Justin Reinhart

My Blood Donor Card Is Here

Jul

5

2013

It is cool to be a card-carrying member of something. I am now a card-carrying blood donor with the American Red Cross. (I’m also a card-carrying member of the Larry Miller Drinking Society.)

Friday Pastafarian Horoscope

Jul

5

2013

A raw piece of garlic falls in the shadow of the meatball today. Avoid unnecessary risks.

Ultimate Money: Amazon Subscribe & Save

Jul

2

2013

For the longest time I avoided Amazon.com’s Subscribe & Save feature because I thought there would be a catch. There isn’t. It is a no-obligations cancel-anytime way to shop for groceries and supplies at a further discounted rate beyond that already offered by Amazon. Here is some info and some tips, using this bag of ...

Ultimate Money: Coinstar Gift Card Conversion

Jul

1

2013

Did you know Coinstar® coin-counting kiosks will do a 100% conversation–no hefty fee–if you convert your metallic monies into gift cards instead of cash? Make sure to read on the on-screen instructions, but you can expect to convert 100% of your loose change, for example, to an Amazon.com gift card. If you were already going ...

Duplicate Tab Helper for Chrome 2

Jun

20

2013

For about a year I have been privately using a Chrome Extension that I designed and I’ve recently released it to the public. How Duplicate Tab Helper Works Prevents duplicate tabs effortlessly. Duplicate Tab Helper prevents the opening of duplicate URLs at the moment new tabs are opened. If a duplicate is found, the newer ...

How to Wash Your Keyboard 2

Jun

20

2013

I routinely clean my keyboard about every 6 months using a dishwasher. Didn’t know you could do that? Well you can if you follow some simple rules. In theory, you can wash any electronics as long as there is NO electricity because of NO power source including NO micro-batteries and NO capacitors that could store electricity. ...

HowStuffWorks Website Clutter

Jun

17

2013

I was having a conversation about how much I love HowStuffWorks podcasts, and I find it remarkable how much I greatly dislike HowStuffWorks.com the website. In fact, I can’t stand it. As it currently stands, pick any page at random and you will see 20 different sidebars or image captions trying to get your attention. Without ...

Resolving Dropbox Sync vs. EFS0.tmp 10

Jun

10

2013

I decided to write about this problem on my blog because EFS0.tmp and Dropbox are not associated on Google, and I personally had trouble finding a resolution to this issue due to some red herrings. For example, although EFS0.tmp or EFS1.tmp files are in Dropbox, they won’t show up in a windows search, nor will ...

Give Blood

Jun

10

2013

Apparently we are genetically designed to expect some blood loss, so you should go lose some. Right now. Men, in particular, have no way to excrete excess iron besides blood loss or chelation (dangerous). This probably applies to all heavy metals as well. Simple solution? You should go hit up a Red Cross location and ...

Unity Extension for Logging Syntax

Jun

8

2013

I have grown tired of writing the line of code required to log a variable to the Unity console. It gets old. In C# there is a concept by the name of “Extensions” that lets you extend classes that are locked and cannot be inherited from. Using extensions I was able to improve the syntax ...