1) He’s not a child, he’s an adult.

Is the NBA going to come down hard on the illegal gambling here, or is Adam Stern going to play his “I’m not a regular mom, I’m a cool mom” card?

Look at Brady and Belichick in 10 years:

Huh, that was basically what I’d figured for a long time, but I’ve come across some weirdly cheap wine (sub-8-dollar-cases) from time to time, so it seemed somewhat believable. I wonder if they meant that their wine by the glass cost them 32 cents a glass.

The cheapest wine can sometimes be really really awful. I had a friend who was a purchasing manager for a “nice” restaurant (read: upscale decor in a fancy shopping district, but not exactly known for its food), and they’d buy their cheap wine for 32 cents a bottle.

Huh? Who said anything about not a sport? I pretty clearly called ski jumping and cross country sports. It’s the combining them into a single competition that gets weird.

Oh, yeah, don’t get me started on summer olympics sports. At least decathlon has ten events that are mostly accessible to the general public. How fast can you run, how far can you throw [heavy thing], how high/long can you jump. Pole vault is the only outlier. And they can all take place at the same venue.

Nordic Combined is the hands-down winner for me. Let’s take an endurance sport (10k cross country skiing), but give people a head start based on how they do at a daredevil/strength/precision of execution sport (ski jumping) and make it its own discipline. Also, even though those are both sports that men and women…

Where would you rank bleach among the cleaning options? I’m already adding a little bleach to the bath a few times a week, on the recommendation of multiple doctors (food allergies -> rashes -> scratching -> breaks in the skin, which would be -> infections without the bleach baths). So if I don’t mind a little bleach…

Actually invest my IRA instead of just parking it in CDs, paralyzed with fear that I’d invest in the wrong thing.

And the only thing that works about Deadspin is the articles, but that doesn’t stop some genius from trying to cram a video into the middle of every page.

I just rolled over my 401(k) accounts. Due to some incompatibility between the old firm and the new one, I had to liquidate all of the investments in the account and have the old retirement account manager mail a check to the new one. Overall, my investments were all in cash for about 3 weeks while everything got…

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I remember the bad old days of booking plane tickets online, when you’d see a base price, and then all the taxes and fees would be added at the end, after the comparison-shopping phase of the purchasing process. Eventually, someone (kayak?) started including all the mandatory fees in their comparison tool, and…

Stash a good portion of your vast wealth in various secure assets and you’ll live in luxury no matter what, even after the zombie apocalypse. 

I can think of a few projects, usually listed on crowdsupply. Indiegogo tech projects may as well be a “donate with paypal” button.

How is that different from the NFL?

I’ve had a number of “oh crap I’m an adult now” purchases that ratcheted up:

My parents banned lots of stuff as “not age appropriate,” but the silliest was definitely when I tried to buy Aerosmith’s Big Ones compilation album when I was 12, and they didn’t let me. I forget what I got instead, but it would have been one of my first 3 albums on CD, so either Bruce Springsteen’s Greatest Hits,…