Category: Entertainment

StartUp Weekend Columbus – giggleSeed iToot

Now, a little over a full day into StartUp weekend Columbus my team has really come together and have focused in with laser pin point concentration on a company and our first app to develop. Two days ago I only knew a couple of the people on our 12 person team and now I am [...]

Journey to the center of the earth

I think I have figured out how to save the movie industry. If it even really needs to be saved. And that is to start making more 3D movies and taking advantage of technologies that would only be available in theaters. Sure I like a good story line just as much as the next person [...]

Don’t take a job for a Title…

or the money. I first came across this while reading one of the Rich Dad (Robert Kiyosaki) books. Now several years later it is something that I embrace in anything I do. Rather, I take a job for the experience and personal growth. Once you learn to do his you will find that your living [...]

IRS Optional standard mileage rate for businesses increases

Seems like recently the huge increase in fuel costs have been on a lot of our minds lately. Well now it looks like the IRS has increased the optional standard rate for businesses from $.505/mile to $.585/mile. That’s an eight cent increase which is over 15%. Although I’m sure if you look at the history [...]

Consumer watch alert – Mercantila

I feel it is my duty to bring light to a situation I recently encountered when I purchased a loft bed for my daughter. So before doing business with a company called Mercantila, please do your research and prepare yourself for what seems to be a common occurrence with them. So here is how my [...]

Start a coupon club

These days we are all feeling the pinch from high prices. The price of gas has skyrocketed and doubled in just 2 years. Due to the increase in fuel, everything else has gone up including groceries. Which got me to thinking about ways to save money and help others save money. One such thing is [...]

Use stimulus check as an investment

With Tax stimulus checks arriving in the mail for US citizens every retailer and merchant is out trying to get a piece of the action. One thing that I thought of was the possibility of using my $900 to invest it and make a little extra coin or a bigger bang for my buck. One [...]

View only unread messages in Gmail

If your anything like me you are subscribed to all kinds of newsletters and subscription emails. The problem is I get these emails and skip over them with the hope that I can come back and read through them. Often times if I don’t skip through and read it when I receive it it just [...]

Are you too comfortable?

So you have a dead end job? You feel like your not getting the recognition you deserve and aren’t progressing like you’d like. Have you ever though that maybe its because your too comfortable in your current status? When you first started your current position you probably had a lot of energy and great ideas [...]

Graphical view of Inflation

I came across this graph this morning, published in The New York Times Business section, that illustrates economical conditions from data gathered from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It mashes together 200 categories and over 80,000 different prices and the change in price over a year. This data is part of what the Fed uses [...]

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