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Re: How to Avoid Excessive Airline Fees While Traveling

flexocc — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:33:58 -0000

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see the "privilege" of using the restroom listed on an airline fee schedule one of these days.

Re: How to Avoid Excessive Airline Fees While Traveling

guinness416 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:54:58 -0000

You might like this story from Ireland a few months ago flexo.

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:58:54 -0000

Unfortunately

Re: The AVC Reader Census

ShanaC — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:59:09 -0000

Yes and it is awkward for those of us who are not guys guys. I don't play golf. I don't think I ever will. I do wear makeup, though not very often (maybe once every 2 weeks, I'm a student, and I know how to get away with very little) (though I love collecting makeup and shoes and stockings)

And if I thought about it, I like reading dramatic novels when I am not reading non-fiction. Not highly dramatic, but like Haruki Murkami dramatic. I've mentioned in the past that I really admired Fred's wife. It's really logical, because occasionally when I stop by I see that I cook similar food, hsave read or will read similar book, and tend to like her taste in shopping (though if I had to hedge, I probably would veer a little more towards his daughters, who I don't read...but I'm 23 and that's sort of logical)

I'm female baby.

Re: The AVC Reader Census

brooksjordan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:18:28 -0000

Thus your participation is that much more important. :)

Re: The AVC Reader Census

guinness416 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:21:14 -0000

Thanks for completing the census! Your most uncommon answers were:

* Wear makeup everyday
* Prefer dramatic novels
* Know 4 or more languages
* Female

It's a boyzone 'round here!

Re: linklings, passion, pongo and the end of the world edition

guinness416 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:44:39 -0000

Re perefect job I like that you're posting these musings/asking these questions .... Please do write a separate post on it! My bloggiest wish is that you and the FMF guy would hook up and write a career blog I think it would be amazing.

Given that the dad-pays-for-daughter's-wedding thing is so rare already I expect it'll be truly dead and gone by the time your kid is at that stage; especially as by then one would hope that she'll be earning the equivalent of your son (possibly more if some of the m-f grad rates in non engineering disciplines hold true!). For my family's part we don't talk about such things but I would hope my folks are helping my sister out much more than me and my brother, who need basically no (financial) assistance. In my husband's family it's more about which siblings are supporting the parents which is a whole other story.

Jeremy's toilet stall anecdote is funny .... I recently took a work trip with a colleague who spent the whole drive (she was driving) sending emails. She's quite practiced at it, her sites being pretty far from the office, but it's dangerous as hell. Of course in her mind, and toilet guy's mind, it's probably may as well do it now or I'll just have to stay late looking after these notes.

Re: everyone is special and unique just the way they are

bripblap — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:59:16 -0000

@guinness416: Uh, that's not going to make you, uh, the most popular guest. Heh :)

Re: everyone is special and unique just the way they are

guinness416 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:06:56 -0000

<<Your attempt at building self-esteem is going to implode when these kids realize, as adults staring at the clock in the cubicle at 4:52 pm, that all of the bubbly anthems declaring that “everyone is special” were a lie>>

is henceforth my default message for cards at baby showers.

Re: side effects of transparency

bripblap — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:43:03 -0000

@guinness416: After "How to Manage Billions and Billions of Dollars Like Carl Sagan" I'm not sure where I could go with it :)

Re: side effects of transparency

guinness416 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:02:37 -0000

Not sure at what point one would run out of content but "The Atheist Dollar" actually sounds like a great blog idea ....

Re: lack of communication, or stupidity?

guinness416 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:34:39 -0000

Weird story. I would think you'd have to be on cloud nine to not even to know the ballpark figure but, like you say, people amaze. Wonder why she was listening to Ramsey to start with? Mind you, I've read a couple of blog posts along the lines of "I'm putting together a folder of account numbers in case I die because spouse doesn't know any of them" and wonder why those are necessary too.

Re: linklings, labor day in Florida edition

bripblap — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:42:09 -0000

@Guinness416: I agree that there's a certain smug satisfaction that permeates a lot of the anti-corporate-jobs blogs that I read, and it seems to be building during the recession. ZH used to be a must-read for me, but recently the tone has shifted a bit too much into the dreamy "we are all going to work on the web" mode. No we aren't. I like the idea of people taking a bit more control over their work lives than some employees do, true. I would like to do more of it, too. But you're dead-on, though - if you replaced "corporate worker" with "bricklayer" it would sound downright awful.

Re: linklings, labor day in Florida edition

guinness416 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:06:53 -0000

Always nice to have a choice! If you go for the finished one, make sure you won't be redecorating soon anyway, for taste or to correct skin deep flip renovation.

I've found reading zenhabits less interesting or rewarding for me the the further into his own "freedom" he gets. As an ex montessori kid, I'm mildly sympathetic to his beliefs (although would have been nice to see some actual stats to back his opinions up, not to mention some recognition that it ain't possible for everyone) but the constant contempt for the corporate worker in some of these blogs is tiresome. He'd be called on it if he were running down bricklayers or something. ZH sure has quite the amen chorus though.

Re: Tweetbacks and More From Disqus

fredwilson — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:52:31 -0000

This is great feedback guys. Thanks so much!!!

Re: Tweetbacks and More From Disqus

guinness416 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:43:42 -0000

I also detest the popups, FWIW.

Re: linklings, rush hour 11 edition

guinness416 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:03:27 -0000

Wow, that Onion article is pretty dark. And not remotely funny at all. Very odd. But the good news is that it's just one of eleventy billion posts on a very all-the-rage-in-1999 website. The prop 8 stuff is more upsetting for being real life.

Re: heading to the feds

guinness416 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:15:19 -0000

I have an economist brother who works for the govt. We all thought he was mad not to take the offers from the investment banks ... back then.

I would personally have a lot of trouble with the atmosphere I see in govt offices though - they seem to lack any flexibility or humour, and all that red tape .... The small firm I work for has doubled in size since I got here three yrs ago, and the commensurate changes are already starting to chafe. I think the stress of dealing with a by the book employee handbook would kill me quicker.

Re: the big social media post

guinness416 — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:52:58 -0000

delicious is the only one I'd be really gutted to lose. It's fantastic in many ways. Twitter is kind of fun, and I love flickr too, of course, for staying in touch with family. Other than that, I have abandoned and semi-used accounts littering a lot of the others.

Re: you might be a personal finance redneck if…

pepper Spray — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:35:30 -0000

actually know in detail why a subprime mortgage isn’t such a great deal after all.

Re: what has changed in personal finance?

guinness416 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:54:05 -0000

Interesting discussion on that very issue over at mefi, plonkee (I'm jamesonandwater over there):

http://ask.metafilter.com/106108/America-love-i...

Re: what has changed in personal finance?

guinness416 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:52:22 -0000

Heh, "like the whole country had won the world series" is a great description of the images I saw on tv. FWIW, there was a fair amount of dancing up here too (and TO has actually won the series more recently than some of the yank teams!).

I wish more of your fellow bloggahs accepted the interrelated thing, brip blap.

Re: I know I shouldn’t be happy to get laid off, but…

guinness416 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:45:41 -0000

The combination of only reading the first line of this post's title and the image confused the hell out of me.

A layoff can definitely force you to make positive decisions and lead to something better. Certainly my hubby losing the original job he had here in TO was a good thing, in hindsight. Glad you're taking getting "let go" in stride Steve, onwards and upwards!

Re: linklings, election countdown edition

guinness416 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:19:42 -0000

I'd give almost anything to get that close to a tiger cub. Lucky Vlad.

Re: Glenn Beck’s emails

guinness416 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:18:15 -0000

And Ritholtz of course, here's an interesting post/link/comments from March 2007:

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2007/03/...