Recently I’ve been reading Sam Harris’ “The end of Faith” and I decided to search youtube for some of his public addresses. I’ve seen a handful of these already, but wanted to see if there were any videos I haven’t seen yet.
His debate with Reza Aslan is an interesting one. Reza, while presenting …
Interesting article from Slate today on why taxation on savings and investments discourage people from saving. My 401k has earned 9% over the 2 years that I’ve been investing in it, giving me a 3% gain after inflation. This is completely my fault as I wasn’t really managing my allocations properly, and now …
Okay, I’m out of debt, now what?
I’m roughly following Dave Ramsey’s plan with a slight modification. I suspended my contributions to my company’s 401k plan while hammering hard on my debt. Technically the next thing I have to do is build a “3 to 6 months of expenses” emergency fund. In my …
The other day was sort of a milestone for me. My 2004 Honda was the first car I ever bought new. In retrospect, I would not buy a new car again, just for the depreciation hit alone, but it’s been a great car.
2 days ago I made my final payment. What started …
Took some time after lunch today and went down to cast my vote. Apparently when I moved, and changed my driver’s license, that did not change my voter registration. I did change it, but not the required 4 weeks ahead of time. So I ended up filling out a provisional ballot. …
When I said that I shot some panoramas while in Alaska, I wasn’t kidding around. Today was the day to bust out the roll feeder and make prints. Here is one of the panos from a couple of miles north of Homer.
In it’s original form, this is a 4GB photoshop image, which takes …
Today, I ventured forth in the middle of a monsoon storm (That trapped me in a small neighborhood for half an hour) to my doctors appointment for the ominous news of my spine.
So while I wasn’t able to get as much discussion in as I would have liked (I was almost half an hour late), …
As many of you know to exhaustive detail, about 2 months ago I went through a lot of ouchy time with my neck and shoulder. I went to a chiro for about a month, and was wasn’t making a lot of progress. So I went to see my doctor. My doctor, being …
I officially only owe 6k on my car now. I anticipate having it completely paid off by December. That would be a total of 30 months. Not too shabby.
Kelli got her a decent little used ‘95 civic for 3k last weekend which she paid for in cash. She’s back to the …
Well not really limbs, but muscles.
My shoulder really hates me, and would prefer to head out into the world all by itself to face the challenges and reap the rewards unencumbered by the rest of this fleshy edifice.
I exaggerate, things are feeling much better. After a hardcore massage and a few days of painkillers …