Archive for 2009
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Lazy Man’s Gift Guide 2009
Over the past couple of years, I’ve written a little gift guide of the products that I like most on the market. I usually look for products that are going to make the recipient’s lives more efficient. There are some exceptions (like Blu-Ray players). I mention these products, because there’s something usually unique about them [...]
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Google Work At Home, CollegeAdvantage and JooJoo
I have a bunch of smaller thoughts today, so I figured I’d write them up rather than focus on any particular topic. I’m pretty sure I have… wow, shinny object… some kind of undiagnosed ADD. Google Goes after the Work at Home Scammers A few months back, I wrote about the Google Work at Home [...]
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Verizon is Evil (and some personal finance links)
I think my new favorite past times is calling a company evil. Witness my MonaVie and Ijango posts of the past. I like to think I’m relatively justified when I call out a company for being evil. The evil company of the week is… Verizon. Why are they evil? A company called 4Info allows people [...]
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MonaVie and FTC Guidelines
A few times a week, I get an e-mail asking, “What ever happened to MonaVie and their legal multiple threats?” For those who are new to my site, here’s the abridged version of the story. My wife went to a meeting of a young adults group that she belongs to. Someone there told her about [...]
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“Debt Crisis in America” & JCR Advertising are Evil
I don’t know if you’ve seen the Debt Crisis in America commercials on television or not, but when I saw them, I thought, “This is a whole new level of scummy advertising.” If you haven’t seen them, you can watch two of them here. I can’t decide which one is more scummy. Here are some [...]
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Alternative Income Streams – October 2009
With only a few hours left in November, I’ve finally got around to tabulating my Alternative Income for the month of October. It seems with the end of the year, traffic has picked up. Accordingly, I’ve watched my income this month, after taxes, jump to $1,909.82. I’d like to say that my traffic to How [...]
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Battle in the Bayou (and Personal Finance Links)
While I should probably be looking for some Cyber Monday deals (other than Amazon’s Lightning Deals), I’m pretty entrenched in tonight’s Patriots/Saints game. For the seventh time this season, the Patriots will face an undefeated team, and three of those have accounted for all the Patriots’ losses. They all came down to the last possession [...]
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Preparing for Black Friday
Are you preparing for Black Friday? I used to love getting up at 5AM and freezing my butt off to save a few dollars. My mom and I got her first computer on a Black Friday. I was also closer to 23 back then. Now at 33, my idea of fun seems to have changed. [...]
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New Moon (and Personal Finance Links)
Today, I made good on my promise to take my wife to the Twilight / New Moon Saga. I’d put the first 25 or 30 minutes of the movie up there with the most boring of any I’ve seen. At least it picked up from there almost edging into being an average movie in my [...]
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Amazon Friday Sale
The Amazon Friday Sale was a little weak this week. I usually find a few products, but with many repeats of previous products, I found only three noteworthy products. (I wish they’d get rid of the whole footware category. I know women like their shoes, but I’m not about to write about it.) The coolest [...]
