A photo of me at the 2006 OSG Christmas Party in a kilt I have my good friend Sean Church to thank for this nugget of internet insanity. It seems that according to someone with the surname of “Stewart” has declared that wearing a kilt is a sin, and proceeds to cite biblical reference to […]
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 […]
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..
Daily Financial Moment Of Clarity
Again from the wise mind of Anna Schwartz courtesy of the Wall Street Journal: It takes real guts to let a large, powerful institution go down. But the alternative — the current credit freeze — is worse
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