That 25% rule is very difficult to live by in many housing markets, including NYC, SF, Seattle, and others. But what doesn’t get mentioned enough is the “residual income” - what you have left over afterwards. So if you’re in a housing market where housing costs around the national average, or around $225,000 with…

Now now, everything has its place in nature. No one takes issue with your position as global asshole, so let’s not assert we should proactively exterminate nature’s lazy people.

When visiting Tokyo in 2012 we had a reservation at Sukiyabashi Jiro (of Jiro Dreams of Sushi fame.) We were served by both he and his son, and things were going great until I hit the 16th piece, shako (or, Mantis Shrimp.) It was sickly sweet, a slight sandy, chewy texture, and I was already completely full (those…

We (okay, I) need an article about how to maintain your financial well being when the rest of your immediate family are financially irresponsible and routinely lean on you for help - and manage to maintain the relationships.

I just did the math on this and with rent of $1500 a month, for a single person, you’d need to clear about $80,000 a year to save 50% spending virtually nothing else other than $400 monthly on food and $500 monthly on bills/everything else. You’d need to make $115,000 for 75%. In other words, you’d need to be in about…

If you live in a part of the country that has no water issues, like the Northeast, point out to him that saving water is not particularly important here and move on

Speaking for New York, they are absolutely all over the place. All over it. You just don’t see them very much because they usually have boring jobs like operations compliance officer or analyst or associate accountant and they’re still in the “get dumped on” years where they get to work more hours for less pay. You…

Thankfully, this is not nearly as bad as I’d feared. Despite awkward attempts to “balance” things, they seem to have largely retained the necessary facts.

The cutesy, creepy loli stuff is what’s really wrong with anime.

So...this means that the entire population of gentrified Brooklyn is going to complain about their depression again instead of their gluten sensitivity?

I would tend to agree. Drawing media attention to cyber bullying that led someone to jump from a bridge is a worthwhile endeavor, particularly when it deters others from doing the same, hopefully by outing the bullies and destroying their lives.

Warehouse techno party, North Williamsburg, early 2004 - my now-wife came up to me and remarked on how she saw me at not only techno parties, but also drum and bass and goa trance parties (these scenes don't really mix, at all.) The next week we went to see one of my friends DJ at a small bar in East Village (Sin Sin,…

There is absolutely a need to boycott intentionally half-baked games. It sends a pretty clear message when you sell 200,000 copies of the initial game with most modes and features being DLC, and then a million more copies when you sell a complete package later.

To clarify: none of the people I know personally violated their NDAs, and I felt the need to post a disclaimer because Nintendo is quite aggressive about ensuring both current and former employees adhere to their terms to the letter. There is a reason why there is very little leakage of information and very little in…

I know about half a dozen current and former Nintendo employees, mostly in marketing. (They had a New York satellite office that closed down last year, and had offered most of the staff either transfers to Redmond or generous severances.) First, to the Nintendo overlords - no one ever violated any NDA’s, so don’t go…

I used to love this show, but unfortunately its creator, Jhonen Vasquez, severely mistreated my wife at New York Comic Con a few years ago, and we haven't been able to enjoy it since. She went up and spoke to him at his booth to tell him how much she loved Zim, and he completely went off on her, snidely complaining…

Got it. I'm a dum-dum.

Ummm...I don't see how

You completely misread that:

"One or two twenties? LOL. Don't bring your 60 douchey friends with $40 each expecting to have the greatest night ever. After two drinks with tip, you'll have maybe $10 left."

She's saying, bring a hell of a lot more.

really? move on with your life!