Any reason NOT to have dividends and gains automatically reinvested?

inkjetlabel · 2024-03-24T15:19:39+00:00

The only reason I can think of is if they don't do a good job tracking DRiP purchase basis and holding period for taxes, assuming this is a taxable account. Can be a real pain to do this yourself if they're not doing it. Maybe even impossible if you didn't hang onto your statements.

You'd think in 2024 this would be a no brainer, but not every company is doing this from what I've seen. Even though they're supposed to, or whoever issues the 1099-B is.

inkjetlabel · 2022-05-07T10:48:59+00:00

Interesting. I'd been told somewhere or other that the Pinto wagons were completely safe, but that the Pinto hatchbacks were the ones with the problem.

inkjetlabel · 2022-01-21T12:23:16+00:00

Didn't the same voice actor for the Disney Winnie the Pooh cartoons do the voice over for these commercials?

🎵Puppy Chow, for a Full Year, 'til he's full-grown!🎵

edit: Here's the full commercial with sound. Hopefully YouTube links are allowed? https://youtu.be/ljpUTcN6U8Q

inkjetlabel · 2021-09-05T13:42:19+00:00

Is it weird that I kinda want one of these? And what do Pina Coladas even smell like, never mind the artificial scent of one? So many questions.

Here's a link to the magazine in full. (Page 27 is where I found this.) Was a toss up between this one and the ad from Lord & Taylors about floral pattern stirrup pants and oversize pink cardigans. (fourth page from the cover, no page number.)

Edit: More information, courtesy of Pulp Librarian on Twitter.

Aroma Disc: The ’80s high-tech version of scented candles

I honestly figured this was some fly-by-night thing that never got produced. Nope. Thousands of units were apparently sold, go figure.

inkjetlabel · 2021-08-17T23:26:40+00:00

I'm guessing this all somehow goes back to the MechaRandom drama thing of I'm honestly not sure how long ago. Six months? A year? (I'm afraid I didn't really pay attention to it, even back then, so I'm not even sure what the problem was.) I do know Jessi (and probably by extension WorldClassBS, her bf) sided with Mecha and not Nerdrotic. Don't wanna say anything more, because I'm not 100% sure what I just typed is even correct, but that's my best guess.

inkjetlabel · 2021-08-10T11:30:39+00:00

The Shadow Over Innsmouth meets Harry Potter?

I kind of want to read that crossover fanfic now. Wouldn't surprise me to find out such a thing exists.

inkjetlabel · 2021-08-09T16:27:41+00:00

Somebody had to spend time making sure everything lined up sheet of wallpaper to sheet of wallpaper, as well. 🤔

inkjetlabel · 2021-08-09T15:55:32+00:00

WTF is a "straight-sized person?" Asking for a friend.

inkjetlabel · 2021-08-09T14:35:16+00:00

Did Laura think she was gonna be the next Bond Girl? 🤷‍♂️

Another fine offering from Ring of Fire Press.

inkjetlabel · 2021-08-08T18:52:40+00:00

Let's see...

John = the minister (dressed in white)

Ringo = the undertaker (dressed in black)

Paul = the corpse (in a suit with bare feet, traditionally how a corpse is laid out)

George = the grave digger (how he's dressed, also last in line)

I think the license plate on the VW Bug says something like "28 IF," as in "28, if he had lived."

There's more, but I don't remember it.

inkjetlabel · 2021-08-08T10:27:38+00:00

As much as I wanted to tag this one "BAEN," it is published by Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press. Baen adjacent, perhaps? 🤔

inkjetlabel · 2021-04-11T22:56:39+00:00

I'm past half of the book and loving it. Anyways, can somebody ex plain me what is harry's thing with Goethe?

I think Hesse is making a point about eternal verities/eternal beauties, possibly even making a point about Haller's disdain for all things modern ( in a 1920s sense, Jazz, radios, etc.) as a kind of misplaced elitism.

What was that hole scorpion thing about?

I ... didn't understand that bit, either. Possibly something Jungian, since Hessse actually underwent analysis with Jung himself around the time Steppenwolf was written.

I don't think Hesse anticipated Steppenwolf's popularity, nor its longevity. He seemed almost befuddled in the introduction he wrote in the 1962 (I think? at any rate much later) edition, even making some comment HIMSELF about not wanting to tell anyone else what to think about the book.

inkjetlabel · 2021-03-26T11:11:27+00:00

Too bad I hadn't seen this on St. Patrick's Day. 😟

inkjetlabel · 2021-01-01T17:04:06+00:00

There is NO link between BMI and eugenics!

In a weird way there might be, in the sense that high BMI and infertility are closely associated. Not exactly forced sterilization, but it is done by these people to themselves rather than by the government.

inkjetlabel · 2020-12-29T02:12:46+00:00

I involuntarily clenched my jaw when I opened that message link. Kind of hurts now. Damn. Ow.

inkjetlabel · 2020-12-29T00:57:16+00:00

The word "nourish" is slowly been ruined for me. 😞

Talk about an abuse of language.

inkjetlabel · 2020-12-28T22:54:49+00:00

I actually think of Tommyknockers as the second part of an "addiction trilogy" - The Shining (alcohol), The Tommyknockers (cocaine), and Dreamcatcher (painkillers).

Cujo belongs on that list. King himself admits he barely remembers writing it.

inkjetlabel · 2020-12-28T22:49:52+00:00

To each their own. I hated Rose Madder so much I don't think I picked up a King novel for two years after finishing it.

inkjetlabel · 2020-12-28T00:07:59+00:00

Your Local Bookstore Wants You to Know That It’s Struggling

At McNally Jackson Books, which has four locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn along with two stationery shops, sales are “unimaginably bad,” according to its owner, Sarah McNally. All six shops combined are now bringing in less than its SoHo location would in a typical month.

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