I grew up in Ohio. I spent the last two years I was in Ohio working at a gas station. Then I moved to New Jersey at 21, and I've lived here for 13 years. Now when I drive out of state I make sure to fill up before I leave because I'm so used to not leaving my car or dealing with the pumps. I think the full serve law…

I like to do this in reverse. When someone makes a request of me and CC's the universe to try to trump up their request I drop the useless recipients when I reply. If those other recipients really need to know they'll ask, or the original sender will forward it on. That's obviously not as deterministic an action as…

I would add, in regards to soy sauce and wasabi, that you should get into the habit of trying the sushi without adding either. Then put soy or wasabi on after you've tried it. This way you know how the fish tastes before you've potentially drown it in other seasonings. Also, depending on where you're getting sushi, it…

It could perhaps switch to a mode with higher tolerance. Most people disable it in a way in which it won't be easily re-enabled after, you have to remember. The result is the same for the short term but for the long term you wouldn't have to remember anything to be protected again.

Ugh, yes! Smoke alarms need a "cooking" button so it'll snooze for an hour or so without taking out the batteries or covering it with plastic wrap.

If your NAS is formatted as NTFS then your Mac is likely using SMB to access it. That wouldn't be the same as a local NTFS drive. I just did a couple quick searches and I don't believe that CrashPlan would have any specific drivers in it for writing to NTFS, so it would not enable a Mac to write to an NTFS removable…

I want to second this but also note that if you have a student membership, which is $39/year, you cannot share it.

Agreed. It's my hope that they'll use my money to make the current premium features available to more users either for free or for less money.

I just... paid. More for the search functionality than anything else. But after using Google Reader for most of a decade, that service's closing really hit me hard. So I want to make sure my next RSS reader is viable and long-lived. I'm not convinced that ad revenue alone would do that. I considered the $5/month…

VOTE: CrashPlan

Crashplan took several months to backup my data, but it was 500GB and my service provider caps my upstream at 2Mbps. Crashplan tries to pick sensible upload speeds by default, which I modified. I can't fault them for it, most residential service providers put lower caps on upload. After that initial upload the service…

When my twin boys were born too soon (an important distinction because they were not stillborn, but they were not viable) I doubled down on work to distract myself. At my job everyone knew, and I mostly clammed up and hated every minute that I was treated differently. At school I put all my effort into my studies, and…

Thanks! I had come across this when I was setting everything up but I was under the impression it was an older version of Dropbox. I looked at it more critically after your suggestion and found that it's actually updating regularly to the latest version. Then I realized that actually my installation of Dropbox has…

If you're going to do this I should also recommend the SanDisk Cruzer Fit series of flash drives. They're about the same size as a receiver for a wireless mouse.

I use an encrypted flash drive on my work computer for all of my personal files and programs. I run a portable version of chrome off of the drive and I've moved my DropBox install onto it as well. This way should things go south with my employer, or should someone try to snoop on my computer, they won't be able to…

As soon as I got my first phone capable of using Google Talk I essentially stopped using SMS. It's great because it works just as well as SMS but it also follows me wherever I go. Most of my contacts have no idea if I'm on my computer or my phone.

On a similar note: With the introduction of Home the Facebook App updated with really invasive permission requests. I only use FB on my Nexus 7, where I set it not to update. I wonder if the Lifehacker community has suggestions for alternative apps that will allow me to check FB without reporting to them everything I…

Before you try any other advice you should buy an instant read thermometer so that you can know if your steaks are done. Then you have a few choices:

I too missed the memo about wish fulfillment being the new smart.

I looked around and the best I could find for a simple, plainly worded answer came from an article on Tested: "A signal of -60dBm is nearly perfect, and -112dBm is call-dropping bad. If you're above about -87 dBm, Android will report a full 4 bars of signal. "