While weekends may be a good bet for hotel upgrades, weekday stays are your best chance for an upgrade at a vacation resort.  I work at a timeshare vacation resort and the weekends are almost always booked to full capacity, whereas we usually have some availability throughout the week, making upgrades easier to come…

Our local grocery store with an in-house butcher sells a 60/40 ground beef/pork.  They call it Boston Burger.  It’s all we buy.

My wife and I take our own candy, but almost always buy a popcorn and drink combo to share. This brings up an adjunct question, is it OK to share a 1 popcorn/1 drink combo with free refills at the theater? I think we can take it as a given that the popcorn is meant to be shared and refilled, but the drink is definitely…

Back in the day, the power supply of a DEC tape backup had the same plug type as a keyboard. Plugging it into the keyboard jack will blow a chip clean off the motherboard.

When we went to Ireland last year, we just removed our Sim cards right before we boarded.  Every where we went had free WiFi and we stayed in touch via Facebook Messenger.  I had planned on picking up a local Sim, but we didn’t really need to.

I had a ‘95 Metro sedan and hit a 150 pound deer at seventy mph. Repaired the damage myself for less than $500. I’ve owned 3 Metros over the years. The first one, a hatchback, had over 300,000 when I sold it. Second, a sedan, made it to 200,000 miles before hot dogging on ice made it unrepairable. The third, also a…

Btw, the tattoo in the top image is a Valknut, a symbol that has been co-oped by white supremacists. 

What about us Linux enthusiasts?

I grew up in a house that had a pretty impressive infestation of Brown Recluse spiders. Rarely went a day without seeing at least one. The attic and crawlspace had thousands of shed skins.  Twenty years in that house and no one was ever bitten.

Reading this while drinking my nightly Jameson’s and Ginger.

Or, just start it in second gear on a level surface. I once went a couple of months with out a functioning clutch. Park level or down hill, always somewhere you can go straight ahead. Put it second gear and turn the key. Try going four months without using reverse, it’s a challenge.

My wife and I use clearcheckbook.com apps on our phones to keep track of our spending. Until smartphones, we were horrible about keeping a check register. Now, I can have it entered before the transaction has processed and my wife can see it, almost, instantly.

I remember, back in the early days, having to compile software from source packages—which would lead to a seemingly endless circle of missing dependencies. It was frustrating, but doable. That frustration, however, turned a lot of people away from Linux.

Most solid stuff is sold by weight, not by volume. Packaging size doesn’t matter, unless you are to stupid to understand that. The lawsuit is stupid, but they will probably win because we are a nation of imbeciles.

Or, take to the next level. Buy vanilla beans and make your own vanilla extract using dark rum or bourbon. Lot’s of awesomeness.

This might seem weird, but digging the grave beforehand has helped me when our dogs have passed away. We have had three pass away in the last ten years, and knew for several days that it was the end. Rather than trying to dig a hole while sobbing, I went out an dug it with my friend by my side. Still some tears…

Clean as you cook!!! When I cook, I plate stuff up and wash as I go. A hot pan comes clean pretty quick.

I was on the Interstate and got behind a gravel truck, big duallies in the back and no mud flaps. Just as I was being passed by another vehicle, I saw something large go flying up into the air from underneath the gravel truck. It was half a brick, tumbling through the air, directly at me. I had just enough room and…

Windows 10 was the final impetus to switch over to Ubuntu. I’d been running it on a laptop for about a year and a half, just to get a feel for it. The day that I woke up and Windows 10 had installed itself without permission, was the day I decided to rid my house of Microsoft.

I had a mid 90's Dodge Spirit, V6. It had almost 200,000 miles when I bought it for $500. After several years driving it, my wife skipped a couple of oil changes without telling me, and we took off on a 300 mile trip during a blizzard with next to no oil in the crankcase. I learned all this, 200 miles in, when the…