13 Aug, 2008
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While I am certainly no fan of the tactics of many in the credit card industry, sometimes I’m not so sure we don’t get precisely what we deserve. For instance, in public comments to regulators on their credit card gripes, we see one commenter lamenting, apparently, the reality of time passing:
I agree that 30 days late is late — one day is not late!
Has our education system gotten so poor that we cannot even grasp simple words like late anymore? 
late: Coming, occurring, or remaining after the correct, usual, or expected time; delayed
19 Oct, 2007
As I said earlier this year, one of my goals for the year was to find a few new sources of secondary income. One of the paths I’ve taken to meet that goal has me flirting with the domaining business (yes, that’s an affiliate link, and yes, the info is worth every red cent). I’m no Kevin Ham or anything [yet 
], but I’m slowly and steadily building my virtual real estate empire. It’s always interesting to browse through what some are willing to pay for a domain name and get a little inspiration.
In catching up with the news from the latest auctions, I just had to shake my head at America’s Team and their utter ineptitude in fumbling the auction of a great piece of VRE: Cowboys.com. Thinking they were going to get a prime domain like Cowboys.com for $275 rather than a more realistic $275,000 (but still insanely cheap — if that were a domain in my stable, I’d be looking for another zero to be tacked on) is cluelessness on a grand scale. Pleading poverty certainly won’t work. After all, they are spending in excess of a billion on their new stadium. The $275k would barely be a rounding error.
Moron of the Year, indeed…
10 Jul, 2007
Apparently, primarily for two-and-a-half hours a day of mind numbing TV.
Having just completed another quick read through Joe Dominguez’s excellent Your Money or Your Life and contemplating the exchange of life for money that we all do, I stumbled (via LifeHack) upon a bunch of interesting stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: the American Time Use Survey.
And looking through the results all I can think is “my, what boring lives we are living…”
One-third of life working away in order to afford the rest.
One-third of life sleeping away.
Not even one-third of that remaining one-third spent on ‘leisure time’.
And with that pittance of leisure that we do afford ourselves, I’m sure we make great use of it:
Well, I guess not. Half spent rotting in front of the idiot box! Well, at least we’re getting our money’s worth from the cable bill… 
No Impact Man shared a few infinitely better ways to spend that leisure time. Maybe it’s time to make TV Turnoff Week a permanent thing…
