Category Archives for General
2011 Dividends
This will hopefully get more exciting as time goes on, but here’s my first annual dividend report for calendar year 2011. December is substantially higher because my International Small-cap equity ETF (SCHC) pays annually. For a detailed breakdown of the … Continue reading
Racquet-breaking Outburst
Tennis player Marcos Baghdatis has become quite the Internet sensation after destroying four of his tennis rackets during a temper tantrum in his second-round loss to Stanislas Wawrinka in the Australian Open on Wednesday. Continue reading: Manufacturer comments on Marcos … Continue reading
New Terms for my PenFed Platinum Cash Rewards card
If you’ve read about my problems with credit cards, you’ll see why this is so frustrating. Just when I had settled on the PenFed Platinum Cash Rewards card and chose it as the one card for me to use (5% … Continue reading
Son Of Strelka, Son Of God (narrated by Obama)
Hey y’all. Long time no see. For the past four years, I’ve been working slowly but obsessively on a very odd project. Bit by bit I’ve dissected Obama’s self-read autobiography into thousands of very short phrases, usually one to ten … Continue reading
Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.
Below is a great article on the origin of one or two spaces after a period. I think I finally learned this while writing a research paper for a biology class in college. Can I let you in on a … Continue reading
Super expensive hard drives & some cool price trackers
I was searching Amazon for reviews of the Synology 4-bay Network Attached Storage devices and noticed that hard drive prices were very high. Remembering that floods in Thailand in October may have contributed to this, I found this article, Hard … Continue reading
Very First Digital Camera Photos
When I was digging through some of the files that I had backed up on a random CD I found this assortment of some of the first photos I took with my, then new, Minolta G400. These are all unedited. … Continue reading
Experience with 1Password
Around Thanksgiving we bought a family license for 1Password when there was a special discount. I had previously kept track of my passwords on a password protected iPhone app and had an encrypted text file on my computer for backup. … Continue reading
Selling General Electric Stock in my DRIP
I just sold my GE stock today that I had been DRIPing directly through the company. I sold despite the fact that I feel it is a great stock, especially at its current price. (They even just recently raised the … Continue reading
Mr. Rodgers’ Neighborhood?
Rick Reilly, of the back page columnist in Sports Illustrated fame (now writing for ESPN) just wrote a great article entitled, It’s Mr. Rodgers’ neighborhood now, on Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers. You’re either a Brett Favre man or an … Continue reading