Agreed. My favorite part is that I don’t feel guilty “splurging” when I’ve been earmarking money specifically for that. So when it comes time to book a trip and you already have $500 saved up, you can spend it guilt-free. But again, I’m not too zealous about it... like, last month there was a sale on some kitchen gear…

This is one of my favorite “hacks” (I actually think it’s an intentionally built feature so not sure it counts as a hack) for my Lodge camping dutch oven: You can place the lid upside down over the fire and it makes an awesome little flat griddle for cooking eggs or pancakes or whatever. I like to have a…

You know what’s funny... I do this literally with a couch fund. I set up some goal-based accounts for funds that were specifically earmarked for things (like a vacation account, car down-payment account, travel home account, etc) and one of them is a “furniture account.” But essentially, I’m pretty open to use those…

Every time I’ve visited DC the National Mall looks like a giant worn-out dust-bowl and I hate it. So hopefully these precautions help.

All the public domain ebooks I have are my property. Sharing them is not piracy.

Thanks but I think you misinterpret what I’m saying: they not only represent me but they already agree with me. They’re all the party I voted for. What I’m saying is none of my representatives are poeople who would get a “I disagree with your policy, as a constituent I want you to vote otherwise” but rather would get…

Yes, my solution is to provide a quality education to the populace so that they have the tools to determine the factuality of the news presented to them.

No. But censorship isn’t the answer just because people can’t educate themselves enough to tell what is credible and what not.

Here’s another reason to embrace the Museum Store: Especially for museums that are new to you, I recommend swinging through the museum store first. They tend to capitalize on their most famous or important pieces by heavily marketing them on museum souvenirs so it’s a good way to see what the most famous pieces at the…

If you trust them to report accurately all the time you kind of deserve what you get is what I’m saying. Too many people trust a source and then believe whatever it tells them. It’s our duty to be smart enough to say “wow, the Atlantic is usually spot on but I think this piece on x is biased or skews left or is…

Yes, that’s the takeaway from my comment.

To all the people who say something like “if I’m going to be an engineer why do I have to waste my time with all these core humanities courses in college” this is why.

Night and I love it. I started the practice when I was growing up and we didn’t have air-conditioning so in the summer it was much easier to take a shower and be JUST damp enough as I went to bed that a fan provided plenty of cooling power. Then in college night-showering is definitly the way to go because I pretty…

There’s probably a lot of people who don’t have DSLR’s but who do have Photoshop.

Everyone hating on this, but it was news to me.

Also, even if the destination itself isn’t wildly popular, you REALLY get your pick of the litter if you book an AirBNB well in advance.

The part about only taking one and not hunting down the server I get... but am I reading this right that one is expected to eat the morsel THEN take the napkin?

Yeah, we were hiring an entry level position recently and one of the candidates had the nerve to apply, sign up for an interview, and come in just to ask a question about salary (which was clearly communicated throughout the process) half way through and tell us “oh, that’s way too low. I was expecting something else”…

I remember being very young and being similarly confused about homelessness. I just assumed that the reason people were allowed to sleep on the streets or go hungry is because people didn’t know about it. I guess I was too innocent to concieve of a society where there that would be actively allowed. (Now, sadly, I’m…

Totally agree! Even something as small as “I’ll pick you up out front when I get there” is so much more easy when you can look and be like “yeah, he’s still 5 minutes away” lol