Published in July 23rd, 2008
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Published in July 22nd, 2008
I have noticed that there is a limited number of dominant freecyclers in my group (find your local group by going to freecycle.org) so I have started to pick up cues on who wants what. If someone offers something, then rather than just picking it up for free, I will usually make an offer to [...]
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Published in July 21st, 2008
…in fact, looking over my credit card statement, where I put all my “frivolous” expenses, I can see that except for food, etc. it’s been more than two months since I bought anything but stocks. The reason is that yields are finally reasonably in the 3-5% range compared to the depressed range resulting from the [...]
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Published in July 18th, 2008
I’m currently reading Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot by Jim Stockdale (again). I’m not quite finished yet, but the book is chocked full of wisdom that is applicable to [my] life once the translation between military life and civilian life is made. In his essay on “climbing the pyramids of naval aviation” he emphasizes [...]
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Published in July 16th, 2008
The reason our utilities are so low is due to a) We live in CA and b) We keep the thermostat set really low or really high. Last winter, we did our first season together without any heating(*). It was my second season without any heat having gone “heating-less” for a winter in a central [...]
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Published in July 14th, 2008
I think that in many cases a college degree is a waste of money! I do believe that university educations should only be for a select few. In particular I do not believe that sending everybody to college will make us collectively smarter. Consequently, I do not believe that college degrees will make our society [...]
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Published in July 12th, 2008
To prepare for downsizing we had a garage sale today. We got rid of a bunch of stuff. The median price was about $1 and the average price was not much higher, and overall we sold for about $60, so all in all we did manage to shed a bunch of stuff. It still looks [...]
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Published in July 11th, 2008
Lately I has been made clear to me that a life without buying things can not possibly make me happy. For one, I also realized that people would have a hard time knowing what I stand for when I do not associate myself with brand name lifestyles(*). It has also been made obvious to me [...]
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Published in July 10th, 2008
Index investing is being touted as a kind of silver bullet. You can’t go wrong with indices, they say. Indices have historically produced superior results. ETFs beget a new era of investing. Here’s how to turn $1000 into $1,000,000 through the magic of compound interest. It works because it can be imagined. You guys are [...]
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Published in July 9th, 2008
I just went through my RSS reader which I admit that I rarely use and noticed that many good blogs which I used to read are now defunct. Through my tenure as a blogger, I have also noticed that readers have come and gone. Perhaps the blogosphere is indeed like an eco-system where blogs live [...]
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