Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. It goes a long way in rural Texas, just throw out a collegial ‘Howdy” and you’re in... we can disperse with the oots and aboots after that over a beer. 

Yeah, Canadian thing - Tax Free Savings Account - TFSA - you can make it an investment account, and pay no taxes on any capital gains. ***BIG SUBNOTE - you’re only allowed $5k / year since its inception, cumulative if you haven’t used it yet - for a total of about $40k max today for all Canadians.

Now I know why me and my Texan family get along so well :) We like beer, god is great, and people are crazy.

Learning new accents is very entertaining. The harder part is learning the regional sayings that go with them, once you throw one of those in, you can officially blend in. My newest one was Texan, but I have picked up the southern drawl, Indiana/Buffalo NY stretched ‘a’ sounds, southern and California surfer dude…

DO NOT USE YOUR PROVIDER’S HARDWARE if you can avoid it. In my region, Bell and Rogers deployed routers that could be cracked. I was able to get the WPA2 passwords by brute forcing the WPS PIN numbers with Reaver. Some attacks took more time to set up the attack than to carry it out because the PIN’s were set to…

MAC address filtering is pretty weak. I can DDoS you from your own network using your own MAC address. The basics of IEEE 802.11 WiFi say that a packet header has the “TO” MAC address and “FROM” MAC address. The payload can be “deauthenticate” all the time - meaning I jam you from your own WiFi. You’d only be able…

Pick your targets to bud in line accordingly. Jacked dude with tats, pass. Skinny jeans dude with comfort animal = green light. He’ll be so flustered he won’t be able to say a word.

It’s easy - you can say, “I don’t know”. If you’re completely oblivious. Other times I would answer with, “I’m not sure. I can speculate that .... is the answer, but I don’t want to waste our time here.”

Those are poor men that have no self-esteem. I started getting the clear hairs at age 27. Now 33, I shave the head. If Jason Statham can rock balding really well, there’s no reason the rest of us can’t.

If you leave gracefully, you don’t get severance. After almost 5 years at the engineering firm I was at, things were getting really slow, barely any work, and people were leaving (for free). I discovered and made noise about unethical and illegal activities going on with some of the directors at the company. After…

I agree with you. It’s only money, and the tax man will work out a payment plan with you to get their money back.

That’s an expensive mistake, but you’re lucky it’s only money. I started software development contracting with an incorporation since January. To handle this same tax hurdle I did a few things:

He HAD smarts. “Bill Nye the Science Guy” was a stand-up comedy routine he did and it stuck.

The scientists on that study didn’t work for free.

Problem - Bill Nye sells advertising on an entertainment product, he is not a research facility.

Was this PreCheck or Global Entry? I believe Global Entry requires an interview with CBP, and also a background check. The process may have changed since I did mine last.

TSA Pre is just for airports, you still have to wait in line for customs.

I’ve filled these out each time I take my wife’s lease in for service. One time they provided an upgrade of the “Android Auto” and subsequently broke it. My phone would not pair with it anymore, and the clocks were all reset to 12:00. When I escalated it, the ‘guy in the back’ told me it was my problem, but the guy…

Have you ever smelled a fart that wasn’t your own? Guess what - those are poo particles that came from someone else’s bum ...and you’ve just inhaled them. They contain Hydrogen Sulphide, which is a very toxic substance to humans.

hahaha yeah I know right! I would save a lot of time buying it, but the 1 hour each night with an audiobook is my “quiet time” to unwind. My time is expensive, but my sanity is priceless.