We were hemmed in, walled away, unseeing. Then suddenly the fog descended, and we were above it looking down. The horizon opened up before us. Below us were others, still hemmed in, walled away, unseeing. In that instant, a change in perspective.
Some days I’m more pessimistic than others. Letter #1: Dear Religious Person, Society has determined that another one of your beliefs is illegitimate. Only haters hold that belief. There’s no finesse, no nuance that can make this belief acceptable, and all right thinking people know this. You cannot appeal to history, or to tradition, or …
Thinking about yesterday’s post, I realized that my advice can be boiled down to this: We have incredible technology available at different price points. Use it! This is true in many areas of life, but electric rates are a good place to start because they’re low hanging fruit. The wealthier you are, the more technology …
Note: This post talks about how to use the rates offered by Arizona Public Service (APS) to their best effect, but you can use these techniques with any public utility that offers different rates, especially demand rates. If you’re not particularly good at math, find a friend who enjoys playing with spreadsheets to compare and …
In a finance group on Habitica, we read The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason. I have a copy of one of the original pamphlets, subtitled “A STUDY FOR THOSE WHO DESIRE MUCH GOLD,” and compliments of Investors Syndicate Title & Guaranty Co. of New York. Clason wrote the book as a series …
There is nothing new under the sun. There is especially nothing new when it comes to arguments for more gun control. I’m a relative newbie, coming into most of my knowledge at the late date of 2012. What I’m seeing online now is no different from what I saw then. I was gonna explain how …
…but don’t worry, I have a fiendish plan to get it back. Step 1: Convince super villain there’s money to be made in stealing the large juniper forest south of my house. Step 2: Enjoy juniper-free air. That’s it. Fiendish, and fiendishly simple. This blog post has been brought to you by the …
Now that our utility company APS received permission to raise rates for the first time in years, the difference between what we are paying with solar and what we would be paying without solar has jumped substantially. The rate change comes in two parts. The first part happened in August, when they increased the rates …
Though they don’t use the English Standard Version (sigh), the song creators at Sing the KJV do put entire chapters to music: 86 chapters, 3 books, and 1694 verses so far per their website. Sing the KJV makes all of its music available for free and in the public domain. This includes Psalm 119, which at …
Powerline has a fascinating yet upsetting article titled, “Is California Starting to Circle the Drain?” in which Steven Hayward chronicles yet more examples of increasing crime in CA. Not much new there, though his depiction of how key fobs have made it so much easier for criminals to burgle your car makes me never want …