Gordon Calhoun

For being a jerkface, you have great taste.

Second this one. Excellent series.

OooOoooOooo, a spoiler tag is a really classy way to do it. You must be some kind of GeNiUs!!!

It’s vague if they are okay with animated films intended for adults, so…

Titan AE, Iron Giant, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Rocketeer, Indiana Jones, Star Wars IV thru VI, Forever Young, The Incredible Journey (original, not the voiceover remake).

Started? I think the culture was already there and well established. The book just shone light on its existence to the mainstream, and yeah, probably accelerated its growth.

Edit: the irony being it was, kind of, trying to help involuntarily celibate men to figure out ways to be less celibate through seduction (vice even less moral, and more illegal, means).

Edit edit: a far, far worse book is The Professional Bachelor by Brett Tate. Anyone who ever wants to taste their own vomit should give it a glance.

Maybe the Singularity already quietly happened and it won’t become apparent until it’s far too late to pull the plug?

I don’t endorse much of anything in The Game by Neil Strauss, but for the discerning and critically-thinking mind it can provide some useful advice for flirting unawkwardly.

They won’t claim they are an expert in the core of a star.

Or rather, while they may claim the expertise, they won’t be able to do it from inside the center of a star.

Playing monopoly is definitely a viable option if it makes you happy. The best investments in life are those that benefit mental and/or physical health.

That’s why I like the “value” themed ones, like VTV. Those follow indices with companies having a somewhat reasonable price to earnings ratio.

You may enjoy listening to his episode of freakonomics: Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears

Some people will spend a lot of money to have the benefit of some control over their ambience. Home location choices. Choice to have a personal vehicle vs. public transportation. Purchasing expensive noise cancelling headphones…

My personal history of owning individual stocks has been very disappointing. If you ever decide you want to invest in the equity market, I recommend exchange traded funds (ETFs) that follow an index and have a really low expense ratio. My favorite exchange traded funds are VT, VTI, VTV, VXUS, BND, and BNDX. VBR may be a good one if you ever want exposure to smaller companies.

Mutual funds are another option, similar to ETFs.

I fortuitously moved all my VTI into VTV a couple weeks ago to divest myself of TSLA, and over the past two days have been actively keeping the balance of my 60/40 equities/bonds portfolio by selling a little bit of BND and BNDX to get some more VTV as it sunk. Didn’t need to modify the VXUS portion.

Sure was nice to have those bond portions to assuage the decline.

Thank you for sharing. You’re a citizen and scholar. I’ll save your message and add those to my queue.

Gosh, the amount of strength life has required from you these past few years is incredible to imagine. I’m glad to hear your treatment is going well and I hope the surgery and recovery are smooth for you. It’s great you’re finally going to get it!

What’s been one of your favorite books so far this year?

Nice! Those sound like really solid plans. Anything with mountains instantly ignites my happy chemicals.

Kicking addiction once and for all. No, I mean it, this will be the year I get my brain back.

Check out The Distracted Mind by Gazzaley and Rosen. As part of their research, they wrote a video game to specifically improve cognitive functions.