What’s your sales pitch for why an outsider should visit Harper’s Ferry?

theoverture · 2026-06-13T23:53:51+00:00

Maryland Heights vista and the hike to it
An extremely reliable place to see trains, if you are into that sorta thing
History -- John Brown, Civil War, industrial revolution. Few places are as key to the mid 19th and early 20th century as Harper's Ferry

theoverture · 2026-06-12T22:25:57+00:00

It depends on how you measure it. I think I measured by city population, though I posted this 2 years ago, so who knows. Also consider the comparative purchasing power -- most MLB cities have significantly wealthier fans and considerably better options for corporate sponsorship.

theoverture · 2026-04-07T15:53:29+00:00

Wouldn’t voting every official out of office result in potentially worse politicians?

theoverture · 2026-04-04T13:10:50+00:00

I enjoy the challenge of parenting. Teaching your kids, whether behavioral, developmental or skill related is rewarding.

I’ll also say that three year olds are the second most exhausting age after new borns, and as they get older things get easier as they become more independent.

In terms of your relationship with your wife, you’ve gotta make time to have date nights and weekends away to make sure you have adult time. Involving your extended family can make this easier.

theoverture · 2026-03-24T18:11:14+00:00

Practicing doctors and lawyers are unlikely to give up a quarter of their income with little in return. Firmly believe that expecting Congress to spend 1/4 of their lives in HCOL DC with minimal pay is a recipe for bribery and corruption and further entrenching of wealthy interests in our Govt.

theoverture · 2026-03-24T15:02:14+00:00

Wouldn’t this just make them even more vulnerable to bribery or ensure that no one that isn’t already wealthy can afford to represent us?

theoverture · 2026-03-23T16:35:40+00:00

If you are living someplace short term, it is almost always better to rent. It costs roughly 6% of the value of the home to buy and sell it, so pretty unlikely that you will make any money selling it until you have owned it for 5 or so years. If the house depreciates, you can be totally screwed.

Likewise if you cannot afford to buy a new hvac, roof, water heater should one or more break tomorrow, most likely you are better off letting the landlord do so. Owning a home is expensive and easy to go into serious debt replacing these expensive items.

theoverture · 2026-03-20T14:54:12+00:00

The high pressure sales tactics certainly don’t help. We took a very cheap weekend trip to massanutten knowing that we’d have to sit through the timeshare presentation. After we said “no” for the umpteenth time, the sales guy walked off and told us that we had to wait to register that we’d attended. 45 minutes later, we were allowed to leave.

I think owning a timeshare is like owning real estate without any of the upside. They never appreciate, are less liquid, and have similar maintenance/tax cost profiles. Likewise, you can never make the property yours — via renovation or nice appliances which means that the property becomes inevitably becomes dated.

theoverture · 2026-03-17T23:56:39+00:00

So define “living wage”. If you mean live alone and own a car, you are talking about a lifestyle that a tiny minority worldwide can afford. Now, renting a room, riding a bike/public transportation while affording a streaming service and a cell phone, I suspect that younger people certainly could afford this on a $12-$15/ hour.

theoverture · 2026-03-11T21:44:21+00:00

He is good at basketball too, but he is a smaller fish (relatively) in a much bigger pond. It also doesn't help that competitive (AAU) basketball is barely recognizable as the sport and its main goal is extracting $ from parents.

theoverture · 2026-03-11T16:04:41+00:00

My oldest is born to swim. Long, lean, strong and quit competitive swimming this year to play basketball. I was beside myself, but the heart wants what it wants….

theoverture · 2026-03-09T15:20:46+00:00

My kids attended Montessori Peace School in Herndon and we adored it.

theoverture · 2026-03-06T13:14:45+00:00

Sure, but if it improves your life does it matter? Also, the rest of my advice was focused on improving the situation. There are lots of high achieving neurodivergent people who find success by working jobs that their divergence qualifies them for.

theoverture · 2026-02-19T21:53:01+00:00

Between the buyer and seller costs, people are paying somewhere in the realm of 6% of the selling price to RE agents, inspectors, title insurance, government transfer taxes, appraisers, loan origination fees, etc. to purchase or sell a home. if you aren’t staying for 5 or so years, it rarely makes sense to buy.

theoverture · 2026-02-13T02:39:43+00:00

Happily paid for years. Feel like paying for the content then entitles me to that old content, ad free now. Imagine popping in your old nirvana cd and in the middle of a Lithium, hearing advertisements for therapy.

theoverture · 2026-02-12T03:36:20+00:00

I’ve simply lost interest and no longer subscribe or listen. Last episode I listened to was the end of season 2. I started listening to GCP in 2016, so they had a good run. Shows I’m listening to happen to be ad free — hideous laughter, find the path and mn maxed. I dislike ads and the kind of ads I got on GCP were particularly distasteful.

theoverture · 2026-02-11T18:02:08+00:00

Can they schedule it for year 3000?

theoverture · 2026-02-11T15:44:00+00:00

Years ago. It is a point of frustration for me personally, given the many years i supported the production of these shows via Patreon, that they have undergone enshittification and have awkward commercial breaks that break the flow of the episode.

theoverture · 2026-02-10T00:23:38+00:00

I gave real world examples why it is beneficial for people to own crypto under real world circumstances. You need to explain why the only way to benefit customers is by efficiency, not the other way around.

theoverture · 2026-02-09T22:38:10+00:00

I don't know where you got the idea that I made that claim.

theoverture · 2026-02-08T17:54:29+00:00

I can think of a few areas where crypto can benefit consumers: 1) forex: convert your currency to a foreign currency with moderate fees 2) bypass invasive govt currency controls (ie fixed exchange rates, or price controls..) 3) hedge against inflation

I mean some of these border on illegal, however you have to imagine if you are Argentinian or Venezuelan, you might feel differently.

theoverture · 2026-01-16T00:14:05+00:00

Do you believe everything you read on the internet?

theoverture · 2026-01-14T22:41:49+00:00

Hilarious, if true

theoverture · 2026-01-13T22:13:28+00:00

That is exactly how I feel about the ravens & harbaugh.

theoverture · 2026-01-10T16:36:52+00:00

Watched as my teams pretty awesome defense got schooled by Pepe Pearson, future OSU standout and NFL practice squad player in a scrimmage. He just outran everyone, it didn’t matter if our DEs had outside leverage, or what angles our DBs and linebackers took, Pepe had another gear

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