Turned old-man 37 today, and it was pretty awesome. Crepes for breakfast, carrot cake with Evie for lunch, pickup frisbee in the evening, Belgian beer for dinner, finally have a tenure-track job, happy marriage, 3 great kids ... overall, life is ridiculously good, and in ways I never thought it would be.

Crepes for bfast, cake for lunch, and a beer for dinner.
Strong meals Must have been a real heavy dark beer

May many more birthdays play out this way! Happy birthday!

Indeed. It was clearly the correct way to kick off my summer goal of dropping 20 lbs!

Can anyone suggest any decent podcasts that discuss hands or strategy? I am thinking about starting to play again and have a long commute.

Randiek,

Your monthly amount is NOT the true cost of ownership. Yes, tax incentives help. Yes, using electricity helps. You have to consider all the factors though. There would have to massive tax and gas savings to make a car that costs double (I'm too lazy to look at the exact numbers u said, but 45k/90k is close iirc). Remember, depreciation is not a cash flow.

Are you going to lease or buy? How long do you plan to keep the car?

I am more than willing to help look at the numbers if you would like.

Happy birthday poin!

If there's a one year waiting list there probably isn't going to be much depreciation

I think randiek just gets it from his job and taxation on cars in Holland is even more ****ed up than Belgium. My best mates dad pays roughly 20k euro a year on taxes for cars lol.

Thanks for the help, but I know exactly how these things work.

We have very strange dutch laws that allow for this scenario. In my case I will have an operational lease through the company, so everything is covered. Normally as an employee you have to pay a % of the worth of the car each year, the percentage is related to the CO2 emission of the car. Electrical cars have 0 emission so currently 0% of that netto payment.

This is also why V6/V8 cars aren't popular in here and a lot of people drive small hatchbacks.

The guaranteed residual value after 3 yrs was 43%, but now it will be more like 50% after they change the guarantee.

Tenure track job in post-sequester academia? Damn, nice work!!! For those who don't know about the current status of academia in the US, that is incredible. Where is the new job?

Thanks! I think it's probably a bad idea to name names here, but I can PM them. I accepted an offer from the small liberal arts college where I was a visiting professor, and I turned down an offer from a mid-tier R1. I was actually pretty selective in applications, which was probably an objectively dumb idea. Most of the jobs had 200-300 applicants, although at least one had ~650. Ugly ugly job market. And just getting uglier.

Yeah, I have no idea about the science (IIRC...sorry I can't remember the specific area, poin) side of things, but when I graduated undergrad it was pretty obvious there were literally no jobs for the hundreds of applicants with history/English/poli sci doctorates. I assume it's only gotten worse in the past five years or so.

What I said is pretty true for physics, chemistry, and bio and math to a slightly lesser degree. CS is much easier because there are plenty of industry jobs for good people.

hey everyone...hows life?

asked in BFI, but wanted to get your opinion as well. doing a data analytics/marketing research project for school where our client is a mobile gaming company. would love to post the survey link on 2p2 to get the thoughts of the poker community on their mobile gaming experience, but not sure whether this is okay and if so, where is the best place to post.

the survey takes 5-7 minutes and we will give a random participant $100 amazon gift card as well as good karma.

2 questions:
1) does anyone know if i can post the link on 2p2
2) if so, where (concerned whether or not posting on multiple forums will be construed as spam)

thanks a lot

Hey George, you should ask some of the moderators in NVG or BBV or some of the big forums there if you can post it. You'll definitely get a ton of hits in those forums.

You have my OK to post this in SSNL if you like. Just write "orange says this is okay" or something at the top.

anyone going anywhere cool this summer? i'm going on a 2 week road trip out west (CO, NV, Utah) and climbing/hiking/camping. should be fantastic!

New Orleans this weekend, then Montana/Canada for hiking and camping in July. A friend of mine just asked if I want to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in a year or two. You know anything about that? It looks like it doesn't require any technical skills.

i'm hitting up lima/macchu picchu/rio de janeiro/buenos aires with my gf for 3 weeks! prettttty excited

PM-ed. Have a great time!

I'm heading back to North America for 3 weeks, mainly LA,Denver,Philly/NY,Toronto.

Been about 18 months since i've been there so pretty excited. **** time has flown haha

Got married late April, just got back from 3 weeks of honeymoon in Thailand & Vietnam. Add on to that that I graduate med school tomorrow. Been a pretty crazy month lol.

Congrats. Where the 10k post tho?