A comparison of my parents’ lives and mine. Statistic My Parents Me Times moved 4 34 Number of kids 4 2 Number of marriages 1 2 # Houses bought/sold 1 4 Yrs at current residence 52 5 1/2 Computers/household 1 3 TVs/household 1 4 Total # of employers 1 8 Av yrs/employer 45 4 Total […]
Category: Misc.
Use Mint.com, Forget Quicken
Recently I “upgraded” my version of Quicken for $49.99. It was a total waste of money. I used to have enormous respect for Intuit when I managed personal finance at AOL because they were the kings of user-based testing—something we didn’t do much of in the web business in the early days. “Ready, Fire, Aim” […]
Pit of Vipers
When Robert Altman was given a lifetime achievement award at the Oscars a year or two before he died, (aren’t such awards always a death sentence?) he said to the star-studded audience, “I’m not interested in stories, I’m interested in human nature.” This struck me as bordering on heresy since he was addressing a crowd […]
Air Rage
I can remember a time when people dressed up (not down) to travel. It’s laughable now but it was a sign of the respect people had for the privilege of being able to fly at 600 mph 6 miles above the earth. How times have changed. In today’s NY Times, the business/aviation columnist, Joe Sharkey […]