Get Rich or Die Tryin’

So when I started this blog, I thought I would write more about get-rich schemes and tips.  Unfortunately, I haven’t won the lottery nor has the stock market exactly cooperated in the last couple of months.  To add salt to the wound, people are pouring into Treasury bills so my jerry-rigged/laddered 4-week Treasury bills are [...]

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Tips on Tips

I found this wallet insert recently and realized that this would come in handy for folks who are befuddled by tipping outside of restaurants.  I just realized that I’ve been under-tipping buffet staff so I’ll be tipping more generously @ buffets in the future.
Tip Charts
Also, on an unrelated note, I just “pimped” out my new computer [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

A friend recently sent these to help one have stress-free Thanksgiving.  (The past few T-days have been really quiet for me but maybe these would come in handy for others.)
Print and give copy to each guest that enters your home.
10 RULES FOR THANKSGIVING DINNER AT MY HOUSE  

Don’t get in line asking questions about the [...]

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Overzealous Photo Retouching

I normally read the sunday paper and thumb through the magazine when it’s in the paper.  Today’s sunday magazine had the weirdest picture of Sandra Lee.  Check out her left leg…no left knee! 

I know Coco Chanel thought knees were the ugliest part of a woman’s body but I think the photo editor went too far [...]

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Blog update

It’s a pleasant surprise to see that random people have actually read my blog.  The clustr maps widget shows readers from other continents. I’m not sure if they were the random spam comments but still!  It’s exciting that there was a person ( or people?) in New Zealand and South Africa who read what I wrote.  [...]

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Higher rates @ HSBC?

There was a small article about HSBC’s third quarter results this week in WSJ.  What caught my eye was this:
Robert Law and Raul Sinha, London-based banking analysts for Lehman Brothers, said they believe HSBC might have to boost its reserves against souring subprime loans at HSBC Finance’s mortgage-services division by $2.4 billion, to a total [...]

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Comfortable Bus Seat

Last spring, I started a job in downtown LA that I really didn’t want to take.  But a friend counseled that free health insurance and paycheck is better than collecting unemployment so I took it.  I had all these weird feelings and signs that we were not simpatico even before I reported for work but I knew on the [...]

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Mellow CEO

I never worked for a major investment bank so I don’t know  how C-level executives in those firms act but I was surprised to learn that the Bear Stearns CEO, James Cayne,  is a recreational marijuana user. 

Attendees say Mr. Cayne has sometimes smoked marijuana at the end of the day during bridge tournaments. He also has [...]

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I hate Canada, part II

Hate is too strong of a word but I can’t stand Canada these days, mainly due to the shyster Canadian “winner” of my eBay item who hasn’t paid.  I got the stupid invoice from eBay that I need to pay them over $5.00 (I guess it’s not a big deal in the grand scheme that [...]

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