So he’s just shortening the standard Chaturanga-Upward Dog-Downward Dog progression? Why not just do the whole thing?

Sounds like this is going to fall in my usual Lego bucket: a game I can pick up in three months for $30 instead of $60. Frankly, that’s the way most Lego games end up for me. This just seems more in that vein than normal.

The key to not becoming insufferable fans is to understand that everybody will hate you, you will no longer be the underdog ever, and people will constantly look for ways to bring you down.

Right, but, at least in my area, if you’ve gotten to the interview stage it means that I’ve already weeded out the 50-60 applicants who weren’t qualified (or were less qualified). Now I’m looking for the best fit, and part of determining that fit is figuring out how your experience will apply to my organization.

This is where we’re sitting right now. We’re in the market for a new television and I can get a pretty nice, 50" Samsung for under $400 whereas a similarly sized 4k television is going to run $700+. Given that we don’t sit close enough to notice the difference, none of our media sources have 4k output, and our cable…

Keep your eye out for sales. I picked up my set at Gamestop a few weeks back for $50 (for the PS3 version) and got several of the level packs for 40% off.

I’m a little worried about the new “Story Pack,” since it looks like it will be expensive and I’m not sure it will provide a ton of gameplay value if it’s just covering the one movie (I thought the Ghostbusters level pack had similar issues).

Not a tabletop RPG, but close enough, I’d say.

Beyond others’ pleas of “Don’t,” I’d add a rule #6: Don’t co-sign for somebody. If they need a co-signer, it’s because the bank doesn’t trust them to pay the loan. The bank has a lot more information than you do. If they don’t trust them, why should you?

It might have been the greatest championship moment of any level of any sport. Between the shot itself and the historical differences between the two teams, I can’t imagine anything else like it.

Butler over Duke. Hands down no question.

As a PS3 owner currently making his way through the back catalog, are there enough games to justify the upgrade for a middle-adopter?

That’s the whole point of insurance. You’re betting against yourself. You’re betting that you’ll die, or get in a car accident, or become disabled. It’s called a hedge. And there are a lot of ways to lose an income without losing a job. My dad had two heart surgeries in a close span and was basically without work (or…

I hope you never lose your job during an economic downturn. If you had put your emergency fund in, say, a DJIA index fund in 2004 but then got fired in 2009, you would have lost 40% of its value. So not only do you have to pull out investments at the bottom of the market, but instead of having six months of an…

which in this case refers to the income needed to support two adults and one child.

So two of the three strikes were bad calls and Farrell got tossed for the one correct call? Sounds about right.

The NCAA didn’t really make a killing in that deal. When you factor in inflation, $1.1b in 2032 is about $750m in today’s money, right about what they’re getting now from CBS/Turner (the 2010 deal had a $770m/yr average).

It looks like the study was done by the National Association of Home Builders or, in other words, “It’s not our fault the water heater in your new house died after 10 years. That’s just the average.”

I feel the same way. I left my last job about four years ago and recently applied for another and I only used references from my current position. I didn’t even think of getting a reference from somebody who hasn’t worked with in four years and when I was in a largely different position.

Hicks has an OPS+ of -48. I didn’t even realize that OPS+ went negative. I think we’re doing okay on that trade. Granted, John Ryan Murphy’s OPS+ is -19, but still...