2021-07-07 01:16
Need for Speed II was the first video game I ever had, and unknown at the time, probably the most influential game I've ever played. It was a gift I received from my dad that I never e… Read More
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2020-07-26 02:15
Back in 2015 or 2016, I walked into a pawn shop to look for video games. Next to the games, I saw two of the Guitar Hero controllers for the PS3.These two controllers were bundled together a… Read More
2020-06-15 02:06
Whenever the world looks like its falling apart, look towards the elders, men of great experience and take a look at how they are reacting. If the old men are scared, then the world is prett… Read More
2020-06-15 01:29
This year, I've seen stuff I've never seen before in my life.It first starting with the covid in China and I heard accounts of entire cities being quarantined. It took until March before fea… Read More
2019-10-25 00:34
This comes from George Orwell's book 1984.There are 3 classes of people in the world (bottom, middle, and top).The people at the bottom struggle every day just to survive, eat, and pay bills… Read More
2019-07-22 02:14
I tried to get down to pray but I could not remember his name.I found a bible and opened it but all the pages were blank Read More
2019-04-20 13:47
The thing I like about Andy Macdonald is that he is just about a universal constant at the X Games. Every single year, he is in the events. From 1995 to 2018, I don't think he has missed a s… Read More
2019-04-16 01:46
While looking for old footage of X Games Vert Runs, I kept running into the limitations of internet records. While I used to think you could find anything posted online, there is a lot of fo… Read More
2019-04-09 00:42
Without fail, I'll make sure to catch the X Games Skateboard Vert finals every year. With it being three months out, I take some time just to catch past contests and runs.One contest run alw… Read More
2019-01-22 02:53
Whatever research you do, please make sure to get physical copies.Whether it is books, personal notes, or hard copies of video/audio, make sure to get a physical copy.In this age, digital in… Read More
2018-12-09 00:04
As a young boy, I remembered hearing a story in the book of Revelations. When the devil came back to Earth, he would command people to follow him. He would command a lot of people. In order… Read More
2018-11-06 03:25
Following off the $1,000 and $2,000 accumulation strategies, the strategy for $3,000 may be slightly different.In the United States, Summer vacation can last from 10 to 12 weeks. And accumul… Read More
2018-10-30 01:42
Following off the strategy for $1,000 accumulation, reaching $2,000 does not require that much more effort or a change to the existing strategy.Keeping the same variables in place, Player On… Read More
2018-10-28 04:00
Accumulating $1,000 is not a difficult task depending on circumstances.Consistent wages from a W-2 job can be available to teenagers from the ages of 14 to 16 depending on location. Entry le… Read More
2018-09-15 23:21
SparksSkateboards are pretty magical. To this day, I still have no idea how slappy crooked grinds work. As a little kid, you would play the video games and you would see sparks shoot out fro… Read More
2018-09-13 23:59
My first couple of times at a skatepark, I couldn’t do that much. I could barely ollie and couldn’t do any flip tricks, grind, or launch any airs. The only thing I could do was d… Read More
2018-09-13 00:05
I’d go to the park often to skate. Mainly, I’d be in the parking lot just practicing flip tricks. There wasn’t that much to skate there other than mid sized stair sets. The… Read More
2018-09-10 23:44
Growing up, one of my favorite games was the original Pokemon. I played red version for hundreds of hours.There is a section of the game where you have to board the SS Anne, fight a bunch of… Read More
2018-08-09 01:58
In order to account for inflation, there are a few methods. You could go with government figures but I believe those figures are vastly under estimated. After all, inflation will affect ever… Read More
2018-08-05 03:29
In an ideal world with perfect information, a man could know the exact dollar amount he would need to retire, work to save up said amount, then retire after he accumulated that amount. Unfor… Read More
2018-06-10 12:48
I love telling this story.Back in high school, I was in my senior year and had no idea what to do with myself. I knew I should have been applying to college but I did none of that until my l… Read More
2018-06-09 14:23
Newly updated to include insolvency dates for Medicare and Social Security7-4-18 Fully automated McDonald’s set to open in Phoenix, Arizona12-31-18 Kroger to bring “Scan, Bag, an… Read More
2018-06-06 01:50
It has surprised me how big of an obstacle standing in the way of a particular goal is the wrong kind of people.You know the kind of people. The kind of people the procrastinate, that say th… Read More
2018-06-01 02:04
One question I've thought about before is which countries are the most socialist. A great economist stated that the best measure of determining if a country is socialist is the spending to G… Read More
2018-05-30 00:19
A few days back, I headed back to the townhouse to help my dad clean up some junk. While he was looking through his old friend's junk for stuff to keep or give away, I made my way to the ref… Read More
2018-05-20 03:35
7-4-18 Fully automated McDonald’s set to open in Phoenix, Arizona12-31-18 Kroger to bring “Scan, Bag, and Go” platform to 400 stores (Walmart to 200 stores)1-1-19 ICON aims… Read More
2018-05-15 23:00
Future Events (updated with self driving cars)1-1-19 ICON aims to sell 3D printed houses in 201912-31-19 Elon Musk plans testing of Big Falcon Rocket “BFR”12-31-19 Delphi Automot… Read More
2018-05-13 00:48
12-31-19 Elon Musk plans testing of Big Falcon Rocket “BFR”12-31-22 Elon Musk plans to use BFR to send cargo to Mars12-31-24 Mars One plans cargo missions to Mars12-31-24 SpaceX… Read More
2018-05-11 20:40
Video by Stefan Molyneux. Recommended viewing Read More
2018-05-09 02:15
I first saw this article on either Drudge Report or ZeroHedge.By the age of 30, the average millennial will spend about $93,000 on rent.If $93,000 is split among 12 years (age 18 to 30), tha… Read More
2018-05-08 01:59
Often times, things get lost in translation when you translate one language to another and back to the original language. For example, I've heard that idioms/local sayings translate weird. T… Read More
2018-05-04 20:58
Child Abuse Cover-Ups Exposed! | James O'Keefe and Stefan MolyneuxVideo linked from Stefan Molyneux Read More
2018-05-04 02:14
The other week, I was with my dad and his friend. His friend was telling us a story about the time he spent in jail due to difficulty paying child support. While he was in the cell, he was p… Read More
2018-05-02 01:52
It happened last year, I was walking through a used book store. I had $40 dollars worth of store credit so I was just browsing for anything interesting. Through the fiction section, I saw a… Read More
2018-05-01 00:53
A few people I knew were sentenced to prison recently. While I didn't know them very well, these were people that I had the chance to talk to every few months. The one guy I knew, well it wa… Read More
2018-04-26 23:35
In the past, I thought about buying a steel shipping container. I'd convert it into a dwelling and live somewhere remote where no one would bother me. I was in a different place a few years… Read More
2018-04-25 00:48
A couple of weeks back, my dad's best friend and business partner passed away. While cleaning out his apartment, I came across a Sony Walkman with a cassette tape next to it. It was a record… Read More
2018-04-24 03:15
Video by Aaron Clarey.After watching his video, I'm reminded of this one girl I knew from church.She racked up multiple thousands of dollars worth of debt to get a degree in art history. A f… Read More
2018-04-22 18:50
Before I ever enter a Starbucks, I check if there is any other possible place to get coffee instead. Since I always drink coffee black (without cream or sugar), there are several other bette… Read More
2018-04-22 00:07
The average American doesn't plan well into the future. In the last few years, I've heard the average American couldn't afford an $800 car repair bill without charging it to a credit card. O… Read More
2018-04-08 23:53
In the past, one thought which crossed my mind was how safe is the area I live in.The saying goes "out of sight out of mind" but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I remember it was 7 year… Read More
2018-04-07 20:16
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2018-03-26 01:10
Every now and again, I wonder if the entire world is controlled by a small number of people. People so strong, so powerful, and so rich they could use countries/governments as pawns/playthin… Read More
2018-03-02 03:02
Link to the Joe Rogan podcast with Alex Jones as a guest.While Alex's explanation is a little hard to follow, I'll summarize a few main points.1. Elites are trying to open up an inter dimens… Read More
2018-02-26 00:07
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2018-01-30 02:45
The plan to save America would be a bottom up approach. Saving America would depend completely on the individual and then gradually rise up to higher levels of control.Saving America would d… Read More
2017-11-25 20:07
While in America, the life expectancy is about 78 years, it is possible to see records of people that lived past 100 years. I think that the record for oldest person in the world is 120 year… Read More
2017-10-29 00:07
While I've heard that government statistics can be far from accurate, I've never really given it much thought if I could rely on that information or not. If it was a lie, how would I know it… Read More
2017-10-15 21:17
A quick google search reveals the following details.US life expectancy is as of 2015 78.74 years. This is completely level since 2012.In 2011, life expectancy was 78.64.The life expectancy f… Read More
2017-10-15 02:01
I've heard that the current real estate market is hotter today then it was before the financial market meltdown in 2009. In the last few months, I noticed a lot of houses changing hands as w… Read More
2017-10-13 00:54
It is important to have a set of core values. Without having a set of core values to believe in, a man can only believe what other people tell him. He wouldn't be able to tell if a person wa… Read More
2017-09-30 21:29
One thing about people that is impressive is resilience. People have an incredible ability to adapt to different situations. It almost gets to the point where, given enough time, a changed s… Read More
2017-09-06 02:48
This happened to me a few months back.I was commuting from work, and to break up the commute time, I decided to stop at the McDonald's on the way to my house. Tired and sweating, I hopped ou… Read More
2017-09-01 02:34
Sometimes, there comes a time when a man gets so focused on his goals that he loses sight of the bigger picture. It becomes a pure obsession.Towards the end of MGS:V, there is a mission call… Read More
2017-08-22 02:54
In the middle of my book, I hit a place where I just wanted to stop writing entirely. I hit a point where I just didn't want to write about because I'd have to relive that part of my life ag… Read More
2017-08-22 02:17
July 2013For the month of July, I spent a total of $613.23. My auto insurance was $191 and my health insurance was $41.91. I spent $161.97 on gas by filling up my tank 5 times. On fast food… Read More
2017-07-16 00:02
It was February of 2016. I was sitting in my office and I was just staring at the calendar. I double checked all my bank accounts and counted to make sure everything was there. I finally did… Read More
2017-06-20 21:03
Before I start this story, I’d like to state that there are a few things you can do to save your loved ones at least $12,000. First of all, make sure you always have a key to where you… Read More
2017-06-17 23:45
Thank you everyone who has read up to this point. This last post concludes an unfinished work for a book that I may or may not finish or publish at some point in the future. This last post c… Read More
2017-05-15 00:10
When I completed recording daily transactions, I turned my attention back to the project my boss gave to me. I was able to download a template to try to figure out how to import transactions… Read More
2017-04-17 02:08
The next job duty my superiors gave me was to prepare payments. I got more training from Lenny. When looking at the prepaid vendors, we had formulas that would keep our vendors at above 7 da… Read More
2017-04-12 01:53
Eventually, Lenny got back to me and took a look at the previous reports. What had happened was that I forgot to delete the voided transactions before I recorded the sales. This threw off th… Read More
2017-04-10 02:19
When the setup was more or less complete, I finally got the chance to get trained on my job activities. They told me that I would be in charge of recording sales and Lenny would be training… Read More
2017-04-03 02:04
It was the middle of May when I started work again after 7 months of being unemployed. As soon as I arrived at the building, I was hit with a sense of deja vu. It was the same building I vis… Read More
2017-02-11 23:21
Towards the end of April, I was contacted by the operations manager at the telecom company I interviewed with earlier. They asked me for a list of references. I was careful not to get my hop… Read More
2017-02-10 23:20
Without much luck of getting hired, I started considering just picking up a minimum wage job for any sort of work. It wasn’t the worst thing in the world. I had saved up almost $38000… Read More
2017-02-09 23:18
The day finally arrived. It was April 13th, 2013. I looked at my phone and it read that I had zero days of service left. Julia never called me or sent me a message. It was clear that she jus… Read More
2017-02-08 23:15
Social Security and Medicare are funded equally by the employer and employee. Currently, 7.5% is paid by both the employee and employer. This is the FICA withholding on most paychecks. These… Read More
2017-02-07 23:14
Should I chose to go spread peace, I’d knock out two years of my life and not have to worry about expenses and make a few thousand dollars along the way. There were some negative aspec… Read More
2017-01-29 16:00
During March, I was called in for some sort of invoicing position at a shipping company. It was international shipping as the cargo fit into steel shipping containers that floated over the o… Read More
2017-01-28 16:00
A lot of online sources recommended buying some gold or silver. This was even some wisdom my old man gave to me back in 2011. Unfortunately, I scoffed at his advice and utterly rejected it… Read More
2017-01-27 16:00
Being unemployed for a few months only helped to reinforce my decisions to never get married or have children. At this point, it was also making me reconsider my aspirations of buying a hous… Read More
2017-01-26 16:00
January 2013For the month of January, I spent a total of $508.77. My premium for car insurance was $207.40. My premium for health insurance was $41.91. I spent $73.99 on gas by filling up my… Read More
2017-01-25 16:00
Most likely, I screwed up getting both of these jobs because I was too eager to follow up with them. I had the impression that I was one of the first candidates to be interviewed for both po… Read More
2017-01-24 22:36
After New Year’s Day, things started to look up a bit. I got a phone call from a cost accountant at a company I had applied to. He told me that he was impressed with my resume and we h… Read More
2017-01-19 22:48
By the time my contract ended in October 2012, I had saved up a total of $34000. I was a free man again and I had the time to look for an opportunity. By the end of October, the staffing age… Read More
2017-01-19 01:11
The next day, I called her to see if she was alright. She was happy to hear from me and she said she was still a little sore from the previous day. The day afterwards is when the problems st… Read More
2017-01-18 01:18
“Want it back? Let us know.”By God, it was the coolest bumper message I ever heard. I had the idea of sending a similar message to Julia so I sent her the following text.Do you s… Read More
2017-01-11 00:32
Unfortunately, I back peddled like a coward and said no. I wasn’t intending on having sex with her tonight. I didn’t want to disappoint her though. I asked her if she wanted to h… Read More
2017-01-07 16:53
Whenever I could, I usually liked to include an innuendo somewhere. At one point in time, she told me that she really liked cotton candy. Before she visited me at my house, I ran out to the… Read More
2017-01-05 00:42
When we got up to my bed, she was sprawled all over me. Actually, she was poised like a cat. I had my hands on her thighs and when I moved them up to squeeze her butt, she would arch her bac… Read More
2017-01-04 00:42
I think it was a Tuesday so I had enough time to work with. To keep true to my word, I had to call her by Saturday. I really didn’t know where to take things next. I didn’t even… Read More
2017-01-02 01:36
The next time that I saw her was about a week or two later in June. There was a burger joint that she had mentioned before and I met her there. This was the very next time I saw her so I rea… Read More
2016-12-30 00:19
After eating fondue, we went back to the skatepark. By the time we got to the skatepark, I was limping a little bit. I had hurt my foot before meeting Julia at the mall. As sweet of a girl s… Read More
2016-12-26 23:25
As easy as my job was, I came to understand that my labor was demanded much more than my skill set. I talked to a few of my colleagues and was surprised to find out that some of them majored… Read More
2016-12-25 15:28
Since it wasn’t directed at her, she responded by talking about the story when her friend Beth had sex for the first time. Beth was so nervous about getting pregnant that she used a pr… Read More
2016-12-24 22:11
But then in April 2012, things started to change. On a social media site, she mentioned that she was sad. That was the description, nothing else was said. We met for coffee one night in Apri… Read More
2016-12-20 22:46
When I arrived on the first day, I walked into the bank up to the fourth floor and saw that 8 to 10 people that started a few days before I had. I sat down at my computer and logged in. Mana… Read More
2016-12-20 00:20
I sent an application out to an IT staffing agency. The agency had a contract with a large bank and a large audit firm to perform an audit on the bank. The job paid $17 an hour and I was exc… Read More
2016-12-19 01:10
The other big takeaway from the class was that insurance policies can be customized with all different types of options. They really are just like cars or houses in that every policy can be… Read More
2016-12-17 16:03
During late January or early February, I started to take the life insurance classes. It lasted one week and during the sessions, we learned about how different types of life insurance work… Read More
2016-12-16 21:54
Unfortunately, I couldn’t feel any more out of place. Each meeting I went to started with building up momentum. Everyone was talking and networking with each other to loud techno music… Read More
2016-12-15 22:36
With January 2012 starting, I was able to enjoy a few days off of work. One of the first things on my to do list was to file a claim at the unemployment office. Since I was laid off due to a… Read More
2016-12-14 22:32
It wasn’t over yet. She was okay with driving, so we proceeded to the park. There were a few moments that we shared together. While we were walking through the woods of the park, the s… Read More
2016-12-14 02:53
It was going to be the last time that I would see her… again. I was out of work and I knew that I would feel like kind of a loser after being unemployed for a certain amount of time… Read More
2016-12-11 23:23
So that was it then, I had dinner with Julia and I never saw her again... Until one month later when I asked her to go bowling with me. Admittedly, my curiosity got the better of me. I did e… Read More
2016-12-10 14:19
It started when I asked her about her major in college. She told me that she majored in English but after four years she only earned her associate's degree. During that time period, she accu… Read More
2016-12-10 02:15
For the first time I could remember, I saw a lot of Asian girls there. I showed up right after work so I was dressed in my office clothing along with a tie so I was feeling quite confident a… Read More
2016-12-08 22:06
This is what recruiters do. They try to pump up and excite the target and downplay all the hard work that is required. You can be your own boss, set your own hours, go travel and meet intere… Read More
2016-12-07 03:11
A safe investment that paid 8% per year was something that I could only dream about. Sometime during the beginning of 2011, I started to put my life down on spreadsheets. I was on track of s… Read More
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