Alternately, disable notifications from every app that doesn’t have potential life and death situations.

Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc., will be there when you have time, but nothing they’re flagging you down for matters. Suddenly, you find your phone a lot less compelling, because you’re not stuck in a feedback…

Jalopnik and Lifehacker. The ability to comment (and not just read) always adds a layer of interest and involvement, which is why I’ve been so involved in Gawker sites for 15+ years.

“Customers like seeing the eggs” and “we can insert flashy-colored paper beneath” are two of the shittiest reasons and they’re contradictory.  I hate marketing people more than I can describe.

General tip for the South:

Summer would make more sense if the Solstice was in the middle of it, rather than the start of it.

Sincerely - that you need to drink water, and that not all veggies come in a can or covered in cheese.

I understand this may not qualify, but I don’t know how to play cards, spades, dominoes or shoot craps. As a 40 year old black man, that is the equivalent of not knowing how to enter a building via an automatic sliding glass door. I live by the letter of the law, in fear I am found out my first week in prison.

In high school and college, I lived in an area with good public transportation. Now I carpool with my husband to work, so the 10-15 minute commute isn’t an issue. It is annoying having to ask him for rides outside of work, though, but at least things like Uber and Lyft exist.

Fool yourself by putting it in a piece of cheese....it works for my three doggies.

One thing that helped me to learn to swallow pills when I was a kid: After putting the pill in your mouth with some water, if it’s a hard pressed pill, look up and swallow. If it’s a capsule, look down. The reasoning is that the capsule floats on the water while the hard pill sinks, so you’re holding your head in the…

That makes me think of my smartest friend. He has a PhD in computer engineering, and has a job with a government contractor developing laser guided weapon targeting. He’s the smartest person I have ever personally known, when it comes to math, he’s like a human calculator. 

I have a friend. He’s a great guy. Commercial pilot, master’s in physics, applied to work at NASA... the works. He’s very smart and well adjusted and sociable.

I’ve never learned to properly roll a joint. I’ve been surrounded by stoners pretty much my whole life - interesting aside, my dad met my mom because he apparently was the weed connection in the hick town she lived in. Never got actual confirmation about this, other than a few tidbits from drunk uncles, who were my…

My Junior year at University, three friends and I rented a house together. One Saturday morning, we’re all in the kitchen, each making our own breakfast. One roommate, let’s call him “Derek” was literally a genius...a triple-major of Math, Chemistry, and Biology (he’s an MD, now). Derek looks at me and says, “How do I…

Mental arithmetic involving money.

Thank you for a good article. I’ve been thinking about removing Lifehacker from my feed for some time. It’s not anything like it used to be. This is an article in the spirit of the original lifehacker. Thank you.

Claire, you just stole this from my mom who used to do that with the Robutussin whenever I was sick!

I just made my tea-infused “vodka”. 40 Irish breakfast tea bags, 1L of grain alcohol and 1 week of steeping. Use a wide-mouth 2L bottle for steeping. After 1 week, remove tea bags and look at your precious black gold!

So...trailer trash sangria?

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood gave me what tends to work well: “It’s almost time to go, so choose one more thing to do.” It gives my son the freedom to choose his last activity, plus he tends to choose something that will take “longer” (5 mins instead of 2), so there’s rarely any fighting after he’s done it since he…