Finally we won’t have to watch the actor fiddling with the steering wheel pretending to drive while the car is either in a soundstage or on the back of a flatbed truck.

So much for the "folk process".

Actually, by far the best book on Investing I have ever read is:

My guess is the artist grabbed the map off of some image archive and touched it up to make "The Last City". I doubt they really wanted to make a connection to the actual location. They probably just thought the map looked cool!

There was another study about a year ago (did I read it here?) where they found that while parents with kids were less happy, they were more satisfied — it is hard work, but it is extremely satisfying!

"I felt a great disturbance in France, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

Reading Lifehacker, of course!

Why the Subaru Tribeca? Soccer moms gone bad? Or is it the new street racer of choice?

Yup - If you have kids, the first thing you do is to find a good school. Then you try to find a house as close to the school as possible. After that everything is easy!

In College I took a great course on the Scientific Method - obviously it was not just the silly outline you get in your first grade school science class - it went into all sorts of detail ranging from where good science questions come from to detailing what scientists actually do in the lab on a day to day basis.

Ray Kurzweil's Accelerating Intelligence

I use a standing/walking desk for busy-work like emails and looking up stuff on the web, but when I have to focus, I have to sit, and, like the author, I recline and stick my feet straight out - though I haven not tried it with my feet up! (I use a Herman Miller Envelope Desk with their Embody chair.)

More money = more stuff = more time spent looking after and fixing said stuff.

I write while my kids are in school (9 to 3) and so my peak time is the 90 min cycle from 10:30 to Noon. Before kids I was a night owl, but now I am able to be creative by keeping a strict schedule — imposed on me by my kids!

All sound advice but I am still waiting for the part where the magic pony comes in and suddenly you make money from it all - or at least enough money to live on - and especially for the first 10 years it takes you to figure out how to write something people will actually pay money to read!

The kids making marriage less enjoyable is probably true, but the deeper truth is explored pretty well in this article in the NYT: raising children is stressful but extremely satisfying.

Best cure: Suck on a teaspoon of honey. Works every time.

A great book I read before we redid our home was "Not So Big House" which makes the case of designing your house (& your budget) around the things that you do every day - basically make a list of the things you do most in each room and then focus the remodeling on making those things easier and more enjoyable.

I smell a Pulitzer, John Cook! Oh, no, wait, that's just butt.

Toddlers sleep 12 hours - you sleep 3 because they are in your bed kicking you!