.

Our universities have a ratio of ~1.7 women per 1 man. There were only two possible results of such a situation:
1. More women would marry men less educated than themselves.
2. More women would go unmarried.
We seem to have a combination of the two, so I'm not quite sure why anyone is surprised...

My favorite feature: Beta screen casting. I can show anything - a PowerPoint, a PDF, a photo slideshow, etc. regardless of format onto my screen without any wires.

As a professor who has mostly Pre-Med students, I see two things missing:
1. Standard 3x5 cards. There are a lot of apps for the tablet and smartphone that give note-card functionality, but if you are even remotely tactile the act of writing them out and sorting the ones you haven't yet memorized is a valuable…

2 main factors I see affect whether buying or renting is best for you:

Have a conversation with anyone. I was told by a professor/ mentor once, "If after all your education you can't have a meaningful conversation with a homeless man one day and a dignitary the next we have failed you." Being able to ask good questions and care about what the other person says is one of the most valuable…

The way I view it is if it is a cause I want to support, I can give them $100, but after my taxes $10-20 of it was money I would have paid to the government anyway. Thus a charity I trust to do things I support gets an extra 10-20% rather than the federal government. As to motivation - that will vary by individual. If…

The Michaels, JoAnn's, etc is nice - but it isn't really stacking. That is like making one purchase with a 50% off one item, and a second with a 20% off your whole purchase. Stacking is like what target does, where you can have $2 off from the Manufacturer and $1.5o off from target, and use both on the same item. Have…

Thanks for the great article. A great reminder and thought provoking reminder. I will definitely keep this in mind.

Those molds are great. My wife got me one, and then made me Han Solo in Carbonite chocolate bars. IT was pretty awesome, and she claims it wasn't that difficult.

Those molds are great. My wife got me one, and then made me Han Solo in Carbonite chocolate bars. IT was pretty awesome, and she claims it wasn't that difficult.

You're right, I made a typo, I carry the anywhere MX with me.

Yep. The MX is an amazing mouse. I have one with each of my laptops, and a slightly larger version (M7050) with each of my desktops/ docking stations. The mechanics on the M705 are a little nicer - a dedicated scroll wheel lock button, so the middle click still works, but the build quality of the MX is a beautiful…

One point too - go with cotton over synthetics. cotton can burn, but it won't melt, and its more resistant to fire than synthetics. Synthetics will melt into your skin in the event of a malfunction, often causing worse problems than the fire itself. Working as a biochemist, we always wear cotton in the lab to avoid…

Good suggestion, but 1 warning - this will over time begin to magnetize the tools you put up on it. Because of this, you want to be careful NOT to store tools you plan to use on electronics with this method.

BEFORE starting your Christmas shopping:
Make an exhaustive list of everyone you plan on getting gifts for, and set a budget. It is easy to overspend, and a $50 gift that goes on sale for $25 isn't saving you any money if you can really only afford to spend $15 or $20 on that person.

My house + whatever is left over. I plan to have enough saved to retire on without having to sell my house. They will be able to sell my house after my wife and I die, and also split any money left over in our retirement.

I will say though - the age old adage of "don't put all your eggs in one basket" is still a good idea, especially after the banking shakeup a few years back. My wife and I have most of our money at a credit union, and some at a bank without any fees (enough to get by for a month or so if we had to wait for FDIC…

I think you hit on a major difficulty there with abstinence - societal momentum. You are correct that few wait for marriage (I read a statistic somewhere about 3% being the current rate, though others put that number closer to 10%, but none see it as anywhere close to a majority), but I saw that statistic as a…