Posts by v0rtex

Wearing a nice pair of Prada captoe oxfords today that have held up well in rotation. Prada's formal shoes are all very sleek and long with thin soles, so they look great but the soles tend to wear through quickly. I had a pair in the...

The Up series is pretty fascinating. First one was filmed in the mid-60s, where the filmmaker took a group of about a dozen British 7 year olds from various backgrounds and asked them what they thought their lives would be like. Then...

Salesforce.com is ridiculously over-specced for what you need. Why not go one step further and set up a few servers, install SAP, and you could have it hooked up to some industrial automation system to run your woodchippers... giant...

Great show. "The League" is similar in that low-budget, sex-obsessed kind of way.

Quote: Originally Posted by StephenHero Most wealthy people are too busy experiencing things that actually bring happiness rather than accumulating shit for its own sake. IME, most wealthy people are too busy...

Quote: Originally Posted by highfalutin What is the best way to set up an IRA to have leveraged stock market exposure? What I have in mind is approximately 2:1 exposure to an index such as the S&P...

Plenty of fine (fictional) suggestions at the wonderful http://tvgohome.com/

Read Dave Ramsey, he's great for starting out. Follow up with Richest Man in Babylon and Millionaire Next Door. Ramsey's advice is not that exciting (pay off all your non-mortgage debt, hold 3-6 months expenses in cash, invest 15%...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pantisocrat As a learned man, I visit a lot of museums, which inevitably contain a Greek collection of nude statutes among other notable collections. The sculptures always project life size...

Quote: Originally Posted by Jekyll Richard Branson The myth of the college drop out is a logical fallacy: Some very successful entrepreneurs dropped out of school Therefore, if I drop out of school I am...