As a professor, I always remind my students that study groups help everyone in the group. I was that kid who knew the answer, but explaining it to a classmate not only improved my communication skills, but also reinforced the concept to me better than individual studying would have. As backwards as it seems, teaching…

Good in general, but there is one issue: The most reliable cars don't depreciate as fast as they used too. It is now common knowledge that cars like Civics and Camrys last forever, so a 3-5 year old one is not half the price of a new one, its often closer to 3/4 because it still has over 3/4 of its life left. Its…

Never losing sight of the job you are ultimately looking for.

Good point. My hand tool reference was thinking more of wrenches, sockets, specialty drivers, etc. I use mine enough that I buy Craftsman, but I don't use them enough to justify spending Snap-On money. For the odd tool you'll only use once a year, a made in china variety is fine. The exception, as you say, is for fine…

I do think Makita is a little better than Dewalt, but it is also more expensive. You get a steep drop off in quality, and a moderate drop off in price when you buy a Kobalt/ Ryobi/ Black and Decker, but if you are willing to spend the money to get a better brand (like a DeWalt or similar) you will have a dramatically…

Option 2: buy one for $20.

Seriously, You'll still have to do the drywall yourself, but I have bought before from a local retailer a bent header bent to the exact curve I wanted, and avoided needing to approximate and hope it came out smooth. I'm not even sure I could build it myself for less than $20.

Now I am younger, but every DeWalt tool I have every owned except for 1 is still fully functional. Nearly every Ryobi product I have ever owned has died on me. Dewalt may not be the absolute best (brands like Milwake are a little higher end) and they may be slightly overpriced, but I find them to be high enough to…

Agreed - I mean cheap more in the low quality/feature set sense than the dollar sense. Like getting a refurb iPad 2, or a coby or chinese brand android tablet.

Tablets.

Cordless Drills (and other frequently used power tools).

For hand tools, cheap is often fine especially if you only use it occasionally.
Even for corded tools you can sometimes buy a cheap and be fine.
For cordless tools, cheap knock-offs have pathetic battery life plus low durability & power. A quality set does make a…

Also interesting - If you think it will impact your work you are welcome to share your religious views even if though they aren't allowed to ask you.

People talk a lot about the broken criminal justice system. While I get the frustration that guilty people go free, I haven't heard a lot of thoughtful talk about how to fix it in a way that would be a genuine improvement. The general suggestions I hear (and the reasons they won't work) are:
1. Faster response. Punish…

I think this is good info, but the last advice is surely the most effective - prevention is the best cure. I will never blame someone for having private photos of them leaked, but if you want to make sure it never happens to you best way to avoid that happening is to make sure the photo never exists in the first…

Hopefully people know why vertical videos are so stupid in the first place: They are contrary to the way our eyes work....

I guess there is a small danger in that, but I think that is leaking very little information. From my facebook it wouldn't be hard to find out I go to Disneyland a lot. Pictures at parks are likely even more dangerous if they are from a friend or a stranger's camera than your own, where you have zero control. I tend…

In general, there is one reason I care about this and one I don't:

While this may be gaming the system, I don't think it is cheating the system. You can't do this to get add on items (things too inexpensive for Amazon to ship on their own) but only things that they would be happy to ship you on their own. If anything, this method would encourage users to buy more stuff, and while…

Southern California - Mexican food all the way.

This works on two conditions:
1. They have all them in stock at the same facility (you can check this by starting with a full cart and seeing if they would let you same-day all the items together, then moving all but one into your save for later, and adding them back and purchasing them one at a time.
2. You're earlier…

So I wasn't the only one who grabbed paper, a ruler, and scissors and cut out both to decide which was more practical... :) I guess I could have waited for this and saved a few minutes.