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Yes. I like the single-AA Fenix E12 and the brighter two-AA Streamlight 88033. Both are light, compact, and amenable to adding a lanyard. I avoid oddball batteries as a matter of policy. You can get AAs easily anywhere in the world. The oddballs? Not so much. One dark night I landed with an...

I didn't ask, but my guess would be that it was net of fees but not net of any taxes the traders would have paid. The brokerage house would have no way to know the latter even though it eats into the net by a substantial amount. But actually, the more important thing is that it almost...

I can give you a related data point on that. A couple of years ago when I was developing my Adult-Ed investing class I spent a bunch of time with a TDAmeritrade branch manager. At that time TD's business focus was on day traders. After an hour or so we were pretty comfortable with each other...

Passive investors will just ride it out. The only alternatives are to stay out of the market completely and permanently or to try market timing. Here is the wisdom on the latter: Taylor Larimore's market timing quotes https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Taylor_Larimore's_market_timing_quotes...

Yes. That's a good one among many from serious and knowledgeable people. I also like "Winning the Loser's Game" by Charles Ellis. For beginners: "The Coffeehouse Investor; How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street and Get on with Your Life" by Bill Schultheis. Well the problem is that a few...

Do you believe in astrology and healing crystals, too?

Never heard of it until today. From looking at it, VVOS appears to be one of those stocks that is propped up by the greater fool theory. A company that loses more than a dollar when it takes in a dollar of revenue is a speculation of the highest order. These stocks have their day and the...

IIRC that is the same engine that was in my Volvo 6-cly wagon (265 iIRC.) Those engines had a cam/lifter oiling problem. The repair procedure involved pulling the engine to remove the cam(s) but the problem was so common that the dealership mechanics learned to beat the flat rate by cutting...

Not sure I see the point of this other than to show that being a clerk/typist is not my forte. Which I concede. The idea that we humans have been programmed by evolution to believe we are exceptional and lucky is settled science. In addition to being well known to psychologists, it is also...

This is not a new thing. As it happens I have been recently re-reading "Against the Gods; The Remarkable Story of Risk" by Peter Bernstein where he quotes 18th century economist Adam Smith's observation of some human delusions: "The overweening conceit which the greater part of men have of...

Got it. From that, I would conclude that you are also among the 80% of us who believe that we have above-average driving skills.

With respect, maybe you should have followed the science, which says and hands-free or not is irrelevant. Then that 'gator might not have surprised you. Any driving while talking on the phone has been experimentally shown to be similar to driving drunk in terms of its effects on safety. When...

As a long-term strategy I suggest you consider what we did years ago. We bought our own domain, like ourdomain.net, and all our emails go there. It can be hosted by any ISP and mail service, spam filtering, etc. provided. The ISP that does this for us was also our internet ISP but that has...

Sorry to ruin the thread drift, but when I was racing, open wheel cars, full face helmets, the helmets always got a strip of duct tape to cut sky glare and block medium-low sun. One time I tried a second, low strip, so that I just had almost a slit to look through but that cut off my view of...

Yes, that is important to realize. Nassim Taleb ("Fooled by Randomness") calls this missing information "silent evidence." The documented fact is that only a tiny number of stock pickers, professional or amateur, are able to beat the market averages over a long (5-10 years) period of time, and...

I have an instant hot water faucet installed in our kitchen sink. It's on a timer and I have hot water only in the morning when I make my drip (Chemex) coffee. It's on from maybe 5AM to 10. Others are probably similar, but it is quite a clever design. The little tank is not pressurized...

Yes, you would think. An airplane that goes down in an area of tall pine forest will only be found if it damaged a bunch of the trees on the way in. If the trees near the impact point look normal, he may never be found. Then there is the matter of ending up in a lake, where there is no smoke...

Sorry, no. A fuel range circle can cover several states. Totally useless, totally impossible to cover. We might look at fuel range once we have an idea of the route of the flight to see if there is possibility of fuel exhaustion, but that is about it. There are lots of other more useful...

Yes, forgot about that. But I think the experience of cell phones with our cheaply-made electronics in our spam cans with proximate antennas is strong evidence that this is not an issue. Also, there are plenty of passengers in air transport airplane who have left their cell phones on...

It's an old FCC regulation. IIRC when it was created, an airborne analog cell phone could engage a large number of cells and cause service to deteriorate. I am not a cell phone expert but I think the technical issue is gone. Another more recent aspect I think you might call sociological; it...