I look real excited on my way to work, huh? LOL This is me riding into work on BART. Don't feel sorry for me — I'm totally WiFi "wired" with mp3s blasting and the Internet roaring at blazing speeds. ;-) Figures, huh?
Commuting to work
I look real excited on my way to work, huh? LOL This is me riding into work on BART. Don't feel sorry for me — I'm totally WiFi "wired" with mp3s blasting and the Internet roaring at blazing speeds. ;-) Figures, huh?
VIDEO: Alex & Heidi's Housewarming
This video contains pictures from Alex and Heidi's housewarming BBQ and includes lots of pictures of Baby Ellie and Maria's belated birthday celebration.
College: Making The Case For Useless Degrees
College: Making The Case For Useless Degrees - Newsweek - Education:"Ignore the grown-ups. Opt for an imaginative, if not lucrative, course of study.
During my junior year of high school, I sat near the window in English class. I wanted to be an engineer, so during most classes, I daydreamed about applying early to MIT while the class rambled on about short stories by Philip Roth. But sometime in the spring, not long after we'd finished a lesson about some strange thing called 'transcendentalism,' and started reading Shakespeare, I kicked my best friend Crary's chair.
Henry David Thoreau and Elizabethan sonnets had suddenly piqued my interest—I was fascinated, bewildered, hooked. Since his mother had been forcing books on him since he was 3 months old, Crary seemed to know everything about everything. 'Where does any of this lead?' I asked him. 'There's a major in college called comparative literature,' he said. 'They read books together like this all day long.' It sounded intriguing, but I was dumbfounded. 'What in the world would be the value in that?'
I later learned that there's actually a huge value in it. Computer science, accounting, marketing—the purpose of many majors is self-evident. They lead to well-paid jobs and clear-cut career paths. (One hopes, at least.) But comparative literature, classics, and philosophy—according to the new conventional wisdom—offer no clear trajectory. As my colleague Nancy Cook reports, many schools are even slashing liberal arts from their curriculum. It's true that studying the humanities will surely elicit snide comment from your uncle like, 'All that studying so you'll be able to ask, 'You want fries with that?' ' Tell your uncle to shove it. Majoring in the liberal arts is still the best use of your college tuition.
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Ellie and me
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I was happy that my little niece just let me hold her (let alone steal a kiss)
BOOK: Debt-Free U: How I Paid For an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching Off My Parents
Yahoo! Finance - Financially Fit"A new book offers advice for college students looking to save their parents' retirement and financial well-being.
Meet Zac Bissonnette, a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and the author of the book Debt-Free U: How I Paid For an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching Off My Parents. Bissonnette's tale is an eye-opening one – and a must-read for students looking to save every penny they can on tuition.
The cost of higher education is rising – even as the economy remains a tailspin. The average four-year cost for a top-flight school like Harvard or Stanford is almost $200,000. And even a solid state school like UCLA or the University of Michigan will set students back almost $100,000.
So how did Bissonnette come out ahead?
Let's take a look at Bissonnette's results and what he was (or wasn't) working with. He graduated with no student loan debt, no financial support from parents and no scholarships.
NOTE from Ryan: Click on the link above to read the entire article.
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Like the ’55 Chevy, the 3,000-Mile Oil Change Is Pretty Much History
Like the ’55 Chevy, the 3,000-Mile Oil Change Is Pretty Much History - Yahoo! Finance
NOTE from Ryan: I'm one of those who changes his oil every 3,000 miles, so this particular finding struck a cord with me—I wanted to pass this along to all of you, too.
"I STILL remember learning from my father how to carefully remove a dipstick to check the oil level in our cars. It was drilled into me — along with turning off the lights when you left a room and clearing the plates off the table after dinner — that oil needs to be changed every 3,000 miles or so.
I’m not sure what I thought would happen if I didn’t, but I vaguely imagined an unlubricated engine grinding to a halt.
Childhood habits are hard to undo, and that’s often good. To this day, I hate seeing an empty room with the lights on.
But sometimes, we need to throw aside our parents’ good advice. In March, for example, I wrote about how we should relearn the dishwasher and laundry soap habits we inherited from our mothers.
Add frequent oil-changing to that list.
“There was a time when the 3,000 miles was a good guideline,” said Philip Reed, senior consumer advice editor for the car site Edmunds.com. “But it’s no longer true for any car bought in the last seven or eight years.”
Oil chemistry and engine technology have improved to the point that most cars can go several thousand more miles before changing the oil, Mr. Reed said. A better average, he said, would be 7,500 between oil changes, and sometimes up to 10,000 miles or more.
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NOTE from Ryan: I'm one of those who changes his oil every 3,000 miles, so this particular finding struck a cord with me—I wanted to pass this along to all of you, too.
"I STILL remember learning from my father how to carefully remove a dipstick to check the oil level in our cars. It was drilled into me — along with turning off the lights when you left a room and clearing the plates off the table after dinner — that oil needs to be changed every 3,000 miles or so.
I’m not sure what I thought would happen if I didn’t, but I vaguely imagined an unlubricated engine grinding to a halt.
Childhood habits are hard to undo, and that’s often good. To this day, I hate seeing an empty room with the lights on.
But sometimes, we need to throw aside our parents’ good advice. In March, for example, I wrote about how we should relearn the dishwasher and laundry soap habits we inherited from our mothers.
Add frequent oil-changing to that list.
“There was a time when the 3,000 miles was a good guideline,” said Philip Reed, senior consumer advice editor for the car site Edmunds.com. “But it’s no longer true for any car bought in the last seven or eight years.”
Oil chemistry and engine technology have improved to the point that most cars can go several thousand more miles before changing the oil, Mr. Reed said. A better average, he said, would be 7,500 between oil changes, and sometimes up to 10,000 miles or more.
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SHOW #93 - NerdBoyTV: DecalGirl Phone Skins
In this episode of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee uses a cool skin from DecalGirl.com to spruce up the look of his old Blackberry Curve 8330.
Ryan & Nicholas on Labor Day Weekend
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This picture was taken with my Logitech ProCam 910 that takes HD video and nice photos. Nicholas was a good sport when I asked him to try the camera out with me.
Fighting Gravity is amazing on America's Got Talent 2010
These guys are simply amazing. You mark my words, "Fighting Gravity" is gonna be a headliner in Vegas someday real soon. They are AWESOME!
