Just because something is simple doesn’t mean it’s easy.

I once read an article in a reputable financial magazine that promises to teach people how to make $50K every year. After 5 pages that basically just explains what is a dividend portfolio, his “secret” technique, laid out in a three-sentence concluding paragraph, is to put $1.25 million into a portfolio that pays 4%…

In high school I was attacked by wasps while running in a cross country race. Didn’t know they bite until that day. After the race (in which I got my personal best time, because attacking wasps are good motivation to go fast), a friend helped me pick out three dead wasps from my hair. I had killed them during the…

I misinterpreted that initially too. Still, I can’t think of many commonplace, background processes that would maintain 100% disk usage over long periods of time.

I replaced a WD hdd with a Samsung pro SSD for the OS drive a little over a year ago. At the time I timed how long it took Windows to go from cold boot to login screen both before installing the SSD and after. The difference was only 2 seconds or about a 8% improvement. I’ve benchmarked both drives and the SSD is…

I’d put Olajuwon over Nowitzki. Year-wise it’s Nowitzki 20, Olajuwon 17, but Olajuwon also had a distinguished college career (which also meant Olajuwon was 2 years older when he debuted). Both won championship. Both won MVP. So the deciding factor for me is, Olajuwon was a complete player. Elite rebounder, averaged…

I can’t believe I totally misread the DMV instruction on hand signals for turning all this time.

I’ve said my piece on relegation.

I think part of the solution needs to involve providing disincentives against losing. Right now, owners make tens to hundreds of millions per year regardless if the team wins or loses 100 games. Meanwhile, all team valuations continue to go up. An owner can do the minimum, keep collecting those 10-figure profits…

I had a near complete dislocation of the phalanx where the bone continued to point in the same direction as the rest of the finger, just along a line parallel to the other bones. Think of the Z tetris block. That looked much worse than this (partly because it stretched the skin in a grotesque way) and was a literal…

During the 2008 recession the company I worked for implemented a mandatory 10% salary cut for all employees. It hurt, but we could all see the economy and sales tanking so we begrudgingly understood. The month after the first reduced paycheck were paid, the board of director announced an ADDITIONAL $10 million bonus…

ESPN was right: Goff does a really comical impression of an NFL QB. But McVay also had no answer for Belichick (and that Pat defense) with Gurley limited and Anderson ineffective.

I read that the projected discretionary surplus is now $21.5B. But the thing to keep in mind is that this surplus exists because expenditure is lower than expected (for example, the additional $6.5B from just the past few months came largely from fewer Medi-Cal claims), and that it could disappear just as quickly when…

That’s true for people with steady paychecks or income who can accurately predict their annual income and can adjust their withholding accordingly. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for me. So I paid estimated taxes throughout the year just in case my income came in high so I don’t have to pay a underpayment penalty.…

The NCAA and Kingsbury are just doing a really good job preparing McCoy for how he’ll be screwed by the NFL.

They got three of the five tigers and the dragon..... but where’s Ma Chao and Zhao Yun?

I vaguely remember Halladay doing the one-day contract ceremony to retire as a Blue Jay. One would’ve thought that would be a hint.

If Earth stops rotating and the ring of habitable zone is moving as the Earth moves around the sun, wouldn’t everything be dead in a matter of days? Everything ahead AND behind this livable zone will be dying. So after the first few day, everything not in that zone will already be dead, and even the things that…

Memphis and LA are over the cap and M Gasol has a $19.7m contract, so I believe the Lakers would have to offer at least $18m of contract back (but no more than $22m). James and Kuzma are untouchable, Deng’s contract is pretty much toxic, and most of their other veterans have little trade value, so that leaves Ball and…

No need to play the game. I’ve lived it numerous times. Even had to spend the night a few times. O’Hare. SFO. LAX. McCarron. The most interesting thing to happen was meeting Alonzo Mourning (and his enormous bodyguard) in Orlando (MCO)