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Like Too Human, Not Like Devil May Cry 4
So… console systems aren’t so bad after all. But I need game suggestions. I spent some time this weekend getting more comfortable with our new XBox and PS3. I asked Greg to find me a Diablo-like (because I was driving), and he made me a short list of games to demo, warning me that I probably wasn’t going to find anything really like Diablo/Torchlight (which I have on PC). Their “click-click-click” gameplay style may not translate well to consoles. His list? Too Human Fable II or III Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light And maybe some others. A not-so-short list, really. I grabbed and fired up the Too Human…
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Finally, Some Wedding Relaxation
Within the last week, a few incredible things happened with regards to the wedding: My stress level dropped by about 50%. I got my wedding dress. RSVPs are coming in. We have a marriage license! Wedding planning is fun again! Actually, RSVPs starting coming in last week and are trickling off this week, but we now have People Attending Our Wedding. Which makes this stuff, like, official. So does the marriage license, which was pleasantly easy to get. Greg and I took a couple of hours and worked straight through our Checklist o’ Doom (thank you, Knot), making sure we knew where we stood on everything, clearing out irrelevant tasks,…
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Weekly Linkage: All Over the Place
There’s no particular theme to this week’s surfing, but there are some pretty pictures and good reads here. The problem with waste – Note that the list of not-recommended screenings include things like screening for prostate cancer in men older than 75 or colon cancer in folks above 85. I glanced through the USPSTF's procedure manual, and it looks like they're taking into account a variety of factors (age, gender, race, etc.), but their information is only as good as the studies they're pulling from. How worried should we be about researchers' biases (ageism being the first that comes to mind)? "So we’re confronted with a set of screening recommendations…
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Bogleheads’ Retirement Planning: Tax Games
Why didn’t I ever look at 401(k) contributions as a tax game? Probably because I didn’t really understand how taxes worked.
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Clear Internet: Shady, Untrustworthy Service
Late in February, I decided to see if I alone could break Time Warner’s broadband internet monopoly in my area. I did so by checking out Clear, a 4G home internet provider. In short, Time Warner won. For now. In long, there was first… A Suspicious Start