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- What I Learned from the 2001 New England Patriots With the start of the NFL football season this week, I'm focusing on values, financial and otherwise that I've learned from football. I've long been a fan of the New England Patriots, even when they were embarrassing. I watched every game of their 1-15 season in 1990. They were equally...
Your Financial Football Team I have mentioned in the past that I'm a huge fan of professional football. My wife calls this Sunday my biggest holiday - and she's right. Your personal finances have a lot more in common with a football team than you might think. Let's take it position by position starting...
Bundled Football Tickets, Video Game Systems, Music, and DVDs... Arrrg! Note To Businesses: Consumers Don't like Forced Bundling of Products With football season coming up, my thoughts have started to slowly turn to blocking, blind-side blitzes, and blackouts. Recently tickets for next seasons AFC Championship rematch, New England Patriots vs. San Deigo Chargers went on sale. Though it's a...- Playing for Perfect Personal Finance Like many football fans who grew up around Boston, I am a huge New England Patriots fan. Unless you've been living on Mars, you probably know that this Saturday night the Patriots are trying to become the first football team to finish the regular season with a perfect 16-0 record....
- Financial Football Teaches Students about Personal Finance When New England Patriot wide receiver Wes Welker isn't busy training and setting records, he's out there making the world a better place. I've written in the past how he's motivated me. When he's not doing New Kids on the Block songs and dances for charity (see the previous link),...
Weakonomics Tour of the Country: Â New Jersey AKA the "Pennsylvania's Beach" State New Jersey is sandwiched between Philadelphia and New-York City, not a bad place when you're looking for some industries to support your economy. I struggled to decide on a nickname for the state. Â "New York's Suburb" & "New England's Hicks" were strong contenders. Â This is...
Showdown Sunday The US sports world is buzzing about the biggest NFL matchup in 10 years - the New England Patriots at the Indianapolis Colts. With the Red Sox sweeping the World Series, and the Celtics welcoming their first 'triple threat' offence since Bird, McHale and Parish, the Patriots are looking...- Football Helmets Sports Memorabilia -> Fan Apparel & Souvenirs -> Football-NFL Official NFL memorabilia comes in all shapes and sizes, but some very distinctive collectible items are NFL football helmets. Whether you want to collect one from each of the 30 teams, or just your favorite team or teams, it's a fun...
- Random Thoughts (Mostly Financial) and Links It's time to clear out some of the random things that are flowing through my mind... The Mission Inn - I'm staying near the Mission Inn in Riverside, CA where my wife has business this week. A national landmark, the Mission Inn puts on quite the holiday display - 350,000...
- Finding Value Where Others Don't I woke up yesterday to some of the best news that I've gotten in some time. My favorite football team, the New England Patriots acquired wide receiver Randy Moss for the #110th pick in this year's draft. I hope I didn't lose my readers who are not sports fans, please...
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Weakonomics Tour of the Country: Â New Jersey AKA the "Pennsylvania's Beach" State New Jersey is sandwiched between Philadelphia and New-York City, not a bad place when you're looking for some industries to support your economy. I struggled to decide on a nickname for the state. Â "New York's Suburb" & "New England's Hicks" were strong contenders. Â This is...
- The Ultimate Guide on How to make Flock or Firefox Run Faster var sd = ""; var cb = Math.random(); var d = document; d.write(''); d.write('< \/scr'+'ipt>'); Having trouble with a slow Flock or Firefox browser? Been looking at all the hack pages where they have you messing around in the about:config area? I have the answer for speeding up Flock...
- Twitter Updates for 2009-04-06 My Twitter stream will come up on Friday Traffic Report as a post. From now on, when I put up some great links to tools and resources on Twitter, they will be captured here as well for history to judge (and you to benefit from!) If you want to know...
- The New Alfa Romeo
- What is an emergency? Many years ago, when I was struggling to even come up with enough grocery money to splurge once a week on a 99 cent 2-liter bottle of Coke, I read something that changed my life: An emergency is just something you haven't prepared well enough for.* That statement was especially...
Webside Chat With OpenZine Creators Humby and Kiki Valdes are brothers with a vision. They seek to give ordinary people the ability to create extraordinary web presence through their new service, Openzine.com. Join me and the Valdes brothers as we discuss how Openzine, a free online magazine creator, can help you raise your branding level...
Adding new pages to your Web site Scrollitis is a condition that affects many Web sites. Scrollitis occurs when a Web page has so much content that you have to scroll down to view the bottommost contents of a page. If your Web site suffers from this malady, rest assured that there’s a simple cure — add...
Piss Off Louis Vuitton, Become a Celebrity Overnight, And Have Yourself Some Blog Success! Guest Post by Christopher Flores Most know me as a New York City joint venture guy or "that moderator on SMC" or "that college dude". More than being a spectacular person 90% of the time, I'm a scientist of people and cultures, an Anthropology student. In Cyberculture, my thing is...
- Is a 401k Plan Really a Great Deal? A disclosure before I start... I have maxed out my 401k plan whenever given the opportunity to do so. Recently, I put 75% of my paycheck towards it because I knew I was going to a new job that might not have a 401k plan. The other day I realized...
9 Reasons You Need An Online High-Yield Savings Account Do you have an online high-yield savings account? If you don't you need one! Here's why: Brick and Mortar Interest Sucks - I just checked the interest rate on my savings with the bank I do my checking with. Ready? 0.20% APY! It used to be that banks would...- Fake American Accents Lead to US Actor Unemployment Times are tough in America. National unemployment is heading toward the double digits. Even illegal immigrants are reportedly leaving this forner "Land of Opportunity." Except for foreign actors who can do a good American accent.
Guest Post: Preparing to Buy a "New" Car This is a guest post from Curtis at Real World Finance$. His blog description: I've decided it's time for a life change. We have been in debt for way too long and it's time to get out. This blog will chronicle the steps we take and our results of getting...
Liberty and Freedom Flushed Down the Toilet Sunday Paper - March 1st, 2009 If the liberals have their way, the toilet paper (tp) above will be considered a luxury item, and perhaps subject to a luxury tax. The New York Times recently ran an article discussing how millions of trees need to be harvested to keep up with...
Finding Eco-Friendly Resorts And Hotels For Your Next Vacation. While everyone loves a nice vacation, finding a resort to stay in that matches our environmental concerns can be difficult to do. I, as much as anyone else, loves a nice resort with pools and spas and plenty of room to spread out and relax...but most places like that around...- Getting Blog Advertisers Getting advertisers for your blog isn't as hard as it used to be with blog ad networks doing the heavy lifting. Just make sure when you are checking out different blog ad networks that most of the money is coming to you and that your involvement in the process is minimal after getting set up.
- Thoughts on Asimov As a writer, amateur as I might be, I have many people that I cite as my inspirations and "muses", who have helped me in my decision to make this a labor of love. Most notable of these are such names as Hunter Thompson, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Leo Tolstoy,...
What Time of the Day is Best For Exercise? While there are many schools of thought on the subject of what time during the day is optimum, it generally boils down to whether or not you are capable of fitting in a workout during that specific time. We’re all on pretty tight schedules these days and sometimes, it is...
