between life insurance policies and my retirement accounts, my beneficiaries will get about $1M. since I’m also single and childless that money will go to charity.

I grew up fairly well off but my parents were pretty good about not spoiling me or my brother. We never wanted for food or clothing, but we also didn’t get everything we wanted (toys, video games, trips, etc. were sparse). My dad had us do all of the chores/home repairs ourselves. We clipped coupons. We shopped in…

life insurance. my older brother died last year with absolutely no real assets other than the $30 in his wallet. my parents got $500k from a life insurance policy that had been taken out on him as a small child.

Will someone please get this motherfucking Han Solo off this motherfucking plane?

the Wii was in short supply for the first year and a half of release. Restocks sold out the day they were put out. In the Spring of 07 in most of the country you had to either be in the right place at the right time (like you were) or plan ahead if you wanted a console. Toysrus for example had a guaranteed shipment on…

Your second sentence does not agree with your first.

No. You were discussing it. You were dismissing pre-orders as silly but you haven’t come up with any particular reason not to do it. It’s like buying a concert ticket. If you’re interested in going to the show (or in this case playing the system on release day), you purchase the ticket in advance instead of waiting in…

why wouldn’t you just pre-order it if you knew you wanted to get one on launch day? A reputable retailer isn’t going to charge you until it ships, it’s a pretty short time window between announcement and launch day, and it sure as hell beats standing in line or driving all over the place looking for a system.

they won a big ten championship after starting out the season 2-2. I’m not sure any Penn State fan is really all that sad today.

because he’s 6'5", runs a 4.3 40, and wasn’t very good as a QB.

Same here. I’m a 33 year-old heterosexual white male. Voting for Hillary 3 weeks ago (thanks early voting!) was the easiest decision I’ve ever made and one of the easiest things I’ve ever done (and as a heterosexual white male that’s saying something). I didn’t even have to wait in a line. They gave me a form and a…