Great Storytelling

Wild Wild West

Hearing someone tell a compelling and entertaining story is hard to describe; you definitely know it when you hear it, but often the nuances that made it such a great story are usually lost in clumsy recounts.  Details get skipped, punchlines … [Would You Like to Know More?]

Shake Your Booty

Booty Shaker Logo

Trying to decide the best ways to engage and promote personal finance education to youngish people would be difficult for anyone. Just telling kids not to be poor probably doesn't sink in like it should and retirement funds and interest rates don't … [Would You Like to Know More?]

Almost Stepped In A Moment

Luna & Lyla

Be thankful and appreciate what you have because you never know when crap will happen.

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Too Much of A Good Thing

Goth Nurses

Most everyone agrees that self-esteem is a good thing and psychologists and educators have been preaching it for the last 20 years. Counselors fall out of their chairs trying to avoid anything that kids could construe as discouraging, such as winners and losers, and currently it seems unfounded self-esteem is the only thing America is producing.

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Run Like A Geek

Fitocracy

I’m not a person who is naturally inclined toward any activity that could be described as “working out”. This is one of the reasons that I was, let’s say, large for most of my life. When I decided that I was going to take up running, I needed a way of making it more palatable to me, a way of integrating into my geek lifestyle, and Runkeeper was that initial hook.

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Don’t Crowd the Checkout Line

Crowded Tokyo Subway

In the ongoing floorspace war in our nearest Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market it looks like the checkout lanes are losing the fight and the conveyor belts are now just a smidge longer than your four-passenger shopping cart.

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The World Could Use One More Idiot

idiot

After much contemplation I came to the conclusion that it may be necessary to talk more about the The Scam and what it’s all about, especially with the current staggering amount of useless content already in circulation.

The world needs one more idiot.

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