I do really enjoy Cinema Sins' "Everything Wrong With X" clips on YouTube. It's like watching a whole movie in 15 minutes, while also making fun of it.
They tend to give away too much, or, in a bad movie, show the only things worth watching. If I'm going to get suckered in to see it, I might as well save those five good jokes.
It really helped when I cut cable, because I barely see any these days, other than previews before other movies.
I learned to mistrust Zillow long ago. We bought just at the start of the housing crash, and I watched Zillow push up prices on our place for two years even while everything was falling apart.
More recently, I looked again out of curiosity, at the chart where they track three values: county, city, and your home. The graphs for both the county and the city had smooth, gentle upward slopes across several years, basically in lock step. In the same time, their estimate for our house, which had matched that trend for years, was shown shooting way up like a rocket in comparison. This is totally out of line, and definitely unwarranted.
Monkeys throwing darts at monopoly money would be more reliable.
Consuming media might include listening to music, having a TV on in the background, etc. That plus sleeping an average of 6 hours per night so you've really got 18 hours in which to squeeze the 12 of consumption, and it's doable.
"Retire" in my post above just meant "stop doing a day job full time." I'm entirely with you on keeping active and productive. I just want the flexibility to work on multiple projects in very diverse arenas, without nearly as much institutional red tape. Or to put it another way, "I'll be doing things primarily for interest instead of money, whereas I work now for the money first and interest second."
Retirement for me isn't stopping doing things, but choosing to do things that I want on a much more frequent basis than now. Also, probably a greater variety (work on 3 separate things for 10-15 hours per week, rather than the same thing for 40). Finally, a more flexible schedule, including no commute, the ability to skip days without giving an excuse, and the ability to pick which hours I'm busy. I won't stop being productive in some fashion until I'm physically unable, but it won't be "work" in remotely the same way.
I hear you. Fresh out of college, I figured I was smart and impressive enough to find a way to retire by 50. Preferably by becoming a world-famous novelist in the next few years, or a dot-com millionaire by the turn of the millennium. Basis: nothing but wishful thinking, and the belief that I sure as hell couldn't keep doing this work crud five days a week for half a century. (Oh yeah, I can also distinctly remember telling my brother, "I really think I'm meant to win the lottery. I know the odds are against it, but it should happen to me.")
By 35, married, dual income, no kids, I had a plan, based on actual, mathematical evidence (if with some optimistic assumptions) that I could retire at 60, with a paid-off house and a decent retirement fund.
In my mid-forties with kids and a spouse that stays home, past one really terrible financial mistake with a house, plus several minor financial setbacks at work, I'm now looking at 65, more likely. I still have my doubts about the sanity or feasibility of doing this work crud five days a week for a few decades, but at least I've now worked almost half of the mandatory time, so there's that.
I lost a nearly-new Acer Aspire One to projectile vomit from a kiddo. Even worse, I spent a bunch of time and cash on components thinking if I just replaced the keyboard or the ram, it might be okay, but it was never right again.
Heh. I bought a SNES back in the day. I know I had at least a few games for it, but for the life of me the only one I actually recall playing is Super Metroid. Later I discovered emulation and I've played the heck out of dozens of NES titles, but again, for my SNES emulator, the only game I can remember ever firing up is Super Metroid. So I saw this product, and I thought, oh, that would be neat, I could play Super Metroid. Guess I should see what else is available, as I'm sure there's more games out there.
I find this unaccountably negative. It's not "stupid" for people to be disposed close/clean up tools when they're done, or to require special instructions to use basic household gear. By contrast, I'd argue it *is* actually stupid that a device cannot be closed when it's done being used, and actually defaults to *trying* to close itself if left in the default state, and needs to be jury rigged with a home-made propping device in order to prevent a device from self-destructing.
Can't speak to her experiences with my other relatives, but I generally think of them as smart and attentive. Just the knowledge that the device is prone to self-destruct, and that anyone who isn't especially informed of this design flaw would have no reason to suspect it, is reason enough to be paranoid.
Jeez. I felt bad enough when my dog chewed my "expensive" headphones that cost me maybe $40. I would be ticked beyond any puppy cuteness level at replacing a $500 pair, or even $100.
There's nothing special about the right to privacy, and stigmatization doesn't have to have anything to do with it. Anything you don't want to reveal, you ought to be able to keep to yourself. Religion and sexuality get cited a lot, because they're commonly things people might not want to reveal to strangers, corporations, etc.
Ah, good to hear. My mother-in-law has a front loader that's about 10 years old, and she goes into a panic if anybody even breathes near the machine. She will do our laundry for us if we visit, it's constantly propped open, and she's given me paranoid lectures when I've simply walked through the laundry room on the way to the garage. It's made me wary of them.
Hope you have fun. I never played online or in matches with people, just went through the single-player campaign, and I enjoyed that thoroughly. I'm just realizing it's been more than a decade since I last played, so now might be a good time to give it another shot.
I saw a writeup of Pocahontas with the names scratched out and Avatar names put in, and it was a dead match. But that whole outsider becomes insider story is formulaic, to say the least. It's been too long since I've seen Donnie Brasco, but I bet it would compare, too.
No, but in 2001 the web firm I worked at created a prank hand scanner app. It told people to press their hands to the monitor and let it scan their hand. Nearly everyone we showed it to went along, thinking somehow a 2000-era CRT could be converted into a scanner, "because internet."
Ours just concluded with "your screen is dirty" and then people got it.
You say "stupid," but if it's new and people don't know how it works, practically anything is possible, or will seem like it to them.
My company has so far resisted any attempts for us to get them to create a data retention policy. I think they don't want to admit that there's a time when it's okay to throw things away. So far technology has kept up, so that we've just continued being able to hold on to things forever. I've got to think at some point that'll give, though.
I think you're mixing expenses and income. There are absolutely intermittent annual expenses, and they'll definitely make a mess of cashflow or savings, but none of those would affect how much is coming in, which I think is what this is talking about.
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I do really enjoy Cinema Sins' "Everything Wrong With X" clips on YouTube. It's like watching a whole movie in 15 minutes, while also making fun of it.
They tend to give away too much, or, in a bad movie, show the only things worth watching. If I'm going to get suckered in to see it, I might as well save those five good jokes.
It really helped when I cut cable, because I barely see any these days, other than previews before other movies.
I think when the new overlords get around to rebranding, we've got a winner for a slogan to replace "News for nerds. Stuff that matters."
Likewise, an obese alcoholic won't necessarily get fit or sober just because they moved to the mountains of Colorado.
Damn! Fifteen years since I moved here and NOW someone tells me?
"in the US ... dozen roundabouts" ... now that sounds like slang for donuts.
I learned to mistrust Zillow long ago. We bought just at the start of the housing crash, and I watched Zillow push up prices on our place for two years even while everything was falling apart.
More recently, I looked again out of curiosity, at the chart where they track three values: county, city, and your home. The graphs for both the county and the city had smooth, gentle upward slopes across several years, basically in lock step. In the same time, their estimate for our house, which had matched that trend for years, was shown shooting way up like a rocket in comparison. This is totally out of line, and definitely unwarranted.
Monkeys throwing darts at monopoly money would be more reliable.
Consuming media might include listening to music, having a TV on in the background, etc. That plus sleeping an average of 6 hours per night so you've really got 18 hours in which to squeeze the 12 of consumption, and it's doable.
"Retire" in my post above just meant "stop doing a day job full time." I'm entirely with you on keeping active and productive. I just want the flexibility to work on multiple projects in very diverse arenas, without nearly as much institutional red tape. Or to put it another way, "I'll be doing things primarily for interest instead of money, whereas I work now for the money first and interest second."
Retirement for me isn't stopping doing things, but choosing to do things that I want on a much more frequent basis than now. Also, probably a greater variety (work on 3 separate things for 10-15 hours per week, rather than the same thing for 40). Finally, a more flexible schedule, including no commute, the ability to skip days without giving an excuse, and the ability to pick which hours I'm busy. I won't stop being productive in some fashion until I'm physically unable, but it won't be "work" in remotely the same way.
I hear you. Fresh out of college, I figured I was smart and impressive enough to find a way to retire by 50. Preferably by becoming a world-famous novelist in the next few years, or a dot-com millionaire by the turn of the millennium. Basis: nothing but wishful thinking, and the belief that I sure as hell couldn't keep doing this work crud five days a week for half a century. (Oh yeah, I can also distinctly remember telling my brother, "I really think I'm meant to win the lottery. I know the odds are against it, but it should happen to me.")
By 35, married, dual income, no kids, I had a plan, based on actual, mathematical evidence (if with some optimistic assumptions) that I could retire at 60, with a paid-off house and a decent retirement fund.
In my mid-forties with kids and a spouse that stays home, past one really terrible financial mistake with a house, plus several minor financial setbacks at work, I'm now looking at 65, more likely. I still have my doubts about the sanity or feasibility of doing this work crud five days a week for a few decades, but at least I've now worked almost half of the mandatory time, so there's that.
I was about to say I need to go to more trade shows, but that would probably be more expensive than a lifetime supply of polo shirts.
Then the boss replies-all, revealing that they were secretly included in the message, and the level of paranoia skyrockets.
I lost a nearly-new Acer Aspire One to projectile vomit from a kiddo. Even worse, I spent a bunch of time and cash on components thinking if I just replaced the keyboard or the ram, it might be okay, but it was never right again.
Heh. I bought a SNES back in the day. I know I had at least a few games for it, but for the life of me the only one I actually recall playing is Super Metroid. Later I discovered emulation and I've played the heck out of dozens of NES titles, but again, for my SNES emulator, the only game I can remember ever firing up is Super Metroid. So I saw this product, and I thought, oh, that would be neat, I could play Super Metroid. Guess I should see what else is available, as I'm sure there's more games out there.
I find this unaccountably negative. It's not "stupid" for people to be disposed close/clean up tools when they're done, or to require special instructions to use basic household gear. By contrast, I'd argue it *is* actually stupid that a device cannot be closed when it's done being used, and actually defaults to *trying* to close itself if left in the default state, and needs to be jury rigged with a home-made propping device in order to prevent a device from self-destructing.
Can't speak to her experiences with my other relatives, but I generally think of them as smart and attentive. Just the knowledge that the device is prone to self-destruct, and that anyone who isn't especially informed of this design flaw would have no reason to suspect it, is reason enough to be paranoid.
Jeez. I felt bad enough when my dog chewed my "expensive" headphones that cost me maybe $40. I would be ticked beyond any puppy cuteness level at replacing a $500 pair, or even $100.
Hah. I'd give you mod points if I had 'em.
There's nothing special about the right to privacy, and stigmatization doesn't have to have anything to do with it. Anything you don't want to reveal, you ought to be able to keep to yourself. Religion and sexuality get cited a lot, because they're commonly things people might not want to reveal to strangers, corporations, etc.
Ah, good to hear. My mother-in-law has a front loader that's about 10 years old, and she goes into a panic if anybody even breathes near the machine. She will do our laundry for us if we visit, it's constantly propped open, and she's given me paranoid lectures when I've simply walked through the laundry room on the way to the garage. It's made me wary of them.
Hope you have fun. I never played online or in matches with people, just went through the single-player campaign, and I enjoyed that thoroughly. I'm just realizing it's been more than a decade since I last played, so now might be a good time to give it another shot.
Front loader? I thought those all had problems? Mold, seal issues, I don't know what else.
I saw a writeup of Pocahontas with the names scratched out and Avatar names put in, and it was a dead match. But that whole outsider becomes insider story is formulaic, to say the least. It's been too long since I've seen Donnie Brasco, but I bet it would compare, too.
No, but in 2001 the web firm I worked at created a prank hand scanner app. It told people to press their hands to the monitor and let it scan their hand. Nearly everyone we showed it to went along, thinking somehow a 2000-era CRT could be converted into a scanner, "because internet."
Ours just concluded with "your screen is dirty" and then people got it.
You say "stupid," but if it's new and people don't know how it works, practically anything is possible, or will seem like it to them.
My company has so far resisted any attempts for us to get them to create a data retention policy. I think they don't want to admit that there's a time when it's okay to throw things away. So far technology has kept up, so that we've just continued being able to hold on to things forever. I've got to think at some point that'll give, though.
I think you're mixing expenses and income. There are absolutely intermittent annual expenses, and they'll definitely make a mess of cashflow or savings, but none of those would affect how much is coming in, which I think is what this is talking about.