A few months ago, after being inundated with credit and loan offers, I decided it was time for me to learn how to get rid of junk mail. Unlike unsolicited emails - or spam - junk mail comes with the onus of disposal, and I have enough trouble recycling the rubbish I intentionally bring into [...]

Barking Mad, a self-described mommy blogger, recently posted a write-up of How to Get Rid of Things, How to Clean Things and some of our smaller projects. This woman should be writing for the Washington Post. She’s good. Maybe I’m just biased because the article focuses a lot on me, Captain Important. Anyway, go check [...]

My introduction to trojan horses came last year as I tried to download a patch to one of my computer games. Instead of using the game’s website - which was obnoxiously slow - I haphazardly downloaded what appeared to be the patch from Limewire. I was impatient to play, and I paid for it. Instantly [...]

Things have been a bit hectic for me as of late, and I haven’t been as diligent in my attention to household cleaning as I should. Well, after finding a writhing, living garbage bag in my garage, I made a solemn vow to change. If I hadn’t left a rancid trash bag in [...]

Fleas are a tricky bunch, and I don’t think I need to add that they are a main source of horror for dogs and dog owners alike. The tricky part: there can be a million of them, and they can get anywhere and everywhere because they are small and because they take various forms (adult, [...]

The words inspire dread and often a shudder: back acne. Use the term “bacne” and you may even draw a grimace. It’s one of those personal hygiene situations that doesn’t get talked about much, though we’ve all had it - unless some among us have made a deal with the gods. Exactly how acne gets [...]

The question is as old the study of dermatology itself: should that pulsating whitehead be popped, or is it best to let it run its course? When I used to get whiteheads, invariably someone with flawless, unblemished skin would warn me, sternly but not without compassion, that popping whiteheads would leave scars and make my [...]

“Hi. My name is Eric…and I have IBS. My back end has been clean for 4 hours and 18 minutes.” While I have not joined a support group for IBS sufferers, they are out there, in groves. And “why?” you ask. Because there are lots of us out there, it’s a huge pain in the [...]

There are armies of lab-coated, Ivy League graduates working tirelessly in secret underground labs to solve the problem as we speak. No, I’m not talking about global warming. These scientists are working on how to stop hair loss, which, though untold millions would celebrate the day a cure is found, isn’t even classified as [...]

If you’ve got psoriasis, your main problem (after you figure out how to spell it) is probably trying to discover ways to relieve your symptoms. Or maybe you’re not sure whether or not you have psoriasis but have spots on your arms, or your back, that are making you itch like a maniac. My latest [...]