The 5.11 tactical shirt is simply the best field/hiking shirt I have owned. If you are the kind of person who juggles maps ...

Once a week we’ll send out a page from Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities. The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work. We present these vintage ...

Get Happy Money Why It Matters Research shows we often fail to spend money in ways that maximize our happiness. Happy Money, by Elizabeth Dunn & Michael Norton, provides a research-backed framework ...

Now Offering Paid Subscriptions I’m now offering paid subscriptions to Gar’s Tips & Tools. It’s $8/month or $80/year. So, what do you get for your paid subscription? Same great tips, only carefully ...

How to find purpose The purpose of your life is to discover the purpose of your life. If that sounds recursive, it is. No one has pushed harder on untangling that strange loop than Dan Pink, whose ...

Best power bank for pro users With 140W of power, the Anker 737 PowerCore 24K power bank is beefy enough to juice up a laptop. It’s hefty — 1.3 pounds and the size of a soda can — but that’s the ...

Get The Let Them Theory The Let Them Theory is an approach to relationships and personal growth that teaches you how to stop trying to control things you can’t control — especially other people’s ...

PHYSICAL Beat up old guitar: my guitar is an old guitar that a friend gave me after she fell off a bodaboda (local motor bike transport) in Uganda and got the side bashed in. It sounds reasonably okay ...

THE LONGEST DAY OF THE FUTURE – CHRIS WARE MEETS TERRY GILLIAM The Longest Day of the Future by Lucas Varela Fantagraphics 2016, 112 pages, 7.8 x 10.5 x 0.6 inches (hardcover) Buy on Amazon On this ...

Solo Surcharges on U.S. Airlines First reported by Thrifty Traveler and then confirmed by others, it came to light last week that the three big legacy U.S. airlines have been secretly charging solo ...

Auditing personal info on web Google has made it easier to see what personal information about you is currently posted on the web. Go to the Results About You page at Google, and fill out the form. It ...

FRAGMENTS OF HORROR – WONDERFULLY CREEPY STORIES THAT ARE AS WEIRD AS THEY ARE ORIGINAL Fragments of Horror by Junji Ito Viz Media 2015, 224 pages, 5.8 x 8.2 x 0.8 inches (hardcover) Buy on Amazon ...