Different tip....buy your cookbooks as eBooks. As a collector of cookbooks, I started doing this since I’m running out of room for new cookbooks. You get the benefit of having it with you at the store for the ingredients purchasing and then at home to cook from. Since I use Google Books to store them (or purchase) I…

When I bought a VCR....OK stay with me....it was when they first came out and I was now living on my own. It was so expensive I had to finance it through the furniture store I bought it from and make monthly payments.

Buy a butter bell....this thing is amazing and the water in the bottom keeps the butter from getting that funky weird yellow color.

Some higher-end Bluetooth headphones, like the Bose QuietComfort IIs I bought in anticipation of losing the headphone jack, have the ability to switch to being wired which is handy when your battery dies. I rarely need the adapter and conversion cable for the headphones, but it’s in my go bag in case the headphones…

What was your very first cookbook? The Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook -Still use it 35 years later!

My setup is a PC running Myth TV and Plex on the same machine and an HD Homerun dual tuner on the network. Myth TV is a little complicated to setup, but works easily with the HD Homerun. The software is free so the only cost was the HD Homerun which ran me about $100 at the time I bought it years ago. That is hooked…

I’ve gotten great results with a Chefs Choice 3 stage electric sharpener over the years. You generally have to pull it through the last two stages 3-4 times more than the instructions say for the sharpest edge, but results are great. You only use the first stage once to get the angle correct, then re-sharpen with the…

Thanks....I just wasted my whole afternoon...ha ha. Actually these were pretty good to know.

You can sign into your vault (lastpass.com) on the other PC and even use the virtual keyboard to put in your master password so you won’t fall victim to a key logger. That said, you should definitely be using some form of two factor with LastPass if you do this to be safe. You can also generate 10 one time use…

Hillshire Farms does make “adult” lunchables. Also the dried fruit and nut section at my local store has all kinds of selections with nuts and dried fruits. Toss in one of those little wine cups to go and you got a picnic! Also check out convenience stores like Wawas or Sheetz (East Coast) since they carry something…

I use Pocketcast across my devices and set the speed individually for each podcast. So music podcasts play at normal speed. Faster talking podcasts I usually set to around 1.3x and slower talking to as much as 1.5x to 1.7x. Once you have your podcasts settings tweaked, it’s nice for creating an “up next” playlist and…

I prefer the Anki web system (https://ankiweb.net) and all the various programs that can plugin to it. I use it on Linux as well as my Android phone via AnkiDroid. It’s nice that it syncs across it all so I can choose where to study. There seems to be a client on just about any platform and there are tons of user…

Coffee makes me happy and supposedly happier people live longer.....so there’s that. ;-)

For years now (before cold brew was a hit) I usually switch to cold coffee in the summer and just make it the same way in my press pot the night before. Once the 4 minutes has passed I pour it through a filter into a coffee mug and stick it in the refrigerator overnight. The only reason I use a filter is because I…

I actually bought a Bluetooth selfie stick from Anker, but not to use as a selfie stick per se. I use it to get the phone above the heads of crowds or over areas I can’t reach. Because it’s Bluetooth, I can use it as a camera remote with the phone mounted on a tiny travel pod. I’ve also used the selfie stick as a…

Walking....fast and far. Basically I wanted to lose weight and I’m out of shape and old so back in January I got back into walking. It was the easiest thing to get going with at the time, but turned out it works. I basically walk 3.5 miles in about 45-50 minutes every day only missing one day since I was sick that…

Eastern Virginia: Soft shell crabs. Basically its the crab after it has molted it’s shell. You batter and fry them and can eat pretty much the whole crab. No need to pick the meat.

There is a stand-alone “My Maps” app for Android that you can create map routes with. No computer needed.

I’ve made them from Fruity Pebbles before....not even sure that cereal still exists. They are sugar overload but super colorful.

Google Health was killed off, though Google fit has a couple of features, it’s not really the same. Microsoft Healthvault is the equivalent replacement.