February 2012
1 post
“I was always a rebel and probably could have got much further had I changed my...”
– Veronica Lake
December 2011
1 post
How much money would I need to be "rich"?
I recently read an article based on the results of a Gallup poll that asked Americans how much money they would need to make a year to be “rich”. My first thought was, “that’s dumb, I don’t consider how ‘rich’ I am based on how much money I make.” Yes, it’s cliché, but it’s also true. A lot of people would say they value intangible things...
October 2011
2 posts
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs
“Many of us can make more money. None of us can make more time — the latter...”
September 2011
3 posts
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once...”
– Bertrand Russell, A Liberal Decalogue
“‘Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them...”
– Roger Ebert
August 2011
2 posts
I wrote these comments in 2004. What hit me next was the person I was writing this to, and eventually I made my way home. My only regret is that I waited so long to do it.
I am now thirty. I have a little more grey and I feel a little more adult. I feel like I’ve made a lot of progress, especially in the last six months, and yet I still feel like I have a long way to go. You only know...
WatchHow schools kill creativity.
July 2011
2 posts
“How did the hipster burn his mouth? He started eating pizza before it was cool.”
June 2011
3 posts
“In Dick Tracy, the future was one where our phones were integrated into our...”
For those that are as bummed as I am that Jet Blue will not be offering their All You Can Jet promotion this year, there’s still fun to be had flying multi-city itineraries for next to nothing.
Though it’s not as straightforward, applying for credit cards with award bonuses or buying miles outright and maximizing their potential can give you a similar experience to that which you...
“If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re...”
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
4 posts
March 2011
5 posts
“Nobody knows what’s wrong with themselves; everyone else can see it right away.”
– Mad Men
“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to...”
– Bob Dylan
“The goal of advertising is to make you miserable, and then suggest something...”
WatchRick Steves does a typically amazing job of showing one of my very favorite places on earth.
February 2011
3 posts
“No one gives a fuck, and giving a fuck that other people might give a fuck when...”
– Uatu
Tom: It’s off.
McKenzie: What?
Tom: Me and Summer.
McKenzie: Was it ever on?
Tom: No, but it could’ve been...in a world where good things happen to me.
Paul: Yeah, well that’s not really where we live.
January 2011
2 posts
December 2010
1 post
"Load up your twenties with experiences, not... →
November 2010
4 posts
“Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than...”
– John Dickinson
“By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that...”
– David Foster Wallace
October 2010
4 posts
“The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from...”
– Mike Rowe
“Space is the breath of art”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
“As a consumer the best thing to do is consume less, but consume better.”
– Yvon Chouinard
September 2010
1 post
“Cold has its virtues. Without cold there would be no coziness. I learned this...”
– Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss
July 2010
2 posts
Hedonic treadmill →
One of the many reasons why I have no desire to be rich.
June 2010
1 post
“As for North Korea’s star striker, he is the Japan‑born Jong Tae-se, who...”
– The Guardian
May 2010
4 posts
April 2010
4 posts
“America as a nation produces twice the goods and services per person that it...”
– Bill Bryson’s Made in America
“Pick your furniture like you pick a wife: It should make you feel comfortable...”
– Shit My Dad Says