You might remember Mark Knopfler if I mention he was the voice and the distinctive guitar of Dire Straits. As to Buckethead, the mask and the KFC bucket are odd aesthetic choices, and the song Soothsayer shows more of his shredding chops, but this one just sounds so much sweeter to me.JAZZISCOOL wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:49 am
Cool! Not familiar with either of these artists.
I like the guitar player's sound on Buckethead and Mark's voice is very interesting, a little mysterious.
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- Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:56 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What are you listening to now
- Replies: 5832
- Views: 590778
Re: What are you listening to now
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:13 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What are you listening to now
- Replies: 5832
- Views: 590778
Re: What are you listening to now
Wow, what a terrific thread. I'm going to spend some time going through it all. My best listens today were:
Buckethead - Too Many Humans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgCZji378ZQ
and
Mark Knopfler - A Place Where We Used to Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFnLXbcgmVw
Buckethead - Too Many Humans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgCZji378ZQ
and
Mark Knopfler - A Place Where We Used to Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFnLXbcgmVw
- Sun May 04, 2014 1:55 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Tools for developing PHP / MySQL-based data driven web site?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 10709
Re: Tools for developing PHP / MySQL-based data driven web s
[deleted]placeholder wrote:Nobody "needs" Javascript for anything.
- Sun May 04, 2014 1:17 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
- Replies: 3372
- Views: 1565524
Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
Tom Sharpe - The Gropes - meh; merely diversionary Mary Roach - Packing for Mars - both interesting and humorous, but she seems overly focused on bathroom bodily functions. Entirely too much detail in that regard. I thought the same about Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, but at least felt like I asked for it by reading that book. Still a good read. Her wit is sparse enough that it catches me off guard. William Least Heat-Moon - Blue Highways (audiobook) A literate travelogue. Incited all kinds of wanderlust in me. Written in the 1970s, the author spends 3 months in a van traveling to small towns around the country, meeting interesting characters. The audiobook was excellently narrated by Frank Muller. Someone put together an intera...
- Sat Apr 26, 2014 7:07 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: TV show recommendations?
- Replies: 606
- Views: 248071
Re: TV show recommendations?
For those who have Netflix, check out Lilyhammer - a quirky crime dramedy IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes. Love this show.
On mainstream TV I have been enjoying
The Americans
Homeland
Archer
The Venture Bros
Count Arthur Strong (IMDB)-- found season 1 online and thought this was a riot. Apparently this was a long-running British radio program and is just making the transition to TV.
Justified
Luther - great cop drama on BBC; too few episodes per season
Orange is the New Black
Sherlock
I recently re-watched the full runs of Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley on DVD. I sure wish they made more shows like these.
My all-time favorites are also British:
1) Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in Jeeves and Wooster
2) Rumpole of the Bailey with Leo McKern
On mainstream TV I have been enjoying
The Americans
Homeland
Archer
The Venture Bros
Count Arthur Strong (IMDB)-- found season 1 online and thought this was a riot. Apparently this was a long-running British radio program and is just making the transition to TV.
Justified
Luther - great cop drama on BBC; too few episodes per season
Orange is the New Black
Sherlock
I recently re-watched the full runs of Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley on DVD. I sure wish they made more shows like these.
My all-time favorites are also British:
1) Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in Jeeves and Wooster
2) Rumpole of the Bailey with Leo McKern
- Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:51 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
- Replies: 3372
- Views: 1565524
Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
Cyteen (omnibus version) by C. J. Cherryh
My first Cherryh but likely not my last. Was a bit slow going at first but found that with patience she explained the peculiarities of her universe and now I'm hooked.
I've been working on reading all the Hugo winners (and some nominees as well) and just happened to come across this before Downbelow Station, but it's on the short list as well.
My first Cherryh but likely not my last. Was a bit slow going at first but found that with patience she explained the peculiarities of her universe and now I'm hooked.
I've been working on reading all the Hugo winners (and some nominees as well) and just happened to come across this before Downbelow Station, but it's on the short list as well.
- Mon Apr 22, 2013 2:30 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
- Replies: 3372
- Views: 1565524
Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz (link is NPR piece)
- Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:46 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Our cable bill is over $200 !!!
- Replies: 89
- Views: 14450
Re: Our cable bill is over $200 !!!
$35 for cable internet, and something like $10 for Netflix streaming. No land line phone, no cable TV.
This arrangement does not actually save us any money, as my wife is a college basketball fan, so we tend to hit sports bars to catch the games. (I take a book)
This arrangement does not actually save us any money, as my wife is a college basketball fan, so we tend to hit sports bars to catch the games. (I take a book)
- Wed Jan 16, 2013 2:49 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Your most intense movie scene
- Replies: 155
- Views: 19904
Re: Your most intense movie scene
Dennis Hopper sex scene with Issabella Rossalini in Blue Velvet.
"Don't look at me! Don't you ******* look at me!"
Very intense film.
"Don't look at me! Don't you ******* look at me!"
Very intense film.
- Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:34 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How secure are you?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 9300
Re: How secure are you?
Having finally gotten around to doing the business of cross-authorizing my wife's account and mine, I would say that I think it's a great thing to do--not because of the security issues in telling your spouse your password, but because it is extremely difficult to deal with a spouse's password and it is much easier for your spouse to access your account via your spouse's own username, password, and security questions... meaning better security the sense of security against loss to your heirs due to overlooked, forgotten, or inaccessible accounts. I agree, and my spouse and I are cross-authorized for our IRAs, but our 401(k)s -- both at VG, apparently are not eligible for spousal authorization. So I'm obliged to log in as her to manage our ...
- Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:29 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
- Replies: 3372
- Views: 1565524
Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
I agree. If you read his Keller novels he'll make you like a hit man as well as a burglar.MP173 wrote: "Burglers Cant be Choosers" by Lawrence Block. Block is one of my favorite authors. In the "burgler" series, he actually makes you like a criminal.
Ed
- Mon Oct 22, 2012 3:48 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: What triggered you?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 7635
Re: What triggered you?
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- Wed Oct 17, 2012 3:00 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Looking for a Good Historical Fiction Series
- Replies: 48
- Views: 8064
Re: Looking for a Good Historical Fiction Series
My favorite historical fiction is Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series. It is set during the Hundred Years' War. The Sharpe series, which others have already recommended, is also excellent.
- Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:29 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Your Best One Line of Wisdom
- Replies: 238
- Views: 24026
Re: Your Best One Line of Wisdom
Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut, discussing the wealth of the party's host, a billionaire hedge fund manager:
“Yes, but I have something he will never have: Enough.”
“Yes, but I have something he will never have: Enough.”
- Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:10 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
- Replies: 3372
- Views: 1565524
Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice, by Christopher Hitchens
Normally I'm a big fan of Hitch, but I thought he was somewhat less than fair here. In situations where I would tend to see Mother Theresa as politically neutral for the sake of fundraising, he painted her as fully complicit with corruption, criminal individuals and cruel political regimes. I do think he had some valid criticisms -- providing absolute minimal medical care because she feels suffering is critical to the religious experience, despite easily being able to provide better, strikes me as abominable.
Normally I'm a big fan of Hitch, but I thought he was somewhat less than fair here. In situations where I would tend to see Mother Theresa as politically neutral for the sake of fundraising, he painted her as fully complicit with corruption, criminal individuals and cruel political regimes. I do think he had some valid criticisms -- providing absolute minimal medical care because she feels suffering is critical to the religious experience, despite easily being able to provide better, strikes me as abominable.
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:19 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Good fitness site in the spirit of Bogleheads?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10376
Re: Good fitness site in the spirit of Bogleheads?
Tigermoose, you might find what you're looking for in http://www.simplefit.org/. It was founded by a Boglehead.
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:09 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Good fitness site in the spirit of Bogleheads?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10376
Re: Good fitness site in the spirit of Bogleheads?
I know I'm in the minority here but I always felt like I was buying a used car when reading Mark's Daily Apple. I may just be projecting my feelings about paleo at the time onto him -- I should probably give it another try. I do agree with some of the paleo diet precepts but some of these guys who espouse "all bacon, all the time" as a healthy lifestyle make me quite skeptical.
I thought Starting Strength was good -- very progressive, relatively short workouts. I definitely saw progress for the few months that I did it. But I got quite tired of squatting heavy 3x/week, and IMO it's overemphasized in the program.
I thought Starting Strength was good -- very progressive, relatively short workouts. I definitely saw progress for the few months that I did it. But I got quite tired of squatting heavy 3x/week, and IMO it's overemphasized in the program.
- Fri May 04, 2012 2:37 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How much do Bogleheads donate as % of income?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 6131
Re: How much do Bogleheads donate as % of income?
Usually nil. I did recently give $25 to an anticharity through stickk.com
- Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:18 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
- Replies: 3372
- Views: 1565524
Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
I'm on the third book of Larry McMurtry's Berrybender Narratives. I'm new to McMurtry's writing and not a fan of the Western genre in general, but am enjoying these very much. I plan to read his Lonesome Dove series at some point in the near future.
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:49 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: The meat and potatoes of my spreadsheet
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1541
Re: The meat and potatoes of my spreadsheet
I think monitoring is a terrific thing to do, whereever you are. It tends to keep you on the right track, even if you have not set explicit goals. We're in a slightly different place, probably a bit older, but we started just in the past couple of years to track and graph the following each month: 1) Liquid Assets (both $ and salary multiple) - basically all bank and investing accounts, including retirement accounts 2) Net Worth (both $ and salary multiple) - liquid assets + home value - liabilities + discounted net present value of our traditional pensions. I know that some would not include the pensions. 3) Savings Rate as a % of gross salary - monthly contributions minus withdrawals to investments, bank accounts, I-bonds, etc. When we ha...
- Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:52 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Poll: How many hours do you work?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4638
Re: How many hours do you work?
salaried and work about 30
- Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:13 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Question for Obstructionist Drivers
- Replies: 171
- Views: 10206
Re: Question for Obstructionist Drivers
Oh, and rarely, if I am highway driving 5 or 8 miles per hour above the speed limit in the left lane, I feel little obligation to move over quickly to the right lane for a speed demon. I WILL pull over, but you might have to wait until I pass a vehicle or two at my speed. Exactly! "Slower traffic stays in the right lane" is simply not nuanced enough to cover everyone's expectations. I'm driving 10 mph over the speed limit in the left lane and passing someone going 5 mph over the limit. I'm going to stay in the left lane and pass at my speed, even if I am suddenly approached from behind by someone going 20 mph over the speed limit. So many fast drivers seem to feel that if they are going faster than I am, I should immediately alte...
- Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:34 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What is the best/your favorite keyboard for a desktop PC?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2489
Re: What is the best/your favorite keyboard for a desktop PC
The M$ Windows keyboard:
- Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:23 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Top 10 websites you view daily/semi-daily
- Replies: 53
- Views: 7965
Re: Top 10 websites you view daily/semi-daily
1) reddit.com (and by extension, also imgur and youtube). There are distinct subreddits that match many of my interests, including atheism, juggling, running, personal finance, books, travel, tea and more... My top ten visited sites are probably all subreddits.
2) bogleheads.org
3) slashdot.org
4) pandora.com (as background)
5) wikipedia.org
Although I don't go there daily, I like to lurk the forums at 6) letsrun.com and 7) runningahead.com
Once upon a time facebook would have been high on that list, but thankfully no more.
2) bogleheads.org
3) slashdot.org
4) pandora.com (as background)
5) wikipedia.org
Although I don't go there daily, I like to lurk the forums at 6) letsrun.com and 7) runningahead.com
Once upon a time facebook would have been high on that list, but thankfully no more.
- Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:10 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Was 2011 a lost year?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3279
Re: Was 2011 a lost year?
Investment returns for the year were just under break-even, but we were able to maintain a pretty nice savings rate, so net worth improved. We're both healthy and happy. I'm not independently wealthy yet, but there is not too much I could complain about.
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 4:15 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Hobbies of Bogleheads
- Replies: 159
- Views: 26558
Re:
Consider adding writing to your list, because I'm sure there is a book to be written thereLes wrote: 5) Gardening - love to dig holes in that adobe soil, sometimes use chain saw too
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:13 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Your favourite non-investment books
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1467
Re: Your favourite non-investment books
I like Joe Cocker's cover of itgkaplan wrote:Great Jimmy Webb song.
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:45 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Your favourite non-investment books
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1467
Re: Your favourite non-investment books
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of my personal favorites as well. This is a tough question, and I don't always answer in the same way when asked, and not because I'm necessarily predisposed to recent reads. There have been a lot of good books, and it can be hard to separate the first tier from the second tier. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien - the first fantasy I ever read, and it has never again been matched, for me Cannery Row - John Steinbeck A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins - probably not worthy to be mentioned with these classics, but it is a personal favorite And two from my childhood. I do still enjoy reading good children's fi...
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:15 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Coffee Maker
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3061
Re: Coffee Maker
I prefer cafetiere to drip.
- Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:26 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Humans born to run, evolutionary biologists say
- Replies: 123
- Views: 10243
Re: Humans born to run, evolutionary biologists say
RustyShackleford wrote: At the risk of pointing out the obvious, dogs in the Iditarod run about 100 miles per day for about 10 consecutive days. Sure they're top athletes of their species, but I'm pretty sure no human can come close to this feat of long-distance running (never mind while dragging a sled through the snow).
How would you feel of roughly 40 miles per day for 84 days? Some of these guys barely trained to run prior to the event -- C.C. Pyle's Bunion Derby in 1928.. http://archive.itvs.org/footrace/index.htm
- Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:19 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Humans born to run, evolutionary biologists say
- Replies: 123
- Views: 10243
Re: Humans born to run, evolutionary biologists say
And it's an important job, because sometimes other people on the internet are just plain wrong, and need to be told so.CaliJim wrote:I believe we were born to sit at our keyboards and type.
- Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:54 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Do you prefer to buy investment books or borrow them?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2069
Re: Do you prefer to buy investment books or borrow them?
I usually want to borrow for the first read. There are a few books (BH Guide to Investing, Four Pillars, Your Money or Your Life) that I bought just so that I can loan them to people who express interest in the topic.
- Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:57 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: E-reader for Mom (86 years old)?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3971
Re: E-reader for Mom (86 years old)?
I can't speak to the Nook but the Kindle interface is pretty simple. Once books are actually on the device I suspect she would do fine, as long as someone is able to assist in getting books onto the reader.
- Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:25 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Extra virgin olive oil
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3788
Re: Extra virgin olive oil
tooluser wrote:Under no circumstances should you add raisins to your cole slaw.
Or your cookies
- Fri Nov 25, 2011 2:27 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Favorite comic strips
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5290
Re: Favorite comic strips
XKCD and User Friendly. User Friendly needs to be followed, like Doonesbury.
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:44 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/2010)
- Replies: 1507
- Views: 403069
Re: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/201
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell - wow, this was excellent runthetrails, did you listen to the audio version of this, or read an actual book? If you did listen to it, how was the reader and the quality of the recording? There have been some complaints about missing sections on audible.com. I listened to the (supposedly) unabridged recording narrated by Jonathan Aris and Paula Wilcox, both of whom were good, I thought. While I did not notice a gap in the story, I could certainly have missed it. I believe I would have noticed a repeated section, which one reviewer mentioned. I saw that another reviewer complained about minute-long silent gaps in their copy, and that was not the case with mine. These reviews would probabl...
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:34 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/2010)
- Replies: 1507
- Views: 403069
Re: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/201
Since my last post I've read: The Elephanta Suite, Paul Theroux Blonde Bombshell, Tom Holt Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages, Tom Holt The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson Embassytown, China Mieville - second time through... not my favorite Mieville Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch Moon Over Soho, Ben Aaronovitch Halting State, Charles Stross - while impatiently awaiting more Bob Howard books Legacies, F. Paul Wilson Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux - fantastic travel writing The Chronoliths, Robert Charles Wilson The Stainless Steel Rat, Harry Harrison Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne - an interesting mix of travel, music, and bike advocacy; audiobook read by the author Rule 34, Charles S...
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:06 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/2010)
- Replies: 1507
- Views: 403069
Re: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/201
I really enjoyed Chesterton's Father Brown stories in my early teens. I am reliving them now on Netflix streaming... found a British production of them from the 70s. I've been able to see the endings well in advance (which I can't normally do with, say, Agatha Christie), so they are either quite simple or I am remembering the plots.ruralavalon wrote:Tales of the Long Bow, by G. K. Chesterton.
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:54 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Password manager?
- Replies: 109
- Views: 12549
Re: Password manager?
If you need to use software that is cross-Operating System capable, Password Safe(on Windows) uses the same database format as Password Gorilla (Mac OS and Linux). Both are free, and better yet I believe both are Open Source. Password Gorilla runs on Windows as well, but Password Safe has a slightly slicker interface. Password Safe was recommended to me by the instructor of an application security class at my place of business. He was from the OWASP foundation, so should be in the know. It's also approved by Bruce Schneier, a well-known security guru and author.
- Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:22 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: What percentage of your gross annual income do you save?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9680
Re: What percentage of your gross annual income do you save?
I track this monthly, and average around 45% of gross salary. My marginal tax rate is 25%.
Code: Select all
Month Savings as % of Salary
Dec 2010 38.3%
Jan 2011 39.8%
Feb 2011 50.3%
Mar 2011 47.3%
Apr 2011 36.3%
May 2011 51.5%
Jun 2011 63.2%
Jul 2011 38.6%
Aug 2011 60.6%
Sep 2011 48.5%
Oct 2011 51.9%
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 12:21 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: What type of small business would you start in this climate?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4489
Re: What type of small business would you start in this clim
Career Counselor, perhaps?
- Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:59 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How do you live your life?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 58090
Re: How do you live your life?
There are a great many back-of-the-pack and mid-pack marathoners who would disagree that the only meaning to be had is in winning the medal.VictoriaF wrote:An athlete's achievement is measured in gold medals...
- Tue Oct 25, 2011 12:59 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Question on "cashing in on the american dream" - Terhost
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2777
Re: Question on "cashing in on the american dream" - Terhost
I read this book in the past year and found it somewhat inspirational despite the fact that it is dated as to the value of a dollar and interest rates.Blue wrote:I am curious what would prompt you to read a 23 year old book?
@LH
It may help to become an author in retirement.
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:49 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Income/ Job is THE most important. If not, BRAG!
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7893
Re: Income/ Job is THE most important. If not, BRAG!
When I was a young, single guy making ~$20K, I struggled and barely saved enough to get my company match in my 401k. Other than that, I lived nearly paycheck-to-paycheck. Later, when I got married and our income was ~$60K, we were able to substantially increase the percentage we could save, as well as buy a modest house. Now that we (together) earn >$100K, we save about 45% of our gross salary every year without much difficulty, and the house is paid off.
Income may not be everything, but it sure makes a difference. And we might draw that basic subsistence line at different places, but wherever we draw it, disposable income is substantially higher at $400K than it is at $40K income.
Income may not be everything, but it sure makes a difference. And we might draw that basic subsistence line at different places, but wherever we draw it, disposable income is substantially higher at $400K than it is at $40K income.
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:35 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Family member owes me money but hasn't paid me back, what sh
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3928
Re: Family member owes me money but hasn't paid me back, wha
I would write it off and let it be a pleasant surprise if you get the money back. And decline any future loan requests, at least from this family member.
- Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:47 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Income/ Job is THE most important. If not, BRAG!
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7893
Re: Income/ Job is THE most important. If not, BRAG!
I would agree that a healthy income absolutely makes it easier to grow a big portfolio. If I was earning $40K I certainly wouldn't have hardly anything to spare. I don't think I agree with those statements. The guy earning $40,000 - and saving 20% of his salary - has the same struggle as the guy earning $400,000 and saving 20% of his salary. The $40,000 guy has been making $40,000 his entire career and has been saving 20% his entire career. He will be "financial secure" when he retires (and SS will help him much more - in % terms - than the $400,000 guy). The $400,000 guy either started much later and from a deep debt hole (he was a doctor), or he made $80,000 during his early years and got several quick promotions in his 40's. N...
- Wed Oct 19, 2011 4:09 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: How are you doing YTD?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 6302
Re: How are you doing YTD?
Our balance is up 1.1%, but annualized return (XIRR) is -8.7%.
35% US equities
19% Int'l equities
26% bonds
10% REIT
10% cash
35% US equities
19% Int'l equities
26% bonds
10% REIT
10% cash
- Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:22 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: [poll] When will (or did) you retire?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 15357
- Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:13 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Investing in Gold
- Replies: 58
- Views: 10437
Because the risk of all those things is already priced into the gold you just bought.Benko wrote:As someone who just purchased some gold (GTU) I gotta ask:cheese_breath wrote:In the current environment, considering how much the price of gold has already run up, I don't consider it investing. I consider it speculating. But that's just my opinion for what it's worth.
Greece is going to default, the Euro may disappear, the morons in Washington refuse to deal with our debt (and we keep printing more money), so please tell me why you think gold is more risky than investing in the market e.g. any index fund?
- Wed Oct 05, 2011 11:35 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How much do you pay for internet?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 5918