Archive for May, 2009
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Floating on CloudFront 9 (and Some Personal Finance Links)
You may have noticed that I didn’t write a lot of content this past week. Like many, I took a mini-sabbatical. During this time, I was researching ways that I could make reading this website more enjoyable. For too long I’ve been neglectful of the performance of this website. I’ve [...]
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Last Day For CollegeAdvantage Free Money (and Some Personal Finance Links)
Today (May 31st) is the last day to claim your $25 in free money for setting up CollegeAdvantage account. This is that very rare opportunity where a company is paying you to secure your future. I explained why CollegeAdvantage’s 529 Plan is great before or you can just take my word and [...]
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Emptying the Recycle Bin of My Mind
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting some links and thoughts. It’s time to finally clear up some Firefox tabs and put them out there.
I can’t decide what is better, having Monday off or the quick week that follows it.
I can’t decide what I find more depressing… the title of Social [...] -
Pathetic Propane Portions
hope you had a good Memorial Day weekend. For me that often means a time to head over to Grill Maestro for some grilling tips. This weekend, I noticed an interesting an interesting article Propane suppliers quietly reduce size of refills. In short, raising prices of last year caused propane [...]
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Move Complete, Craiglist Purchases, and Some More Links
After another three days of moving, we finally have everything at our new place. About 80% of it is still stacked in boxes, but we have the important stuff like clothes, food, and wine. Tomorrow hopefully, we’ll get the cable set up. Honestly, I’m not sure if we plan to watch [...]
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I’ve Been Hacked! (and some weekend reading)
Jeremy from Generation X Finance noticed I had an unusual advertisement this week. I had some pharmacy ad that follows you as you scroll down. The worst part, I couldn’t see the ad. Somehow I had been hacked. I don’t really know how they got through, but thanks to My [...]
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10,001 Ways To Live Large on a Small Budget Giveaway
Everyone has a book nowadays. Since I’m extremely Lazy, I haven’t set aside the time to put together an ebook.
Why am I taking the time to highlight and give away copies of Wisebread’s new book, 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget? There are three main reasons:They sent me extra [...]
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Friends’ Influence and Money: A Two Way Street
I often write a lot of words on saving money. Cut out this expensive item… consider substituting this other item… Sometimes I write about making more money. However, I very rarely go into the psychology behind making and spending money. Today, I’m going to venture into those waters… and hopefully avoid [...]
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Fisker Karma: Right Car, Wrong Price
‘m not an expert on cars. If I were, you might be reading Lazy Man and Cars now…. or not reading it if you aren’t interested in cars. Today, I saw that there’s a new car being unveiled in San Jose, a few miles from where I live. The Fisker Karma [...]
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More Links (At Least Alston Didn’t Hit a Buzzer Beater…)
After another day of moving in 95 degree heat, I collapsed in front of the television to watch the Celtics lose. The only redeemable factor of this day seems to be that I got to have my second Jamba Juice. I have a rule that if I’m going to pay $4-5 for [...]
