PREDRILL EVERYTHING. That’s the most important thing...plexi will crack, then wood boards will split, etc.

I’m often ‘freestyling’ when I go shopping - dangerous yes. I keep it quick though, before I go in, I have a main item or two. From that list, I run the perimeter. I do one loop around the store QUICKLY, pause at the lines, and then do a ‘half run’ as I loop to any area I need to revisit to get something that caught…

I can’t stress #4 enough. That should be the #1 most important thing. Don’t drill down super hard and leave yourself no wiggle room. Group it with a flexible ‘100%’ and you’ll be so much more happy. I can sit down at the start of the day and say “These are what are on my list to get done, this is the priority order, I…

I struggle w/ 9 & 10. I’ve been doing work in and on music for a couple decades (damn) now. I’ve used everything from dollar store earbuds (which sound better than earbuds from 5 Below in a weird way), to high end AKG head phones during production, all the while bouncing between wireless headphones, quality earbuds,…

Yep, I have one container with EVERYTHING in it, didn’t see the error of my ways until last week. Going to spend some time with some known washers and get everything separated.

This maybe more general, its something I just realized last week, if you buy different sized bolts, screws, etc, while it may be annoying, you’ll thank yourself later if you actually keep the sizes SEPARATE. Sure they don’t seem expensive when you buy some, but over time you’ll grow a large inventory of seemingly…

That first sentence. It needs to be added to post.

That’s terrific to know and will be applied this week haha. On the same note, does that work for chicken also? I employee the ‘beat a chicken breast even’, brine, and grill for x amount of time on one side, then flip and do that again. I can brine in the morning, but when I pull it out the fridge, obviously its going…

Since you were on a FN competition, there is a good chance you can answer this. What should I do when I don’t have time for meat to achieve ‘room temperature’? Let’s say I’m getting home from work, stopped to pick up some chicken or steak and when I get home, need to cook it ASAP as I’m like 7 hours out form my last…

I def don’t disagree, I’ve got the DIY projects to prove that haha. My comment wasn’t meant to down put it either, just the merit to me is more the quality and look than the function ya know.

We went through a period of time a couple years ago where my wife was going to be stay at home. We approached it differently than the calculator, we went simpler. We already had a spreadsheet with our budget on it (tracked for a whole year). We copied it, then zeroed out expenses, and changed expenses based on what we…

Hats off, I struggle to find true use in it and the effort spent on it as a device, but find tons of merit for it as art.

I think the two biggest things are organization and distribution. I’m not in school anymore, hell I’m 33 and working the 8-5 life. But during lunch I pull out my laptop and my Push, and work on music. My laptop is a behemoth, I bought it for performance and because I wanted it for LAN Parties, so it is HEAVY. The…

I sort of agree with this. My personal philosophy is a little different though. Between rapping, running meetings, social gatherings, etc, I go by these thought processes

I’ve always wondered how to calculate a fair trade-in value. I’ve traded in a vehicle twice, and both times got almost exactly what I expected, I knew both cars would end up scrapped just because of mileage - so it wasn’t “too much to go back and forth on”. With that said however, the next trade in (I take that back,…

And my thoughts are that CPU is the most important component, but where my head swivels - it ‘used’ to be that memory became a bottleneck for cpu performance, and if my understanding of how modern processors work (my studies on them was up to like 2004, before multi-core was a big thing, let alone threading), the…

Right now the plan is just 8, I just wish I could see what the effects are of going higher or lower. Money saved on one component can go to another one.

I wish there was a freebie application for synthesizing system performance based on memory so that people who don’t fall into the normal category could figure out the sweet spot for them. I am a “retired” techie, I laugh at most performance increases these days as I was there for ‘turbo buttons’ that would double mHz…

I bought my wife the $140 winOS laptop off Amazon. Only 32GB, but I figure I’ll ghost it, throw in a new SSD, possibly upgrade RAM (not sure of the benefit for that rig), and get Win10 on it. Then she can coupon to death without needing to use my music laptop all the time #MoreTimeToDJ&Produce

I bought my wife the $140 winOS laptop off Amazon. Only 32GB, but I figure I’ll ghost it, throw in a new SSD,…

This is so true for my bracket - males in the late 20s and early 30s, it is SO easy to play the ‘bigger TV’ game. I was so envious of my friends for a long time because it looked like they had more, they purchased houses, were putting away for retirement at max rates, while paying off debts, etc. They also had better…