A word of warning about installing early OS betas, especially from Apple.

You’ve basically got two choices: install the upgrade, or assume that your ipad is totally compromised by hackers.

I assume that my devices are all transient at this point. If I lose my phone or my computer goes up in flames (or my external hard drive conks out), I’ll need to deal with some amount of setup, but other than that, I’m fine.

“What do you do for fun?” is the WORST. I have a full time job and two kids under 3. If I’m somewhere that I’m meeting new people who are in a position to ask me what I do for fun, odds are that I’m at my one fun event of the month.

I’m no trump defender, but this seems pretty innocuous. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been to a crossfit gym, but I used to go and log my workouts on beyond the whiteboard. I was solidly in the bottom 25% of the athletes at my gym, so I scaled most workouts in a way that made sense for me, but I still logged…

I bought my first car (a 10-year-old Chevy Corsica) for $900 at a government auction, though it was a GSA auction, rather than a police auction. I’d been to a few police auctions, and I don’t think I’d buy anything at those unless I had my own/a friend’s tow truck.

What two of the world’s top drivers were doing at a Taco Bell is unclear.

Is there some equivalent of the “palpably unfair act” rule in american football (where the referee has wide discretion to do just about anything, including awarding a score, in the case of a palpably unfair act, such as a substitute running on to the field to tackle a player)? If a substitute ran onto the field to…

I’d consider a spot bonus part of my pay, too. Money that I get from my employer for doing my job is money I earned. Salary, overtime, bonus, HSA contributions, 401k match, all of it is money I only get because I haul my butt to work every day. I’ve earned every cent of that money, and I’ll be damned if someone says I…

I wish people would stop calling the 401(k) match “free money.” It’s not free! You work hard for it! It’s not some loophole where you can get free money, it’s part of your pay, and if you don’t take it, you may as well be writing your company a check every month. Turning down a 401(k) match is like turning down…

Fluffernutter!

This sounds like a long lost Modern Lovers lyric.

I also usually do better at Jeopardy than my wife. We resolve this by letting her answer at any point, but I have to wait until after Alex finishes reading the clue. Waiting until the question is over makes me feel like one of the real contestants!

I feel like I’m in a bit of a catch-22 here. The main thing I’m wondering right now is “do I need a financial advisor?” I know that if I do need a financial advisor, I’d only want a fiduciary. But I feel like I mostly know what I’m doing, so it’s possible that the biggest screw-up I could make is throwing money away…

That’s only true in sports where the teams collude to restrict players’ contract options. i.e. major North American sports, in eras where there’s no legitimate second league (e.g. ABA, AFL). In women’s soccer, Europe acts as a viable second league.

It’s worth remembering that the only truly free apps are someone’s pet project. If you want a professionally developed app, you’re going to pay for it one way or another. Maybe you can free-ride for a while while the developer coasts along on VC money, but sooner or later you’re going to pay, either directly or…

Between this and last week’s NYSAC botching of the Cormier weigh-in (next time, why not just let the fighter keep one foot on the ground for the weigh in?), it’s almost enough to think that they’re not on the up and up.

Leasing probably doesn’t make any sense here. Most auto leases amount to really crappy balloon-payment loans. If you’re cash-rich and income-poor, what’s the sense of taking on a monthly payment?

I’m OK with “please no gifts, but if you want to get us something, here’s our honeyfund.”

This also struck me as weird. When I go to McDonalds, I’m usually spending about $5. Not exactly breaking the bank.