"First World Problem"? As if the whole discussion of which $500 piece of technology is more suitable for checking Facebook isn't a First World Problem?

That's the proper pronunciation in Spanish. Spain Spanish pronounces the soft 'c' as a 'th' sound. Latin American Spanish, however, gives it an 's' sound.

Or just use some lemon juice.... I think the point of the lemon is the smell.

Understood :) BTW I don't really like the way my last post came off. I didn't mean to sound like an ass, I was just pointing out that the more material things you own, the more things you have to fix and replace. My cheap car cost about as much as that transmission you bought for yours, and it has served me well. I…

My solution? Rent. Home ownership cost you $6,000. (I'm not going into the pros and cons of renting vs. buying. Just sayin')

The author doesn't say anything about market timing. All they are talking about is avoiding the high costs that some funds charge. Essentially he's saying the opposite of your interpretation; that fund investors can't beat the market and therefore aren't worth the money.

Ultimately, life is a sentence of failures, punctuated only by the briefest of successes. So the mediocre person learns two things from failure: First, he learns directly how to overcome that particular failure. He’s highly motivated to not repeat the same mistakes. Second, he learns how to deal with the psychology of…

I'm glad you mentioned this. I was going to bring up UU if you hadn't. My partner and I just attended our first Sunday Universal Unitarian congregation and loved it. No dogma, just peace, love, and experience (wow, I sound like a flower child). Nobody was trying to force ideas into our heads. And to top it off, people…

In my experience, Meetup has both. I'm living in a small city, so "20s and 30s happy hour group" means that anywhere from 8 to 15 people show up, whereas in a big city, I could definitely see a much bigger turnout. However, in my city there are also very specific groups like "Dance Lovers of xxx city", language…

I am thrilled to hear that I'm not the only one who does that. I still think about awkward moments and phases in my life that people probably forgot long ago, maybe minutes after it happened, or that they may not even have noticed, and those memories shape my self-confidence. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

I'm a huge fan of Meetup, and I've only gone to 3 events. I moved to a new town a few months ago, work in a small company, and haven't met many people with whom I could see myself being "friends" (don't get me wrong, my coworkers are great, but most of them are in their 40's and have a family. I'm in my 20's and…

Except for staying awake...