Today the AP is bemoaning that the savings rate in the USA hasn’t been this low since 1933. Another jab at Americans for being irresponsible. Yet the truth is Americans put more money in their retirement funds than EVERY OTHER country on the planet. When it comes to planning and preparing for [...]
Over the last few years, my professional site DigitalColony.com has become ignored. I never meant for that to happen, but on the priority list it keeps coming in last place. INeedCoffee has had a monthly commitment for almost 7 years now. This site has had a near daily blog for most of the [...]
A few years ago Matt Pitcher and I created a fitness site called DeepFitness.com. The site hosted fitness and health articles and links. It never really developed the audience we had hoped for and it took too much time to maintain.
This year we struck out with a new vision. Instead of hunting for content, we’d [...]
Last night the first well planned get together took place for the San Diego Bloggers took place at the Rock Bottom Brewery in La Jolla. Back in the old days we used a site called Meetup to organize the events. Almost all turned out to be poorly selected venues with low turnouts. Not last [...]
To all the wait staff and bartenders at a brew pubs, you need to have some basic knowledge about the product you are serving. I’m so tired of brew pubs that spend countless hours constructing great beer recipes, but then don’t spend 5 minutes training their beer wenches on their custom brews.
There are two types [...]
Hat tip to Joe for telling me about YouTube. They were able to upload and index my cat handshaking videos in less than 60 seconds.
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Guess who is moving to downtown San Diego in February? The house hasn’t sold yet, but that didn’t stop us from grabbing a sweet rental in the Marina district. Below is a photo taken from it’s 3rd story patio.
In September 2001, I bought a 10 year 100,000 mile super-duper warranty for my TDI Golf. For last 4 years, I never even pulled out the paper work. The car hasn’t needed any repairs. This week I had $1300 worth work done, so I finally got a chance to use the benefits.
Once I got to [...]
The following post and photos are from Carl Melville. They were taken today in Mammoth, California.
This is going to look like one of the internet pictures you see. It’s not. They are about an hour old. Don’t look at it yet. Read first.
In a search for a local Starbucks (email) I encountered [...]
