Finances aren’t really discussed much in the rest of the article, so I’m guessing maybe it’s not that big an issue in this case. A lot of “freelance writers” don’t land many paid gigs, but plenty of people make a living at it.

It doesn’t really seem to make much sense to boast about the fastest average-speed lap, either, considering the differences between tracks. An oval with banked turns is gonna be a hell of a lot faster than a chicane-fest.

And don’t forget to wear your helmet when you’re in a car!

Google for stuff that starts in Google (email, docs, photos). Dropbox for everything else. I have the cheapest paid plan on both. I thought about consolidating to a single service, but I use them both enough (in different ways) that it's not worth sweating an extra hundred bucks a year.

I went to an A’s game with my 3-year-old in April. My kid was antsy, so we moved sections every inning or so. And more than once, we had an usher kick us out for not sitting in the right section. I mean, it’s not like I was sneaking into the club seats, or something; I was just moving from one part of the half-empty…

In most cases that I’ve seen, 401(k)s have a bunch of fees, which are usually covered by the employer while you work for them, but are passed on to you when you leave. So yeah, it’s probably a good idea to roll over into an IRA or your current employer’s 401(k).

Thingsi know about Paul Walker, in roughly the order I learned them:

Man, it’s really hard to tell what’s going on in most of these clips. Seems like the NFL probably shouldn’t put refs in the last row of the upper deck in the end zone.

I wish I had a better understanding of what made homemade sauce better than sauce from a jar. Like, is it just a matter of ingredients (cheap tomatoes masked with corn syrup/sugar), or is there something inherent in the sauce that can’t survive the trip from sauce factory to my pantry? If Derrick made his sauce, stuck…

I’ve been coding a while (and as a full-time job for the better part of a decade now), and when I want to learn a new language, Codecademy is my go-to resource.

which ones, though?

Traditional: pickles

I enjoyed “Expecting Better,” by Emily Oster (an economist who actually, y’know, understands statistics and tradeoffs). She basically spends the whole book diving into the research behind every one of those “Always .../Never ...” rules for pregnancy, and in almost every case reaches the conclusion that for the most…

How is babby formed?

Some people say to use fresh-ass lime juice. Some people say to let it sit for 4+ hours after squeezing. What gives?

Changed companies last year, made this mistake this year. Oops.

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.