Recent content by flarkworms

We're in Santa Monica and were under an evacuation warning last night. We didn't need to leave, but my wife went into Girl Scout mode and packed up a bunch of stuff just in case. I was pretty confident we'd be Ok because the fire would have had to jump the entire Riviera Country Club golf...

No. Once I saw the car make a few turns very safely, I really didn't pay that much attention to what it was doing. The merge was at very slow speed, so I was curious but I wasn't concerned.

Waymo taxis are very common on Westside of LA. A few weeks ago, I tried taking one to and from my office (about 3.5 miles). Apart from it taking a different route than I would normally take, it was pleasantly uneventful, even handling a tough merge with aplomb. But it was expensive, $22.00 in...

Gabler needs to get some tax advice. The entire $1 million is taxable income, but only around 50% of the contribution is deductible in the current year (exact amount depends on the rest of his return). He could be looking at having to pay around $150-250K in taxes from other assets (depending...

For the record, we're all over 60, so it doesn't matter if there's fish or a barrel.

Thanks. I may take you up on it if we actually go. We probably won't decide until early December when we see how things are going with Covid.

Thanks for the comments. We've had an annual trip to Vegas for 30+ years, but passed the last few years due to Covid. One guy went recently with his wife and reported back that crap tables at our normal haunts on the Strip were all $25 minimum, or higher. That becomes a little pricey if you...

Why not just go the extra hour and a half by car to Vegas? We've been to Vegas many times. Just thinking that we'll try something different.

My friends and I are thinking of going there (from LA) for a weekend in January (Covid situation permitting). None of us have ever been, so we thought we'd check it out. All we care about is having a decent hotel, with a casino and a sportsbook, some decent restaurants, and craps tables with...

I haven't had a chance to post my review yet, but here it is: I wanted to try as many items as possible so I got the 3 meat (ribs, brisket, pork), 2 sides (cole slaw, jambalaya) plate.  Also got a blonde ale from the bar which went perfectly.  Ribs, brisket and cole slaw were 5 stars.  Pork and...

I'll be in town this week for the ABA Tax Section meeting.  Planning to make at least one trip to McClure's.  Probably Thursday dinner, maybe Saturday lunch.  Maybe I'll bring a tax lawyer or two with me.

I agree with Shader.  It wasn't until I went home and read a review that I understood the significance of the one day, one hour bit.

I was making the same point.

Saw it last night.  Thought it was good but it didn't live up to the hype.  Battle scenes were very intense and well executed, but there was zero character development, the timeline/storyline was quite confusing and the (limited) dialogue was difficult to understand, mostly because it was...

My family was a Nielsen family from 2004-06.  At first, it was a fun novelty, but after a while it became a pain because--at least with the boxes they had at the time--every time you changed the channel you had to re-log in who was watching. If you like to channel surf during commercials, as we...