Oh, I wasn't even actively trying to sell. I just had some art on my web site that I'd done for fun and wanted to show off. I only got a small handful of contacts, but all of them were looking for free. One of them was even a "conference," which seemed like it ought to have *some* funds. Though it was also South Korea in the early 2000's, so I'm not sure what things were like then.

I appreciate your taking the time to make the suggestion, though.

Heh, I wish just once someone who contacted me about using my images had any money at all. The only requests I've ever gotten were from people looking for entirely free use. I would have gladly taken $20 just to be able to say I'd once sold something.

Sadly, ternary doesn't actually start with "tri."

I think it comes from old Norwegian, based on a decision-making process akin to flipping a coin, except it was throwing rocks at birds, and the decision was determined by which arctic tern was hit first.

I think we had the same physics book, because this article brought back memories of the story. In my memory he cracked one rear molar and not *all* of his teeth, but it's otherwise similar.

I'm not "proud" of adblocking any more than I'm proud of locking my door at night. It's just basic personal security. It's a shame that my security needs conflict with the site's business model. But frankly, I'm not going to click on any ads anyway. I've clicked on maybe two in the past decade, and both were by accident. Mostly I'm not interested. Even if I *am* interested, I'm going go to the source web site directly, because I can't trust some random ad to be genuine.

One version of PHPBB had a bug where it trimmed the special characters (or at least the @) from a password when you *created* it, but not later on when you tried logging in. I had to reinstall a couple of times before I somehow figured out what was going on. Not sure if this bug still exists, as it was many years ago.

I still miss the speed with which Mac OS 9 opened windows. (I don't still use it, mind you, I just miss it.) When they came out with OS X there was a tremendous, noticeable drag on the window-opening animation/process. I think they did slowly improve things over subsequent versions and with improving hardware, but I'm pretty sure I could still drill down through 8 folders faster on OS 9 using 90's-era hardware than I could through the same folders on a modern Mac.

I know, I'm probably not supposed to keep things in folders and drill down like that anymore, but instead throw it all in one big pot and search or something, but that's not how I learned to think about my computer files, and I still haven't really adjusted to it.

Yes, rock is handy, but keep in mind it's useless against paper.

Sure, that's why no individual bothers to do it, but if the world at large wanted to demonstrate if there was any merit at all to dowsing, that's the kind of thing they ought to test.

You'd think somewhere there'd be one wealthy investor willing to spend a few tens of thousands to scientifically analyze this.

As a start, I'd say: pick 3 spots that feel right, pick 3 spots that feel wrong, and pick 3 spots via some randomization method. Then drill all 9. Repeat over a few thousand plots of land. Compare results.

Bah, the pithier version of this is, "Two wrongs won't make a right, but three lefts do."

Hey, look, you just ended a sentence with "a preposition."

Those who cannot remember the aphorism are doomed to, er, how does that go again?

I guess I get why there may be some ties between programming and poetry, but it's not my thing. I wonder what the ex-English-professor would have said about a novelist?

Based on your Sunday post I think you may have gotten it, but the issue with your comparison here is your contributions are mismatched, because you're contributing twice as much to your Roth as your Traditional. If you put the same $200k into the Traditional as you were throwing at the Roth, it would grow to $1,000,000, not just $500k. You then pay 25% in taxes, which leaves you $750k free to personally spend. This is much better than the $500k from the Roth.

Yes, you have paid more in taxes overall ($250k for the Traditional versus $100k for the Roth) but that's kind of irrelevant. What is relevant to you is that you have $750k rather than $500k.