I remember playing mario on my TI-83. I also remember a friend of mine programing a version of bop-it on the TI-83 where you had to “Tan it” or “Cos it” at increasing frequencies. Yeah, we were nerds... but he’s a successful programmer today, and I’m a college professor so getting a little distracted and nerding out…

My In-Laws had the city paint a section of their curb red right next to their driveway because their neighbor always parked blocking their ability to put out trash cans. Ended the issue once and for all.

Very grateful our street gets swept every 2 weeks, very early in the morning. Anyone leaving a car for 2 weeks gets a ticket. Renters down the street who had 6 roommates, each with their own car, complained to their landlord and got the driveway widened so they can all park in the driveway - and not take up tons of…

Step it up a notch - get a smart sprinkler system, attach it to alexa/google home, and if you see them pulling up turn it on right as they park. Assuming they have passengers, they (and the car interior) will have to get wet when they get out, or they’ll have to park somewhere else.

This sounds like cheating, though I have a question I couldn’t easily google an answer to that someone here probably knows the answer to:

I’ve seen blowtorches used to for burning green waste (common in rural areas) that put out a flame comparable to this. While the packaging isn’t as cool looking as the boring company’s, the technology it is built from is old and accessible already.

“they’re a natural-born people pleaser, which is probably not a quality you want to encourage”

I only buy them on sale and usually with a coupon stacked on top of that, but I actually find it to be a wash cost wise for my use case. With 3 kids I’m usually in a hurry off to the next thing, so I wouldn’t bother to measure the detergent - I’d just pour some in and hope for the best. I know I could have done it…

Very useful - unless you’re unlucky and one of the gears is the problem. I tried to do this for my mom’s old mazda, and found a cheap plastic gear had sheared in the middle, and the only way to buy a replacement was to get the whole $100 assembly. (I attempted to glue and clamp the gear back together, but it couldn’t…

I usually circle the part of the address they got wrong (if it isn’t just a short walk down the street, then I deliver it myself).

As much as I wanted to buy the wireless earbuds, I noticed these were on sale for $49.99, while the other colors were still $79.99-$99.99...

As much as I wanted to buy the wireless earbuds, I noticed these were on sale for $49.99, while the other colors…

A couple other suggestions:
- Matching games are great for pre-school kids. They help exercise their memory. We got one recently that matches shapes with shadows, and forces them to think a bit rather than just matching pictures.

- Skip Hollywood unless you are going to a show. It’s a rundown part of town with a couple nice restaurants and theaters mixed in. I love the Pantages, but I enjoy my time there more the less time I spend in Hollywood before and after.

While many conservatives care more about total government size and moral issues like abortion than bracket-specific taxes, I don’t disagree that many vote merely for the money. To that extent I find this article to be true of a large number of conservatives, and equally true of an equally large number of liberals…

Tricky issue to be sure. Thalidomide (rightly) terrified people about the dangers of drugs given to mothers being passed onto their children. After Thalidomide, screening questions for women often excluded not only pregnant women and nursing mothers, but all women of childbearing age to avoid even an accidental…

There is no law, but the question is whether that is information that is useful to promote a fair market. It seems reasonable enough which is probably why DMV’s do it - they willingly make available information on whether cars have been in an accident so that consumers won’t as easily be blindsided for example by a…

Yeah - that is why I figure if there are other people involved its just safer to report unless you’re sure they’re not, even if you’re under the $1000. Technically you didn’t break any rules, but I’m sure that didn’t exempt you from any hassle of paperwork even if it meant you avoided fines.

I’m just pointing it out for 3 reasons:

Any accident with an injury also has to be reported to the DMV, and if the insurance company knows they have to report it. They probably just screwed up their paperwork when they submitted it. I can’t imagine what a paperwork nightmare that would be to get removed.

It sure sounds like Car Fax pulls DMV data. Additionally, any accident with damage over $1000 is required to be reported to the DMV, either by the insurer or the driver (at least in California). Thus, while the insurance company never sends Car Fax information, they will file it with the DMV if its over $1000 (I don’t…