Saw Louis CK last night. Great show!

Trick or treat — you don’t want the trick!

Don’t be shy, Vinny. Vinny privately told me that he gave the kid 2 candy corns, a tootsie roll, and one of those mini kitkat bars, which constitutes 0.083% of the candy he’d prepared for the neighborhood. Had he known that this was going to be the sole bell-ringer, Vinny would have upped that to te...

Wow, they didn’t even give you credit for inspiring them

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 05, 2025 9:03 am As much as I am grateful for VLC it definitely has some quirks and frustrating things about it.

The 200% volume thing in particular is weird.

What do you use it on? Macbook?

It’s impossible to create a playlist in VLC on an ipad. Impossible.
That’s it. that’s the tweet post.

Could you please share which ETFs are most commonly used (or preferred) in the U.S. version of the Permanent Portfolio for each of the four assets Stocks: I think SPY (SPDR aka “spyder” S&P 500) is popular. I use VTI which is total market, from vanguard. I have my wife in ITOT (ishares, 1500 st...

Did anyone else get a complete dearth of trick-or-treaters this year?? Almost no kids this year... :-\ I'm in a rural area. My property is 0.39 acres. I bought my house April 30, 1982. In all that time the only activity I ever had was the kid next door coming by on October 31, 1984. In this area th...

I’m afraid that’s all I know, Frugal <shrug>

You didn’t give out plastic bitcoin “coins”?

Did anyone else get a complete dearth of trick-or-treaters this year?? Almost no kids this year... :-\ It was a much quieter night on our block this year than most even though the weather was fine.. (It was Nov 1 that was rowdy, with noisy teens and the pumpkin theft from our steps). A friend of mi...

I feel like someone (Kevin K?) covered this a long time ago.
Said the need for long bonds happens less often.

Frankly, I’m offended that I had to find out from bogleheads that you switched to the new computer.

Edit: someone stole our pumpkin tonight. Boooo

Much of the first section would be helpful for either students or business people who needed to learn / retain the information. Yeah, I skipped the exercises in Part I, and the advice there could’ve been reduced to a couple sentences, but still helpful. When I started reading the novel, I found I w...

yep

You’re cracking me up.
I suppose there’s no chance of me finishing the book before you do. It’s short, anyway.
I got a copy of Slow Horses book 5 in the mail today and switched to that. I’ll use my new-found techniques on it.

I have heard of wealthy people buying a painting from crooks to rescue it.
I think most buyers wouldn’t touch these items with a ten foot pole, but who knows. Maybe a Russian oligarch? A Saudi prince?

Jack Jones wrote: ↑Fri Oct 31, 2025 10:27 am I find it doubtful that they are unsalable.

Not easily salable? At any rate, I don’t expect the thieves have a lot of respect for the pieces as a whole. That only happens in movies.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 31, 2025 10:07 am

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Oct 31, 2025 7:02 am The one by Kam Knight.

This has no context so means nothing to me.

The speed-reading book.

The one by Kam Knight.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 1:39 pm Yeah, Vinny, I'm also not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me.

LOL

Re testing: I’ve changed my mind. So it appears to be a response to Putin. I’m fine with the posturing, but I hope he doesn’t actually do it, because I believe it’s unnecessary.

It seems like your premise, both of you, is that stranger = better. O0 Those enthralling facts are even more enthralling when you realize that they are no true All true? I did buy three non -fiction books in a series written by someone who has a weekly Saturday column in my local newspaper Fiction? ...

yankees60 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 27, 2025 12:13 pm Someone aptly said of me, "for Vinny, reading is breathing."

I can’t remember: do you ever read fiction?

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 10:13 am is it good for America to begin resuming nuclear weapons testing as a matter of national defense? What do you guys think?

Nope. I haven’t really looked into it, but … no.