Budgeting based on assumptions is a bad idea, but it's a good idea to project outwards.

IF you stop getting coffee out. So it really depends on what you think is realistic. If you aren't able to get yourself organized to spend a few minutes making that espresso in the morning and buy one out anyways, you just spent $2k to for kitchen countertop decorations.

Are you in the US? I've got exactly the same deal ($0.01 reward in Amazon points on everything, 2x on gas, 3x on Amazon), and pay no fees. A quick look at the page for it shows no annual fee, too.

Wait, are we talking about the same Amazon card? The one I've got has no annual fee - so is basically just like a 3% discount on Amazon purchases. (I only use it for Amazon purchases since on general stuff, an airline mile is worth more to me.)

"Rape me, rape me, my friend," Kurt Cobain once sang, but before he never got that chance, because before he could, Cobain shot himself in the head.

This is a great example of why paranoia of the cloud is unfounded. Geocities was shut down because it was increasingly becoming 'dead,' with more inactive sites than active.

Yahoo! announced the shutdown in April 2009, and for October that year. You had 6 months to migrate things and IIRC they gave you pages that made…

Local backups also fail; we had a vendor that lost all the source code to a project because they only backed up locally and had major flooding. One time with me, I had a laptop stolen while I was on vacation and the expensive, shiny, redundant RAID drive I had on my desk next to my laptop was also taken. If you go and…

How about this, if we're insisting on deciding hockey games by "things on ice that aren't hockey": 3-on-3 overtime, and then after 3 minutes, make it 2-on-2. After 2 minutes, remove the skaters and just have the goalies go back and forth until one gets a goal. If that proves impossible because no goalie would ever…

Canadians, and after seeing those guys in gloat about winning Olympic Hockey, it might not be such a good bad idea to piss them off

Nintendo replaces the Wii U with a more powerful console and does so soon in order to better compete with the Xbox One and PlayStation 4...The last company to start zipping through home console iterations really quickly was Sega.

Exactly. He's got great physical abilities but has never had that great of judgment. Blame poor pocket protection all you want, but he made bad decisions. I've nicknamed the TD/int ratio "the Cutler ratio" in my head partly for the number of games that he threw more picks than TDs.

dude, that's not a chicken, that's the rist barge. She knew she might not be spelling it right so she drew a picture! I think it's a wrist cover thingy, without fingers?

You gave me an idea: Kids can choose between pets or BS dolls. If I raise them right, they will take the actual companionship of living creatures. (I'm not going to exclude ALL dolls, but... there's an American Girl Place near me and it gives me stepford creeps.)

oops, just noticed it's on the windows, and plexiglass is apparently hard to come by in NK? I still am surprised they didn't buff it out, even if it reduced visibility.

I'm really surprised by the graffiti still on the subway cars. Even in NK, paint isn't hard (for the government) to come by, and NK certainly has a lot of spare labor lying around. Massive government commanding all workers + nothing for most people to do usually means you'd have enough workers to buff each train to a…

Also, when no one can buy any goods, what is there to steal?

I know people that work (and cook) in Michelin-starred restaurants. I guarantee you, almost all the food you eat at a high-end restaurant is cooked in cookware cheaper than anything you have at home, usually thinner aluminum stuff. It spreads heat well, doesn't retain too much heat (so you can STOP food cooking when…

So here's a question. Can we adjust that for popularity of the sports (is TV viewership the right stat? Or is it attendance/revenues or something else? Because part of the reason you watch TV is to see things in person. Either way.) Because it looks to me that basketball is over represented given its mindshare - this…

This is 10000% spot on:

Actually, the motto is "when it breaks, fix it, because these things need to be in service until the manufacturer's grandkids are in their graves."