While technically, the world isn’t supposed to end today (it’s the Rapture which sets in motion the end of the world timeline), I’m still going to treat it like it is.  Why not?  Live every day like it’s your last right?  Every once in a while we should all do that anyway.  So I’m just [...]

The price of fuel brings up lots of interesting paradoxes in the way we address our finances. The Nudge Blog points to a study that says when the price of gas goes up we switch from premium to regular. But we don’t make switching from name brand products to ease the pain across the board. [...]

Today is a busy day for me so I’m going to give you the explanation for the coming rapture on Saturday.  This is not to be critical of the idea, but instead just let you know the justification.  Criticism may come later.  From Wikipedia: According to Harold Camping, the number five equals “atonement”, the number [...]

My stats professor in college said you can’t give more than 100% on anything.  Logically this makes perfect sense, and most statistics nerds live in the perfectly logical world.  But I quickly tossed this lesson aside when I started studying growth in finance.  100% is merely doubling. While one is a measurement of interest (one [...]

Much has been said about the decline of manufacturing in the United States.  I’ve talked about it on this blog once or twice in a couple of different contexts.  My underlying theme has been that we really haven’t seen a significant decline in manufacturing and by some measures actually an increase.  My other angle has [...]

If you’ve been following my tweets and posts you’ll know that I have been in New York City recently.  One specific tweet addressed something I just didn’t know existed anymore: full-service gas stations.  Apparently, in New Jersey (and Oregon), the only kind of gas station out there is a full-service gas station. It is the [...]

It wasn’t too long ago that I had never been to the Big Apple. But recently, for work and pleasure, I’ve come up to the city a number of times. It’s been enough trips that I have started to get a feel for just about everything, especially in the touristy parts. For those of you [...]

I used to be a very large guy.  I bordered on the line between class I and Class II obesity and was on my way to morbid obesity.  And that was in high school.  I lost a significant amount of weight and then started building muscle in college by doing keg stands lifting weights and [...]