OT: Your best Life Hacks to share with the board.
What is your best Life Hack you can share with the board? I will share one that helped me yesterday. Yellow Jacket Nests can be a huge problem this time of year in SE Michigan and yesterday when I was mowing I got stung so to get rid of the threat here’s what you do. Locate the nest, fill a shoovac about 1/4 of the way full with a dish soap and water mixture. Put the suction by the entrance of the nest, turn on and leave on for two hours. I came back and emptied it and there were so many dead yellowjackets it was unreal. I stopped counting at 150, not kidding. If the nest is off the ground you may need duct tape to hold the suctioning hose in place. What is your best Life Hack for the board? Hopefully some juicy news comes out of camp and this thread won’t be the highlight of our day, but I thought it would hold us over for awhile.
Take Adderall... You'll get more done.
Maybe not hacks, but these things have always served me well:
1. Always make sure to have copious amounts of candy around your desk/Office. It makes you more inviting and is good at relieving stressful/combative situations; nobody gets mad if there are milk duds around.
2. Always admit when you are wrong and do it immediately. People are caught off guard by that and nearly always drop it out of shock that someone owned up.
3. Always give credit to others when possible. You look better as a manager if your team does well than if you are a superstar. Being known for developing leaders is the best accolade you can ever have.
These are good, but I bet you also also:
4. Under promise and over deliver.
also good, but I bet you also also also:
5. buy low and sell high.
Couldn't agree more about admitting mistakes right off the bat. It's saved my butt so many times when I'm in the middle of a "You did this/ No I didn't and here's my proof" argument and I have both the documentation AND a reputation for owning up to my mistakes, it tends to defuse the web of indignation the client has built up and they end up, not apologizing as that never seems to happen, but sheepishly leaving the meeting and dropping the point.
August 8th, 2018 at 12:01 PM ^
Yep. I'd much rather get the little bit of respect you get from owning up to something, than try to weasel out of it. Your reputation matters, a lot. People don't give me too much shit when I make mistakes, for exactly that reason.
Only complaint here is that Milk Duds are gross. Otherwise spot on.
Have a problem with your dog counter surfing or getting into the kitchen trash can?
Buy a package of mouse traps. Duct tape them to the trash can lid, or the counter top along the edge and set them. I've used this trick with three dogs and it works like magic. The mouse trap doesn't actually hurt them, it does alarm them and reinforce the fact that they're doing something wrong.
Also, for making really fancy, clear ice cubes, put your filled cube trays in a small cooler. Put the cooler, with the lid off, in your freezer.
Other than that, don't put your fingers anywhere you wouldn't put your face.
Until your dog accidentally puts their paw on it and breaks a bone.
i suspect it would take a very very small dog to have his bones broken by a mouse trap..... if you dog is that small, it's unlikely he can reach the counter top
If you wrap a beer in tin foil, it will keep it cold. Really handy on OSU days, they can't shit in a cooler that you don't have.
also works great when mowing the lawn.
Also, save your beer tin foils and use them to clean your grill grates. Crumple tin foil into a ball and start scrubbing, it works really well. Just be careful as the friction gets the tin foil hot after a while of scrubbing.
I find that strategic growing (and conversely, constant cultivating, because does it ever grow....) of spearmint has actually reduced the mosquito problems in the back of my yard (which is near a marsh) significantly. It seems to keep some species of ants and beetles away as well, so if insect management is a thing on your property, controlled growing of mint seems to help with that. I don't recommend doing this where you have a lot of neighbors, of course.
You can actually make natural insect repellents from dried mint too, it turns out, so we've done that as well.
This is good to know. I get so many ants.
If a website is blocked at work, you can use Google translate as a proxy. My work is weird and blocks just about everything, Youtube included.
Good one!
August 8th, 2018 at 10:06 AM ^
Can you elaborate on how that is done? This could be life changing for me.
August 8th, 2018 at 10:55 AM ^
This probably doesn't work for videos like YouTube, but for regular websites I've found that viewing the cached page (in Google search results, under the website title and next to the URL, click the down arrow and select Cached) or viewing the archived page at Wayback Machine gets around website filters.
Please elaborate on this....I'm intrigued
Please elaborate on this....I'm intrigued
Open Google Translate - Type in your web address you want into the first box then the second box will pop up with a link. Click on it and it will direct you to the site.
Let your mistress help your wife around the house. Your wife will thank you for it.
Get the American Express Super Platinum card, which allows you to convert MGoPoints into airline miles. It can really make interminable creation of board posts profitable.
Only take with you the minimum amount of cash needed for hookers and blow, and don't have any credit cards on you.
If you have a thing that you only do once a year (example, something related to your holiday decorations), put it in a Google Calendar as a repeating event and you essentially are leaving future you helpful tips.
This is also good for remembering to buy salt for my water softener and changing my insoles in my shoes
August 8th, 2018 at 12:20 PM ^
My reminder app is a lifesaver. If there's anything I need to remember and know I'll forget, which is basically everything, I put it in there and set the reminder for the future date I know I'll need it. Profit, or maybe just fail less.
I found that the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning.
August 8th, 2018 at 11:12 AM ^
Plutonium is also capable of producing your 1.21 gigawatt power demands. However, it's still as difficult to aquire in 2018 as it was in 1985 or 1955.
Here's a fun look a gigawatt vs jigawatt -
August 8th, 2018 at 11:16 AM ^
It is 2018 now so we should be able to purchase a Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor to create that 1.21 jigawatt.
Stop calling tips "life hacks" because, common nomenclature aside, that isn't at all what a hack is and it sounds fucking stupid.
YOU, my friend, are doing the lord's work. I about gagged when I read the title. Stupidest fucking phrase on the planet as of this moment.
August 8th, 2018 at 10:20 AM ^
Or use this established word that adequately and concisely describes these things: tips.
August 8th, 2018 at 10:21 AM ^
Best response to this thread. “Life Hacks”, “F5”...WTF are people talking about on here these days.
When I have a yellow jacket/hornet/wasp problem, I tell my son to take care of it. That seems to work for me.
I do the same with my son when I have a lawn's too long problem. The kid is indispensable.
August 8th, 2018 at 10:01 AM ^
What the heck is a "life hack"?
August 8th, 2018 at 10:08 AM ^
"If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone." -Jack Handy
August 8th, 2018 at 10:13 AM ^
About 6 months before your car warranty expires, pay a mechanic to find problems the company should cover. Even little ones. It extends the life & resale value of the car.
August 8th, 2018 at 10:22 AM ^
I swear I do not like ketchup that much, but here are two hacks to improve your ketchup experience.
1. When you are eating french fries at a place that has those little paper cups for ketchup. Take the cup and pull gently on the lip at one of the ridges. Alternate ridges as you pull the paper cup. You will now have a cup for holding ketchup that is substantially bigger than the tiny cup you originally had. Saves you the trouble of getting multiple cups to fill and it's better for the environment.
2. Take black pepper and sprinkle it in the ketchup, voila spicy ketchup for places that have not realized the vast superiority of spicy ketchup to regular.
August 8th, 2018 at 10:27 AM ^
The photos really sell this. Well done!
August 8th, 2018 at 10:29 AM ^
I keep a scrub brush (this one: https://goo.gl/images/sWWt1f ) in my dishwasher silverware tray for cleaning nasty pots and pans, and keep a clean one in the sink for normal cleaning.
This way the brush with the real grimy shit gets deep cleaned regularly (so I can always scrape the hard stuff from the pans) - but doesn't contaminate the stuff I hand wash.
August 8th, 2018 at 10:38 AM ^
Use more butter or oil to prevent getting all that nasty black shit on your pots and pans. If you need a hard sear on something, do it in cast iron.
August 8th, 2018 at 12:03 PM ^
You trying to make me even fatter?
Regardless, I still don't want to clean the pans with the same instrument as my hand wash items
Compare people in France and Italy to people in America. Let me know which is fatter. Cooking with oil isn't at all unhealthy, and cooking with butter is fine if you eat in moderation. Both also taste a whole hell of a lot better than a cooking spray.
And I clean my cast iron with a paper towel, salt, and a piece of chain mail. Definitely not using those on my non-stick pans.
August 8th, 2018 at 10:51 AM ^
- Spend every second you possibly can with your kids. Every second. Even when you're tired and grouchy. They leave for their own life faster than I would have believed possible.
- Take the time to do something out of the house as a family regularly.
- Never marry someone with anger problems or someone that says irresponsible things while angry. It will only get worse over time.
- If there is a facet of your personality you want to change, act like you've already changed. Every day. Pretend. If you do this consistently over a long period of time, you will find that you have changed. You are how you act, eventually.
The only actual lifehack I have is the following: every time you're upset about your life, stop and find a way to be grateful for what you do have. See point 4. Its the number one thing that's changed my life for the better. This sounds stupid and is, in reality, the most powerful life tool there is.
Oh, and you can live almost anywhere on earth and get cable and internet without access to a cable/internet provider if you have a good friend with internet within 100 miles, and are willing to bend some rules and spend 50 to 1000 dollars (depending on distance).
August 8th, 2018 at 11:02 AM ^
This post is full of good advice, but these are better;
1) Bananas spoil less quickly if you wrap the stem end with cellophane.
2) Bananas are much easier to open from the non-stem end.
August 8th, 2018 at 11:05 AM ^
Much more practical than my post.
We actually get bananas here from a store that pre-wraps the ends before they put them out.
God bless Wegmans.
I was thinking about bananas yesterday as I tried to peel one while driving. In our town (probably in most), hand held devices are illegal while driving. I actually had a harder time peeling the banana than I would dialing someone on my cel. Should a banana be considered a hand-held device?