I am up working on publishing all of my new About.com content, eating a fresh tomato from my grandma's garden that she gave me a few days ago. It reminds me of my childhood when all of my family members, who lived in the country in the Midwest for the most part, had their own gardens and if you wanted radishes or cucumbers, tomatoes or potatoes, you went outside and harvested them, brought them in the house, washed them, and had honest-to-goodness food. No preservatives, no packaging, no … [Read more...]
The Oregon Trail – Movie Trailer
August 3, 2010 By 2 Comments
For those who were born in the 1980's and grew up playing The Oregon Trail on Apple IIs in computer labs across the country, this is for you ... … [Read more...]
Response to What Is Probably the Most Ignorant Message I’ve Received In 10 Years of Writing Finance Articles
July 26, 2010 By 2 Comments
A reader named Medusa wrote me and, to keep it short, explained that I shouldn't believe people should be rich because the Bible is against rich people, that I was going to die a miserable, lonely old man with no one who loved me because I saved my money instead of spending it, and that after reading a profile I wrote based on Federal Reserve data of the Capitalist Class in the United States, she was starting to consider the possibility that the rich were nothing but oppressors who steal from … [Read more...]
My iPhone Just Shipped!
July 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I just got notification that my new iPhone has shipped from the Apple store! Since I ordered it from Apple.com and they were backlogged, it is coming directly from the facility Shenzhen, China via Fedex Global, but it should be here on Friday. Woo hoo! … [Read more...]
“Dreams Become Reality One Choice at a Time” – A Lesson on Life, Business, and Money
July 11, 2010 By 4 Comments
Isn't that a fantastic quote? I got it from Tara Beth Workman a few days ago and I've been thinking about it since. I realize that it is entirely true and that my life is a reflection of that. All of our lives are reflections of that. Let me explain. This afternoon, Aaron and I decided to take an impromptu trip to Hall's department store because we were restless and wanted to get out of the office. Turns out, we hit a major financial milestone so rewarded ourselves by spending just … [Read more...]
I Just Set a Terrible Example … I Gave In and Bought Another Bottle of Creed
July 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Yeah, I was going to reward myself with a bottle of Creed Original Vetiver once the new book was done, especially considering that I bought the Creed bois du portugal a few days ago. I gave in and sent someone to pick up a bottle for me since I can't drive down to Hall's myself due to work I need to get done on the manuscript. I figured it's only another $237 after tax or whatever it was. That means I've only spent $500 or $600 on fragrances in the past few days and I hardly ever do … [Read more...]
The Creed Fragrance Counter Is One of My Favorite Places in the World
July 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This morning, I walk into my kitchen to find my grandmother and mother sitting there waiting for me, wanting to know if I want to go out and eat or spend the day together. Long story short, the three of us, plus my youngest sister, who is in high school, end up at the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City for a day of luxury shopping and fine food. It was what life is all about, in a nutshell; experiencing great things with people you love. Creed Fragrance - One of My Favorite Companies in … [Read more...]
Why the iPhone Will Continue to Dominate the Smart Phone Market Even if It Doesn’t Have the Biggest Screen or Fastest Processor
July 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
It All Comes Down to the Existing Investment Consumers Have Made in their iTunes Library of Music, Movies, Games, Apps, and Television Shows It seems that a handful of tech folks and business bloggers - and, in fact, even my own brother - don't seem to understand that the reason people choose the iPhone over other smart phones, even if those other smart phones have bigger screens, more memory, and non-restricted applications, is because tens of millions of consumers now have a vested … [Read more...]
Just Bought a New iPhone 4
June 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A few seconds ago, I submitted my order to the online Apple store for a new 32 gigabyte black iPhone. It will take three weeks to ship and another five business days to arrive, so I probably won't get it until the back-half of July but I'm not in any particular hurry and it saves me from having to wait in a store for one. It turns out that I had to travel without my iPhone the other day and, although I thought I didn't use it that much, when I'm actually out in public, it turns out that I … [Read more...]
We’ve Taken Sides in the Johnny Weir v. Evan Lysacek War
May 3, 2010 By 1 Comment
Around the office, we discuss weighty issues - recent Supreme Court cases, appropriate regulation of derivatives, pricing of complex options trades, etc. For the past week, however, the water cooler talk has been the somewhat quasi-feud between Johnny Weir and Evan Lysacek. Unfortunately, I've gotten sucked in because as I'm reading Fortune and The Wall Street Journal, a lot of people I know and care about are (I'm sad to say) reading People, US, and the other tabloid magazines. One can … [Read more...]
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