Published in November 23rd, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This past week, I have been working on setting up the website of a new non-profit start-up I am part off. We chose to use Joomla. One week ago I did not know any Joomla. I, therefore, figured that [...]
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Published in November 22nd, 2008
We need to fill up the propane tank today.
Living in an RV, even when hooked up, puts you in much greater touch with your resource use than living in an ordinary house. I think most people, by virtue of the growth culture they have been living in and still live in (hey, everybody still believes [...]
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Published in November 21st, 2008
From the brain of Charles Darwin
I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, …, gave me great pleasure, and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in [...]
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Published in November 18th, 2008
Fun link to a neural network that analyzes your writing style and tries to guess your gender.
Early Retirement Extreme: 67% man
The Simple Dollar: 74% man
Get Rich Slowly: 52% woman
Millionaire Mommy Next Door: 74% man
Retired Syd: 53% man
Frugal Bachelor: 57% man
What would be interesting know is to see if these percentages correlate with the gender of [...]
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Published in November 16th, 2008
I hate going up on the roof, but I hate scrubbing the roof even more so spending an hour up there today sealing a skylight was an absolute joy. I highly recommend it!
This was also my first experience with a caulking gun and let me tell you, they are not as fun as they look, [...]
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Published in November 14th, 2008
Like the occasional house fly, the notion that a $6000/year budget means that I must be living in squalor like a broke student or a pop star or whatever comes up sufficiently often to annoy me just a wee bit. Hence I vent; it solves both problems!
Consider this!
If you met me on the street, I [...]
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Published in November 13th, 2008
GE just set a new intraday low at 14.61 after which the stock went up and closed at 16.86 (I may be off on the last decimal). Apparently, I’m in good company today. Jeff Immelt (the CEO) bought 50,000 shares (apparently he has more money than I do, eh?) at 16.41 and the VP of [...]
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Published in October 27th, 2008
Andrew Lahde, the manager of a small hedge fund, who returned 800%+ by betting against the subprime mess, decided to end operations at the peak. He left this goodbye letter. While I do not agree on the tone of the letter, I think 90% of his points are valid and that they need to be [...]
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Published in October 15th, 2008
The answer is that is simply comes down to the optimal choice for our personal situation. We paid $14200 out of the door and about 20% on top of that in repairs and equipment. We pay $475 a month + electricity and gas (water is included) to park it. Compare this to $1100 a month [...]
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Published in October 10th, 2008
Someone asked me what the difference would have been if we had bought a new RV instead of an old used one. We paid $14200 OTD (out the door), whereas a new one of the same size and quality would have cost $75-85000 OTD. The answer is easy. I would never have bought a [...]
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