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After over 40 years of life, I have found a few tips that have served me well. None of these are earth-shattering; some run contrary to financial advisor advice. Almost all of these have to do with delayed gratification and perseverance. All of them have served me well and got…

I have experience with some financial incentives based on my experiences in the corporate environment, and I’ve been curious about the ones I don’t have direct experience with, so I wanted to take this as an opportunity to research my knowledge gap. I’m most interested in how prevalent the different…

TLDR: I feel this game is an 8/10 which interestingly is pretty much where the metacritic sits. I think it’s a fair score and I think it’s a great game. I have a lot of thoughts on it though… My History with Marvel A little about me, I’m a mark…

I’ve detailed my adventures with alcohol (part 1 and 2) in the past, and since it’s been over 5 years since I wrote those posts, I thought I’d share a health update. As of this writing I’m 44 years old. The weight I lost by both getting off my butt…

I was looking at a metacritic Marvel movie ranking list and found myself yelling at my screen. So I thought I should make my own list, and instead of every Marvel movie (which the metacritic list is missing a few) I am focusing on MCU movies. Ranking Movie 1 Avengers:…

Many services I’ve noticed offer the convenience of accessing the service anywhere, sometimes for a fee (i.e., Control4 home automation, Home Assistant). While I do want to access my data or services from anywhere, I don’t necessarily want to pay a subscription fee for each service forever. I’d much rather…

Here’s what I want to know more about and upcoming games I’m really looking forward to. Most of these were covered in the Future Games Show, Sony’s State of Play, the Summer Games Fest presentation, and the Xbox presentation. Games I want to know more about: Upcoming Games I’m excited…

I’ve been using LaunchBox’s BigBox for my HTPC for years at this point to replicate a console-like experience as close as reasonably possible. When Microsoft announced they wanted to make that process easier due to their Xbox strategy shifts, I welcomed the changes. I wanted to document (both for myself…

Wonder man 2026 just released yesterday as of this writing and I finished it today. I have some conflicted feelings about it but am overall positive on it. Let’s start with the… Strengths Criticisms Overall I really enjoyed the series. Mateen and Kingsley were a joy to watch. The superhero…

Installing linux on an old work laptop my wife graciously donated for testing. It’s a thinkpad x1 carbon 4k uhd model. I was curious how KDE and Gnome were looking. How easy they are to install, how painful it is to use things I’ve been used to in Windows and…