1. Stop paying so much attention to my money, and see how my autopilot settings do on their own.

I’m confused, is it evil week already?

Lifehacker needs a sub-site for “here’s a contest that you’re not going to win.”

Apparently Amtrak is BYOB. Something I wish I’d figured out before I took a 12 hour train just for the hell of it.

I don’t know how much that house is worth, but I can say for sure that it’s worth less than 250,000 euros, since no one has been willing to pay that much for it. Spending 50 euros on a 1-in-6000 (if the raffle isn’t rigged) chance of winning something that’s worth less than 250,000 euros seems like a pretty bad idea.…

I had a Pyrex dish explode on me about 10 years ago. I was cooking a pan of brownies on a grate over an outdoor fire pit (I’m not sure what temperature, but presumably quite a bit hotter than the oven), and then moved the pan to the stovetop to cool down. As soon as it touched the stovetop, BOOM, little chunks of…

Aww, I’d say all those areas have plenty of tourist traps, but they’re not tourist traps in and of themselves. Like I wouldn’t recommend going to the touristy “giant plate of mediocre crab” places, or any of the kitsch places (wax museums, t-shirt stores, etc), but Pier 39/Fisherman’s Wharf/Ghiradelli Square has great…

The Space Needle doesn’t deserve to be called a “massive” anything. It’s smaller than the surrounding buildings!

I agree with you for the most part, with the important caveat that this only applies when “work from home” is being used as a substitute for “work from the office.” If I’m calling in to a meeting from home because it’s outside of business hours (maybe there’s some emergency I’m getting pulled in to, maybe I need to…

I’ve never seen the flat trading fee for an ETF referred to as a “load” before. In my mind, a “load” is a percentage-based fee.

I don’t really understand the “the market will be flooded with talent every year, so salaries will stagnate” argument. Won’t the market be flooded with buyers every year, as well?

I think the paper equivalent is “just put your best guess in that last box and declare that you’ve solved it.”

I’d add “get down to the final letter and just guess every letter until you get the ‘success’ message” to the list. Probably somewhere around (3) on your list.

I’ve gotten pretty good at crosswords over the last couple of years by doing the NYT daily and reading Rex Parker fairly regularly.

Theory number 7: the Rays are intentionally antagonizing their fans.

The Tom Brady tweet seems kind of out of place here. He’s pictured wearing what looks to be some kind of high-tech turtleneck base layer under his jersey. The only exposed skin is on his face. Isn’t that how you’re supposed to dress in the cold?

You can’t just hand-wave away a crappy location. If it were in Midtown Manhattan, it’d be worth tens of millions, maybe more. Heck, in a near suburb of Calgary, it’d probably be worth a lot more than $1.7 million. But instead, someone decided to drop a cluster of McMansions out in the middle of nowhere. And in…

If the house has been on the market for a while for $1.7 million, and it hasn’t sold, it’s not a $1.7 million house.

No one ever said, “man, I wish I’d hung on to that crappy job a little longer.”

Take the standard deduction.