True, medical costs will likely be the biggest expense during retirement, but also will be the hardest to budget for pre-retirement. Ugh.

One thing I hate about these things is that it seriously overestimates your retirement expenses if you have kids. I have no idea what percentage of my income goes towards the kids, but its a lot.

I wonder if taking the mask off affected him negatively. One time I got poked in the eye with some wire, and it was amazing how it affected me. I was involuntarily slow and ginger with everything for a day or two.

Doesn't this also reduce traction since there is less tire in contact with the road? I'm guessing race car tires get bigger as the cars go faster for a reason.

Ugh...I've got one of these and it sucks. I have to reboot the sucker a couple times a week, and it has crap logging so you can't do a lot to debug any issues. I can't wait to get rid of this POS when I've got the $$'s to get something new.

Very nicely done! I would suggest adding an oscilloscope and a bench-style voltmeter instead of the handheld, but its still an awesome setup.

I've had awesome results just adding spices to a jar of Ragu and simmering it for a while. It'll taste just like homemade. Seriously

Oh good, so its not just me that never reads the comments. ;-)

I can't be the only one that thinks about ninja turtles whenever I see USMNT in a headline?

That's a great idea! The complexity of my taxes goes up and down from year to year, so there's definitely been a few years where I've been tempted to try it out again.

I'm pretty sure Turbo Tax was completely correct for the information I entered. I'm totally the one who's untrustworthy to get the information entered correctly.

I used to use Turbo Tax the first few years I was out of college, until one year I had sent in my taxes and thought everything was complete and then got a letter from the IRS and a $1200 check because of some mistake.

I'm not talking about the random manhole cover type questions. The type I like to ask are relevant to the position, but might be "adjacent" to something they've done previously.

In technical interviews, a lot of times I'll ask questions that I'm pretty sure that the interviewee won't know, but should be able to reason out from the different bits of experience on his or her resume. In those cases, I'll be clear that I'm looking for thought process and the ability to connect the dots.

That's not exactly how I meant it. The R-values will give you a fairly precise number for the amount of heat that will be lost at that spot, but the heat will still escape from other areas. Think of it like patching a bucket full of holes. You can patch the biggest holes in the bucket, but the water loss just goes…

Its not a fair comparison. Battery tech has changed some, but Moore's Law doesn't apply outside of semiconductors.

Kit Kat broke my ability to get work email on my phone using EAS. Jackasses.

Back in the 80's, my Dad modified an Atari 2600 cartridge to have a prom socket on it, and he gave me a huge printout of all the games they could burn onto eproms at his work. I only ever had 10 or so games/eproms at a time, because inevitably we'd put one into the socket backwards and burn out the prom, or leads…

This is just confirmation of the joke that Bonds has become. Why the outrage?

Personally, I'm blessed to have a good, secure job, but with the prices of lots of basic needs going up (groceries, electricity, health insurance, etc), and my paycheck not going up at all, its hard to feel the security.