The twice your salary thing for 401k by age 35 is a pretty terrible metric. The actual best thing you can do for your long-term finances in the first decade of your career is to increase your income, but this metric penalizes people who up their paycheck.

Using Marlins Man’s real name ruins the mystique. I’m glad you went with another pseudonym like “Larry Fedora.”

I saw the first hobbit movie in the super-high-framerate they offered in some theaters, and it looked goofy. Beforehand, I’d read all these things about the high framerate being more comparable to how your vision system works in the real world, so everything looks much more lifelike. And it did look a lot more…

When the marshmallow has swollen to about twice its original size (in linear dimensions, not volume), it’s hot enough to melt the chocolate.

San Francisco.

Because no one really cares except for the companies that get rich making pennies (ok, they just make copper/zinc discs, and sell them to the mint, which stamps them into pennies). Guess who’s lobbying their congressman on the issue?

This is Elon Musk we’re talking about. Making grand public statements that kind of miss the point, and then following through on the statement he made, is kind of his thing.

I’ve seen people “accidentally” take their bets back several times. A quick “sir, you need to leave that bet on the table” from the dealer is usually enough to resolve the problem.

The draft is worse. Let’s not only collude to keep your salary down, but tell you that if you want to make a living at all, there’s one single city you’re allowed to live in, and one single company you’re allowed to work for. And from a fan’s perspective, if you’ve got a mediocre team, you’re not sure if you want your…

All the windy stages in the first week seem especially perilous for a team with “co leaders” trying to contend for the GC. Isn’t that more or less what did Movistar in in 2013 and 2015?

The Mets are an average team. In a league with 30 teams, on average, a team should win a title every 30 years, a pennant every 15, and a division title every 5.

I got some “Basic Care” medicine the other day, which I assume is an amazon brand.

One thing worth noting: some cities make airport trips cheaper than regular public transit (e.g. Boston: get on the Silver Line at the airport for free, and get free access to the subway system, as well), while others jack up the price (e.g. San Francisco: BART from SFO to downtown is $9 per person; Milbrae to…

Thanks for this! My main takeaway is that other than yogurt, I really wouldn’t save much money making these things at home. (And even with yogurt, for me, my household monthly yogurt expenditure is 2 bucks or so, so that’s pretty much out.)

Don’t count on this working. A lot of companies will just give up if your credit card fails, but there are plenty of crappy companies out there that take the view, “you signed a contract, and you haven’t canceled, so you still owe us money.” These companies can let the charges accrue for YEARS, and then send your…

Goals for this year:

On average, $350-400 per month on groceries for 2 adults and 2 little kids (1 and 3), plus about $75/month on restaurants. But work and school provide most of our weekday lunches, so that number should probably be a bit higher. (There’s also some slop in those numbers: they include non-grocery items we buy at Costco,…

And days.

Right. Everyone was doping. It seems like who got popped was mostly a function of who put up enough superhuman performances that the doping czars decided to crack down on them. Pantani was fun to watch because he put up superhuman performances, and those superhuman performances inevitably led to his downfall. The idea…

For the purposes of self-reflection, rather than quibble about whether money would make me happy (or lack of money would make me sad), I find it helpful to consider individual problems I have, and reflect on whether each is a problem that money could help solve. Some are, many aren’t.