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Re: 5 ways to get free money

Steve — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:04:54 -0000

Hi Anna - true...but you have to be careful with coupons. Sometimes it's a way to get you to buy the more expensive name brand with a coupon when the generic would still be less...

Re: Armstrong report vindicates those who raised doping alert

Steve — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:17:18 -0000

And yes, what a monster - using his racing wins to fund cancer research.

Re: Armstrong report vindicates those who raised doping alert

Steve — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:15:57 -0000

I still want it explained to me why he never once tested positive all the years he won the Tour. Was he THAT powerful? Have these organizations suddenly reclaimed their strength after he left? Were they so weak when he was still active? Can we please all just ignore this sport forever if that was the case? Cycling is a joke sport. Test well, and if you can't, don't retroactively penalize for your crappy testing. Sheesh. I love cycling, but I'm done with the sport.

Re: Farmer: 'It was the system that failed us'

Steve — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:53:13 -0000

Hm.

Re: you may not be an entrepreneur

Steve — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:05:54 -0000

Oh, no offense taken - thanks for your comments!

Re: you may not be an entrepreneur

Steve — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:06:01 -0000

Jason, I agree that I'm probably making too much of an either/or situation, but that's the nature of expressing an opinion. For the most part (a generalization) an entrepreneur won't settle for being an employee. Am I being too general? Yes...yes, I am. Of course there are exceptions. I still think most entrepreneurs will TRY far sooner than want-to-be or pretend-to-be entrepreneurs. Will they be more successful? Maybe or maybe not? Will they try sooner or more frequently? I think, based on only my personal observation, yes, they will....

Re: you may not be an entrepreneur

Steve — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:02:50 -0000

Hey LB - yeah, I think your second paragraph is what I meant to say: it's in your blood, or it isn't. You may think you want it, but if you are, you'll know it.

Re: should you tip?

Steve — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:29:32 -0000

That's a good question about the US. Most of my life it was 15%, but about 10 years ago it crept up to 20%. But recently I've noticed "suggested" 25% tips. I'll tell you what it's doing, in my opinion - I used to leave more than 15% for good service, but as the "obligatory" tip has crept up to 25%, I've found I tend not to tip any extra, even for above average service, because tipping 30-40% of the cost of the meal seems way too much.

Re: Well, This Is What a 'Dora the Explorer' Movie Would Look Like

Steve — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:43:46 -0000

As a parent of small kids, I found it hilarious. And I was in college a hundred years ago, too, so I'm the target audience :)

Re: Solar powered sun lounger

Steve — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:55:07 -0000

If you're visiting from Pinterest, thanks!

Re: Major banks downgraded by Moody's

Steve — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:46:06 -0000

No, it's based on their opinions, not math.

Re: top 10 healthy and frugal foods

Steve — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:14:02 -0000

They don't simmer well, but you can warm them up that way. I don't worry too much about structural integrity - whole foods are whole foods!

Re: Is drinking soda really that bad for you?

Steve — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:27:20 -0000

Don't drink soda. Period. It's a simple rule. No diet, no regular, just don't drink it. Drink water, juice, tea, coffee, whatever. No soda. Ever.

Re: 20 ways to outlive 106 billion people

Steve — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:01:25 -0000

And now, it's fixed!

Re: Money Roundup: Saving money in one of your biggest expense categories, proof that you can go to school without a loan, and more

Steve — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:33:49 -0000

Thanks for the mention!

Re: 20 ways to outlive 106 billion people

Steve — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:39:11 -0000

Evan - I have read Mark's Daily Apple a few times, and it is different, and hey, fine... I think a large part of it is just sticking to a healthy lifestyle as you perceive healthy, because for every person who can pull out tons of facts to support paleo you can find vegans who can pull out tons of facts to support veganism. I think the main thing is for people to identify systems they can live happily with!

Re: 20 ways to outlive 106 billion people

Steve — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:11:54 -0000

Yep, TR, that one's all on me for failing to proofread thoroughly enough before publishing this. My bad :(

Re: stability and desperation

Steve — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:17:18 -0000

Thanks Christopher. I appreciate it!

Re: to be a billionaire

Steve — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:15:27 -0000

Not yet......yet......

Re: who hates The Lorax, and links

Steve — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:44:27 -0000

The kiddos did enjoy. It's a bit heavy-handed for a kids movie, but then again maybe kids need to be challenged past the message of 'Cars 2' once in a while. I wouldn't say it was any more heavy-handed than the beloved 'Wall-E', for example. And it's not at all political, except that as I noted, we've become so polarized as a society that if you mention planting a tree for fresh air, and that doing so would reduce a business' profit, I would argue that 99.99% of Americans would think "liberal" or "Democrat" (although see LKnerl's comment).

I'm definitely avoiding Hugo. I think the important thing for kids' movies is for the visual movie to be appealing to kids and the verbal aspect to be appealing to adults. Kids like cars, robots, fluffy little Loraxes, etc. They don't like old movie theaters in early 20th century France, because it's out of their frame of reference. It's one of the reasons Cars 2 was such a pathetic movie - my kids are so unfamiliar with guns and action movies that most of it just made them uneasy.

But I'd recommend the Lorax. It's harmless. The environmental message might offend someone who believes that pollution and deforestation are fine, but it's not like it's talking about global warming - the message is mainly that you don't have to level the forest and put up with lots of pollution, that there can be a happy medium.

Re: who hates The Lorax, and links

Steve — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:37:26 -0000

You make a good point, and you're right that people shouldn't make assumptions on appearances, which I did in my post. I guess my only slight argument would be that you might be the exception that proves the rule - civil discourse (at least politically) is at an all-time low in our country. I don't think most people can rationally discuss "the environment" with other people of the opposite political persuasion. I like the stewardship concept. I've always thought that hunters and fishers who support "green" ideas in the name of conservation even if they didn't buy into global warming were fine, too. I just see our political parties turning this into an all-or-nothing battle of capitalism versus environmentalism. If you support capitalism, you MUST oppose anything that smacks of "green", and if you are an environmentalist, you MUST oppose any reasonable counter-argument (I'm thinking nuclear power, for example).

Oh well, I'm sure it will get worse before it gets better, or at least until more sensible people take back over the political discourse! Thanks for making a good point.

Re: 604Republic - Design Gallery - New Creed

Steve — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:37:20 -0000

Love it, although I think Neo should be smiting the agents.

Re: 175 Coach Radio – What Determines a Successful Blog Post

Steve — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:43:43 -0000

I had an insanely successful post here: http://www.bripblap.com/101... and it's remained, for me, the gold standard of blog posts: it was thorough, long and answered a need ("how do I lose weight"). Here's my question: what's wrong with it? It's sent hundreds of thousands of visitors to my site, but what could've been done better? Because I'm not so arrogant as to think I wrote the perfect post (and I know I didn't)... something could've been improved on it.

As a side note I've found that certain numbers - 10, random 30-40, and 99, 101, seem to resonate well with readers. I have another post, http://www.bripblap.com/38-... that has done well, too. Do you think random numbers do well?

Re: REDIRECT: Personal Finance Round-Up: New Year Goals and a Clean Slate

Steve — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:55:27 -0000

Thanks for the mention!

Re: 21 Reasons You Should Work for Yourself

Steve — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:31:59 -0000

Great list - as someone who's about 50% of the way to entrepreneurship after a half-career in corporate America I can say that all of those points are very appealing, and the reason they appeal gets clearer and clearer the longer I stay away from a job and do more and more consulting and similar entrepreneurial activities.