The tip I’ve been using with success has been is to see if the knobby stem remainder comes off. If it sticks in place it is unripe, if it comes off easily, it’s ripe. I’ll see how that compares with the bulb squeeze on future ones.

Ah, yes. Agreed they fuck with the growth off the median for sure. Driving it up too early, eventually causing it to correct. That’s a big part of the truism that “there is [always] a recession coming”. Could be today, could be 5 years, could be 10, but eventually the market will snap out of the inorganic growth, and…

I’m not sure if you are attacking me or the entire concept of stock market growth over the last 80 years. If you are attacking me, sorry, but I’m not the greedy/gleeful, nor rich. I’ve slowly been putting away money my entire adult life. I’m in for the long haul.

That’s why you shouldn’t pay attention to these kinds of dips. Long term, passive index investing for the win! Today just means stocks will be on “sale” for a while. With dollar cost averaging today will be a good day.

4% is a starting point, but there are good reasons to consider lower as well. See the great Big ERN SWR series. While he gets VERY detailed, even reading it at high level and skimming details will help you a lot: https://earlyretirementnow.com/2016/12/07/the-ultimate-guide-to-safe-withdrawal-rates-part-1-intro/

I learned three things from Good Eats about onions. First, the sulfur compounds in the gas reacts with the saline on your eyes to produce Sulfuric Acid. That is why it burns your eyes.

3 quarts a day?! Holy crap! Yeah, eating a huge portion of anything in your diet is likely to have a deleterious effect for at least some people.

When we had kids we were told this too, but I looked it up. It took a while to track down the source for this idea, and it was a study of elderly Japanese women, who ate a lot of soy. The study measured how much of the plant hormones were being urinated. So, different ages, different genders, different diets,…

In Wisconsin, it is totally legal for parents to serve their kids in bars, like pouring multiple beers from the pitchers or ordering them drinks. Crazy.

“Goodyear contended that Leroy Haeger was to blame for slamming on the vehicle’s brakes after the tire blew.” Hey Goodyear... Fuck you! Hitting the breaks when something crazy and loud happens to your vehicle is a completely reasonable reaction.

You are absolutely missing out by not funding a 401k. You can’t make up those contributions later, because they max out. And checkout the slow travel, early retirement community. You’ll find a lot of people that focused on savings at an early age, and now in their 30s and 40s are taking year long vacations, by moving…

You might feel smug, until you stumble on the FI/RE community and people that save >50% of the their income, and are financially independent by 35.

If you work at a company that uses Concur, you can usually get TripitPro for free. Check into that before paying for it yourself.

We went with an incredibly popular name for our first kid accidentally, but they didn’t have another one in there class until middle school. So that worked out by luck. I did, literally, try out the name by yelling it out the back door to “get back in the house”. So I approve of that test.

Or no so stacking ... and they cancel the order. :(

Or no so stacking ... and they cancel the order. :(

“After that you get unlimited high-speed data for free.” I think you meant “After that you still get unlimited, slower-speed data for free.”

Reminder to others that if there is room, you are allowed to bring your instrument in the cabin (and stow overhead if it fits)...  https://cms.dot.gov/airconsumer/final-rule-musical-instruments 

I have a fairly common name. This happens all the time to me. Also really annoying is people who seem to not know their own email address. ie, signing up for crap with my email address.  

In a previous community we noticed another trend. They didn’t open presents during the party. I don’t know if it was intentional, but it definitely addresses both no presents and “topper” presents making other kids feel terrible. So, I would recommend if people still bring presents, open them after everyone is gone.

My CISCO desk phone has a shutter. So they aren’t first, at least. I thought it was great, and was waiting for it to show up everywhere.