A Place For My Stuff

One of the many reasons why I have no desire to be rich.

This is so me.

"As for North Korea’s star striker, he is the Japan‑born Jong Tae-se, who plays in Japan’s J‑League, drives a Hummer and finds his team‑mates appealingly quaint. Writing on his blog earlier this year, Jong described a stopover on a team trip from Switzerland to Austria, during which his team‑mates were stunned to discover you had to pay to use the gents in a station. “They turned to me,” recalled Jong, “and said, ‘This is truly what capitalist society is like.’” It’s a reasonable point."

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Hey I have an idea, let’s do a show about a retarded person, only let’s not say he’s retarded so we can still make fun of him. No? Is that bad? Ok, let’s give him Asperger’s instead.

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Interesting talk. I’m definitely present hedonistic.

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The question I’m most often asked is what possessed me to move from Miami to Portland. This passage from John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley does the best job of explaining it.

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Sad, but true.

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Hmm, 8 out of 10. Chicago and D.C. still elude me.

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"America as a nation produces twice the goods and services per person that it produced in 1948. Everyone in the country could, in principle at least, work a four hour day or a six-month year and still maintain a standard of living equivalent to that enjoyed by our parents. Almost uniquely among the developed nations, America took none of its productivity gains in additional leisure. It bought consumer items instead."

Bill Bryson’s Made in America

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"Pick your furniture like you pick a wife: It should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that if someone walks past it they want to steal it."

Shit My Dad Says

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If the microbes won’t eat it, you probably shouldn’t.

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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

text How to Run a Web Dev Business for $10/year

This is a long post. If you’d rather just get to the meat, here are the services I use to run my web development business for next to nothing.

Craigslist for finding work
FOSS for development
Dreamhost for hosting
Subversion+Trac for managing projects
Google Apps for Exchange-like services
Google Voice for business calls
FreshBooks for invoicing