Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Books on Sep 30th, 2008
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I don’t like to equate quitting a book with failure, but that’s what it inevitably ends up feeling like. Atlas Shrugged wasn’t a bad book, I just didn’t see myself getting all the way through it. And honestly, the more and more I kept hearing about Ayn Rand and her way of thinking, [...]
Last week I wrote about a couple of cool (and free) ways to listen to music, and now I want to talk about one way to watch a ton of TV shows and movies without shelling out any money. As you may or may not know, I love watching movies. And I’ve shared tips in [...]
Posted in saving on Sep 26th, 2008
I used to listen to music all the time. Back in college, I owned the very first MP3 player. When I told people what it did and how it worked, they always asked the same question: “So you can only have seven songs on it? That’s stupid.” I tried telling them about how the songs [...]
Posted in Writing on Sep 25th, 2008
Yesterday I was on a long run (training is a bitch) and I was listening to music trying to not think about how many miles I had left and how much my lungs wished I would just stop already. The music distracts me just enough to help pass the time (and the miles), and this [...]
Posted in Outside the box on Sep 24th, 2008
A lot of people complain (and I’m one of them) about not getting enough things done — that’s why there are so many productivity books out there that people scoop up. It all comes down to this: we want to get a lot of things done but we rarely do.
Why is that? Is it [...]
Posted in Good Reads, Money and Relationships on Sep 19th, 2008
I have a guest post running over at Make Love Not Debt, a great blog about personal finance and its effects on relationships. The site is a great niche for newlyweds like myself and for those about to take the leap. It’s run by a couple whose actually getting married and going on their honeymoon [...]
Posted in Books, Outside the box on Sep 18th, 2008
I know I already mentioned the passing of DFW and how big of a deal itis to me, but I still have this running through my head. I can’t believe that I won’t be reading any more of what he has to say on random topics like talk radio, tennis, and infinity. It’s sad. It’s [...]
Posted in Outside the box, saving on Sep 17th, 2008
I’m not a superstitious guy — I’m not religious at all and I don’t even buy into things like fate or cliché phrases like “it was meant to be.” But for whatever reason I’m a fervent believer in Karma. Not in a spiritual sense, but more in a “that will come back to haunt you” [...]
Since I moved to Chicago, I’ve never had a car and I’ve never missed it. Of course, it helps that M has a car if we want to go for a drive or need to hit up Ikea. But I’ve always assumed that public transportation was not only cheaper, but that it was also more [...]
I love watching movies and good TV shows (which are rare, I know), but I’m also all for saving a buck or two. There are three ways that I watch movies (all legal, by the way) and each one is suited for its own occasion. So without further ado, here are three cheap ways to [...]
The Snowball by Alice Schroeder
The Darjeeling Limited
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