If you are like me (and Webster) you can tear through books at a blistering pace, especially if you find yourself jammed into an airplane seat for 5 hours or so flying off to a client site. Once upon a time I could easily spend $300.00 a month or more at Amazon feeding my reading […]
From contemplate.us: This is somehow relevant to the continuing crisis; I just haven’t figured out yet how. ..bruce w..
Next year, when my job evaporates due to the credit crunch, this is how I will spend my days. Hey look, I would win that swell bike! Courtesy of Flicker via Iowa Hawk
This could be the anthem for why the bailout is evil: Everything works much better when wrong decisions are punished and good decisions make you rich.
It’s time to embrace being thrifty, and no that does not mean you have to enjoy life any less robustly than you do today, but you may find at the end of the process that your notion of enjoying life may make a drastic change for the better. You can find it a self-renforcing cycle, […]
My co-blogger, Bruce Henderson — with deep Scottish roots — wants to start discussing personal thriftiness here at the blog, which I think is a great idea. And since I spotted this item at the Consumerist (one of my favorite sites), I thought I’d jump the gun and post it here. It’s a personal purchase […]
…to remember looking for Burma Shave signs when our family drove cross-country. Which is why today’s xkcd tickled me: Heh. ..bruce w..
Courtesy of Naked Capitalism, these words of wisdom from Steve Waldman: … for the most part, what is called financail innovation is finding new technology that makes legal what was illegal under the old technology
One of the most annoying and anti-climatic parts of this rather sad and miserable election cycle has been the faux-drama of the polls. In absence of any real reporting on the details of either candidate’s plans, background or personality, the media focuses more and more on the virtual horse race conducted via the polls. Websites […]
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From the UPI, looks like there was some form of stimulus from the government checks this summer: …the online porn industry reported 20-30% growth in membership rates this summer following the initial round of government stimulus checks in mid-May. That’s normally the slowest time of the year for online porn, AIMRCo said. Proprietors of adult […]
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