Doug, great car choice. Such a beautiful piece of junk, just like the Millenium Falcon. No, seriously that is a gorgeous car with the best sounding exhaust note. It ticks all the boxes for interesting, rare, and unreliable.

I agree!

Here, Here! I love my 2013 Moto X (well most of the time). It can be a bit slow at times, but that’s only when I’ve filled up all the storage (stupid lack of an SD card and apps like United Airlines that take up nearly 200mb!). It does need a new battery as the battery life is crap now, either it’s the mobile radio…

Yeah, I’ll bet you have....BLAM!

Nothing as long as you have good technique, which matters with all methods of sharpening.

That’s not a sharpener, it’s usually a ridged honing steel which is only meant to touch-up a slightly dull knife by straightening the bent over edge (which is the first thing that happens to a knife as it dulls). It won’t sharpen a really dull knife and you can’t touch up small nicks or chips with it.

That actually sounds better than real eggnog. I might have to try that

If I have a vacation where I know I will be doing physical activity, I’ll probably bring more. But I’m also planning on commando days ;)

Do you think it’s on the low or high side?

Seriously. 7 items of “lounging wear”? If I’m going on a week trip I usually pack in my bag:

The owner of USP Connectors?

I agree. Omitting how the post gets attached to the concrete is a serious oversight.

Yea, that was my comment he was responding to. I called him out on it since he doesn’t show it or even reference it as you said. That newel post he is installing is also hanging over the edge of the concrete footing, which tells me that he didn’t plan it well since the newel post should land squarely on the landing.

There is also this option:

As an architect I concur.

You can use your new found knowledge at parties to woo members of whatever gender you are attracted to.

Tim, next time can you vet these posts better? I like to think that Lifehacker is a pretty quality website, but occasionally unsafe posts like these pop up. Instead of the stipulation you added, I think you should really change this post to say, “If your contractor builds your deck like this, please fire him and…

Thank you for making this point! I was suspicious when I read the post title and was flabberghasted when I watched the video. Not anchoring the bottom of the post is so unsafe and the effort you have to go through to put the lag bolts in the bottom and get them level is more than just using the proper post base…

Seems like his training to play Wolverine payed off for your mum!

Reggie Watts is also a pretty cool dude. I met him once at a food shindig in NYC, that my boss was part of, where he was the musical guest and after it was over, he hung outside with us for awhile to chat and then rode away on his fold-up bike.