The End of Fritz

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I just found out that the kids show I’ve been doing for about 3 years has been cancelled. This will be the last season for Uncle Grampa’s Hoo-Dilly Stew and Fritz the Evil Butler.

My son comes to see the show almost every week, but he’s not old enough so that he’d remember it later.

I feel like someone died.

Sandwiches!

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Inspired by reading the Living Below Your Means board on Motley Fool while on a conference call today, I went out and bought materials for making lunch for the week.

Dining out, I pay $5-7 a day, which is $100-$140 a month. If I spend $10 a week for supplies, and eat out once (because, hey, who am I kiddin’?) that’s $17 *4 = $68. A savings of $32 – $72 a month. Which would pay for DSL and the wireless network I splurged on, making me feel a little less guilty about it.

A very astute Fool Post

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I really like this Post of the Day, from the Living Below Your Means Fool board.

http://www.fool.com/community/pod/2004/040319.htm

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

But, of course, I’m not giving up my wireless network. I’m just awash in hypocritical self-contradictions.

A Rave at the Fool

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I posted a post yesterday in the Hidden Gems Stocks We Like board at the Motley Fool. At the time of this journal, it had received 36 recommendations or “recs”. (For those who aren’t on the Fool boards, anyone who reads a message can recommend it. You can only recommend a post once, and you have a limited number of recs a day. The top rec earners are sometimes featured on the Fool Post of the Day or week or something).

At the bottom, I also tagged Tom Gardner’s response, which was enough to make me walk around this morning feeling full of myself. It’s nice to be shamelessly self-confident now and then.

The Post

FootNotes

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A while back I wrote some php/mysql code to create a relational database I was thinking about. It was just something I did because “wouldn’t it be neat if…”

Basically, you “footnote” (link, really) from a word in an entry in this database, and create another entry based on that word. Then someone else can create an entry based on a word in your entry. And so on, and so on.

Just a simple, silly idea. It’s implemented at:

FootNotes

in case anybody wants to contribute.

ryanj

Spam Man

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So I glanced at the cover of the Wall Street Journal in our breakroom just now, and there’s an article about a many named Orlando Soto who loves to get SPAM. He opens every single piece he gets and often buys stuff because of it, or visits casinos advertised by it, or whatever.

So, basically the article described him as a sample of why SPAM continues, because people like him like it.

And, I thought, is the WSJ trying to get this man killed?