I was having a conversation with a friend recently and I noticed my palm was itching. Growing up, my mother always told me that if your palm itches, it means you’re going to come into money. That led to a longer discussion about the origins of these kinds of things. I don’t [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Superstitions?
Posted in Miscellaneous on January 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Not So Magic Kingdom
Posted in Movies on January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I watched the third installment of Pirates of the Caribbean on Saturday night. It’s almost three hours long, and that’s at least an hour too much. There was no re-cap from the second movie, so I watched the whole thing really without knowing at all what was going on. I just never [...]
Attention History Geeks
Posted in History, Sites I Like on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
The Library of Congress just put 3,000 of its images up on Flickr. Now, they need to be tagged to be truly useful. But just browsing is amazing. There’s a set of over 1,600 photos from the 1930s and 1940s in color. Very, very cool.
Via Lifehacker
Resolutions
Posted in Finance on January 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Okay, so it’s a little late to be making resolutions. Actually, I’ve already made this one — it just took me awhile to blog about it.
I’m going to try to get a better handle on my finances this year. Specifically, I want to reduce my debt. Those credit card bills are just [...]
Reading Year in Review
Posted in Reading on January 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I had all sorts of ideas about pithy end-of-year thoughts and New Year’s resolutions to post over the last couple of days — only to be felled by a nasty head cold that kept me in bed for the last four days of my break. And today I’m back at work. Where did [...]
