I get scolded if I make changes to my retirement account which result in moving in and out of a stock any time within a three-month window. I rebalanced once and then adjusted some holdings a few weeks later and got a letter about it. Of course I'm sure the fund manager isn't restricted like that, they just didn't want me to do it.

I had a very brief moment reading this summary when I thought, "Gee, I didn't know there was mathematical complexity snuck into the Merovingian's ties." Then I thought, "Damn, I wish they'd taken that four hours of thought into the script. They could have doubled the satisfaction value of the story with that effort."

No mod points, so I just wanted to say: Well done.

Could be a bunch of things:
* very soft atheist
* wishy-washy
* I just don't know
* I don't know, so ... whatever people think may be right
* I don't want to talk about it

I'm kind of mystified by a spectrum like yours which essentially discards the word atheist, only applicable to those who are being highly illogical or deluding themselves. There ought to be some useful purpose for it.

Please don't add to the perpetual accusations of hypocrisy that come up every time this is discussed. Faith is a vague word, with many meanings. The faith exercised by the religious is not the "faith" one might put in science, and using the same word for each is confusing at best and often a disingenuous linguistic trick used to try to put the two on the same level. Trusting in the reliability of consistently repeated results is so far removed from "believing without evidence, by definition," it does nothing but harm to use the same word for both.

I think a lot of solo/indie developers would be happy to talk about their failures, if you ask them. It's just not *news* so you won't have any such stories fed to you.

I'm genuinely curious if this is meant to be a joke about "fish hunter" or a tyop [sic] of "ghost hunter" or a fiendishly clever "ghost fish hunter"?

Yeah, I'd actually take a gander at a show that was mocking the ghost shows. I've joked about doing a parody ghost hunter called "Ghost Hunger" for years, but life keeps getting in the way. Those shows, while being ridiculous, have a certain creepy charm, best served with a stiff drink and a pile of sarcasm. Hopefully the other stuff includes "aliens in ancient ruins" shows, too.

Unrelated to anything I dreamed the other night I met Wil Wheaton (I think because I'd just watched an episode of The Guild that he's in). In my dream I told him how much I enjoyed his work on Silver Spoons and apologized for not immediately recognizing him because "didn't you used to be blond when you were a kid?" Apparently my subconscious thinks he's Rick Schroeder.

If it's elegant to down my tools, is it equally cromulent to up yours?

Then there was the phase my brother went through as a teenager where all adjectives were sarcastic. "Bad" was among his favorites, but he was using sarcasm on the "good" bad, so that bad had wrapped around and actually meant "bad" again.

I got it eventually but had to read it a couple of times. I think I was already thrown by the headline. The words "Indie Game Jam Show Collapses" - the last three words could be either nouns or verbs, and I couldn't figure out which. I'm short on sleep, though, so it may just be me.

I've heard it, too. There are references in literature to "the second sleep" which faded away in recent centuries. That second sleep being after people had their first sleep, then spent some time awake in the dark doing whatever, and then went back to bed to finish off the night.

Left basically on my own for a week during a college spring break I unintentionally fell into this cycle and lived through six 28-hour days over the course of seven actual days. It was a little disorienting, particularly when it came to figuring out when and how to eat at odd hours, but it felt right in a lot of ways. I haven't had many chances to try it since, so I don't know if it was just coincidence or is really my natural cycle. At another point in my life I fell into a fairly comfortable rhythm of going to bed at 2-3 a.m. and getting up around 10 a.m., which is a little more constructive in dealing with the outside world, but unfortunately doesn't match your typical 8-5 job, and didn't last.

I know I held this opinion during elementary and high school, summed up by the mantra, "You showed me, I got it, why should I keep doing it?" By college I can distinctly remember feeling the opposite. I had a very clear moment of realization in one of my calculus classes where I was doing a series of complicated steps, and while the newest material felt hard, the first several steps seemed trivial, except I could remember them being "hard" just a few weeks before at the beginning of the semester. The only difference was how much time I'd had to practice the methods.

Maybe the elementary stuff was simple enough I didn't need to practice. Maybe I just resented the exercises but they were actually helping me solidify the skill. I didn't have enough perspective to know which was right as a kid, and now I'm too far removed to be sure, but I'm slightly more inclined to believe I was a snotty kid who thought a little too highly of himself, and despite loathing the repetition it may have actually been (slightly) useful

Hmm. If the universe went around proving me wrong at every single turn, I might turn evil, too.