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Jason is Editor in Chief of LifeSavvy, How-To Geek's sister site focused on helping people live their best life through tips, tricks, and advice on everything from parenting to career building. Prior to that, he was the Founding Editor of Review Geek, another How-To Geek sister site focused on consumer products and services. Jason has over a decade of experience in publishing and has penned thousands of articles during his time at LifeSavvy, Review Geek, How-To Geek, and Lifehacker. In addition to his current duties as Editor in Chief of LifeSavvy, he's an Editorial Advisor on How To-Geek's editorial board where he helps direct the growth and vision of the How-To Geek family. He's also the site's resident trivia expert---relentlessly poring over research and publications in search of the bizarre to amaze and delight 365 days a year.
He's been in love with technology since his earliest memories of writing simple computer programs with his grandfather, but his tech writing career took shape back in 2007 when he joined the Lifehacker team as their very first intern. After cutting his teeth on tech writing at Lifehacker and working his way up, he left as Weekend Editor and transferred over to How-To Geek in 2010. With years of awesome fun, writing, and hardware-modding antics at How-To Geek under his belt, Jason helped launch How-To Geek's sister site Review Geek in 2017. In 2019, he stepped back from his role at Review Geek to focus all his energy on LifeSavvy.
In addition to the long run as a tech writer and editor, Jason spent over a decade as a college instructor doing his best to teach a generation of English students that there's more to success than putting your pants on one leg at a time and writing five paragraph essays. While his days of steering students towards greatness are behind him, his lifelong desire to delight, entertain, and inform lives on with his work for How-To Geek and Review Geek.
If you're looking for him after hours, he's probably four search queries and twenty obscenities deep in a DIY project or entranced by the limitless exploration possibilities of some open-world game or another. He loves long walks on virtual beaches, playing worker placement board games with inconsequential themes, and spending time with his wife, daughter, and highly opinionated dog Cricket.
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Legend originally meant “things to be read”, and in an era when both literacy and the written word were rare, to be “legendary” was considered to be worthy of being recorded for future generations to read about.
Jerry Springer, best known for his rowdy talk show, was previously the Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sting sings backup vocals on the Dire Straits hit single Money for Nothing; you can hear him very clearly at the beginning and end of the song singing “I want my, I want my, I want my MTV” in falsetto.
Think your Internet connection is slow? The New Horizons space probe communicated with NASA at a glacial-speed of 1 kilobit per second.
Muppets are almost always left handed; this is due to the fact that the puppeteers that control them use their dominant hand (usually right) to control the head of the muppet and their non-dominant hand (usually left) to control the wand which moves the muppet’s hand.
The iconic photograph of U.S. Marines raising the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima is the only photograph that has ever won a Pulitzer Prize for Photography the same year it was published.
Looking for a clever palindromic name for your cat? “Taco Cat” is “Taco Cat” spelled backwards.
Cunningham’s Law, named after the inventor of the wiki, Ward Cunningham, states that the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer.
The game of Rock, Paper, Scissors is a long lived one; the game dates all the way back to the time of the Chinese Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD).
A jog around the bases of a baseball diamond is the same distance as a jog across a football field.
Although the name “Big Ben” is often used to refer to the bell tower of the Palace of Westminster, the tower itself is actually the Elizabeth Tower—Big Ben is the nickname of the bell inside.
In China, it’s bad form to name a child directly after an older relative (as that would encourage younger members of a family to inappropriately use the personal name of an elder).
The ill-fated New Coke recipe of the mid 1980s was a retooling of Coca-Cola’s Diet Coke recipe with high fructose corn syrup added in and a slightly different balance of ingredients.
Best known as a pet food company, Purina has dabbled in human foods including breakfast cereals (like Cookie Crisp), pizza (Checkerboard Pizza in the mid-1980s), and for a period of time, even owned the bakeries producing Wonder Bread.
The opposite of “ambidextrous” (to be equally coordinated in the use of both hands) is “ambisinister” (to be equally clumsy in the use of both hands).
It took the Lord of the Rings costume designers the better part of two years to make all the costumes for the film and in the process, they handmade 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) worth of chainmail links.
The scaly-foot gastropod (snail), Chrysomallon squamiferum, lives on deep sea thermal vents found in the Indian Ocean and creates armored scales for its foot out of iron sulfide harvested from the vents (the shell is also mineralised with iron sulfide).
Portobello mushrooms are not a distinct mushroom species, but just a fully mature version of the common white and brown mushroom varieties of Agaricus bisporus.
The mechanism in mechanical watches and clocks that transfers energy to the timekeeping element and allows for the counting of oscillations is known as the “escapement”; this key invention, developed in the 13th century, is what made all mechanical clocks even possible.
Although it is widely believed that all calico colored cats are female, both male and female cats can have the coloration (but it’s a rare mutation in males and typically renders them sterile in the process).
In 1958, Crayola changed the crayon color “Prussian Blue” to “Midnight Blue” when research revealed that children had no idea what Prussia was.
Kid gloves, the basis of the metaphor “to handle with kid gloves”, as in to handle very carefully, are a real product traditionally made from kidskin, the skin of young goats.
Just like we call our young children infants, we’ve named the young of other primate species (like apes, gorillas, and monkeys) in the same fashion; the young of primate species are called infants too.
