This looks more like how to make a $5 belt for $50.

Would you do one on commission? I want the most quintessential belt to go with a suit - reversible, feather edge, thick calf leather, an understated, handsome nickel buckle. You have no idea how hard it is to find something that's just done right. I've been looking for one for about ten years, to the point where I'm…

"Be careful. People like to be told what they already know. Remember that. They get uncomfortable when you tell them new things. New things…well, new things aren't what they expect. They like to know that, say, a dog will bite a man. That is what dogs do. They don't want to know that man bites a dog, because the world…

The reason these days to have a military isn't to win, or even to last long enough for someone else to save you. It's to make it just enough trouble to dissuade the other side from simply boating on over.

3D modeling.

1. BE DUMB. I can't handle complexity, so I reduce everything to their simplest possible elements. There are very very few genuinely different ideas out there, though there may be big ideas composed of lots of little ones that work together like a watch. When you get one of those, abstract the components to the level…

I know this post is two years old as I write this, but I can't let such blatant misinformation pass without comment. "Generally Recognized As Safe" is as safe as the FDA calls something; there is no safer category. Water would be GRAS. Salt is GRAS. "Generally" as used here doesn't mean "yeah, kinda, i guess so." It…

I'm waiting to see the scam part. Shitty pay is what it is. A scam (or Ponzi scheme even, per the author) it does not make.

How about this question: how long should showers be/actually are? I've seen seemingly reliable studies that didn't rely on self-reported data that give an average of around five minutes. I have rarely seen it in real life. My showers are at least 2o minutes, and 20-30 minutes seem very very common - way too common for…

I need to find a mindmapping software that can handle huge mindmaps (hundreds of pages in outline form), and can easily draw and display relationships between children of different parents. I'm using MindManager, and even though it's supposed to be able to do diagramming, so far I've only figured out how to make…

Were you looking for an argument? I was just describing what I think is going on when an American is presented with things like this, which - I thought - was exactly the question you were asking. If you're going to be defensive then why ask the question in the first place? I have lived here long enough to have…

All that is on top of just basic pickiness and not being used to variety. Every American supermarket have the same five to ten types of fruits: apples, oranges, bananas, etc. Most Americans have no idea how many different types of fruit there are out there (they'd cry if they knew how cruelly they've been deceived). A…

I'm not American, but I've tried to understand them too.

Learn how to think. This means:

Have a basic understanding of how nutrition works. People, even many doctors, learn bits and pieces, and don't necessarily know how the whole system works together. This means they don't know how to place and can't evaluate the significance of any particular piece of knowledge on how to take care of their own health,…

Have a basic understanding of how the legal system in your country is set up, and how to find out what the law is. For the U.S., I think you could learn in about a day how to answer any legal question. This is a great resource to start with.

Let me introduce you to the Thermos cooker. It's what it sounds like - a giant Thermos that holds a stainless steel pot inside. If you want to make a slow-braised stew, you just put everything in the pot, get it to a boil, and then drop the pot inside the Thermos, which will hold that temperature for hours. It needs…

Seriously. I did not expect this tutorial to be so complicated.

It doesn't say "Surprisingly Fruity" at the end; more like "Miraculous Flavor." "Flavor" (weidao) sort of suggests "sensation" to me, so it does sorta kinda all make sense.

Stew: the original Soylent. Here's how much you're all over-complicating things -