You’ll either get it or you won’t.  You’ll do one of three things: ignore it, spend 10 minutes on it and move on with your life, or waste the rest of the day. Thankfully I cut myself off at 10 minutes.  This is the best I came up with: Move the fader all the way [...]

No one likes to talk about death.  Even though the only two certainties in life are death and taxes, we shy away from both of them.  As a result, many times we are unprepared when death/tax season sneaks up on us. Simply planning for your death does not in any way jinx yourself or increase [...]

Are you with Leno or Conan? The Chin or Conando? Cars or Coco? If you’re like me, you like both of these guys for various reasons. You think they’re both talented and funny in their own ways, and would like to see both of them on TV. For me, I like Leno because he’s a [...]

If you were around back when I published my review of Freakonomics, you probably know that I’m a huge fanboy of these authors. Not only that but I freely admit that the name “Weakonomics” was inspired by their play on the word “economics”. So naturally I was stoked to learn that the authors of Freakonomics [...]

As you may recall, late last year I did a short explanation of why the banks aren’t lending again.  My friend over at OneMint asked me to expand on this topic further.  Please go and check out my guest post there: Why the banks are not lending.

Of course by now you’ve heard about the disaster in Haiti. It’s an awful situation to say the least. Just for the record I want it to be known I fully support any aid that the United States provides, so long as FEMA isn’t involved. I couldn’t help the cheap shot. There’s a pretty good [...]

Boy it’s great to finally be able to type on a keyboard again. I did so much writing on my iPhone while we were in Maui that I (almost) can’t type another thing from it. We got back from Maui yesterday and are in recovery mode as we try to adjust back to our normal [...]

Traveling sucks. And it sucks for only one reason. Flying is an enormous pain in the arse. Everything from security, to the ridiculous idea of charging for a single checked bag, to the entirely inefficient operation of the airlines. Despite the crappy experience you get while flying, airlines still can’t make a profit. To cut [...]