While travel often is something we plan weeks and months in advance with specific travel dates in mind, sometimes you just know where you want to go and you’re willing to make that trip whenever it makes sense.
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Author: Emily Price
Buy Committee: I Moved North and I Desperately Need a Coat. Help?
Hello, Buy Committee, it’s me, filling in for your usual host Tercius. I’m writing this while staring out my window in Columbus, Ohio, where it’s currently snowing on November 7. As somebody who’s never before lived north of the Mason-Dixon line, it’s dawning on me that my coat closet is woefully underprepared for the…
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Author: Shep McAllister on The Inventory, shared by Ana Suarez to Lifehacker
What’s The Worst Thing You’ve Ever Seen While Flying?
Anyone who travels by air enough likely has a very specific set of pet peeves based on all the terrible things they’ve experienced while flying—but there are some things that go totally above and beyond small annoyances. You know, those things that you just cannot believe someone actually did, those things that leave…
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Author: Elizabeth Blackstock on Jalopnik, shared by Virginia K. Smith to Lifehacker
Put Your Holiday Guests On This Air Mattress That Actually Keeps Itself Inflated Overnight
Casper might be the best mattress for everyone, but not for your houseguests. Put them on this discounted Insta-Bed, marked down to $86, which is the best price in nearly two years.
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Author: Shep McAllister on Kinja Deals, shared by Ana Suarez to Lifehacker
Seriously, Update Your Old Windows 7 PCs and Windows Servers Right Now
We’ve made several posts over the past year about “BlueKeep,” a serious exploit present in Windows 7's remote desktop protocol (RDP) that could allow a hacker to take control of someone’s PC. Hell, we even covered recent news about the first successful use of BlueKeep attacks earlier this week, wherein hackers…
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Author: Brendan Hesse
Play These ‘Pencil-and-Paper’ Games With Your Kid
There are many times during the course of parenting that you find yourself somewhere with a kid, waiting for something to happen. You might be waiting for the doctor to call you back for an appointment, waiting for your food to arrive in the restaurant or waiting for the plane to land. You need something to do, so you…
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Author: Meghan Moravcik Walbert on Offspring, shared by Meghan Moravcik Walbert to Lifehacker
This Vermouth and Pear Cocktail Is Ideal for Crisp Evenings
I always love the idea of pears more than the actual fruit, primarily because—like avocados—their “aw, hell yeah” window is very short. But pear brandy never fails me; the flavor is consistently good, the mouthfeel is never gritty, and the ABV hovers around 40%.
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Author: Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker
Make Your Own Holiday Gifts With This Cricut Explore Air 2 For $199
Cricut Explore Air 2 Mint | $199 | Amazon
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Author: Eric Ravenscraft on Kinja Deals, shared by Ana Suarez to Lifehacker
CDC Officially Confirms Vitamin E Acetate as Prime Suspect in Vaping Illnesses
The CDC announced today that they are finally on board with the leading theory about what’s causing the vaping illness they are calling EVALI: vitamin E acetate, found mainly in THC vapes. A new technique for sampling lung fluid revealed that all of the patients tested—a convenience sample of 29 people from 10…
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Author: Beth Skwarecki on Vitals, shared by Beth Skwarecki to Lifehacker
If You Use Amazon’s Ring Doorbell Devices, Change Your Wifi Password
If you’re using one of Amazon’s Ring doorbell devices, you should change your home wifi network password immediately. According to Techcrunch, Ring doorbell devices were sharing wifi passwords as cleartext—unencrypted text data, essentially—with users’ smartphones during setup. This leaves home networks and any…
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Author: Brendan Hesse