Guys, guys, guys.... both sides are equally to blame here. Like, yes, Ivanka is given an actual government job, actual access, and is shown to be clearly using it to advance her personal agenda... But, on the other hand, a teenager drank underage and posted an anti-Trump meme... so, I think we can safely say that they…

Whether you’d rather quote Spider-Man, Churchill, or Luke 12:48, it is no novel concept that increased authority is coupled with increased responsibility. It seems like too many are happy with the increased authority but fail to embrace any increased responsibility.

For NYC, if you are just visiting, you might not realize how walkably close something is. I’ve found that many times, taking the subway will take longer and you’ll end up walking almost as far as if you had just walked directly to your destination. (And, of course, for easy calculations, remember that it’s 20 streets…

I’m the type of person who automatically responds with “no thanks” when a store employee comes up to me and asks “can I help you find anything” (even when I actually do need help) so I totally hear you.

Yes, it would take more money in total... but that’s not the point. Regardless of the total population of the nation (30 million or 300 million) any given restaurant can only service up to x customers. Of course, there are more restaurants in the United, but we can presume that the ratio of restaurants to clients is…

ApplePay is a method for paying with your existing credit cards so that isn’t an issue. I use my Delta American Express card to pay for most purchases. Whether I make that payment online on Amazon’s website, or at a store by swiping a physical card, or by calling in and giving a customer service rep my card number…

It’s so simple, convenient, and effective. I’m a big advocate of ApplePay and when I tell people in the US about how I long for a day when it is accepted everywhere, someone inevitably says “oh, so at a restaurant I’m supposed to just give my phone to a waiter and have them walk to the back with it” and I shake my…

My partner and I bought a home together when we moved in with each other 5 years ago at the end of 2013 at ages 30 and 32. We didn’t have a ton saved up but felt that we could buy for about the same as rent and wanted to own instead of rent. I only heard from friends who recently bought a home that you could get a…

I have a shakshuka recipe that calls for crushing whole peeled canned tomatoes with my hands and its legit my favorite part of making the dish.

When we had a few snowy days last year the directive came out that, if people choose to stay at home because of the weather, they could either work from home or use a vacation day. I immediately told my staff that they better not be stupid enough to use a vacation day lol. At least do some token work, but don’t spend…

I started a new job a year ago and have realized that in my new office, there is really no such thing as a sick day - there are only “work from home because they aren’t feeling well” days. It’s like everyone is fighting to make sure everyone else knows “but I’ll be on email all day!”

I’m pretty confident that the ONLY apps that I have any notification rule set are the phone, text messages, email, and app updates. (And the last one is because I just personally like to see what new features are being rolled out.) I almost have my phone on mute 99.9% of the time and the only notifications I have for…

Actually, this is a solution to a problem I do face: I drive through Starbucks on my way to work from time to time and the coffee is usually so hot I end up burning my tongue and it doesn’t get drinkable until I’m practically to work which kind of defeats the purpose. I never thought about keeping some car whiskey…

I used to always recommend this as well, but a few years ago I broke down and bought a backup battery large enough to charge my phone 7-8 times and now realize that the only thing better than making sure I can access an outlet is not needing an outlet for the foreseeable future of this journey.

To be fair, there are still plenty of uses for only using them within a 4-mile radius unit-to-unit without relying on a mesh. Communicating on a cruise ship or where the network is down/non-existent and sharing GPS data and text messages while camping/hiking being two great examples that wouldn’t really need a mesh to…

To be fair, there are still plenty of uses for only using them within a 4-mile radius unit-to-unit without relying…

Neat, I didn’t realize that walkie talkies or ham radios could share GPS data and text messages with others. Link to which ones have that feature for $40 please because I’m interested.

Neat, I didn’t realize that walkie talkies or ham radios could share GPS data and text messages with others. Link to…

Sometimes, when faced with a world so unjust, I escape into my mind and think about how the world would look if we treated white-collar tax evaders or embezzlers with the same passionate aggression that we treat people who sit on the floor or sell loose cigarettes. 

In a similar vein, whenever I am packing for a trip, the first thing I actually do is to pack the clothes I’ll wear the day I travel. If I don’t, the stuff I end up planning to wear on the plane, in the car, or whatever, will end up in my luggage with the rest of my clothes and then I have to fish them out. Plus,…

If La Croix decided to make a juniper flavored seltzer, it would still have a more potent juniper flavor than this latte. I was equally underwhelmed.

It’s a tough time to just get started drinking beer because, in my experience, everyone seems to be playing this hideous game called “how many hops can we cram into a craft beer and then talk about how good it tastes” and I really struggle with that. But there are so many good options out there - you’re almost…