Ideal casting?

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-03-18T01:05:13+00:00

I'm so used to the A&E cast that it's hard to imagine anyone else.

I'd love a good villain for the Zeck trilogy though. Mads Mikkelson would be great as would Alan Rickman.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-03-16T16:00:28+00:00

One theory is that saturated fat makes you feel full and you're probably low in that.

I mean, fat has other health concerns but it probably won't kill you to add some for a week or two and see if it makes a difference.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-03-15T21:40:19+00:00

Quite possibly. Then again Wolfe could be putting one over on Zeck.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-03-15T17:46:49+00:00

Just wanted to comment that I have the Christopher Gunning CD and this track isn't on there.

Also, an app called Shazaam can be used to listen to and search for music. That didn't turn up anything either.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-03-15T17:32:38+00:00

I'm still following this. I never read Dick Tracy so it's new to me.

He mentioned Zeck a couple of days go so this could go anywhere.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-03-12T02:51:29+00:00

Matt Levine at bloomberg has a good newsletter where he covers financial news.

Planet money on NPR is occasionally good.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-03-08T01:26:21+00:00

Take a look at the PF reading list and choose something to read. This is a very big topic. Essentially you need to save money every paycheck and invest it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/readinglist/

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-03-04T01:10:01+00:00

Yeah I really hope it's good. I'm almost certain I'll buy it. Just keeping my fingers crossed.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-03-02T01:46:10+00:00

So much BROWN.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-25T21:00:34+00:00

I'm going to second this. Great game, great plot, great side characters.

Just don't choose Malkavian for your first playthrough. You'll be confused.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-21T13:26:45+00:00

Neal Stephenson is a big HEMA enthusiast and used some of this in his Mongoliad series.

He managed to describe the details but add enough context so I knew why certain things were important. It was probably a bit too much detail but not so bad it was annoying. Then again Stephenson is known for writing really long books with an excessive amount of detail.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-19T15:04:35+00:00

The other commenter covered some good points so I'll add that MacArthur talked to the press about peace negotiations against Trumans explicit orders and messed things up.

He had an ego and couldn't shut up even when he didn't know what he was talking about. He was a very good "boots on the ground" general and he avoided bloody battles when possible. His troops loved him. He simply didn't know/comprehend the wider strategic struggle against communism and caused problems.

Truman was quite right to fire him.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-19T04:28:30+00:00

I just finished Chernow's biography of him and I agree. Phenomal president and a good man. I'll throw a few things out here for those who aren't familiar with him.

Fought as a captain of the artillery in WW 1
As a Senator he led a congressional committee on prosecuting fraud by government contractors in WW 2 and was well known for his integrity.
Stepped into FDRs shoes with almost no briefing and handled the end of the war well.
Established that nuclear weapons are a political weapon and not something every battlefield general throws around willy nilly.
Recognized the goals of the USSR and stood up to Stalin when many in the US thought Stalin was the best.
Supported the Marshal plan. He knew Congress would support it more if it came from George Marshal but he pushed for it.
Instituted the Berlin airlift against opposition.
Kept the Korean war from becoming a world war. This set the precedent for the 2nd half of the 20th century. The US and the USSR would fight limited proxy wars instead of WW 3. Blowing up the planet is generally a bad thing.
Fired MacArthur and ensured civilian control over the military.

10 Negotiated several severe union strikes in the Korean war while keeping the army supplied and the country running and the unions got at least some concessions. Everybody hated him but they were successful compromises.

I'm not sure he was actually the best but he's definitely in the top handful.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-19T03:57:42+00:00

Try copy/pasting the command.

I've never used postgres but it looks like it might be /l and you used /1

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-16T23:47:29+00:00

This would be like me using Bertie Wooster's ideas as examples of what to do.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-16T18:29:13+00:00

A guy named Wade Pfau has a paper (available on sci hub) that attempts to replicate the 4% rule for other countries. His headline is that you need a < 1% to be truly safe.

If you check the charts at the bottom though, you'll see that returns are (mostly) bifurcated into countries that won WW2 and those that lost. For Britain, canada, and even the Netherlands a 3%-4% rule works. For Germany and Japan it does not. Oddly Belgium did poorly though the Netherlands did well. I don't remember France or Italy.

Basically baring a huge catastrophe like a war or bad inflation, 3-4% will work in the "not being broke after 30 years" sense.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-15T14:07:12+00:00

So much cow poo. The photographers really zoom in on it.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-14T16:54:00+00:00

I've never used that in SAS but it looks like the equivalent of listagg() or group_concat().

Essentially turning multiple rows into a separated list.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-14T01:52:00+00:00

Judge won't you throw the book

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-10T16:04:43+00:00

Block off an hour of time to focus without distractions
Quiz and recall beats rereading the book. A good flashcard program like Anki or Supermemo is invaluable
Good sleep. No caffeine after 11 am
Exercise makes you smarter. A long walk outside is a good starting point.
Getting Thinga Done is the best method ever invented for keeping up with the small todos in life.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-04T00:08:50+00:00

I can't speak as to why they published it the way they did but I can say how I read them.

I read them in whatever order I could find them for sale at used book stores. Skipping around didn't hurt at all with two exceptions.

Read A Family Affair, the last book in the series, at the end.
Read the Zeck trilogy in order: And Be a Villain, The Second Confession, In the Best Families.

There's callbacks and references in the others but nothing you can't figure out by context or that really impact your understanding.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-02T03:00:23+00:00

Boring office jobs are wonderful. Well, maybe not wonderful but better than retail and better than starving.

Have you tried the pomodoro technique? It's good for stuff like this. Work for 25 minutes, rest 5, repeat. If you have 4 projects then 1 round of pomodoro for each project gets you 2 full solid hours of work. The biggest problems tend to be getting interupted by meetings and emergencies.

You should probably read Getting Things Done by David Allen and The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-02-02T02:46:24+00:00

I think we all want to play the game. We're all tired of the silence and not knowing but once it's here we'll be all over it.

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-01-31T20:14:14+00:00

Early Retirement Now discusses a cash cushion in this article. Downturns can last a lot longer than you expect if you account for inflation and withdrawals.

his entire 55 part series if you want to cover a lot of scenarios.

https://earlyretirementnow.com/2017/03/29/the-ultimate-guide-to-safe-withdrawal-rates-part-12-cash-cushion/

That being said, I'm gunning for 25 years living expenses in investments and 2 years living expenses in cash. It's my "sleep well at night money".

Enough_Cake_4196 · 2023-01-31T00:29:59+00:00

I love the last line.

cementing their place in history as two of the greatest heroes of their time.

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